TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Polona Siter Drnovšek
Aim of the activity was to equip participants with knowledge and skills needed to successfully plan and assess the impact of projects in the field of youth.
Goals were:
learning about the basic concepts related to project management and impact assessment
Learning to plan and assess projects' results and impact by using specific tools.
exploring and defining projects’ impact indicators and data sources for effective measurement of the impact.
Participants were representatives of organisations, planning or/and implementing projects in the Erasmus+: Youth or European Solidarity Corps programme in Germany and Italy. Majority of them were working with (young) people with less opportunities (with migration background, with health obstacles). At the beggining also a participant from Slovenia joined, but was a very beginner in project planning and implementation, so we directed her to a Impact+ e-training, from which she could benefit more. The fluctuation of participants was a challenge for the trainers team and this asked for more flexibility in the training design. Co-trainer was Melih Özkardes (Germany/Netherlands).
Methods: individual work with the help of templates, individual reflections, theory in-puts, buzz groups, discussion, story-telling, an interview, case-study example. Tools: Activities for
individual work (exercises, working sheets) were templated and then implemented by
participants on platform Mural . Every participant had his or her own sheet in Mural but everyone
was able to see each one’s Mural which was a kind of possibility for peer support. Platform of the training was HOP. Participants were also invited to work on theit individiual template an 'Impact Diary', wich was a workbook to monitor and record learnings.
At the end of the activity participants were equiped with knowledge and skills needed to successfully plan and assess the impact of projects in the field of youth. Each participant leaved the training with a tool and templates for further planning projects and impact.
Platform: https://hop.salto-youth.net/courses/Impact
The call: https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/european-training-calendar/training/impact-youth-field.9399/
As a co-trainer I was responsible to plan, deliver and evaluate the training. Together with a co-trainer I also prepared all the materials, on-line templates for individual work an reflection. In the team, there were also coordinator and we had a support from proffesional designer to design all templates.
Polona was a valuable trainer on this training course. She was resourceful, thorough and knowledgeable. She was able to help participants in their individual work and guide them to better results. She also takes logistics into great consideration and makes sure everything is done on time and that it works the way is planned.