The Design Sprint

15/09

14h30 → 17h00

16/09

9h00 → 18h00

IHECS Bâtiment Chambon Rue des boiteux, 9 Classroom 301 & 304

What is it?

Expert facilitators will conduct specific training and workshops for 40 international and Belgian schoolgirls who will design and shapes tangible projects contributing to the participation, physical activity and leadership of young women in their local communities and schools.

The “Design Sprint ‘’ is an educational program that aims to train selected participants – supported by their mentor – to become leaders in school sport by designing and creating multidimensional projects linking sport, culture, education, and innovation. They will particularly develop project management skills in the field of sport, to learn how to mobilize other young athletes in their local communities. The mentor will play a key role in the training by interacting with the participants, sharing his or her experiences, and committing to support the participants’ ideas to be turned into real projects at the local level after the training.

1

Two days instead of five. A team of schoolgirls instead of experienced professionals

 

Contrary to the usual use of this type of exercise, the population concerned here is not experienced, and does not yet have proper means to implement the concepts imagined.
It is therefore necessary to build the confidence of these participants, to strongly involve the sponsors so that these ideas can be implemented once the event is over, and to encourage our young leaders to communicate about the event once it has taken place in their country.

2

A formalization of the concepts imagined into a detailed step-by-step method for organizing events

 

Beyond a simple exercise in creativity, it is important that each participant leaves the event with a clear idea of all the steps that will enable them to organize this event locally. This is why, in addition to formalizing the concepts imagined, the methodology will enable each participant to define all the actions that need to be followed in the right order to plan, build, promote, run and dismantle the event as efficiently as possible.

3

Standardization of renderings for effective pitches on the last day of the event

 

Participants will have to pitch their ideas on stage at the end of the Sprint. Also, in addition to the deliverables produced by the working groups, the Sprint team will design visual renderings and prepare each team for the oral presentation of their project on stage the following day.

4

An locally adapted resources strategy

 

At several points in the Sprint, it will be necessary to discern the populations of young leaders from the mentors, and to engage the mentors in specific exercises to determine the resources that can be made available to the participants locally to organize the imagined events, and to commit to the execution of these resource strategies.

5

A common methodology adapted to the many specificities of the participating countries

 

As the participating countries are very diverse and do not offer participants the same level of resources or opportunities in terms of event organization, it is important to determine a single method that will allow all teams to collaborate and imagine event formats that will suit all the regional specificities involved in this exercise.

1,5 days Training programme

Introduction

Presentation of the exercise and the expectations of SheRuns 2022 to participants
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Team building

How to get young participants from multiple countries to get to know each other quickly and work effectively together.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Mentor Exercise

Determination of the means, places and support persons that will be made available to the national teams once they return home.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Young Leaders’ Exercise

Working group on two key questions: What do we want to bring to the girls in our communities through sports activities? What are the most important reasons.
What are the most important reasons why the girls we know and love are not involved in sport today?
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Mission of the team

Choice of challenges that the team will seek to address through the organization of a local event in their community.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Inspiration for Teams

Presentation of a variety of unusual and offbeat sports events to promote sporting activities.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Brainstorming

Definition of the type of event that will be organized by the team on its return to the
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Definition of Experience

Deepening of the imagined concept, narration and formalization of the detailed user experience of the event.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Detailed planning

Identification of all necessary preparation steps. Identification of responsible persons and resources for each step. Detailed action plan to best organize and execute the planned event.
January 01, 2021
12 AM

Preparation for the oral presentation

Presentation of the team’s work in the form of slides and coaching of the teams in public speaking.
January 01, 2021
12 AM