TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Milcho Duli
Training Course "Explore your possibilities" is about contributing to the increase of employment of youth citizens through working on acquiring new skills and knowledge which will help them raise self-esteem and will encourage them to take an active role in society and be initiators of positive change.
The competences and topics we are working on in this project include: Communication skills, Management skills; CV writing and Cover Letter writing skills, preparation for job interviews, local and International support programmes for unemployed young people , Erasmus + programme and the opportunities given to unemployed young people, knowledge on Entrepreneurship and Writing Project proposals.
The main objectives of this project are:
- raising awareness about different opportunities (useful information, support programmes, new skills and competences),
- motivating and strengthening our participants in becoming active participants in their own communities,
- developing communication and management skills,
- fostering creative ideas for entrepreneurship as a way to overcome socio-economic issues among youngsters,
- promoting and encouraging active participation of young people in everyday life,
- supporting and stimulating mobility and mutual cooperation among European youth,
- promotion of Erasmus + and its possibilities.
The target group was young people influenced by the problem of unemployment, low standard of living, low income and other social and economic issues. Countries involved in this project include: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Albania, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Serbia, Kosovo and Croatia.
The working methods were based on non-formal learning and group work. This includes team organization, practical presentation, discussions, group work on preparing SE platform, data collecting form interview and summarizing. The workshops were filled with active dialog, games and various methods, all in order to get to know the essence of social entrepreneurship and the impact that can be done in our societies. All methods contributed towards developing the group cohesion and building personal improvement of the young participants as individuals.
The outcome of the proejct was very strong as all the participants learn very important things and gain skills and competences for their professional path. Part of them were Communication skills, Management skills; CV writing and Cover Letter writing skills, preparation for job interviews, local and International support programmes for unemployed young people , Erasmus + programme and the opportunities given to unemployed young people, knowledge on Entrepreneurship and Writing Project proposals.
The project was successful as many of them wrote their CV on the project had chance to see how its one job interviews and to participate in the labor market after the project.
I was 9 days full time trainer, alone, it was encouraging to created the program although to conduct the session and wrote the final report.