EuroMed Spring Workshop for Youth Exchanges and Youth Participation

Aims & objectives

To raise the quality of youth exchanges, to discover and to increase skills, abilities and competences of youth workers in EuroMed context, and too increase impact of youth exchanges on youth.

Objectives of the training course
• To promote YOUTH PARTICIPATION in a youth exchange project
• Understand EuroMed context in a youth exchange project
• To promote cooperation for future projects

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

31 participants from Ireland, Belgium, Jordan, Turkey, Tunisia, Finland, Lebanon, France, Italy, Poland, Palestine, Egypt. Youth workers, Youth leaders, Project managers.

Trainers: Cathy Bacomo - France, Aytac Uzunlas, Turkey - Lama Zeinoun Tabet - Lebanon

Team: Bernard Abrignani, Federica Demiceli, Kati Inkinen, Paavo Pyykkönen, Flavia Giovanelli

Training methods used & main activities

• Homework: for a strong preparation before meeting in Finland
• aspects of Erasmus+ and EuroMed
• To share experiences of the participants in the frame of participation of young people in the process of a youth exchange: through templates and workshops
• How to make a youth exchange with active participation of young people
• Shape and design common project-ideas in team work
• Daily process; let's meet, let's prepare, let's share, let's learn, let's participate, let's have a taste of Finnish culture.

Outcomes of the activity

10 project ideas for Youth Exchanges

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Trainer involved in the following workshops:
Get to know each other
Program Objectives - Hopes and Fears
Team Building
Intercultural Evening
Sharing good practices
Evaluation

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