TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ana Jovanovic
Some of the main objectives would be:
• Improving the skills of future youth leaders, through obtaining the participants with trainer knowledge;
• Transmition of the knowledge from trainers to participants by the tried out methodology made by trainers which already worked together for several times;
• Building the capacity of each organization in human resources who are able to work like youth leaders and youth workers;
• Promotion of Youth in Action program with particular focus on mobility, exchanges, cooperation and training in European youth work;
• Raising awareness of the importance of European cooperation in the field of youth;
• Promotion of mutual understanding, breaking prejudice and empower partnership cooperation with South East Europe countries by participating on this project and working in mixed groups;
• Exchanging experiences in youth work;
• Training of the participants to be able to write and realize good Youth in Action projects;
• Encouraging creation of new partnerships and further projects.
On the other side, this project contributes to two other priorities of the Programme:
• Non formal education in order to improve the quality of youth work;
• Stressing the cultural diversity and European citizenship as aspects of this work
Target group of the training were young people 18 to 27 years old that are actively involved in youth work. They were highly motivated to become youth leaders and facilitators in purpose of their active engagement in a youth work. Training attended 30 young people coming from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain,Hungary.
All planned activities were interactive, encouraging youth to learn, supporting sharing ideas and experiences. The project is following the principles of non-formal learning which is well known and accepted method for this kind of training course.
In some of the sessions like the ones that are connected with the team leading and communication, the way of connecting the games with the situations in daily life are more than obvious. The participants were leaded through the whole training course with out knowing how much they really learn in every minute of their presents on sessions. They are were directly and indirectly connected with the topic over the games and workshops which are helped them to understand how to overcome barriers and obstacles in the real youth leading pattern.
• Participants had opportunity not only to learn how to write and realize Youth in Action projects, but they will also have the opportunity to share practices and experiences among each other, new tools and new methodologies in the field of youth work. Doing that, they also became the promoters of new Youth projects in their communities, and other “multiplication agents” and reference persons for their local communities and partner organizations.
• All the young people working with the organizations were indirect beneficiaries both in short term and long term. They benefit from adaptation and usage of the learned tools and methods, promotion the importance of active participation and citizenship, and also from realisation of one or several projects in the field of the Youth in Action Program in a long term. This was partly ensured by the direct impact of the participants of the training, but also by the dissemination of project’s result.
• This project promoted participative processes and positive citizen’s attitude and it can only have a positive impact on the local community taken as a whole: friends, parents, neighbours, public officers or local community. These will be the third line beneficiaries
• Promotion and development of cooperation with Serbia and other countries aiming future project cooperation in the framework of the Youth in Action Program, European awareness and YOUTH policy issues - making an inclusive and open effort towards breaking prejudices and cultural borders.
Project was advertised on
http://www.smileofyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:knowledge-straightening-work-belgrade-serbia-august-2008&catid=42:our-cv&Itemid=71
I was a full time trainer and organizer of the project (project writing, preparation and logistic, evaluation and report sending)