TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Federica Demicheli
The experiential practice highlighted some areas that could be developed within the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme:
● The role of youth work in dealing with refugees (by different actors, such as NGOs, municipalities, youth work organisations, institutions, etc.)
● Practices on empowerment and social cohesion, inclusion of refugees at local level, and on community dimension;
● A networking space for the participating organisations for future cooperation at international level.
The objectives were:
● To provide an experiential follow-up activity to the Dealing with Refugees: from challenges to opportunities conference in local NGOs active in the field in Jordan;
● To share experiences and practices of local youth work with refugees among participants to improve quality;
● To create a space to conceive and prepare Erasmus+ Youth in Action projects to put inspirations/ideas that come up during the seminar into practice, using experiences from encounters during the seminar activities.
This activity focused on the role of NGOs and youth workers involved with marginalised target groups, and on the acknowledgement of the active and positive role that youth work can have in promoting a more open and responsive civil society.
The youth workers were from Italy, Norway, Finnland and Jordan.
The seminar provided participants the unique opportunity to spend 2 days working activily in Jordanian NGOs dealing with refugees and asylum seekers. The experience has been used as basis for define challenges, competencies and political reccomandation for the local authorities. Group was the source of their own experience and professional developement.
The experience has been very succesfull as we had informal and formal partnership going on among the NGOs and new comers who are starting to be more involved in the European programmes.
I was coordinating and trainer.