The idea that success stories are born even during a pandemic is shown by the story of Alexandra, who recently decided to open her own shop in the Old Skopje Bazaar in N.Macedonia where she makes and sells filigree jewelry.
As a young student, Alexandra decides to start training in filigree. She says that this craft has always been a technique that fascinated her. In her small shop / workshop, there is a small desk with tiny tools from which a piece of jewelry is born. The opening of the workshop was in December 2020, which can be said to be a story that began to develop well during a pandemic.
“... in a world dominated by uncertainty and complex problems, established routes and maps are limited and limiting instruments. What we really need are people capable of creating their own maps. And the creation of maps requires an experimental pedagogical model.” - Juan Freire
“As an entrepreneurial learning mentor in adult learning, you need to go beyond arranging activities for your learners to acquire all the content prescribed in a curriculum or a syllabus. You are called to create opportunities for learners to independently develop their own learning, to become self-directed learners."
Wundergarten, located in a Mediterranean botanical garden in the Madonie Park (Sicily), is a project founded by a Sicilian social entrepreneur, Debora di Gesaro.
The project "Ladies First" aims to empower VET educators, trainers, mentors and counselors to support women beneficiaries in order to gain the necessary stability in-between working and personal life.