Local stakeholders and project partners from the MedBEESinessHubs regions in Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon and Palestine, have recently completed the first cycle of the Train-the-Trainers course on the concept of 'Structured Democratic Dialogue - SDD', a tool they are about to use in supporting the creation of bee-economy clusters for regional development.  This first part consisted of four online sessions during which an experienced trainer on structured democratic dialogue, Mr Yiannis Laouris, introduced participants in the tools and methodology of this approach for bringing people together around common goals and solutions.

The MedBEESinessHubs partners are capitalising on this engaging methodology as it has been tested under the Interreg Med funded project MEDFEST and has proven to be effective in:

• resolving multiple conflicts and problems that are more and more complex in a reasonably limited amount of time;
• gathering the collective wisdom of diverse stakeholders who experience a challenge and/or a common goal;
• assisting heterogeneous groups with conflicting opinions and interests in collectively developing a common framework of thinking based on consensus building and thus achieving results.

The Train-the-Trainer course will be completed in Cyprus, during a two-day interactive course on 28 and 29 June 2022. Stay tuned!

If you want to learn more on 'Structured Democratic Dialogue' click here. 

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