TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Vitalii Volodchenko
The main aim of the project is to increase quality youth work by educating youth workers on how to apply Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Sustainability principles while equipping public spaces/organisation facilities with upcycled furnishing/furniture
Objectives:
To increase knowledge of youth workers about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Sustainability principles and their application in daily work
To increase the competencies of youth workers on plan, design, produce and repair furnishing/furniture
To increase competencies of youth workers about using various instruments\tools, materials, as well as safety rules while working with them.
To develop follow-up projects (including equipping public spaces/organisation facilities, including it in ESC activities, craftsman school, etc), by putting in practice acquired competencies during the project
32 youth/social workers, and volunteers from Armenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Ukraine
The project activities are based on non-formal education approaches, mainly on learning by doing and self experiential way and will not provide you with academic knowledge. Its success depends on the active participation of everybody present.
During the project activities participants planned produced and equipped the AKS Noah venue in Strengberg and Stockschützen club in Sankt Pantaleon municipality with pieces of produced furniture.
Full-time trainer, working in active collaboration in every stage of the project, design, preparation of the activity programme taking in consideration the participants individual and learning needs, implementation of the acitivities, evaluation and final report of the activity in collaboration with the co-trainer colleague Michael Scheuchenegger.