report from Moldova !
Training Course
“A CreACTive Approach For a Better World”
15-22 October, 2012
Cosnita, Chisinau, Moldova
About the Training Course
The training course “A CreACTive Approach for a Better World” aims were to explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems using entrepreneurial skillsand youth voice. The project was focus on the concept of the social entrepreneurship in general and was bring a specific scope on the entrepreneurship skills, leadership and management, needs problem analysis as well as funding and financing – all being explored in the context of youth organizations and volunteering. In this way the training course was serve as a platform for young entrepreneurs learning how to build a better world in a healthier environment and diminish poverty in spite of using traditional and outdated practices, employing creative youth initiatives and promoting social entrepreneurship.
Project language: English, Russian
Aim: To explore the concept of social entrepreneurship as an innovative way to solve social problems using entrepreneurial skills and youth voice.
Working methods: Daily plenaries, followed by Questions & Answers sessions; Interactive and creative workshops; Practical simulation games; Open Space Technology; Meeting with facilitators and managers of social entrepreneurship in Chisinau; Debates; Intercultural&interactivity games and non-formal learning.
Target group: Young people and youth workers from various social groups that are active in their organizations and wish to gain more skills and knowledge in entrepreneurial thinking and approach.
It was expected to target around 30 young people in the age of 18-30,
Participants coming from 11 organizations from EU (Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Italy, Austria) and EECA (Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia) region from rural and urban areas.
What I learned:
-how to prepare a business plan
-how to have a good speech
-what’s mean social entrepreneurship
– what’s mean social problems
-don’t be afraid to make a mistakes
-what motivated us
-recipe of successful social enterprise
-how to dream big
-about social networks
-about countres from Kavkaz
What can I use in my work/life from training in the future
-how to do good business plan and how hard it is
-how important is use full your time because time is a money
-how to think creative
-how to find motivation to go ahead and where
-how to have good speech and how to preper the good speech.
Usefull links :
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKhZmvJuZY
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUFjTOM32g&feature=fvwp
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T6MhAwQ64c0
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAfVl-t1Hg&feature=BFa&list=PL72EB6929D82884AC
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJjKY8k9Lk
– http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvPVDJK9a-U