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SEE BEYOND – training and coaching entrepreneurship skills in youth organisations
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Apr 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
SEE BEYOND – training and coaching entrepreneurship skills in youth organisations is a series of 2 interrelated training courses, taking place in Hollókő, Hungary and Ommen, the Netherlands, with a duration of 10 days each, reinforced with practical, local-level dissemination. Partners are 11 NGOs and informal groups form 11 countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the Netherlands and Hungary with 76 number of participants.Our aim is to improve youth entrepreneurship and train youth workers and active young people to keep youth work connected to the actual local reality, offer learning and support in becoming successful in their personal, professional and community life. Nowadays the main challenge of youth work and non-formal learning is its adaptability, to stay relevant and target group-related in themes, methods, practices and youth worker skills. In today’s fastly changing social and economic environment youth work needs to answer the high need of the X and Y generations facing unemployment, in communities of low participation and responsibility.Intervention areas:- monitoring and quality improvement - human resources management - coaching teams in the start, realisation, and evaluation of projects, initiatives and social businessObjectives:- to improve the quality and sustainability of youth projects, initiatives, and social business- to improve professional competences of youth workers- to share best practice, practical tools and skills for coaching and the conscious use of YouthPass.- to encourage dissemination and the creation of new projects within E+ The 2 project phases approach youth entrepreneurship from 2 different angles.The main line is the direct improvement of partners’ activities through structured dissemination of the TCs’ results. Partners select ongoing projects to improve which participants present, analyse and monitor as case studies. The tools practiced in the TCs are tested in this project in the dissemination phase where it is directly improved. The outcome of A1’s dissemination is evaluated and brought to A2. The training of support methods (A2) is built on the outcome of those directly involved with the projects (A1).A1 is for youth workers, volunteers, NGO managers, coordinators, peer leaders, active members directly involved in implementing projects. We share tools of human resources management, creation and monitoring. Themes: entrepreneurship in practice, tools for each project phase, dynamics of young teams. Participants practice the tools directly by working together on the case studies.A2 is for youth workers, NGO staff and trainers, mentors, coaches, counsellors, consultants, peer educators who support youth groups in creating and monitoring projects. Themes: coaching team entrepreneurship and human resource management by tools given in A1. Participants practice the tools directly by coaching each other.Methods: - structured exercises, using outdoor, dance, theatre, art, problem solving games- debriefings on learning outcomes - self-directed learning according to participants’ learning goals and YouthPass - daily reflection in groups, journal-keeping, mid-term and final evaluation- outdoor training - methods and tools explained by trainers, practiced by participants directly- facilitated discussions - information about Erasmus+ Management, promotion, communication, evaluation and dissemination activities are done parallel by each partner in their own countries.As a result project teams consciously use monitoring and evaluation tools in all project phases. Their entrepreneurship skills improve, partners’ initiatives, projects and social business run at higher quality, a more efficient and sustainable way. Coaches of youth projects acquire a set of tools to support teams’ awareness of themselves and their context and find relevant solutions, to map learning needs, design and guide a coaching process. They support team dynamics to utilize diversity as resource. Participants grow in learning to learn, social and civic competences, cultural awareness and expression, the use of YouthPass, and understanding the Erasmus+ and its opportunities for their personal and community growth.Dissemination involves partners’ colleagues and target groups dierctly, brings improvement in content and quality. Using methods learned, partners create projects to enhance local entrepreneurship and participation, social inclusion and employability of youth at-risk. They reach and involve more young people and new target groups. Participation and mobility of young people and the accessibility of non-formal competence development activities increase and the recognition of non-formal education grows. Participants create new international projects and partnerships based on common values and complementary expertise.