Entrepreneurship Challenge
There are many ways to create solutions against climate change in the local communities. What all of them have in common is raising awareness and taking action. The focus on this entrepreneurship Challenge is on developing entrepreneurial spirit and soft skills while creating alternative solutions that have the potential to shift the way we are currently treating our environment. Community Challengers Hackathon is a 2.5 day, intensive, interactive and highly participatory event during which participants go through a process that consists of short knowledge inputs (entrepreneurship workshops), team mentoring sessions, and self-paced teamwork. The process creates an engaging and innovative environment that motivates participants to think out of the box, develop problem-solving skills, and critical thinking, generate ideas, research the problem and solution and think creatively. The implementation of the Community Challengers Hackathon is very flexible and can be adapted according to young peoples situation, availability and needs.
All information, the description of workshop formats and the explanation of creating a Community Challenge in the field of art is written in the Community Challengers Guide Part Three
During a 5day Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, 30 young participants and 5 trainers came together in Belgrade, Serbia to experience a five-day challenge, kindly hosted by Supernatural. The week also served as training of the trainers to implement their own challenges in different European communities, addressing more young people. Our partners implemented the challenge in Latvia, Serbia, Croatia, Portugal, and Italy.
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Belgrade, Serbia
With almost 35 youth participants, our Community Challengers had the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge to develop and pitch their own creative business solutions to the real-world climate issues facing their communities. We asked a few of the participants and trainers in the Community Challengers project about why they feel this project is important and what they have learned from the cultural exchange aspect of the program. Here are the videos for their responses!