TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Marian Ancuta
In this Tc, we've aimed to encourage the participants to think critically about youth work in Europe: aims and objectives; Methods of working; Support networks and Resources,to identify the contents and steps of supporting youth initiatives and to build the tools to put it in practice, to learn about different concrete tools to organise youth projects, focusing on the opportunities of the youth program, and to motivate and help them to create projects together.
The project adressed to trainers in youthfield, youthworkers, youth leaders, coach, volunteers. We had 27 participants from 11 countries: France, Italy, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Poland.
In the same time in the team we were 3 trainers from Romania, France and Poland.
The methods used in our trainings were based on non-formal education and action-research approaches with a special focus on the triangle “theory – analyse – transfert”. This means that we want to build direct relations between our daily concrete practices and some theoratical approaches.
We wanted also through active methods to promote the full participation and involvment of the participants.
We followed a certain process:
- individual reflexion of the participants about their professional realities
- collective work about local diagnostic
- individual level of appropriation back of the knowledge
As we were using as much as possible also the informal time, in the end we had 6 frames of future projects that hopefully will be put in practice by the participants. In the same time we clarified the distinction youth worker-animator-social worker, having as reper to continue our youthwork in the territory.
As specific tasks for me during the training: team building activities, workshop on Active Youth participation, Portrait of youhworker and cooperation activities.