TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Roberto Rossetto
The training aimed at making the participants develop basic knowledge and understanding on several aspects tied to international event management. The training course was developed over the needs of Italian members of AEGEE, as they struggle on fundraising and prefer doing local events over international ones, and many people are clueless about many of the fundamental team roles needed in a Youth Exchange (especially treasurer and incoming responsible). We also took the chance to instruct our participants on how to run a local and how is our organization structured on the European level.
The target group mostly comprised people from Italy and nearby regions (southern French, Malta). It was important for us to keep the training course as international as possible, so 30% of the participants and of the trainers were non-italian speakers coming from foreign countries, and the working language was English.
Brainstorming, simulations and roleplays were the most recurrent things. The "Communication Basics" session was particularly funny, as every participant received a specific scenario and task, giving birth to an amusing theatre (tasks were like "Announce to the group that the accommodation is on fire")
Half the participants coming from that training course are now board members and proficient event organizers. Some of them took responsibilities in organizing Youth Exchanges immediately after the course itself. Some people instead dropped their responsibilities after the training, meaning the course was actually effective at giving unexperienced people the necessary knowledge to self-evaluate themselves and their choices.
We also managed to be published on 7 Italian/Neapolitan newspapers!
http://aegeenapoli1993.altervista.org/parlano-di-noi/
I was working as a full time trainer, preparing the whole course together with two other trainers (Lucia Gavulova from AEGEE-Academy and Francesca Zorcolo from Network Commission of AEGEE-Europe), from the needs analysis within our target area to the gathering of evaluation forms