Poland – Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice

From September 24th to 25th 2019 workshops for young adults (Neets) took place at the Centre of Social Services in Piekary Śląskie in the frame of project Erasmus + entitled „Stop being couch potatoes! Developing social and entrepreneurial skills for Neets”.

The training from the increasing social and entrepreneurial competences was realized by guidance counselors from Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice.

Training scenarios, on which young people worked, were elaborated during the project implementation. Examples of exercises concerned the following points:

• answering questions in quiz from the on-line platform what type of couch potato do you have inside and watching the motivational video with Artur from the Foundation Leżę i Pracuję;
• learning how to create portfolio – tool (internet application) for supporting the evidence throughout lifelong learning, the collection of evidence for possession of skills and experience. It allows to upload certificates, photos etc. and prepare CV;
• behaviour recognizing pro-and-anti-assertive;
• tests, exercises and games for recognition of characteristics of persons with entrepreneurial attitude.

Romania – Young Initiative

On the 30th of December 2019, we had the honor to work with 25 young people from vulnerable contexts in developing their social and financial skills. The activities took place in Ploiești (Romania) at Concordia Romania in the frame of the project „Stop being couch potatoes! Developing social and entrepreneurial skills for Neets”, founded by the European Commission, trough ERASMUS+ program.

The scenarios for both activities were created by Young Initiative experts team and adjusted by the trainers, during the implementation of the project. In order to implement those workshops, Young Initiative Association recruited and trained 8 trainers trainee.

The first part of the day they were dedicated to social skills.  The young people had to opportunity to:

• develop the ability to communicate verbal and non-verbal
• to increase empathy for the people around
• to increase the assertiveness
• to develop the ability to resolve problems

In the second part of the day the activity was focused on financial skills. During 4 hours, the participants learned more about:

• The personal budget
• How to invest money in their future
• How to take difficult decisions

Thank you Concordia Romania for hosting us and huge congratulations for the very inspiring work that you are doing here!