Digital Content Creation for Entrepreneurship Education GERMANY CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF GOETTINGEN Description of project: We created two video sessions on the research and practice of causational and effectuational models of entrepreneurship. The videos were used as part of a blended learning course on Entrepreneurship & Innovation for undergrad students at the university. PI Training in Tajikistan STEP Training in Nigeria

STEP TRAINING About STEP STEP Training develops (young) people’s skills, knowledge, and confidence to pursue an entrepreneurial career. In the 12-week training, the students learn step-by-step to start their own businesses. This provides them with an effective means of creating jobs for themselves and other people in the community. STEP Training provides an answer to adverse labor market conditions and limited employment opportunities. STEP Training participants learn to create their own jobs by starting and running a business. A key benefit is that the students learn to take charge of their professional future. Through the training, the students become more proactive and independent, which supports them in overcoming the extreme unemployment rates among youths and the challenging job market conditions they are facing. Unemployment and poverty are inextricably intertwined. This is the point where the STEP Training seeks to make a difference. The STEP Training approach is supported by researchers and politicians alike. Politicians and researchers ranked fostering entrepreneurship among the top priorities of their agendas to alleviate poverty. Entrepreneurship is a main driver of economic development and wealth creation. Entrepreneurs have the potential to boost the economy and contribute substantially to new job creation. Against this background, entrepreneurship training, such as the STEP Training, is a main leverage for a successful bottom-up strategy to increase the number of entrepreneurs and accomplish politicians’ agenda. STEP The Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion (STEP) is an entrepreneurship training program which has been successfully implemented around the globe. Doorways is a certified provider for the STEP Training. STEP TRAINING How Everything Started The STEP Training project was founded in 2006 by Prof. Dr. Michael Frese and his team from Leuphana University of Lüneburg in cooperation with Makerere University Business School and Uganda Christian University (Uganda). The first training was conducted in 2009 at Makerere University and Uganda Christian University in Uganda. From these two universities, 200 students formed the first cohort to ever attend a STEP Training program. The evaluation of the first training showed significant short- and long-term effects on all factors important for entrepreneurship. Based on the positive results, the STEP Training was implemented at universities in Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In subsequent years, STEP Training was extended to further educational institutions, such as vocational training institutes and secondary schools, as well as to further regions, such as South-East Asia (e.g., the Philippines) and Latin America (e.g., Mexico). Evaluations in each country have shown that the STEP Training has a significant impact on business and job creation. STEP Training thus contributes to poverty alleviation and job creation on different educational levels and in different regions across the globe. STEP TRAINING Concept STEP is Locally Embedded STEP is tailored to local needs and conducted by local trainers STEP is Scientifically Evaluated STEP is evaluated according to highest scientific standards and shows positive short- and long-term effects Read More STEP is Evidence-Based The content is based on research on entrepreneurial success factors STEP is Action-Oriented Trainees start their own businesses and are learning by doing Each time STEP Training is implemented with a new institution, we aim to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCT) with a training group and a control group. A comparison of the pre-training measurement with post-training measurements enables to assess the impact of the STEP Training. The findings support that STEP Training enhances participants’ intentions to start a business, the confidence in their entrepreneurial skills, their knowledge about how to start a business, and their action planning for starting a new business. STEP Training participants learn entrepreneurship on the basis of action principles. The STEP Training action principles have been derived from the scientific literature on entrepreneurship, management, and psychology. They are science-based „rules of thumb“ that provide practical knowledge guiding students what to and how to do it to accomplish the start-up process. STEP Training is also evidence-based with regard to the didactical approach. STEP Training is rooted in action regulation theory and the result of our long-standing experience in training and entrepreneurship research in countries with adverse job market conditions and high youth unemployment. STEP was developed in cooperation with scholars from Makerere University, Makerere University Business School, Uganda Christian University, and Kyambogo University in Uganda. With every new implementation, the STEP Training content is adapted to the local context in cooperation with partners from the local institutions. The training sessions are conducted by local trainers who receive a five day train-the trainer workshop to become certified STEP trainers. The workshops are led by a team of STEP master trainers and in each workshop, up to 12 new STEP trainers are instructed on the methodology and content of STEP. STEP Training participants form teams and engage in the start-up process of a real micro business during the training. They proceed through the entire entrepreneurial process from preparing to launching and managing a real business. This involves that they identify and evaluate new business opportunities, acquire equipment and raw materials, deal with suppliers, and enter the market to offer their product or service to real customers. The participants thus take an active role and learn entrepreneurship „on-the-job“. They experience becoming an entrepreneur under real business conditions. They receive real-life feedback and develop a better understanding of the tasks and challenges of an entrepreneur. This is key to develop a feeling of true mastery of entrepreneurship, a belief of „I can do it“. Implementation Process The ideal procedure to facilitate the long-term implementation of the STEP Training at international partner institutions is depicted here. In a three-year project, the partner institutions are prepared to organize and run the STEP Training, secure the financial resources to sustain the STEP Training, and institutionalize the STEP Training (e.g. as part of their academic program). In the first year, the STEP Training is introduced, implemented, and evaluated to demonstrate its beneficial effects on participants‘ entrepreneurial behavior. In the second year, the partner institution assumes responsibility for organizing and implementing the STEP Training. The partner institution also starts securing funding and the administrative procedures to include STEP in the regular curriculum of one or more programs of study. In the third year, the partner institution independently organizes the training and decides about the institutionalization of the STEP Training in their academic program. STEP Projects View all CONTACT Get in Touch Your Name Your Email Address Message I have read and agree to the terms of use . 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PI Training and Effectuation Training for Rohingya Refugees BANGLADESH CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE DONOR: J-PAL Description of project: Close to the city Cox’s Bazar more than 1 million Rohingya have found refuge, some for more than 30 years by now. In a joint pilot project with J-PAL , MIT , Y-RISE , University of Wageningen , University of Warwick , and the local implementation partner RTM , we evaluate the effectiveness of the PI Training and an Effectuation Training that was designed for this project in cooperation with Saras Sarasvathy. In order for both training programs to be carried out at Kutupalong Refugee Camp, 12 local trainers successfully completed a Train-the-Trainer workshop and will remain in direct contact with us throughout the implementation of the project. STEP Training for Young Women Trading Support and PI Training

