TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Nora Stefanova
- Creating a supporting environment for sharing EVS experience and evaluating personal and project development
- Problem solving and crisis management related to problematic EVS projects and issues rasined during participants voluntary service
- Goal-setting and personal planning till the end of the project and after it (follow up activities)
- Evaluation of the learning process and outcomes, relating it with YouthPass competences and the preparation of the EVS YouthPass certificate at the end of project
- Presentation of future opportunities in volunteering and other EU education, youth and training programmes
The training had 11 participants from 9 countries:
- Sweden - 1
- Germany - 1
- Latvia - 2
- France - 1
- Jordan - 2
- Netherlands - 1
- United Kingdom - 1
- Serbia - 1
- Slovakia - 1
Discussions, short lectures, group work, role-plays, brainstorming, energizing games, individual work, creative tasks, on-the-field task, etc.
Volunteers could make a proper evaluation of their EVS projects and experience till the training. This helped them to make future plans on what more do they want to achieve till the end of the EVS project and after its end. Sharing of experience in the group stimulated a benchmarking process helping some volunteers to realize that they don't have such big problems or that there are different approaches to solve a certain issue.
The training was an environment that gave an opportunity to the participants to evaluate their own learning outcomes and to learn how to translate them to the YouthPass language.
As I was working alone with the group, I was completely responsible for the composition of the training programme and its step-by-step implementation, combining it with the management of the group dynamics.