East West EVS TC

Aims & objectives

EastWestEVS Training course is an Annual Training Course aims at developing competences of EVS projects coordinators in managing EVS projects in cooperation between Programme Countries and Eastern Europe and Caucasus region.
The Training Course has following objectives:
• to learn about Youth in Action programme, especially the European Voluntary Service;
• to get to know and experience the specific aspects of cooperation between the Eastern Europe and Caucasus and Programme countries’ EVS organizations;
• to develop personal, professional and intercultural competences of EVS coordinators, that are necessary to run quality EVS projects;
• to foster contact making process and lay ground for quality partnership building between organizations from Eastern Europe and Caucasus and Programme countries;
• to create an opportunity to start developing concrete EVS projects for the future.

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

20
Gender allocation: Female - 11, Male - 9
Representing: NGOs and public institutions, local authorities
Countries represented: Bulgaria, Poland,United Kingdom, Austria, Iceland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Russia, Belarussia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia

Training methods used & main activities

Nonformal learning methods including - energizers, presentations, work in the groups, simulation, analysis of the quality, exploring the local reality, use of video, creative techniques as a tool, refelction and self - assesment

Outcomes of the activity

Analysed quality of the EVS, elaborated specific aspects of the partnership with the EECA region, established partnerships for the future EVS cooperation, concrete outcomes described in the Final report

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Full - time trainer

I worked on this training for 6 days as a full time trainer.