TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Blandine Scrève
The project "Democracy Seeds for Youth to Raise" is an international training course for youth workers
under the Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ Program. It aims to form youth workers to trainings and
workshop activities, to develop a united European network among the youth supporting democracy
and active participation, promote dialogue and tolerance. Will gather 29 youth Workers from
Greece,Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Denmark, Cyprus, Poland and Hungary at Athens -
Greece from 20 till 28 September 2018.
Its objectives are:
- To share and exchange about national and local situations related to our topic in order to stress on
common point as on differences. That will increase knowledge andarguments/ dialogue opportunities
for the participants.
- To develop a common understanding between participants and organizations, on the concept of active
participation in democracy and create concrete tools to act for it in the local community.
- To give the participants basic tools of dialogue in order to facilitate workshops on intercultural differences
and communication, fears, stereotypes and discrimination.
- To practice tools and methods of youth training courses in order to plan training courses back in
their country for sustainable future development of the project at local levels
- To make the participants sharing their experience as youth workers and facilitate them to share their
best practices through workshops, helping each other to develop their teaching skills
- To discuss future means of distribution of knowledge that can be used to extend the impacts of the
training at a local and regional level and promote it
- To assess best practices and common pitfalls in the field of youths trainings
The participants that the project gathered are all members of the youth partner organisations, interested to develop their competences and to multiply the effects of the project within their local communities.
The target group was composed of youth workers, trainers, motivated youth on the subject or project managers all actively involved in the youth sector.
Greece, France, Poland, Latvia, Cyprus, Hungary, Germany.
International team : Danmark, Greece and France
The program of the course will be based on non formal educational methods which combine theoretical
and practical components and conducted using a highly participatory approach in order to cover
all the aspects of the theme. Special attention will be paid to the fact that the competences and the
knowledge gained and transmitted during the course remain sustainable and transferable.
This will be achieved by setting up enough space and time for reflection and evaluation, by providing
comprehensive documentation, handouts and guidance from the trainers’ team. Many of the theories
about dialogue that will be subjected will be based on the book « The Dialogue handbook » coauthored
by on of the trainers. The experience of the participants will be valued as a resource for the
whole group in order to achieve transfer of competences and best practices sharing. This will be
essential for the sustainability of the project, to develop further training and workshop network at a
local level and between the involved countries.
The course will be based on the specific learning needs of the participants. The team of trainers will
create a learning and exchanging space, where participants are encouraged and coached to use their
creativity and personal reflection to train, work with youth, design new workshops and achieve
development of themselves at personal and professional levels. A finished workshop pack will be given
to the participants at the end of the training so that they can use it at the return in their own countries.
The project also aims to equip participants with a sense of initiative and an active european citizenship
feeling, to encourage involvment to be transferred later to the target groups with which the participants
work on a daily basis and within their local communities in order to achieve multiplying
effect. The local communities will benefit of the added value of this training course get and involved
in initiatives and actions on the topic which the participants will be better able to organize after their
participation at this training course. Therefore, on a long term basis the project will bring an increase
of intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding of the European values of tolerance, an increase
of curiosity and critical mind, self reflection and youth participation in society for sustainable social
changes.
The program of the course will be based on non formal educational methods which combine theoretical
and practical components and conducted using a highly participatory approach in order to cover
all the aspects of the theme. Special attention will be paid to the fact that the competences and the
knowledge gained and transmitted during the course remain sustainable and transferable.
This will be achieved by setting up enough space and time for reflection and evaluation, by providing
comprehensive documentation, handouts and guidance from the trainers’ team. Many of the theories
about dialogue that will be subjected will be based on the book « The Dialogue handbook » coauthored
by on of the trainers. The experience of the participants will be valued as a resource for the
whole group in order to achieve transfer of competences and best practices sharing. This will be
essential for the sustainability of the project, to develop further training and workshop network at a
local level and between the involved countries.
The course will be based on the specific learning needs of the participants. The team of trainers will
create a learning and exchanging space, where participants are encouraged and coached to use their
creativity and personal reflection to train, work with youth, design new workshops and achieve
development of themselves at personal and professional levels. A finished workshop pack will be given
to the participants at the end of the training so that they can use it at the return in their own countries.
The project also aims to equip participants with a sense of initiative and an active european citizenship
feeling, to encourage involvment to be transferred later to the target groups with which the participants
work on a daily basis and within their local communities in order to achieve multiplying
effect. The local communities will benefit of the added value of this training course get and involved
in initiatives and actions on the topic which the participants will be better able to organize after their
participation at this training course. Therefore, on a long term basis the project will bring an increase
of intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding of the European values of tolerance, an increase
of curiosity and critical mind, self reflection and youth participation in society for sustainable social
changes.
- Main trainer in charge of leading and facilitating the training
- Team building and group management
- Workshop on Democracy, Europe, culture, critical mind, discrimination and stereotypes...