LTTC Make yourself visible

Aims & objectives

LTTC “Make yourself visible” was a long-term project aiming at improving skills in information technology for youth workers all around Europe. The LTTC was focused on the development of IT skills of youth workers and young people active in the social field, willing to develop the project and in need of knowledge about building simple websites, working with social media, creating visualization materials – everything that would allow them to take their projects and their work to the next level, because, as they say, “If you’re not present online, you’re not present anywhere”. This LTTC consisted of 2 stages:
The first TC was mainly aimed at youth workers: team and project leaders, volunteer coordinators and mentors, HRs, and decision-makers of NGOs. During the TC, participants learned both in theory and in practice how to use simple online tools which make their work visible. This included building websites, working with social media, and creating visual materials.
The objectives of the TC were:
• to empower the participants in using social media tools for the promotion of their NGOs and activities
• to increase the digital literacy of youth NGOs staff around Europe
• to learn and see in practice how to use online tools for free or spend very little money, which will allow organization to be presented online in an effective way
• to create concrete examples of websites/social media pages/visual materials for current social projects realized by participating organizations and increase their effectiveness thanks to that
• to promote cultural diversity in a European context;
During the second TC, the participants created online learning platforms, and design online educational activities.
The objectives were:
• to build partnerships between participating organizations in TC and create ideas for future projects to be realized online for promoting Erasmus+
• creating handbook with a description of online tools which can be used by NGOs to improve their online visibility
• to create a European network of organizations interested in developing their capacity through social media tools
• to create online learning platforms
• to design online educational activities
• to promote Erasmus+ framework in order to encourage participants to develop future projects together

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

For each activity, there were 29 participants from 12 countries: Armenia, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Portugal, Georgia, Belarus, Hungary, Macedonia, Russia, Greece, Czech Republic

Training methods used & main activities

The working methods, used during the TC were non-formal, non-frontal (presentations should be done in the most participative and interactive way), and highly participative fitting different learning styles and preferences

Outcomes of the activity

The most significant results of the project include:
- The creation of online course
www. course.informal.study
and the online campaign to promote it
- -promotional/report video has been made about the first and the first part of the LTTC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRNLKytqwY&feature=youtu.bectivity
- promotional/report video has been made about the first and the second activity of the LTTC:
https://www.facebook.com/muratambarian/videos/2071204863204730/
- The video, which was made by the participants of the TC
https://www.facebook.com/muratambarian/videos/2076439352681281/and
- Also, the same video was written by one of the participants and presented as a video for this song, as well as promoted among the surrounding of this participant her social media network
https://www.facebook.com/muratambarian/videos/2076471326011417/
- Website dedicated to the project
https://makeyourselfvisible682350016.wordpress.com/
Also, there were created numerous visual materials Such as Infographics, whiteboard scribing videos, mind maps, and so on. All of them were uploaded to the Facebook group of the project
https://www.facebook.com/groups/154264048597013/

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Developing of the TC programme
Working with the participants
Implementing working sessions
Facilitating education process
Assessing and evaluating each TC and the whole LTTC in general

I worked on this training for 16 days as a full time trainer.