C.O.D.E for youth

Aims & objectives

The main aim of the project is to expand knowledge of youth workers, youth leaders and school teachers on empowering young people and supporting their development through non-formal learning and the promotion of a growth mindset.

The project's direct objectives are:
- to learn how to empower young people to assess their own competences, to communicate them and to take responsibility for their own learning and development within the context of lifelong learning;
- to learn how to promote a growth mindset and nurture motivation to learn in young people;
- to explore meanings, roles and complementarity of different educational approaches and methods (formal, non-formal, informal);
- to get insight on how to develop cooperation between youth organisations and formal educational institutions for the benefits of young people;
- to observe and share good practices of this cooperation;
- improve understanding of how to assess and acknowledge learning outcomes of young people involved in NFL activities.

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

Participants were youth workers, leaders and teachers from: Bulgaria, Croatia, Canarian Islands (Spain), Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania

Training methods used & main activities

NFL methods: games, work with cards, discussions, group work, individual work, work in pairs, youth to adults method, "world cafe".
Different technics for reflection: cards, Blob tree, reflection pool, learning buddies, etc.

Outcomes of the activity

- participants developed attitudes and got new knowledge
- participants developed partnership - new project was applied by partner after the training
- participants exchanged good practices
- young people got experience to be trainers for adult youth workers (method youth to adults)
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Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Full time trainer and project manager
Sessions:
getting to know each other
Team-building
Engaging young people in learning
Empowering
Competence development strategies
Personal competence development
How to apply it to my work/activities?
Evaluation and reflection sessions

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.