TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Álvaro Díaz Cuevas
Or main aim is to find bridges between past positive experiences of employability after EVS and new volunteers.
• To go deeper in every personal experience of employability after EVS.
• To reflect about the changes that EVS made in the life of the participants.
• To increase the reflection process of the learning outcomes that participants got during their EVS projects. And to see this reflection process inside their Youthpass.
• To discover what competences gained in the EVS have been important for participant’s employability.
• To provide participants ways and tools to increase the impact of their personal employability experience in their own countries.
• To motivate exEVS volunteers being multipliers of the YiA programme especially of the EVS learning experience and of the Youthpass as a tool for employability.
• To promote future projects, especially inside the YiA Programme about employability.
• To create tools to improve the future volunteers reflection process of their own EVS experience and learning process. And to share this tool with the NA’s of the YiA Programme.
People that made the EVS in the previous years, who got a job after their EVS Project thanks to their EVS experience.
The participants where comming from: Italy, Austria, Grecce, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Hungary, Grecce, Romania, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Slovakia & Spain.
The didactic methodology of the training will be based in three main points:
• 100% non-formal learning methods for the personal and group reflection. And the creation of Informal learning spaces during the TC.
• Working with self-directed learning methods, reflection, peer to peer learning to allow the transfer of the learning into useful information for the creation of the tools, and competences compilation.
• Using the existing resources in the TC: participants and team as main tool for the reflection and creation process.
The Outcomes of the activity are in the webpage www.youthpassprocess.eu and the "EVS Learning Notebook" was presented in the Tool Fair 2014 and all the EVS volunteers that arrive in Spain get a copy of this learning reflection notebook in the On-Arrival-Training orgnised by the Spanish NA.
• 8 videos as a multimedia promoting tool for the promotion of the employability through the EVS projects.
• A document with the explanation of the competences developed during EVS that are useful for employability.
In the team we where sharing most of the tasks of the training course. Since the application proccedure, until the preparation of the "EVS learning Notebook" and of course the different tasks as full time trainer.