PARTNER : EUROPEAN BUSINESS CAMPUS AT FEZ (GERMANY)
TYPE : NGO
OUR ROLE : PROGRAM / TEAM / MEDIA / DOCUMENTATION
RESULTS : Teenage Student Companies from 7 countries inspired, trained, performing to a point that teachers and European Commission members were speechless, and us moved to tears
Germany’s biggest youth centre booked Eric for organizing the week-long European Business Campus for student companies, and Eric brought in the finest contents, teamers and activities
- Kaospilot graduates
- hub members
- wildly skilled in participative co-creative methodology
- with spunky spirit, big heart and vision
with
- pre-event positive news storyboards at schools for warming up
- dynamic, co-creative methods
- powerful videos, posters, theatre etc
- harvesting videos and interviews at the Student Company Fair
- confronting peers about sustainability, detecting that the vast majority of companies was unsustainable and its members uneducated about the basics of contemporary education and our needs
- post-event multi-media documentation
involving youth in
- workshops on focus topics
- pitch performances with expert feedback
- culminating in theatre style presentations to the European Commission
to a point of
- from morning till evening
- no partying in evenings, as they would have expected
- continuing group work in evenings at hostels, because they were still on fire and wanted to deliver the very best to their awesome teamers
- youth falling ill (mainly due to poor food and bad air conditioning at fez and hostels!)
and despite or because of this everybody agreeing
- it has been the best week of their life
- it has been an eic, life-changing experience
- Eric is a legend
- that “diamonds are born under pressure”