Training course "Comedy as a Tool - Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor"

CET platforma Skopje is looking for partners for a project “Comedy as a Tool - Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” that is planning to submit to Macedonian National Agency on 23rd of February 2023 deadline. The project is envisioned as 9-days training course for youth workers and youth leaders coming from 8 European countries that will be organized in Autumn 2023 in Krushevo, North Macedonia.

PROJECT SUMMARY:

The main aim of the project is to improve the quality of youth work in engaging young people of 24 youth workers from 8 European countries by educating and training them to use different stand-up comedy strategies and techniques.

We have recognized that in many youth project, organizations and youth workers are facing with the problem of how to transfer complex and abstract ideas and concepts to young people they work with into simple, visual and easily comprehensible way. Many topics, workshops and presentations are emotionally challenging for the young people, because they are too serious for them to process and engage with. Some concepts (for example such as entrepreneurship) are important for the youngsters to grasp it, but they are too abstract that when potential project on this topic is presented, the youngsters are not interested or even when they attend, they are not paying full attention. That’s why, if we want to have a high-quality workshops and impactful activities, we have to make those abstract ideas more visual (like they are happening in the front of our eyes), more fun, interesting and memorable for the young people attending them. The idea of this project is not to make the youth workers professional stand-up comedians, but to give them guidelines how to cultivate their sense of humor, communicate better their ideas, explain easier important concepts and how to crate captivating activities for the young people they work with. Well-placed humour can give to the target audience some much-needed relief in an otherwise serious topic.

As the outcome of the project, the participants will create a toolbox of non-formal educational activities that utilize stand-up comedy techniques for working on improving employability of young people that can be used by them, their organisations or others working with youth.

The working methods used throughout the training course will be various non-formal educational and creative methods that will include: brainstorming, discussions, groups work, work in groups, simulations, debates, theatre, role playing, presentations and outdoor activities.

WANT TO BE OUR PARTNER?

If you want to be partner on the project, then please send us the attached fully filled Partner Identification Form by email to macedonia@cetplatform.org with subject line “Humor project partnership”, not later than 20th of February 2023.

Please use the format of the PIF that we attach to this call for partners. It doesn’t need to be the same document, but it MUST have the answers to all questions included in it.

N.B. Offers from organizations for mutual partnerships will have priority in the selection of partners.

Only the selected organizations will be contacted via email for the partnership.