“DemoPeople II” Contact Making Seminar on Youth Policy

Aims & objectives

The aim of the seminar was to understand the idea of structural dialogue, create new international partnerships and prepare new, good quality projects on non-formal education level.

Objectives of the seminar:
- to create opportunities for starting long-term international cooperation on democracy and structural dialogue projects;
- contribute to development of the quality of projects;
- to rise the knowledge about guidelines and rules of Key Action 3;
- to create space for building international partnership and planning future projects;
- to create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences and good practices,
- to find a way and inspiration on creating local youth initiatives in a sense of structural dialogue
- to learn new approaches and to find innovative way of communication between youth and politics/experts/ people responsible for creating youth policy,
- to show new possibilities under Erasmus+ to develop intercultural competences on youth policy field.

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

18 participants from Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Training methods used & main activities

Methods used:
- simulation
- group work
- chatting tables
- poster gallery
- discussion
- good practice presentation - testimony
- project ideas development

Outcomes of the activity

The most important outcomes of the seminar were ideas developed by participants in international teams. At the end of the seminar there were 9 different project ideas discussed by participants.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was involved in preparation, implementation and evaluation of this seminar.

I worked on this training for 3 days as a full time trainer.