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development and maturity of the project.
We offer 3 hours per week in training course,
and 1 hour per week in individual counselling.
Can you give a specific practical example of
how you have used these tools to support an
incubatee?
During the training we cover several areas.
The first one is the ‘me’ area, which includes
understanding of self, either for the
entrepreneur themselves or the group. We
cover elements like awareness,
self-development, understanding how the
mind works, what their skills are and what
they need to develop. We then move on to go
further and deeper focusing on the idea and
the project. Most of the incubatees have an
idea, but it is not very developed. Here we
need to go deeper on the planning of the
project and the piloting. During the training
we introduce instruments that allow them to
develop their project further, depending on
the area in which they work. For this we divide
the incubatees into two groups depending on
their maturity. For the projects that are at the
early stage we focus more on the idea
instruments, while for the more developed
projects we focus more in piloting phases.
Associacao Sonha, Faz e Acontece is an
association with the English name, Dream, Do
it and It Happens. They are working with
foreign students from former Portuguese
colonies. Many of these students are not
receiving proper support for their education in
Portugal, which leads to high drop out rates.
Their motivation to move to Portugal is often
to get education that will enable them to go
back and invest in their region, however, if
they drop out this will not be the case.
Associacao Sonha, Faz e Acontece is giving
counselling support to the students and help
integrate them in the society so that they can
contribute in a way that when they go back
they also know how to improve their own
communities.
The foundation has already been in existence
for several years, but it had not been focusing
much on the structure of what they do or the
measurement of their impact. We worked