TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Mariia Herashchenko
Aim - to raise the professionalization of youth work by supporting youth organizations to develop competences to recognize, train and validate top skills of NEETs that are most relevant for employability, better social integration on both national and European levels;
Objectives -
- Build capacity of the partnership in the field of: ‘Competence Models for Youth Workers’,
- development of tools for identification, evaluation and recognition of skills and competences of NEET,
- coaching their learning process, facilitate the transfer of best practices and boost human capital of consortium throughout learning mobilities;
- to promote non-formal learning methods applied to NEET, in particular in the field of applying gamification approach to organization of learning process;
- Increase employability potential of NEETs throughout fostering their transversal skills;
- To create comprehensive tools: OER, Learning diary paper version and mobile app on competence assessments and validation targeting both young people and youth workers;
- To promote European policies in the field of volunteering, competence development, assessment, validation and Erasmus+ programme on European level and in EaP.
A part of the project was the training course delivered in Ukraine. The trainers were Oleksandra Goncharuk, Viktoriia Antre and Mariia Herashchenko, the youth mobility coordinators and the trainers of the NGO "Development Centre Pangeya Ultima.
To present the non-formal education itself we used a variety of non-formal methods: games on getting to know each other, energizers and ice-breakers; we used Forum theatre as a method to address stereotypes and discrimination; movement practices and techniques to build the group dynamics, safe space and showed how they can be used as a tool to address stress, anxiety and non-verbal communication; we used world cafe to discuss the topics of civic engagement and to talk about volunteering; colors of fears and emotions to reflect on the experiences; we also used self-directed methods where the groups had to discover and explore individually and in small groups and afterwards make a presentation of the Earth elements.
- participants got acquainted with the concept of non-formal education and its opportunities within Erasmus plus and further;
- they learned body techniques to release tension and as a tool for group-building and trust-building;
- they learned about stereotypes and the difference between stereotypes, discrimination and prejudices;
- they gained some theatre and public speaking skills during presentations and simulations;
- the participants noted that had increased their awareness about the discriminated groups and about environmental projects that are taking place in their community.
Leading the workshops on body-movement; group-dynamics, stereotypes through theatre work; organizing space, helping with applications, choosing the motivations for participation; leading the presentation on Erasmus plus opportunities for youth and for youth workers; working on the dynamics within the team of organizers.