New Media Ambassadors

The training activity took place

in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

organised by OpportUNITY & GEYC

3-11/11/2013

Reference person

Gabriel Brezoiu

(Co-trainer)

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Aims & objectives

New Media Ambassadors was an YiA TC. The project aimed to build capacity of European youth workers in the field of new media communication. The objectives were: Empowering youth workers to use multimedia tools to fight discrimination and to promote European values such as tolerance, democracy, respect to human rights, equality; Providing new media skills to youth workers in order to use social media tools to improve communication and fundraising activities of their organisations; Stimulating youth workers to cooperate at European level, to share good practices to network in order to raise their organisations advocacy capacity towards other stakeholders

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

Youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, EVS coordinators from UK, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, France, Belgium and Estonia

Training methods used & main activities

Non-formal education methods such as (but not only): energisers and icebreakers, team-building activities, Face-2-Facebook, fish-bowl, open space, world-cafe, Casino, brainstorming, intercultural communication activities.

Outcomes of the activity

soft & hard skills developed, "Wipe Out Online Hate - 9/11/2013" activity - http://goo.gl/gavh8j

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Co-trainer