TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
http://trainers.salto-youth.net/MicheleDiPaola/
Michele Di Paola
it's all about putting people together!
You can find me hangin' out at the crossing of human expression and digital technologies.
That's my spot, where I enjoy working, learning and having fun using all kinds of human experiences, including games, stories and rituals from past and present times, working in training, intercultural learning, non-formal activities - with a touch of technology: mastering computers, mobile, apps, socialmedia and web. Someone calls it digital youth work, do you?
Michele Di Paola has 7 references for past work as a trainer.
Contact details
Trainer connections
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Carmine Rodi Falanga -
Rosario Rossi -
Mafalda Morganti -
Monika Novosadova -
Árpád Bárnai -
Paul Kloosterman -
Salvi Greco -
Elias Mastoras -
Laris Guerri -
Emiliano Iannone -
Réka Széplaki -
Enrico Elefante -
Panagiota Adamidou -
ARGYRIS CHOULIAS -
Dorit Machell (Fauck) -
Zsiday Kriszta -
Asier Carrasco González -
Gergely Kiss -
Simona Simulyte -
Bo Maria Daskalova -
Mehmet Burak Demircan -
Joanna Hoffman -
Aliaksej Burnosenka -
Evelina Kvartunaite -
Martin Fischer -
Laura Pierfelici -
Cristina Di Ponzio -
Javi Quilez Peña -
Alexandro Jan Lai -
Melih Özkardes -
Maryam Majidova -
Corina Pintea -
Alessandra Coppola -
Spela Gorjan -
Alexandre Fonseca -
Ilias Giannopoulos -
Anna Yeghoyan -
Jessica Reinsch -
Olga Kyriakidou -
Ekaterina (Katya) Sherer Sherer -
Snežana Bačlija Knoch -
Anita Silva -
Laimonas Ragauskas -
Nerijus Kriauciunas -
Olga Poddubnaya
Current occupation
trainer - media educator - innovation developer - project coordinator.
Work experience
I am active as a freelance trainer, focused on digital youth work and digitalization of youth work practices. I am passionate about (video)games and gamification, digital tools in outdoors activities, (digital) storytelling.
I have a great competence in the field of digital creativity: I designed with other colleagues the first training course ever about digital youth work, DIG IT UP!, then adopted by TCA, and then I have been part of the process of digitalisation of many elements of youth work, as for instance the digital dimension of ETS competence model.
Since 10+ years I run workshops based on non formal education approaches on coding, creating video games, robots, digital and transmedia storytelling (with Minecraft) etc to kids and boys / girls aged 10 to 16 years old, teachers, educators and youth workers.
I have been a youth worker for Spazio Giovani (www.spaziogiovani.it) since the late 90s, coming from a long experience of volunteering for different organisations. Within this organisation I am in charge of a Eurodesk local office (IT103) and I am working in several projects of youth/local communities empowerment., and I am in charge of the activities regarding Digital media education and Responsible use of technology with youngsters and in schools.
Sometimes I blog in English or in Italian at www.dipaola.me - have a look and leave your comments!
Educational pathway
My formal education was in the fields of literature and arts: I graduated in Classical Studies (arts, Latin, ancient Greek, Italian literature...) and got a bachelor in Literature... meanwhile I was teaching myself a lot on computers and technology in the roaring years of BBSs and the upcoming of the Internet - then I started working in non-formal education and youth work, and this involved me fully ;)
My first approach with nonformal education was inside my local scouts group... this was the basis for a large part of my youth work, which I could then develop in many years of experience within my organisation.
I put a lot of effort in keeping up to date with all the possible educational uses of technology, doing a lot of research on the field, taking courses and seminars (including online ones) and studying the topic continuously.
I have learned something in every nonformal education experience in which I was involved, either as a participant or trainer, and I really look forward to learning more!
Fields of training expertise
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Bullying & Harassment -
Campaigning & Awareness Raising -
Change Management
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Citizenship Education
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Coaching & Mentoring
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Communication Skills
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Conflict Management & Mediation -
Creativity & Art
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Crisis Management
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Diversity & Anti-Racism
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Drama & Theatre
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Environment & Ecology
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Entrepreneurship (Social)
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Equal Opportunities
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Evaluation & Assessment
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Event Management
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Financial Management
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Fundraising
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Gender Awareness & Mainstreaming
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Global Education
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Group Dynamics & Motivation
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Health & Prevention
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Human Rights
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Intercultural Learning
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International Youth Work
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Labour Rights & Employment
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Leadership Development
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Lobbying & Advocacy
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New Information Technologies
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Open Space Technology
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Organizational Management
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Outdoor & Experiential Training
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Peace Education
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People Management & Cooperation
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Personal Development & Empowerment
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Project Management
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Public Relations & Marketing
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Public Speaking
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Recognition of NFLearning
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Social Inclusion & Exclusion
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Social Media
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Storytelling & Humour
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Time Management
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Training of Trainers
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Valorisation of Projects (DEOR)
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Volunteer Programmes
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Youth Exchanges
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Youth Information Work
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Youth Participation & Initiatives
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Youth Policy
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Youth Violence & Criminality
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Youth Worker Training
Knowledge about institutions and programmes
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Youth Exchanges
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Erasmus+ (KA1) Training & Networking
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Transnational Youth Initiatives
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Strategic Partnerships
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Erasmus+ (KA2) Capacity Building (other countries in the World)
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Erasmus+ (KA3) Youth Policy Meetings
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European Solidarity Corps Volunteering
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Erasmus+ (lifelong learning, non-youth)
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European Youth Centres (CoE)
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European Youth Foundation (CoE)
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Solidarity Fund for Youth Mobility (CoE)
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European Institutions
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Youth Partnership CoE-COM
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International Youth Structures
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Private Foundations
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United Nations
Working with specific target groups
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Children
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Families
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Intercultural Teams
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Marginalized & Excluded Youth
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Men's Issues & Groups
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Minorities
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Religious Youth Groups
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Women's Issues & Groups
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Young People in/from Conflict Areas
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Young People with a Physical Disability
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Young People with a Sensory Disability
Experience with specific geographical regions
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Africa
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Asia
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Eastern Europe and Caucasus
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Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation
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European Cooperation
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Global Cooperation
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Latin America
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North-North Cooperation
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North-South Co-operation
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South East Europe
Language Skills
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English -
Spanish
Other languages
Italian (mothertongue)
Trainer references
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UEb 2.0
Awaiting validation (requested 2017-07-17) -
DIG-IT up! digital tools for non formal education in open air
Awaiting validation (requested 2018-03-13) -
Get STORIED! (STORYtelling & EDucation)
Awaiting validation (requested 2017-08-22) -
Share The Right Story
Awaiting validation (requested 2018-03-16) -
DIG-IT up! Training course on including digital tools in Youth work, the basics of digital youth work
Awaiting validation (requested 2019-04-20) -
Exploring the digital dimension - Conference
Awaiting validation (requested 2021-04-23) -
Citizenship Reloaded
Awaiting validation (requested 2023-04-24)
This profile was last modified on 2025-09-04