MOOC: CEASE COWERING: YOUTH EMPOWER ACTION HERE! (CC: YEAH)

Project Description

The MOOC is part of a youth-strategic partnership project titled “Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here!” (CC: YEAH) supported by the National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility (Национална агенција за европски образовни програми и мобилност) and programme Erasmus + .

Over the past decade, young people around the globe has faced very different but great challenges: unemployment, skills gap, vocational trainings, outdated educational formats, school-to-work transition etc. Consequently, “empowerment” has become the buzzword in business, evaluation and youth development. Because of its wide use, the word “empowerment” has many different meanings to people. “Discover Yourself: Build a Career and Make an Impact” is an interactive MOOC that will empower youth through a holistic approach on four different skills sets and dimensions:

Chapter 1: Personal Development: What do you love doing?

Chapter 2: Professional Development: What do you do well?

Chapter 3: Community Development: What is the community around you?

Chapter 4: Sustainable Development: What the world needs?

Empowerment is defined as a way to provide tips and opportunities for youth to develop the competencies they need to become successful contributing members of their communities.

What will you learn?

Personal development chapter:

  • Discover what your interests, values, and personal characteristics are;
  • Identify exactly what you want and what you do not want to do.

Professional development chapter:

  • Understand the drivers behind your career preferences and choices;
  • Learn how to recognize your talents and interests and how to match them with your concrete professional career;
  • Identify the skills which you can offer as well as learn about your current skills gaps.

Community development chapter:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and ability to create a plan to help you improve your soft skills;
  • Recognize opportunities for your career enhancement both within and beyond your current status;
  • Summarize your achievements and skills in appropriate formats for future employers or academic institutions.

Sustainable development chapter:

  • Extend and make most effective use of your professional network both on- and off-line;
  • Learn what the world career trends are;
  • Discover how your career choice can influence the world challenges.

Course Structure

Chapter 1: Personal Development

Our journey to self-discovery will start from the personal development. In the first chapter, we will give you the overview of your personality and how it could influence your career choice. In the three chapter units, you will identify what the personal values you appreciate the most are and how these values are influencing your choices. Also, you will be guided to discover your personality type and will have a chance to test yourself and find out which personality type you belong to and how you can connect it to your potential career.

Chapter 2: Professional Development

Once you have discovered who actually you really are and what you love doing, it is time to see what kind of career will fit your personality and interests. Your professional self is under huge pressure lately, right? So many trends, reports, and statistics show new, undiscovered ways of working and imagining your job of the future. But nothing will ever make sense unless you get to know your professional self and make choices based on your skills, needs, and capacities. In this chapter, you will be able to walk the thin line between self-discovery and self-creation, while articulating your experience and skills into a successful career plan.

Chapter 3: Community Development

In the Community Development chapter, we will help you discover what and how the empowered YOU can do for your community, for your peers, for your neightbours. In this chapter, we will show you the ways how you can make an impact: as an individual, as part of a non formal group, and as a member of an organization. At the end of the chapter, you will be able to identify a project idea, draft a basic proposal and find a suitable programme where you can apply for a project grant for your idea. But first and foremost, you will be inspired to take the community in your hands and move the things forward!

Chapter 4: Sustainable Development

In the last chapter, we will take a step back. What is the big picture? What are the challenges in the world today? We will speak about Sustainable Development Goals and discover ways how you can expand your circle of influence. We will finish the course with three elements of sustainable development – the economic, social and environmental. We want to motivate you to take personal social responsibility for your surrounding and for the whole world.

At the end of the course, you will be able to draft a personal development plan that will present your pathway to your personal, professional, community and sustainable development.

 

YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

 

Partner Organizations and Supporters

 

 

The MOOC is part of a youth-strategic partnership project titled “Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here!” (CC: YEAH) supported by the National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility (Национална агенција за европски образовни програми и мобилност) and programme Erasmus + .

The project is based on the partnership between the Association for Education Mladiinfo International from Macedonia, Mladiinfo Slovensko (Slovakia), The Global Experience (Germany) and iversity (Germany).

The project “Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here!” (CC: YEAH) consists of multiple steps and therefore different activities have been realised within its duration.

Video Shooting

As a part of the project, the course content was developed, the video shooting was organized in Bratislava, Slovakia and a special brochure containing the materials from the course was produced.

