TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Polona Siter Drnovšek
The aim of the study visit was to present good practices from municipal youth work in Slovenia and
stimulate networking between participants in order to create new project partnerships between
municipalities from participating countries.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY VISIT:
● get to know how youth work is supported and implemented on local and national level in
Slovenia;
● get to know how the process of establishing a national vocational qualification “Youth Worker”
was developed and what are the results;
● get to know how professional youth workers meet young people’s needs;
● get to know youth work practices in rural areas and small cities;
● get to know the organizational chart and working processes inYouth center Brez
20 participants were coming from municipal structures (10), from youth centres (6), from regional youth
council (1), from NGO (1) and from National agencies (2). On the workshop on 17th october, 6
representatives from Slovene municipalities (Divača, Grosuplje, Ljubljana, Novo mesto, Trebnje)
participated. Countries involved were Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Sweden and Slovenia.
Methods, used on the activity: mapping, buzz groups, presentation, case-studies, guided reflections, project-designing workshop, brainstorming, Q&A session, walk&talk. All the harvesting from the training was collected in the Padlet platform.
Participants were present good practices from municipal youth work in Slovenia wich will possibly lead to to new activities. Participants were stimulated for networking and new project ideas for future cooperation were developed. However, we have to keep in mind, that participants were mainly representatives of municipalities, wich are making small firs steps into the bost programmes.
As a trainer I was responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating the training, including preparing materials. I was monitoring the preparation of specific presentations of the cases at local youth work venues.