Home Away From Home

Aims & objectives

- To test the training modules and their quality through a pilot training for youth (blended mobility of young people)
- Equip youth with both knowledge and skills, which would further empower them to work proactively in their communities on integration issues and would foster the creation of local and national alliances and networks across Europe.
- Provide opportunities for youth leaders from several European countries to learn about positive examples of the integration of refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived migrants at a local level
- For participants to better understand the complexity of successful integration approaches at community level
- For participants to set up an action plan for the community work in the own country

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Team: The trainers' team was internationally composed following the nationalities of the project partners (UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Croatia)

Group: The group was also composed of 5 participants and 1-2 researchers of each country (UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Croatia)

Training methods used & main activities

# Open Space Technology
# Guided Journalling
# self-organised sessions and contributions by participants
# team building activities
# non-formal methods such as: small group work, reflection, theme-centered-interaction, discussions

Outcomes of the activity

-> training manual for organisations
-> participants were strengthened and empowered to continue their work with refugees, migrants, asylum seekers
-> participants formed a sub-group to work on an international follow-up Erasmus+ activity between their organisations
-> participants reflected (within the feedback etc.) that they worked on their agency and identified potentials to improve their current activism/work

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

The Home Away From Home project existed of three intellectual outputs: the training, communication and the research part.
I was responsible for the training part: research about possible modules, recruitment of participant, conceptualization of the training (together with Elisabeth), facilitation and evaluation, writing the manual.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

Anne was a great leader of the trainer's team, I can only recommend her facilitation skills.