TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Domagoj Morić
The general aim of Communication and Participation Officers’ Staff Training (CIOST+) is to provide communication, information and participation officers with ideas, inspiration, tools, as well as basis for networking and sharing experiences.
Main objectives of the CIOST+ were:
• to encourage networking and sharing, as well as organizing and emancipating (becoming European, using resources);
• to explain European Solidarity Corps and possibilities of communication;
• to provide new skills to participants from the area of communication;
• to introduce participation and discuss its importance in contemporary Europe.
About 45 people from approximately 27 different European countries, mainly Communication Officers of Erasmus+ National Agencies and Participation Officers of Erasmus+ National Agencies.
This event was based on non-formal education and experiential learning approach. A combination of different creative and interactive methods were used: Ice-breaking and Getting to know each other activities, Workshops, Discussion, Guest Lectures, Experience sharing, Individual work, Theoretical Input, Presentations, Personal, group, and meta reflections and evaluations.
Participants:
• networked among each other;
• shared different resources;
• were introduced to the new European Solidarity Corps programme and possibilities of its communication to wider public and to key stakeholders;
• understood importance of participation in youth programmes and how it connects to European Youth Strategy.
Based on the final evaluation, participants were happy with the content and the overall event.
I was the main facilitator on the event.