PI Training Content Development for MSME Retailers EGYPT CLIENT: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION (IFC) Description of project: The goal of the project is to deliver a skills training program for approximately 150-200 retailers in Egypt that are registered with the B2B retail platform MaxAB. The training starts with a pilot of two cohorts of approximately 20 retailers each and coaching is provided in addition to these sessions. The training and coaching mainly targets female retailers. PI Training in Rural Rwanda PI Training for MSMEs

Akouélé A Success Story from Togo Akouélé Ekoué Hettah, owner of a clothing boutique in Lomé, started her shop with limited business knowledge, or as she would say “blindly, by trial and error”. However, after taking the Personal Initiative Training course, she has become an accomplished entrepreneur. Having gained credibility in her business environment and vis-à-vis her customers and partners, she was able to obtain financing for her business much more easily. “When it comes to providing financing, we only think of banks and microfinance institutions, but after my training I realized that suppliers, friends, and relatives can also be sources of financing,” she said. A constant pursuit of innovation is one of Akouélé’s most important attributes as it enables her “to stand out among her competitors.” Today she is adding her personal touches to wedding dresses that she has purchased from her suppliers, to attract more customers. “We need to have innovative products, creative ideas. We need to propose extra special items to appeal to our customers,” she says. Akouélé has become more ambitious since her training and now has bigger dreams. Her boutique began to seem too small to her, so she moved her business to a more prestigious location on a boulevard in Totsi, a western suburb of Lomé. She has even turned her eyes to the international market, with a boutique already open in Benin and another under way in Ghana. Not only is Akouélé’s business growing, but so are her ambitions. Success Story of Habibou Success Story of Yeshi info@doorways-training.org +49 4134 9099726 Wiesenweg 2 21406 Barnstedt Home Doorways About Us Our Projects Success Stories Clients and Partners Contact STEP STEP Impact STEP Projects STEP Success Stories STEP Publications PI PI Impact PI Projects PI Success Stories PI Publications Blog FAQs Support Us © 2023 Doorways gGmbH. All Rights Reserved Terms of Use Imprint +49 4134 9099726 info@doorways-training.org Wiesenweg 2 21406 Barnstedt

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Content Development for PI-Ag Training AFRICA CLIENT: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO) Description of project: Together with FAO and MIT Bootcamps we developed a Personal Initiative Agripreneurship (PI-Ag) Training that combines the value chain approach with entrepreneurship best practices and PI Training. The course was delivered online and had over 2 300 applicants from 34 countries, most of which came from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. In total, 620 agripreneurs finished more than 57 percent of the training materials. The course was tested using a randomized control group design and showed that it has significant effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial planning and entrepreneurial actions in the short run. PI Training in Lesotho for Small-Scale Entrepreneurs PI Training for Adolescent Girls and Young Women

PI Training in Lesotho for Small-Scale Entrepreneurs LESOTHO CLIENT: CRS LESOTHO DONOR: MINISTRY OF GENDER, YOUTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE WORLD BANK Description of project: The Pathways to Sustainable Livelihoods Project in Lesotho aims to enhance the economic stability of poor and vulnerable households in the country by providing them with the tools and training needed to improve their economic resilience. For the (soft-skills) training component of the project, we collaborate with the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Lesotho, the Ministry of Gender, Youth, and Social Development, and the World Bank. Our key tasks include the adjustment of the Personal Initiative (PI) Training curriculum to also address Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and the implementation of Training-of-Trainer workshops (ToTs) for at least 50 prospective trainers in the Berea and Mohale’s Hoek regions. These trainers then deliver the PI Training to 2,500 beneficiaries in the first year and another 2,500 in the second year. We furthermore monitor the implementation to ensure sustainable progress. PI Training for Cross-Border Traders in The Gambia Content Development for PI-Ag Training

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