Art Is My Weapon

Aims & objectives

Aim of the project
The main aim of the project is to equip young people and youth workers with the necessary tools and competencies needed in order to use their art skills through painting murals addressing solidarity, unity, inclusion, and equity as European values of crucial importance in the face of Covid-19 emergency.

TC Main goals:
to train youth workers to use arts as an educational tool in their youth work and to enable acquiring European values among young people, such as solidarity, unity, inclusion and equity. Will involve 4 youth workers per organisation active in the youth field and ready to transfer the newly gained competencies.
During the Training course they will present two non-formal methods involving using arts and creativity, addressing solidarity, unity, inclusion or equity. The non-formal methods will be icebreakers, team building games, and different creative workshops, used in their countries, communities or organisations, which will be presented and analyzed, and possibly modified and adapted by the youth workers.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Youth workers, total 24, from 6 countries, 4 / partner organisation: UK, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Spain, Portugal, Turkey

Training methods used & main activities

They will present two non-formal methods involving using arts and creativity, addressing solidarity, unity, inclusion or equity. The non-formal methods will be:
icebreakers, team building games, and different creative workshops.
These methods will be put into practice during the upcoming Youth exchange, and after video-tutorials will be created that will be part of the website created for this project.
All of the methods will be part of the digital toolkit that will be created by participants after the Training course

Outcomes of the activity

Create a digital Toolkit with non-formal methods involving arts and creativity following the guidelines: Type of Activity, Topic, Timing, Materials Needed, and Detailed Description of the activity, including extra tips and pictures from the Training course reflecting the implementation of the methods. This Toolkit will be part of the official project’s website and will be available for other youth workers to get educated in using these methods.
These methods will be also implemented during the Youth exchange which will additionally multiply the effect by creating video tutorials of the actual implementation of the method.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Trainer, responsible for program and outcomes.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

This training course is part of KA2 partnership Art IS My Weapon