Working with or mentoring with young female entrepreneurs who are about to start a social entrepreneurship project?
WOMCA Training Course is developed for trainers, teachers and mentors who assist young women during their path to social entrepreneurship. Based on the methodology of Life- Long and Non-Formal Learning, Gamification, LEGO® Serious Play® and Design Thinking mentors can learn step by step to guide young women through the process.
The training course has been designed for 30 hours to be distributed along 5 days, however it can be adapted according to the different needs in terms of timing and distributed along a longer period of time, if needed. Each module in this training manual consists of a theoretical part (theoretical framework), where a trainer will find the main concepts and theory necessary to guide and follow up on practical exercises that can be found in the second part of each module (practical sessions). A section of practical sessions provides a detailed description of how different exercises and activities can be implemented, including duration of each exercise, methodological advises and variations.
The training contents and activities included in this manual has been tested during the training mobility that has been carried out within the framework of the project, from 10th to 14th last December (2018) in Innsbruck (Austria). During the training week interesting contents were tackled by a group of young female entrepreneurs or wanna-be entrepreneurs, coming from Lithuania, Spain, Austria and the Netherlands, such as skills to break with the fears of entrepreneurship, the characteristics of social innovation or the skills of young women entrepreneurs. The gathered feedback and discussions that took place were very useful to test the training contents and thus to be able to improve them and adapt them according to the needs of future mentors.