TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Barbara Moś
The main aim of this TC was to connect youth projects with social diagnosis and base its needs analysis on solid research. Namely - to learn how to make evidence-based projects and how to research on problems. Activities were thereby a set of practical and theoretical input in the field of social studies methodology: designing and implementing social research.
The TC was done for youth workers and heads of youth organisations from: Poland, Serbia, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Spain, Romania and Czech Republic.
Methods used were a mixture of knowledge transfer and practical implementation of it: designing a mini research on concrete social problems and implementing them in Kraków. It included interviews, questionnaires, qualitative content analysis, visual data analysis etc.
As a result, participants received a guide for social research making and examples of research reports they made under the supervision of trainers.
Needs and expectations analysis, design of the training programme, implementation and evaluation of the programme.