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Aims & objectives

-To explore the concept of youth participation in a broad sense and raise awareness on the importance of young people's active participation
- To identify obstacles and provide solutions to increase active youth participation
- To explore how non-formal education and youth work can support learning for young people especially through volunteering and active participation in society
- To offer space to exchange experiences, good practices and ideas in the field of participative learning, and allow participants to try out and explore participative methods hands on
- To let participants actively take part in the design of several sessions within the course
- To identify the opportunities of learning from participation in the Erasmus+ Programme and to create an environment for future engagement

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

We aimed to gather a diverse group, coming from different parts of Europe. We were looking to balance the group in terms of age, gender, background and experience. Our participants were supposed to be:

- Youth workers, youth leaders or civil servants actively working with young people;
- Motivated and interested in exploring the concept of youth participation;
- In a position to multiply the experience gained during the course in their realities and to make concrete plans to do this effectively;
- Available for the full duration of the course;
- Able to work in English.

Training methods used & main activities

The methodology of this training course based on non-formal learning, game-based learning and self-directed learning. The programme aims was to give room for playfulness and experimentation. For example, we used music, games and digital platforms as tools to investigate the potential of participation.
The programme built upon the experiences and knowledge present within the group, debates, and self-reflection on pax own learning processes.

Outcomes of the activity

After 4 days of working on the topic of participation, pax got an opportunity to diving in a very deep level of the topic.

After the diving day had the opportunity to increase their projects visibility on social media channels, try out street art, memes and zines.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Trainer:
- designing the training program
- actively implement the course as a full-time trainer
- giving information to participants before the training
- holding the sessions
- keep in contact with the NA

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.