TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Romina MATEI
The training course focused on youth participation as a tool for social inclusion.
The aim of this training course was to make youth participation easier to understand in order to
promote it better at local and European levels.
The objectives of this training course were:
- To bring youth participation to touch, to make it more concrete and clear: what is youth
participation? How do we see and understand it? How do we practice it? How does it work?
- To raise awareness of what is the impact of youth participation and to show concrete
examples and results from it
- To give skills and tools to raise motivation of young people to be more involved in at
local/regional/national/European level.
The target group were young people from 14 European Countries.
The team add the following members: Filippo LANGE, “Affabulazione”, Italy; Francesco LEMBO, “Affabulazione”, Italy; Nancy ALUIGI NANNINI, “Affabulazione”, Italy; Gabriele CESPA, “Kamaleonte”, Italy; Adele VAITULEVICIUTE, “Social and Psychological Aid Foundation”, Lithuania; Romina MATEI, “Intercultural Institute of Timisoara”, Romania; Véronique BERTHOLLE, “Youth Express Network”, France;
Experts: Emel AYDIN, “Kreakt”, Sweden : Forum Theater expert; Mario D'AGOSTINO, “Kamaleonte”, Italy : participation expert.
Training methods used were: Exchange of best practices and tools, case studies, field visits, experts' inputs, (Forum Theater workshop, participation workshop), small groups discussions and organisation of a local event.
After this training course, the group created a street event where they encourage the local community in Ostia to participate more in the youth policies making.
My role was a full time trainer. I've participate in the preparation meeting, building the program, creating the flow, proposing and choosing the proper methods.
During the training course, I was in charge with team building session, sharing experience session, filed visits, future project and evaluation.