TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Kamran Mammadov
The training course "Sharing is caring" aimed at developing the competence of youth workers youth leaders and volunteers about the impact of cross-border volunteering on the multicultural local communities.
This training course was put an emphasis on the following moments that are closely related to volunteering:
Work towards an enabling and facilitating environment for volunteering in the EU;
- Empower volunteer organizations and improve the quality of volunteering;
- Reward and recognise volunteering activities;
- Raise awareness of the value and importance of volunteering;
- Increase the capacity of the partner organizations to organise and implement EVS.
The team was composed of 3 trainers from Machedonia/Italy and Azerbaijan) The target group was young people who have the potential to become project managers and youth leaders and there were 40 participants coming from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Turkey
and Ukraine
Input from trainers and participants, simulations, role play, small and big group discussions, individual, as well as peer learning, Sharing of knowledge and reflection.
This training course "Sharing is caring" meeted the objectives of the YiA programme by getting the participants reflect and become aware of and more comfortable in their active role in their citizenship, both in local and European context. The training coures fostered the participants to be able to motivate young people to participate in youth projects and that way in society, by giving them tools to make ideas into action, which also fits the annual aim of creativity and entreprenaurship to be more comfortable taking risks and see projects through from idea to implementaiton.
The inspiration for this training course was to create a way for young people to become active in their communities so that they and their communities could gain from these experiences as well as to use volunteering to discover and develop their talents, interests and passions. I was responsible for presentation of Youth in Action. For the implementation of the training course we divided the sessions amongst ourselves as trainers according to talents, interest and experience. I delivered the sessions on benefits of volunteering, communication, leadership and project inspiration and ideas. I was also responsible practical aspects of the training course.