ICE-CREAM for social entrepreneurship: Investigate, Collaborate, Elaborate, CREAte and Manage your project
Training Course
18-30 July 2024 | Abovyan, Armenia
“ICE-CREAM for social entrepreneurship” is a training for trainers and youth workers, aimed at developing the entrepreneurship skills and competences, increasing the capacity of youth workers in social projects’ creation and implementation.
ICE-CREAM is the innovative approach, model and algorithm of the efficient and logical step by step creation and implementation of a social project or entrepreneurial/business idea:
I – nvestigate: the need/problem;
C – ollaborate: with a team and stakeholders;
E – laborate: the concept and idea of the project (identify and specify the needs, service or product, target groups, impact and outcomes);
CREA – te: the details (the name of your project, program, activities, methods and tools, time frames, venue, other logistics);
M – anage: your project (plan, apply for a grant/fundraise, prepare, launch, implement, disseminate, follow-up and report);
(M – arket: your project (present, promote, develop PR and communication)).
The program of the training course is structured according to the ICE-CREAM model: we have separate days, each of them fully devoted respectively to Investigation, Collaboration, Elaboration, CREAtion, and Management/Marketing of the project (where we will also explore the dimension and tools of digital entrepreneurship). During another full day (24 hours), the youth workers in small teams or individually, using the ICE-CREAM algorithm, will be creating and preparing their projects (entrepreneurial ideas). And on the next day, in the format of Hackathon, they will present their projects entrepreneurial ideas), making digital presentations and promotion pitches, will receive feedback from the experts, will analyze and improve their ideas to be able to bring them to life.
The learning by doing and participatory approaches ensure many interactive activities, a lot of experience exchange and inputs from the participants. We will have both practical and debrief sessions on all the elements of the ICE-CREAM model, ensuring a detailed understanding for all participants.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
In order to sign up for our training course, please, carefully fill the application form provided below. Keep in mind that the selection will be done strictly based on applications. The priority in the selection will be given to the participants with a relevant matching profile and constructive detailed application!
Before applying for our training course, please, make sure that you carefully read and understood each word and sentence of the info-pack and agree with all the terms and conditions of participation!
Available downloads: ICE-CREAM_info-pack (call).pdf
More information at: SALTO