ATOQ advanced Training on Quality

Aims & objectives

The ATOQ training course will provide the participants with opportunities to: 1. Critically reflect upon their previous international youth exchange experience(s) and the impact on young people, organisations and wider community; 2. Increase the understanding of different quality aspects of youth exchanges such as: active participation of young people, cooperation with partners and other stakeholders, intercultural learning, programme design, impact and dissemination of results; 3. Experience a non-formal learning process and understand how to support young people’s learning in the project; 4. Improve their project management competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in order to better organise the different phases of a youth exchange project.

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

Participants: Finland, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Italy, France, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria
Trainers team, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Finland

Training methods used & main activities

ATOQ is built on the past experiences of participants and is interspersed with workshops, info-sessions, activities to improve group dynamics and ends with an evaluation.

Outcomes of the activity

The outcomes of the project were presented in a report, delivered to Dutch National agency. They assess further the outcomes of the training.
An evaluation was also conducted by the participants and also delivered to Dutch NA.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I worked in this training course as a job shadower and delivered two workshops. Topics of the workshops were Open badges as a tool for recognition and reflection and Digital project management tool for youth exchange projects.

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.