Energy by Synergy

Aims & objectives

“Energy by Synergy TC” is targeted at voluntary and professional youth workers with a draft Erasmus+ project plan, interested in building up strong long lasting partnerships and getting inspired to work on innovatory ideas and putting them into practice.

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

“Energy by Synergy TC” is targeted at voluntary and professional youth workers with a draft Erasmus+ project plan, interested in building up strong partnerships. Long-term partnerships and sustainable networks have gained a big importance within the Erasmus+ Programme. Many organisations and their youth workers don’t know how to make this happen. So unfortunately, projects mostly end after the last day of the activity and the collaborations die together with them.

Training methods used & main activities

The learning process was supported by a variety of non formal learning methods such as simulations, future thinking techniques, open space, outdoor activities and mentoring.

Outcomes of the activity

According to the evaluation we can summarize the results as following:

Participants are able to give value to and integrate the perspective of sustainable partnerships in their project plan.
Participants are ready to work on sustainable partnerships by:
- creating a common vision of a project and an adequate partnership/collaboration
- strategic thinking
- setting up common goals/aims and a matching timeframe
The participants are able to identify and understand:
- core elements of intercultural communication
- different stakeholders' interest
- different ways to make waves (exchange useful methods of dissemination and exploitation of results)
- different phases of partnership development.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

As trainer i designed this training with my colleques from Poland and Belgium.

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.