TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for SARA MANDOZZI
The project aimed at training the participants on social inclusion, on accessing tools and good practices on sustainability, in order to make them able to transfer their knowledge to other potential beneficiaries that will take part in new trainings or initiatives, run at local or international level. In particular, all the activities were conceived as operative tools to ease, in future projects, the active participation of youngsters with fewer opportunities in concrete activities, such as workcamps, youth exchanges, cultural and local initiatives and trainings, to share how to intervene in the group dynamics and in the conflict management and how to shape the international projects according to the accessing policies and the inclusion strategies.
Furthermore, a specific focus was also dedicated to sustainability as a channel to activate new participative processes and to promote active citizenship and social inclusion.
Participants took part in the training for trainers were youth leaders, camp leaders, peer educators, youth workers and trainers with past experiences in youth and voluntary work.
They came from Belgium, France, Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Moldova and Republic Of Georgia.
For the entire duration of the activities, it have been proposed interactive methodologies based on non formal education. The aims was to stimulate the active involvement of participants and their learning assessment.
The exchange of technical knowledge, of different approaches toward inclusion and sustainability and of working methods was constantly encouraged and promoted. In each workshop it was proposed a peer to peer approach: trainers and participants shared tools in an horizontal way in order to guarantee and to monitor the different approaches in learning, the individual and the group’s learning assessment.
The following outcomes have been achieved though the T4T:
Investigation of cultural differences and analysis the intercultural learning processes; presentation of the different perspectives about social inclusion work and analysis of the different targets needs; exploration of the topic of the inclusive growth and specifically the sustainability in the voluntary service projects; exchange of working methods on active participation and inclusion and development of new ones to ease the active participation of youth with fewer opportunities and to develop positive synergies into the group.
Member of trainers team, developing and evaluating the contents of the training agenda as well as implementing it;
Trainer on non formal education working methods and in the social inclusion workshops.