TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Claudia Baltolu
“The Canvass of life” aimed at empowering participants to actively make a
difference in dealing with the challenging undertaking of troubled youth
integration. This ability come from the assimilation of concrete knowledge
and NFE instruments and from the development of precise attitudes that will
mould participants’ thinking and action in a way to make them possible to
involve sensible target groups in the most successful fashion.
Aims:
- To empower selected youth/social workers by training them in using NFE
tools based on figurative arts as a means to engage troubled youth in effective
and meaningful social action.
- To raise awareness of the demand for human-friendly social action as a tool
for improving the condition and ensuring inclusion of troubled youth through
innovative NFE instruments (in this case, based on figurative arts).
- To deepen existing cooperation and coordination arrangements between
Partner Organizations with a view to implementing further activities in the field
of social action involving youth with serious behavioural and integration
problems.
Participants: Youth/Social workers dealing with issues of troubled youth
Countries: Italy, Romania, Portugal, Poland, Turkey,
These working methods were implemented:
1. Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation game, exercise)
2. Plenary discussions for sharing and exchange of views, thoughts, ideas, etc.
3. Simulation exercises for skills development.
4. Work in small groups for the sake of sharing and developing cooperation.
5. Workshops for detailed exploration of specific issues (such as learning styles, personal development plan, job interview, tools etc).
6. Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process.
To instil in youths attitudes of openness, non-discrimination, tolerance, inclusivity, flexible approach.
- To increase participants’ ability in teamwork and in working in a multicultural environment in an atmosphere of participation, mutual sharing of knowledge and goals as well as respect.
- To provide participants with a knowledge of NFE tools based on figurative arts aimed at intervening on problematic categories among younger generations.
- To transmit precise and useful knowledge of the opportunities provided by the Erasmus+ programme in the realms of mobility and education.
- To promote youth social action across Europe, enacted by a number of sensible and informed youths who will bring the knowledge acquired back to their sending organizations and eventually cooperate with each other in the future, by exchanging information or implementing joint activities.
I was a co-trainer and a co-facilitator with my colleagues Jure Sterman and Mattia Cordioli in this project. Our international team worked together in order to share experiences and knowledge in order to set a better enviroment for the participants. My tasks were to organize, prepare and implement all the worshops.