TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Joanna Hoffman
The aim of the TC is also to promote sport as an educational and social tool helpful to
support young people (life skills, attitude, values, social integration).
- To foster using sport as an educational tool for social inclusion
- To discover and test diverse educational practices,
- To reflect and analyses about the transferability of the different educational tools,
- To build a broader understanding of what an inclusion attitude means,
- To understand how developing entrepreneurial attitude may influence employability
of young people,
- To raise interest in carrying out international projects of KA1 and KA2 as a way of
developing life skills, tool for social inclusion, method of raising social activity of
youngsters,
- To create ideas for project on the frame of Youth Erasmus+ Programme (KA1 and
KA2), work out concepts of the projects and facilitate cooperation among participants.
Participants: 26 participants from all of the Programme Countries. 20-40 adults who
are: youth leaders, youth workers or representatives of NGOs, community centers,
youth clubs, schools, local authorities, local governments or other public institutions,
non-formal groups of young people that have a mandate to enter into a partnership
with other organizations/groups, willing to support youth in preparing and carrying out
transnational projects, motivation towards sports and social inclusion environments,
able to communicate easily and work in English.
- Getting to know each other and welcome evening.
- Work in the smaller groups to co-create aims&objectives and expectations towards training.
- Interactive presentations of participants and their NGO`s
- Walk&talk debate about inclusion
- Orienteering activity Outdoor park game and debrieffing
- Reflection session
- Session on good practices of participants
- Expert session (input from the external guest about sport&public health&inclusion)
- International Sport Evening
- Introduction to the Erasmus+
- Creating new ideas for future projects in smaller groups
- Evaluation, Youthpass, Closing
After the training participants are able to:
- use sport as an educational and social inclusion tool,
- support young people in their life challenges,
- guide young people how they can make use of their sports potential in lifelong
perspective (for example work, school, non-formal or formal activity)
- use Erasmus+ Programme tools to help young people and develop potential of their
organizations,
- have new contacts and possible partners for future cooperation.
I was one of the three trainers responsible for the whole event. I took part in the prep-meeting and together with my collegaues we designed aims&objectives as well as programme flow and detailed methods for this TC. Also I was responsible for some parts of the report.