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The training activity took place

in Amsterdam and Greece

organised by WOW GO Amsterdam

14-22 February 2025

Reference person

Manuela Renjaan

(Organiser)

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Aims & objectives

Aim: To empower young people to actively engage in their communities and drive social transformation through participation, volunteering, and co-creation.

Objectives:
• Increase competence in youth participation, civic engagement, and non-formal learning.
• Foster intercultural understanding and collaboration among young people from multiple European countries.
• Provide practical tools and experiences for designing future Erasmus+ projects.
• Encourage dissemination of learning outcomes in participants’ local communities to sustain impact.

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

• A trainers pool with 2 trainers from Netherlands, and 1 from Greece. As a team they guided the participants in non-formal learning, workshops, and intercultural activities.
• Target group: 36 peer group leaders from the Netherlands, Greece, Malta, Hungary, Turkey, and Lithuania.

Training methods used & main activities

Methods: Non-formal, experiential, and participatory learning.
Examples:
• Team-building exercises to foster collaboration
• Workshops on youth participation (e.g., “Act It Out,” “The Ladder of Youth Participation”)
• Sessions on social topics: wage differences, electioneering, civic engagement
• Co-creation, youth volunteering, and project brainstorming exercises
• Intercultural evenings with cultural sharing, games, and creative activities
• Multimedia creation and collaborative project planning for Erasmus+ initiatives

Outcomes of the activity

• Participants enhanced skills in youth participation, civic engagement, and community leadership.
• Strengthened international network of peer youth leaders and trainers.
• Participants produced ideas and multimedia content for future Erasmus+ projects.
• Documented via Facebook pages of WOW Go Amsterdam, Youth Empowerment Centre Thessaloniki and both Organisational Instagram pages and groups.
• Reflections and dissemination plans ensured the training’s impact continued in local communities.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

As a team we facilitated non-formal learning workshops, led exercises on youth participation, guided project brainstorming sessions, supported reflective learning, team-building activities, in local context sessions. Guidance on project planning and mentoring of peer group leaders. We shared full responsibility for planning, delivering, and evaluating the program week.