TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Mara ADR
Develop and understand the concept of youngsters with disadvantages, understand the reasons behind the concept and its impacts in the society. Learn more about fewer opportunities, NEET youngsters, geographical and economical disadvantaged youth and minorities. Discuss how to work in order to overcome the challenges of these groups and how to overcome challenges for the society concerning this topic.
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With this project we want to raise the quality of work with young people with fewer opportunities, by understanding their needs and working on challenges the society can bring to them. We want to work on how to increase youth level of integration and active participation in the community. Goal of the training is also to have real impact al local and national level by spreading the idea of the training course and its results and by conducting workshops after the project, for other NGOs, working with young people in their local environment or by leading activities for local excluded young people by using methods of non-formal education, learning through sport and by sport as an element of social inclusion. The project is also a response of constant changes in the society and the need to adapt to them. In the same way, there is a constant and fast change in the methods to work with youth. So, another objective will be to get to understand how to work with those changes through non-formal education methods.
28 youth workers from 9 different countries - Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Spain, Portugal, CZech Republic and Italy.
Participants' profile:
Participants were youth workers, youth leaders, teachers and pedagogues, 17+ involved in the NGO work, who, in the context of European events, in particular - the large wave of migration to Europe, the growing proportion of young people NEET and youth at risk of social exclusion (or premature completion of education) were looking for universal solutions that support the social inclusion.
They were also participants who were involved in working with excluded youth and wanted to explore how to motivate them to take parte actively in the society.
Methods: Non-formal education methods, such as sports, games, energizers and dances as tools and the method to promote inclusion of youngsters.
Exchange of experience and knowledge from the team, reflection in small groups, simulation activities. Learning by doing and through discussion/conclusions.
Magazine Online about the topic photos and posts on the partner organisation's social networks, movie about the TC, workshops delivered after the TC ended at local level. Project continued afterwards.
One of the main trainers - in the topic of sports as a tool for inclusion, inclusion, NEET, European relationsm Erasmus+, NFE - and Project Coordinator.