TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Peter Huray
General aim was to gather 30 volunteers from 30 different countries for developing cooperation between youngsters by organizing and international event together. By 4 weeks of time period, volunteers took part in dance activities, introduction seminars on Erasmus+ programs. Apart of these, they were asked to create a choreography of dance show that was performed on the opening ceremony of Bodrum Dance Festival.
First 3 weeks, volunteers were learning a dance choreography and while they were practising, they were also shooting short movie about preparations. This short movie was shown before the performance as a good tool for visibility of Erasmus+ program and European Commission youth programs.
• Volunteers visited 9 villages of Bodrum and worked at stands and did promotion of Dance festival and they will give information about Erasmus+ program and EVS program.
• Everyday one volunteer worked in EVS office and we expect from volunteer to find similar cultural events those are taken place in his/her own city our country and create a contact list of possible future partners for following years.
• During the Dance Festival, volunteers did guide dancers and care about their possible needs by working in coordination with organizing committee.
There were three trainers/mentors in this EVS, from Turkey and Slovakia. There were another 2 longterm EVS volunteers helping and in total 30 participants from 30 countries.
On-arrival training contained teambuilding activities, group dynamics, intercultural learning, workshops, field visits, group work, individual work, brainstorming, roleplays, presentations.
During the service, participants were active in the public promotion, PR activities, presentation of Erasmus+ & EVS.
All the time evaluation and reflection methods have being used.
Final performance of volunteers on Dance festival, raised awareness about the EVS and Erasmus+ programme within local community and internationally by the International Dance Festivasl outreach and by movie recorded by volunteers. The movie has been shared within participating countries.
During on-arrival training I was responsible for delivery on teambuilding and group dynamics sessions, on Intercultural learning activities, workshop about the role of Non-formal education and its recognition across Europe.
Along these roles I was working together with other trainers and organizers on mentoring volunteers, on logistics and organizational rrangements (financial part of the project).