Ice-Breaker (30 min)

A quick research online will allow you to find many possible icebreakers and pick the one that is more suitable to your team. This is an example:

Take a ball of string and give it to one of the participant asking them to say their name and anwer a question. This question can be anything: where you are from? What’s your biggest dream? Where do you dream to travel to? Why are you here? Ecc. You can pick the question according to the age, level of education or other characteristics of the group. Then the first person who answers the question has to throw it to one of the other participants and so on until everyone has answered and a big spiderweb has been created in the room. Then they need to curl up the ball again. So, the last person goes back to the person who threw them the ball and so on until the web is untangled.

Presentation of the workshop (15 min)

You give an introductory presentation of the workshops.

You can include:

• Goals of the workshops
• Agenda of the sessions
• Materials to be used

Defining social solidarity and green lifestyle (15 min)

Divide participants in two groups and ask them to give definitions of:

1. Green Lifestyle
2. Social Solidarity

Then ask one representative to present their definition

The Hot-air Baloon (20 min)

This activity is aimed at allowing the participants to share their expectations contributions and fear about the workshops. You will then be able to compare them with their feedback at the end.

You draw a large hot air balloon on a flipchart like the one in the picture and ask the young people to write on post-its:

• Their expectations – on the top of the balloon
• Their contributions - in the middle
• Their fears – at the bottom

Debriefing (10 mins)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change?

Presentation on Project Design (1 hour)

You give a presentation about Project Design implementation and dissemination.

This could Include:

• What is a Project?
• Project Cycle Management (N.B: the workshop covers until the Formulation step; after that comes the practical implementation of the initiative and dissemination)
• Programming - Overview of European /National/Local donors for them
• Identification – Closer analysis of needs and identification of goals 🡪 brainstorming solutions 🡪 defining the idea.
• Formulation – The different sections of a project proposal: Context Analysis, General Objective, Specific Objectives, Target, Activities, Partnership, Resources, Results, Management, Dissemination, Sustainability, Monitoring and Evaluation. Provide an example of the content of the different sections.
• Common mistakes when formulating a project
• The Gantt Chart

Matching Exercise (20 min)

In the box there are a number of sentences and words that are examples of each section of a project proposal. Ask participants, individually or in small groups, to match the examples with each section:

Then have a discussion on the differences between the different sections

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change? Do you feel confident describing the project cycle? Can you present the different phases? Which is the most challenging phase for you?

Presentation on Campaigning (1h 20 min)

You give a presentation about Campaigning for social awareness. This could Include:

• What is a Campaign?
• Steps to create an awareness rising campaign: set-up objectives, identify mission and vision, identify target (primary and secondary), choose tone and languages, choose channels, create message and content, choose and design graphic format, publish the campaign.
• Examples of successful awareness rising campaigns
• Tips to create a successful campaign such as the Rebuild Campaign
• What is a Vlog?
• How to make a Vlog

Make a Vlog (30 min)

Ask your participants to make a Vlog about the first part of the workshop. This can include:

• Personal presentation
• Why did they choose to participate?
• What did they gain from the workshop so far?

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change? Can you share the main elements of a successful campaign?

The four quadrants (1 hour)

Use flipcharts to create four boxes and ask your participants to write and hang post-its to answer the questions inside:

This activity is aimed at allowing the young people to observe themselves and the world around them, explore and analyze: what they can do, what they want to do and what they would like to change in the world around them.

Then look at all the words and contribution and identify the main 3-4 topics that came up in the boxes. Have a short discussion with the participants and create a list of 3-4 macro categories/ areas of interests that they agree on. (e.g. Animal care; Environmental education; Support to refugees)

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change?Do you feel motivated to contribute to the local community ?

Brainstorming (1 hour)

Divide the group into small groups and assign to each small group one of the macro-areas identified in the previous session. Each group will brainstorm possible project ideas in that area. Then they should pick the two or three ideas that they feel more connected to and write them on a flipchart under the title of their macro-area

Then one representative of each team briefly presents the ideas and why they chose them.

Voting (20 min)

Have the teams discuss and then vote the idea they prefer and that they want to develop in the following sessions.

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change? Do you feel that you have identified a topic that you would like to develop an initiative on? Which is your main motivation?

Defining the idea (10 min)

In plenary, summarize the idea in one sentence and write it on a flipchart

The 5 Ws (1h 40min)

In plenary and using flipcharts, answer the following questions about the project idea with the group:

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change? Do you feel confident to develop an idea based on the proposed phases? Can you describe the different phases?

The timeline (55 min)

In plenary create a Gantt Chart of the initiative starting from the timeframe identified in the previous session

Budget (55 min)

Starting from the list of resources created during the previous session and the activities in the timeline, the group should start creating the budget as a group. They can research prices and suppliers online.

You can facilitate the process by asking questions or they can do it on their own.

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change? Do you feel confident to develop the Gantt Chart and the Budget? Which is the most challenging part for you?

Outlining the Campaign (40 min)

In plenary define:

• Main message of the campaign: what do we want to communicate?
• Target of the campaign
• Social Media Channels and tools (Vlog, Post, Reel etc)
• Title/Slogan
• Hashtags

Brainstorming (30 min)

Brainstorm and write on flipcharts:

1. Some concepts and sentences that will shape the content of the campaign
2. Some adjectives that will characterize the tone and colours of the campaign.

Campaign Calendar (40 min)

Create a campaign calendar outlining in which month of the project implementation you will post which kind of content. Give a clear title/topic to each piece of content.

Remember to include also some preparation time at the beginning to create the graphics and finalize the texts.

Debriefing (10 min)

Summary of the session; What is one thing that you learned? What would you change?