THEME OF THE VISIT: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, YOUNG PEOPLE AS ENTREPRENEURS, BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR IN RURAL AREAS
Day 1
12.10.
Day 2
13.10.
Day 3
14.10.
Day 4
15.10.
Day 5
16.10.
Day 6
17.10.
Day 7
18.10.
Day 8
19.10.
Day 9
20.10.
theme
travel
Participation
Business
Public Relations
Culture
Take a lead
Profitability
Celebration of the results
travel
morning
Getting to know each other.
Exploring the accommodation and surroundings.
Business start up.
Communication,
Advertising
Workshop
Cultural Improvisation
Arrival to Kiev.
Accommodation
Meeting Ukrainian Businessman
Meeting with the local businessman
lunch
afternoon
Workshop "Develop yourself to develop your business"
Creating business plans in the groups
Meeting with the local youth organization/
City hall visit
Finish/
Ukrainian Language lesson in creative fun way
Leadership styles
Quest in Kiev
Making of the 1 min videos in small groups
Evaluation of the exchange
dinner
evening
Team building activities
Feelings
Presentations of the business plans
Feelings
Limelight
Feelings
Intercultural evening with the videos, music, dances, games
Feelings
Presentation of results and
Evaluation of the Quest
Feelings
Presentations of the videos
Feelings
Farewell party
Feelings
Day 1. Travel
Travelling to Ukraine
12.10 at 23:39 - Departure from Kyiv –
13.10 at 06:18 - arrive to Kamianets-Podilskii on the, then with the buses we transfer them to hotel and they can have shower, breakfast.
Day 2. Participation
Getting to know each other.
For example “Snowball” game which works good to remember the names of the participants, some adjectives they associated themselves with, and movements. First person sad his /her name and then every next one started with the name of first person, adding adjective starting with the same letter and with movement. After the first person, everyone was supposed to repeat all the names coming before him/herself. It was difficult because the group was big, but after this game everyone new other names, more or less.
Paper-man: participants make a man from the paper be the help of the hands, write down on the man: what is on his/her mind, what does he/she likes/loves, favourite music, favourite food, where he/she wants to go (travel). Everybody hang it on the wall and anybody can read it to know each other better.
“Balloons game”: everybody has balloon with her/his name: balloons are in the air; then everybody needs to catch one balloon; teamer asks different questions.
“Blanket game”: group divided in two and separated by the blanket; one delegate from each group is coming to the blanket (that the other group cannot see him/her), the blanket falling down and participants need to tell the name of the person opposite; who tells the first – win.
Expectations/Fears/Contribution (we will see if it’s needed)
Seminar Schedule
Communication rules
Exploring the accommodation and surroundings.
Quiz in accommodation to get to know where it is what – that leads to lunch
Lunch
Workshop "Develop yourself to develop your business"
Building the tower process
Aim: invite them to be players in the exchange; they create this exchange or themselves
Materials: 8 sets of legos, 8 blind folds, flipchart, notebooks, pens, music, speakers and a laptop
Description: participants in the group of 4 build a tower from the legos. Trying different roles: player, coach, observer, and commentator. Evaluation of the process.
Dinner
Team building activities
Flying chairs
Aim: teambuilding game, learn how they work in the big group, learn more about participants
Materials: chairs flipchart, notebooks, pens
Description: process with the finger and chair. Chairs in the circle, participants need to walk around the chairs staying on 2 legs, holding them with one finger, not allowed to talk, break the rules. Sharing
Feelings?
Evaluation of the participants’ feelings with smiley-faces (three options of smiley-faces, paper and pen to all participants)
Day. 3. Business
Business start up.
Aim: Share experiences on entrepreneurship
Materials: no.
Description: Finnish group members share their mini business experiences from summer to Ukrainian participants.
Lunch
Creating business plans in groups
Aim: learn group work skills, to be creative
Materials: flipchart, pens
Description: Participants are divided into groups of 3-4 persons. They have to come up with a business plan together.
Dinner
Presentations of the business plans
Aim: Share group work results
Materials: no
Description: Groups share their business plans to other participants
Feelings? Evaluation of the participants’ feelings with smiley-faces
Day. 4. Public Relations
Communication, Advertising Workshop
Rose bush
Aim: build awareness about different between people see things
Materials: flipchart, fp-paper, markers
Feedback
Aim: develop skills of giving and receiving feedback
Materials: flipchart, fp-paper, markers
Prove that your figure is one of the most important figures in the world
Aim: Develop ability to convince people, find out how confident you are in your presentation skills.
