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During social and professional empowerment workshops, participants will work all together on
actionable ideas, cultivating new skills and unique feelings and supporting each other. To achieve
the workshop’s objectives and results, this module has been designed by building on and
expanding the ideas and mechanisms of social innovation. This means that the module seeks to
enrich and enforce existing empowerment and personal growth activities with a more collective
dimension giving thus a strong emphasis on the collective empowerment and collective potential
of participants, which is perfectly aligned with the theory and processes of social innovation.
In this respect:
• the definition of the basic concepts of social and professional empowerment
• analysis and support of professional skills for the facilitators, both theoretical
knowledge and practical skills,
• simulation of a social and professional workshop with specific activities, including
detailed descriptions,
• and evaluation of its results and monitoring tools with initial and final assessments.
Hence, participants of this module will work together, explore innovative concepts, exchange
ideas, and decide on issues they are interested in.

Target audience – target group/level
This module is aimed to boost the confidence of people from four groups: people who face socio-
cultural disadvantages (gender, ethnicity or religion-related), economic disadvantages
(unemployment, poverty), geographical disadvantages (living in rural or remote areas with
restricted job prospects and higher levels of long-term unemployment relative to the city centers),
and people with disabilities. This part of the UPTHEM training programme tries to empower, train,
guide and connect disadvantaged people with the labour market, and it can be used by the
UPTHEM partners as well as by other training organizations and NGOs working with the specific
target groups.

Allocated time

The total duration of the suggested activities is about 8 hours, but it is expected that the interaction
during a workshop will create a need for more time. For a one-day workshop, this duration will be
quite tedious for participants and they will not fully assimilate the value of the activities. Thus, we
propose a two-day workshop, and the facilitators can split equally the duration of the activities
among the two days.

Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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