TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Laura Babaityte
This is the last activity in the project consisted out of 3 parts. This particular training course aimed to equip youth workers with competencies and methods
needed to increase media literacy among young people and provide them with the tool to combat social exclusion- storytelling.
All participating organizations work with marginalized groups and disadvantaged people, that fell discriminated, so this training course was one of the means to address inequality and promote social inclusion.
Objectives of the project:
1. To increase participants’ awareness of power of media and develop a more critical
approach towards its products;
2. To develop participants abilities to identify hoax and fake news and raise awareness
of young people on the importance of analyzing media messages;
3. To strengthen participants’ digital competencies and acknowledge the ways media
and digital tools can be used for addressing diverse societal issues;
4. To deepen participants’ understanding and knowledge about social exclusion in other
countries and creating greater tolerance and unity in their communities;
5. To improve the quality of activities addressing social exclusion;
6. To strengthen the existing networks, obtaining new contacts for further cooperation
in the youth field;
7. To enhance participants’ knowledge of Erasmus+ Programme.
There were 5 participating countries: Denmark, Greece, Turkey, Finland, and Macedonia. There were 9 nationalities because in this project some residents of participating countries were originally from other countries (Portugal, Lithuania, Colombia, Somalia). The target group of this training course was youth workers and youth leaders.
Creative writing, role plays, Fishbowl discussion, Theatre of Oppressed, debates, outdoor activities, team-buildings, improv sessions, energizers, name games, sharing of good practices, Erasmus+ sessions, creation of future projects, etc.
Participants learned more about storytelling and creative writing and how to use it as tools to address social exclusion. Participants increated their soft skills, such as communication, creative thinking, empathy, etc. Participants also learned more about Erasmus+ opportunities and created new contacts or strengthened old networks. We had registration forms before the project and evaluation methods and form after the project, feedback from the participants, which gives us information about the success of the project. Also, the project was disseminated and reached people through web and social media, outside of direct participants. Follow-up activities were implemented, so lessons learned were also transferred to youngsters. More than 2000 people visited the site of the project and saw the booklet, which is one of the outputs of this project.
Link to the website of the project:
http://socialinclusionboost.simplesite.com
I was responsible for coordination and communication with the partners before, during and after the project and also leading and coordinating activities during the storytelling training course.