Solidarity Project Lab

Aims & objectives

- discussing the European Solidarity Corps and key concepts
- insight in project planning and design;
- developing your own project using different methods and approaches,
- methods for the implementation of own projects;
- further topics depending on the needs of the participants: financial matters, visibility, support and coaching, program planning in the project

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The training was carried out by two trainers from the Austrian National Agency and accompanied by two experts from the Luxembourg National Agency.
The participants came from Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Belgium.

Training methods used & main activities

- sociometry
- walk & talk
- peer feedback
- silent floor and sharing
- design thinking tools (6-3-5-method)
- future planning (5-4-3-2-1)

Outcomes of the activity

- Ideas could be deepened and further developed for an application
- network of other young people who also create ideas for a solidarity project

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

- preparation
- moderation and guidance of activities
- individual support for participants with personal and organizational challenges
- reporting

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.