DigUpSkills

Aims & objectives

-Encouraging entrepreneurship at local, national and international level
-Promoting social networks and new media technologies for personal development
-Supporting education at local, national and international level
-Increase quality of youth work, digital youth work and foster collaboration among partners
-Stimulate active participation and social responsibility among 40 youth workers
-Promote social networks and new media technologies for personal and professional youth development among 40 youth workers

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

18+ years old youth workers, who has worked with youth (14-35 years old) for at least 20 hours in the past 6 months leading activities linked to facilitating a learning process, guiding, mentoring, coaching, informing or supporting young people, online and/or offline, outside the formal education setting, from 15 different countries.

Training methods used & main activities

Non formal education training tools:
-Get to know each other - name Bazar
-Role plays
-facilitated discussions
-smaller group works
-Euro casino
-Cicero Metod
-simulation games,
-theatre,
-team building,
-workshop,
-intercultural nights
-reflections.

Outcomes of the activity

-Increased awareness about Digital tools to use in youthwork
-New project ideas to collaborate using Digital tools
-Increased awareness about social networks and new media technologies for personal development

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Facilitator - planning and Implementing several activities related to the training topic, facilitating the process and the reflection groups at the end of the day. Discussing feedbacks with collegues,
Participation in APV (advanced planning Visit) - During the APV, a group of youth workers (5) gathered to discuss the objectives of the training course, offering their input in making them perfectly adapted to the target group.

I worked on this training for 2 days as a full time trainer.