TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Salvi Greco
The main aim of the project gLocal Impact was to increase the knowledge and the experience about the meaning and methodologies of the local impact of international projects.
Based on our long international experience we were always facing the issue of the “local impact” of international projects, that's why through "gLocal Impact" we wanted to focus topics and themes like:
- how to make sustainable locally an international project;
- how to raise the visibility of local projects
- how to improve the dissemination and the exploitation of project results
- how to improve the involvement of the local community
- why and how to make a proper needs analysis;
- how to measure the so called local impact;
- reasons to start a project from the local level/needs and reasons to start from the International level/priorities;
- how to improve the work with press and media
Other specific objectives were: to acquire awareness on the concept of “local”, “local community”; to explore possibilities of International projects for local change; to start new projects; to learn about methods and tools; to get to know new organizations
The international group of participants was composed by youth leaders, youth workers, coordinators of international projects, from Italy, Latvia, UK, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Romania. The team was composed by the polish trainer Anna Krzeszowska and Salvi Greco from Italy. We had also the logistic support of a person from the local organisers.
The Methods of the training were based on non formal education and experiential learning through workshops, open space, presentation, out-door activities and other active methods working with youth leaders.
Thanks to the intense activities of the trainings we had an improved concept of quality of about project design with resources in the local level, and we could raise the awareness of "local community". Thanks to the inputs of participants we could also improve the concept of the training course which was applied and approved afterwords also in Italy, where will be held in next January 2012.
I was involved in the different phases of the project, from the initial design, the application process and the training activities and the post evaluation phase.