Multipliers Event

On 18 October 2016, the youth in Macedonia had a chance today to learn more about our first interactive MOOC Discover Yourself: Build a Career and Make an Impact. The info session was taking place in the Impact HUB, Skopje.

FOLLOW-UP ON THE WAY!

The Mladiinfo ‘s youth-strategic partnership project “Cease Cowering: Youth Empower Action Here!” that was awarded as a good practice project by the National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility (Национална агенција за европски образовни програми и мобилност)!

The National Agency considered the MOOC “Discover Yourself: Build a Career and Make an Impact” as an innovative approach to boosting youngsters’ digital and entrepreneurial skills. A big thank to all of you who took part in the course supported by the National Agency for European Educational Programmes (Национална агенција за европски образовни програми и мобилностErasmus+ programme, and also to our partners Mladiinfo Slovensko , iversity , The Global Experience.

While we are preparing a follow-up on the course….

Don’t forget to watch the episodes again!

 

MOOC COURSE VIDEOS

 

 

Teasers

CHAPTER 1

Chap1Unit1: What you can expect from this course and what we understand under youth empowerment

Chap1Unit2: What are your values and what do you love doing?

Chap1Unit3: What is your personality type: Self-discovery

CHAPTER 2

Chap2Unit1: Getting to know your professional self

Chap2Unit2: Are you ready to discover your success?

Chap2Unit3: Building and articulating your career path

Chap2Unit4: How best to invest in your career?

CHAPTER 3

Chap3Unit1: What is community development and how can I make an impact?

Chap3Unit2: From idea to proposal: Define and present your project

Chap3Unit3: Go local! Volunteer and make your community better

Chap3Unit4: Go global! Discover youth programmes for mobility, cooperation and studying

CHAPTER 4

Chap4Unit1: What is the big picture?

Chap4Unit2: How can you influence the world?

Chap4Unit3: What does it mean to be socially responsible?

 

YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

Lear more about the course from the MOOC  brochure HERE.

 

Exercises & Instructions & Readings

 

 

Chapter 1: Personal Development

In the first chapter, you will get the overview of your personality and how it could influence your career choice and you will have a chance to test yourself and find out which personality type you belong to and how you can connect it to your potential career.

Chapter 2: Professional Development

In this chapter, you will be able to walk the thin line between self-discovery and self-creation, while articulating your experience and skills into a successful career plan.

Chapter 3: Community Development

In this chapter, you will discover how you can make an impact: as an individual, as part of non- formal group, and as a member of an organization. At the end of the chapter, you will be able to identify a project idea, draft a basic proposal and find a suitable programme where you can apply for a project grant for your idea.

Chapter 4: Sustainable Development

In the last chapter, we will speak about Sustainable Development Goals and discover ways how you can expand your circle of influence.

CHAPTER 1

Personal Development: What do you love doing?

 

Exercises & Instructions for Chapter 1

An EU Strategy for Youth

UNDP YOUTH Strategy 2014-2017.pdf

Youth Global Programme for Sustainable Development & Peace

Recommended Literature

CHAPTER 2

Professional Development: What do you do well?

 

Exercises & Instructions for Chapter 2

Linkedin: 6 Steps to Creating a Professional Profile

My Professional Self & New Year Canvas

Resume Form

Creative CV Design

Your CV Matters!

Bridging Skills Gaps in South East Europe

The Future of Jobs

Industrial Internet of Things

References and Attachments

Recommended Literature

 

CHAPTER 3

Community Development: What is the community around you?

 

Exercises & instructions for Chapter 3

Develop a Small Project Idea

Community Planning Toolkit and Community Engagement

ERASMUS+ Programme

Erasmus+ Programme EVS Info kit

EVS Training & Evaluation Circle Guidlines

Framing Goals and Objectives in a Project Proposal

Identify ORGs Active in Your Community

My International Volunteering Project

Recommended literature

 

CHAPTER 4

Sustainable Development: What the world needs?

 

Exercises & Instructions for Chapter 4

The circle of Influence

Exercise: Choose one of the MSDGoals 

Exercise: Expand your Circle of Influence

Lazy People LEVEL 1  LEVEL 2  LEVEL 3

Sustainable Development Goals

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Personal Development Plan