TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Alicia Carpio Obré
The aim of this seminar was to promote a common understanding of EntreComp and entrepreneurial learning focused on youth work.
The objectives of this seminar were:
- Get to know the EntreComp framework and understand its potential and possible uses especially in the youth work field.
- Discover strategies and resources in youth work to promote entrepreneurial learning among young people.
- Boost a sense of initiative and entrepreneurial mindset by exploring diverse applications of the framework to concrete projects.
- Create a network for support, cooperation and sharing of experiences among the participants.
There were 25 participants with different profiles: Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, other professionals working with young people with experience or with an interest in entrepreneurial learning and /or support of youth entrepreneurship.
There was the representation of about 18 nationalities in the group.
The Methodology was based on the principles of Non-Formal Education and encouraged the active participation of the attendants, combining training sessions with different workshops and spaces for individual/group reflections and co-creation.
Throughout the seminar, the balance between theoretical sessions and interactive methods allowed the consolidation of knowledge, highlighting the importance to “learning by doing”, relying on the experience of the group and approaching the learning process in the most practical way possible.
The outcomes of the seminar were:
- The incrasement of awareness of participants is increased about EntreComp and how it can support boosting the entrepreneurial competences in their contexts of intervention.
- Participants were provided with tools and resources to map individual entrepreneurial competences and self-evaluation based on information and good practices of practical uses of this framework.
- Participants were motivated to use the framework and other resources connected in their daily work.
- Participants discovered new innovative uses and quality applications of EntreComp framework are explored through co-creation sessions where participants will be protagonists.
- Participants exchanged experiences, learn and get inspired from each other and from the other actors in the seminar.
I was one of the two trainers of this training course.
My responsibilities came from the design of the training program, content and methodology. We also participated in the review and selection of participants.
I also participated in the development of materials, and content for the daily work, and the development the training within the participants.
After the training program finished, I elaborated, within my partner, the final report of the activity.