TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Elena Stevkovska
The aim of this course is to raise the capacity of youth organizations to develop global citizenship competencies through the method of Street Campaigning.
More specific objectives that are to be achieved:
-To increase the level of innovation and creativity in youth work field by using street campaigning methods
-To increase the level of professionalism and quality of youth work in addressing global issues ;
-To stimulate long term involvement of beneficiaries youth organizations in sustainable projects which address sustainability ;
- To stimulate mobility of youth workers within Europe for development of new competencies;
- To develop practical competencies in street campaigning for the youth workers involved;
- To develop pro-active attitudes towards sustainability among the beneficiaries youth workers;
- To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, climate change, sustainable life style, consumerism, social and global justice, social exclusion, etc.
- To motivate all the beneficiaries (direct and indirect) to act as responsible active global citizens is their day to day life;
The participants were youth workers, trainers, volunteers, and active members of our partner organizations. They were residents of one of the following countries: Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Portugal and Norway
Non-formal education and experiential learning specific activities: getting to know each-other, games, exercises, experiential learning process by developing (step by step), implementing and evaluating a Street Campaign, group discussions and reflections.
Exercises used in the first training can be found in the following Manual on Street Campaigning for global issues: https://goo.gl/uNyofv or http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/2353
-A European network of experts in street campaigning.
-Training modules for developing street campaigning and competencies
-Local street campaign in Balestrand, done by the participants in the last days of the training, where they practiced and experienced the method firsthand.
-Participants increased the knowledge level in topics like: global interdependencies, climate change, sustainable life style, consumerism, social and global justice, and they made an action plan of how they will to use this knowledge and experience in their personal and professional life.
Full-time co-trainer