TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Gabriel Brezoiu
The topic of the project is using new media tools to promote European principles and values. It aims to build capacity of European youth workers in the field of new media communication.
Objectives:
i. Empowering youth workers to use multimedia tools to fight discrimination and to promote European values such as tolerance, democracy, respect to human rights, equality;
ii. Providing new media skills to youth workers in order to use social media tools to improve communication and fundraising activities of their organizations;
iii. Stimulating youth workers to cooperate at European level, to share good practices to network in order to raise their organizations advocacy capacity towards other stakeholders;
”New Media Ambassadors 2” (NMA 2) is a European training course that gathered youth workers, youth leaders and project managers from Programme Countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Poland and Turkey).
The training course was based on several methods of non-formal education. The following methods were used throughout the training course: energizers (simple and funny games which will be used to open some sessions when the energy of the participants seem to be low), name games (in order to facilitate the learning of the other participants names), ice-breakers (games and other activities used to facilitate the non-formal introduction of the participants), brainstorming, debates, teamwork in intercultural subgroups.
The participants implemented a social media cross-channel campaign (Facebook-Twitter-Instagram-Youtube) on 10 December, International Day of Human Rights.
The project social media coverage could be followed under #NMA2 hashtag.
I was a full time trainer responsible of a part of the sessions and co-facilitating some others. I was in charge of preparation, delivery and reporting of several sessions related to new media awareness, the joint campaign implementation and Erasmus+ introduction.