TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Nika Bunziak
The main aim of the contact making seminar “ReCOver: Regional Cooperation Over NEET Youth” was to develop national and regional cooperation among the youth workers in order to share experiences and knowledge on working with NEET youth and their engagement in a dialogue to foster the EU social cohesion.
The objectives were:
• to create space for sharing different realities, exchanging experiences and good practices about the work with NEET youth and youth at risk of social exclusion;
• to develop necessary practical materials (brochure with recommendations how to involve NEET youth to the full social life) for further dissemination among the youth workers and other interested stakeholders;
• to promote youth social integration and involvement to foster the EU social cohesion.
• to foster networking among participants and create space for project building, especially in Erasmus+ context;
• to increase participants’ competences to disseminate learning achievements and to explore the possibilities for developing national and regional cooperation in the field of youth work;
• to strengthen participants and organisations competences and capability in youth work and international dimension and cooperation.
Project gathered together 27 youth workers/youth leaders/mentors working with youth from 8 different Program countries: Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovenia.
Participants’ profile included following criteria:
• Youth workers and youth leaders who are involved into the daily activities of the youth organizations and who are interested to develop networking projects in this field.
• Already have experience in working with young people, organizing initiatives and projects
• Be motivated to contribute to the seminar with their experience and competences
• Be committed to attend for the full duration of the seminar
• Be aged 18 years old and above
• Competently able to work in English language as it will ensure effective communication between all participants and all relevant stakeholders.
The programme of the CMS was done in the framework of non-formal education, using an interactive and participate approach. The seminar provided the space to exchange knowledge and experience about working with NEET youth and engage the organizations to constructively contribute in this topic.
During the project participants acquired communicative skills, self-presentation skills, cultural awareness, mutual understanding, solving problems, trust and respect towards different cultures. They became more aware of the essence of youth work from the psychological and sociological aspect; learned how to manage their own abilities and how to help others in this sphere. We tried to create a space to learn and share about analyzing our previous project experiences and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way to include learning in every part of the project cycle.
In addition to the opportunity to develop the competence of youth workers, as outcome we created the brochure with practical recommendations on how to involve NEET youth to the full social life and better integrate them, opening up a world of youth opportunities, including Erasmus + Program, which will be published in all web-pages of partners as well as on SALTO portal for common use of youth workers from different countries and disseminated for other interested stakeholders. At the very end of the seminar, a national conference were organized inviting the main stakeholders responsible for youth and civil society cooperation in the region. Participants had a chance to share their outcomes from the seminar and promote the benefits of the European cooperation in youth field. We plan to continue to stay in touch with partners and the quantity (and quality) of further joint projects (especially under Erasmus+ Program) at the national and international level will become for us an indicator of how successful the seminar was in the long term perspective.
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Full-time trainers' work on the co-trainer's position: preparation, implementation, follow up, evaluation. Facilitation and mentoring of the learning process. Interaction with participants, co-trainer and project team. Adaptation of the Program, according to group dynamic and learning needs of the participants.