{"id":35686,"date":"2016-06-20T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2016-06-15T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:49:56","slug":"active-local-of-the-month-of-march-aegee-cagliari-we-put-passion-in-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2016\/06\/20\/active-local-of-the-month-of-march-aegee-cagliari-we-put-passion-in-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTive Local of the Month of March AEGEE-Cagliari: “We Put Passion In Everything!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last March, AEGEE-Cagliari organised\u00a0a seminar on entrepreneurship, giving students the necessary knowledge to start their own start-up.\u00a0For this reason, they were chosen as the ACTive Local of the Month. We spoke to Francesca Zorcolo, President of the local, to find out more!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ProfstartupACT: Congratulations! As we would like to get to know this month’s winner, could you tell\u00a0us a bit more about your local?<\/strong>
\nFrancesca:\u00a0<\/strong>This award is really a surprise for us, thank you so much Action Agenda Coordination Committee (ACT)! AEGEE-Cagliari was “born” in 1995 and so far we are the only antenna on our beautiful Sardinian island (we are\u00a0working on that as well). Currently, we have\u00a0about 110 members, among which 40 active one. We work in a constant and active way at the local level to promote the\u00a0principles of AEGEE-Europe, and also at the European level we try to be present as much as\u00a0possible!<\/p>\n

You have organised the “Professione Startup” seminar. Can you tell us more about\u00a0your event?<\/strong>
\nThe seminar lasted for two days, one focused on theory and one focused more on practice, with the goal to give a thorough knowledge about the profession of entrepreneur. We invited several\u00a0experts and consultants in the business field, who started their work on\u00a0our island and were recognised for\u00a0their innovation\u00a0power. During the first day, purely theoretical, these experts gave lectures in front of the\u00a0participants. The topics, chosen by us and tackled by the experts, were how\u00a0to\u00a0start a business and make it stand out in the start-up national environment.<\/p>\n

\"ProfstartupThe experts in this field explained the start-up world basics and its internal processes\u00a0such as working stages; research of team members; colleagues\u2019 relationship; how to best\u00a0motivate the team; working methods and how to best advertise one\u2019s business or\u00a0product to the consumers. These highly trained and engaging experts succeeded in\u00a0depicting the current job market and how we, with our ideas, can shape the future.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0the second day, March 18, the participants were involved in a workshop in which they put\u00a0into practice all the skills learned on the previous day. The group work, carried out by the\u00a0participants, was based on specific practical cases taken from the business world such as\u00a0identifying products that make elders\u2019 life easier or finding services suited to redevelop\u00a0historic goods and local products. It was without any doubt a great occasion to\u00a0challenge ourselves and be in the shoes of an entrepreneur developing brilliant ideas for start-ups\u00a0in a full learning environment.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to organise this seminar?<\/strong>
\nThe idea for a \u201cProfession Startup\u201d came in 2015, following the desire to give young\u00a0people alternative methods for their employment. We also wanted to offer a new\u00a0perspective for all the people that wish to create their own business and realize their own\u00a0ideas, but do not know how to start. Our main goal, besides\u00a0offering important info and first-hand accounts by field experts, was to create and\u00a0develop some useful practical skills for the participants so that they \"Profstartupcould challenge\u00a0themselves and compare their own ideas. Unfortunately, because of the current\u00a0university system, students do not have many chances to engage with self-made\u00a0businesspeople. The opportunities for youngsters to develop group-work skills and to\u00a0challenge themselves in those practical jobs that mirror the activities of a start up\u00a0are\u00a0not enough. For this reason we decided to fill this gap with our work, passion and goodwill.<\/p>\n

What was the result?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThis is the second edition of the programme, which we decided to propose again, because last year we received so many positive feedback. Our desire is to keep on\u00a0developing this programme, by examining the topic, in every edition, in new and different\u00a0ways and perspectives. 50 students from the University of Cagliari participated in an\u00a0active way. Their favourite session was the workshop in which they were able\u00a0to put into practice, in a business case scenario, the theoretical knowledge acquired the\u00a0previous day. At the end of the workshop, every group presented its own project to the\u00a0other participants, having the opportunity to receive feedback and compare their works.<\/p>\n

Moreover, we wanted to deliver the message that start-ups are suitable for all, not only\u00a0for students of Economics. Intelligence does not need to be studied, all everyone needs is\u00a0will, hard work and having a dream. A great example of that is the life of one of our\u00a0experts, which aroused great admiration among the \"Profstartupparticipants. This person started by\u00a0being a liquor seller and although he did not hold a degree, did not have many financial\u00a0means and did not work in a friendly environment, succeeded in designing and\u00a0developing an internet application, which today is downloaded in every corner of the\u00a0world and translated in more than 20 languages.<\/p>\n

Why do you think the Action Agenda is important for the Network, and what would\u00a0you say to another local that is thinking about organising something related to the\u00a0Action Agenda?<\/strong>
\nWe believe that the Action Agenda is very important because it allows us to work as a coordinated network: by having a set of focus areas on which we can concentrate our\u00a0energies, we can have a great impact on reality. TO be more specific, we have the possibility to\u00a0examine the same topic, at the same time, but in a total different manner according to\u00a0the parties involved. All the locals should be encouraged and spurred to give their own\u00a0creative contribution to the Focus Areas.\u00a0For that reason we tell them \u201cthrow
\nyourself into it! You are going to feel much more as a part of the network\u201d.<\/p>\n

Which sentence would describe your local and your event?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWe put passion in everything!<\/p>\n

The AEGEEan also covered AEGEE-Cagliari’s entreperneurship’s seminar in another article. To know more about this seminar, click: here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Written by the Action Agenda Coordination Committee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last March, AEGEE-Cagliari organised\u00a0a seminar on entrepreneurship, giving students the necessary knowledge to start their own start-up.\u00a0For this reason, they were chosen as the ACTive Local of the Month. We spoke to Francesca Zorcolo, President of the local, to find out more!\u00a0\u00a0 ACT: Congratulations! As we would like to get to know this month’s winner, could you tell\u00a0us a bit… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1579,4],"tags":[1936,610,1578,1940,729,1034,1235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35754,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions\/35754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}