Materials: flip-chart, marker to draw the 5 figures.
Description: I draw the 5 figures on the flip-chart; the group divide their selves in group of 5 people. Each choose 1 figure and starts convince that his/her figure is one of the most important in the world.
Advertising, PR & marketing
Aim: to discuss the difference between advertising, PR and marketing
Why PR is important on the different stages of developing the business.
Guerilla marketing (presentation)
Video
Tasks for the group
Lunch
Meeting with the local youth organization/ businessman
Dinner
Limelight
Aim: Develop creativity, stay confident in presentation skills. Fun
Materials: no
Description: Advertise yourself in front of the group for 3 minutes
Feelings? Evaluation of the participants’ feelings with smiley-faces
Day 5. Culture
Cultural Improvisation
Aim: Describe cultural differences (habits and beliefs)
Materials: no
Description: Both Finnish and Ukrainian groups have 15 minutes time to write down 5-10 usual habits (like in Finland going to Sauna and using “vasta”, eating mämmi during Easter etc) that are common in their country. After they have written the list, they have to act the habit in front of the other group and the other participants try to guess what this habit is. After guessing the groups tell more about this habit to the other participants.
Lunch
Finish/ Ukrainian Language lesson in creative fun way
Aim: to learn each other’s languages
Materials: flipchart, papers, pens
Description: 15-20 common words are written on small pieces of paper in Finnish and in Ukrainian (same words!). The group is divided into 4 groups and they have to find words that match together. No speaking allowed, only acting is allowed.
Dinner
Intercultural evening with the videos, music, dances, games
Aim: to learn more about each other’s cultures
Materials: photos from home country, ipod, internet connection, youtube, local food, sweets etc
Description: During the evening both groups have a chance to show special parts of their home countries. This is done with the help of videos, music, dances and games. On the side participants can enjoy Finnish and Ukrainian local specialities (candies, cookies etc)
Feelings? Evaluation of the participants’ feelings with smiley-faces
In the evening the group will transfer to a night train that takes them to Kiev.
16.10, at 20:14 - departure from Kamianets-Podilskii
Day. 6 Take a lead
17.10 at 06:06 - Arrival to Kiev. Accommodation
Breakfast
Quest in Kiev
Aim: to visit examples of creative Enterprises in Kyiv, get to know Kyiv and local people in creative and funny way.
Materials: phones/cameras, maps, of the city
Description: participants be divided in 5 groups. During these activity, participants will accomplish different assignments and visit creative enterprises in Kyiv. During quest youngsters should involve local people and learn some facts about Ukraine, sharing knowledge about Finland.
Lunch
Visit of the Coca-cola factory
Dinner
Presentation of results and Evaluation of the Quiz
Participants will make short presentation what they experienced in different ways: theatre, dance, videos, story telling, etc.
Day 7. Profitability
Meeting with the local businessman
Aim: to meet local business man.
Materials: phones/cameras with video recording possibility
Description: participants will visit 3 different enterprises in Kyiv and meet with their representatives or owners to learn more about their experience and opportunities to start business.
Lunch
Making of the 1 min videos in small groups
Aim: to describe the points that makes a business profitable
Materials: phones/cameras with video recording possibility
Description: Groups of 3 participants plan and video a 1 minute document of a profitable business.
Dinner
Presentations of the videos
Feelings? Evaluation of the participants’ feelings with smiley-faces
Day 8. Celebrations of the results
Leadership styles
a. Leading styles: democratic, authoritarian, easy-going – and used the method of Parliament to show the strong and weak sides of the styles, by introducing different conflict situation in the camp which could be solved in different ways by the help of different leading style.
Lunch
Evaluation of the exchange
a. Evaluation method with the cocktails. Participants could make their own cocktails: sweet, neutral, disguising, bitter, sour, special, fruitful, cosy. Everyone created his/her drink and explained why they put the ingredients. At the end, summery was participants like the seminar, the atmosphere inside the group, they learned a lot of fruitful knowledge.
b. Cin-chin-chao game. To acknowledge each other: each participant had time to say or show his acknowledgement to everybody. It is made in the funny short and active way.