TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Daniel Gismera Casasola
“From idea to action. Project Lab” aims at enabling potential applicants to hand in high quality applications in the frame of Erasmus+: Youth. It gave participants the chance to develop their project ideas in exchange with trainers, experienced beneficiaries and NGOs and get to know more about specific aims and objectives of the programme and how to write the application form, focusing on the ability of the projects as a vehicle to transmit the common fundamental values to our society.
Our objectives were:
- Enable potential applicants to apply for an application within Erasmus +: Youth KA1
- Raise quality of projects
- Contribute to the participants' understanding of aims and objectives of Erasmus +: Youth and see if their project ideas match these aims and objectives, focusing on the ability of KA1 projects as a vehicle to transmit the common fundamental values to our society.
- Facilitate an exchange between newcomers and experienced beneficiaries in order to inspire applicants and receive information based on practices from the field
- Provide the chance to meet potential international and reliable partners to develop future projects
22 youth leaders, project managers and voluntary and professional youth workers, working directly with project management, from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Spain.
To achieve our goals we offered an international learning experience that allowed participants to develop their skills and competences in the creation of quality mobility projects.
This seminar was a practical learning experience, built on the specific needs of the participants. Our working methods were based on the principles of non-formal education and sociocultural education. We combined theory with practical learning, experience exchanging and self-reflection. All participants were invited to actively take part in the seminar throughout dynamic and interactive activities, workshops, simulation, case-studies, collaborative work activities, debates, etc.
As a tangible main result we had some collective creation videos, "Drops of experience", that consist of a collection of ideas and advice to be taken into account in each section of a mobility project within the key action 1.
It was also a result new quality projects of mobility, with a strong content and transmission of fundamental values common to our society, which will make possible more participation of young people in international activities.
Full-time Trainer. Study on needs, design of the programme, development of the methods and tools, implementation and evaluation.