TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Katerina Stoyanova
- Exchange with international youth workers, activists and volunteers about pressing topics in Europe that urgently need more attention, e.g. forced migration and refugees or social exclusion
- Exploring Social Entrepreneurship as a tool for social change and just society
- Learn from each other how to improve the processes of planning, preparing and implementing projects to tackle these topics
- Develop ideas into concrete project concepts while learning from existing local and international projects, best practices and from the field of NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs
- Build a support network to find synergies among project teams and to build on knowledge existing in networks and organisations
- Use project management tools to develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate projects’ impacts.
The project brought together 24 youthworkers and youth leaders from Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania.
The project was a joint effort of CVS Bulgaria and SCI Germany, and the trainers were from Bulgaria (Katerina Stoyanova) and Ukraine (Oleksandra Bakun)
The TC was based on NFE methods.
Teambuilding, creative presentations, video examples, plenary discussion, small groups discussion, World Café, creative storytelling, silent discussions etc.
- Exchange with international youth workers, activists and volunteers about pressing topics in Europe that urgently need more attention, e.g. forced migration and refugees or social exclusion
- Exploring Social Entrepreneurship as a tool for social change and just society
- Learn from each other how to improve the processes of planning, preparing and implementing projects to tackle these topics
- Develop ideas into concrete project concepts while learning from existing local and international projects, best practices and from the field of NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs
- Build a support network to find synergies among project teams and to build on knowledge existing in networks and organisations
- Use project management tools to develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate projects’ impacts.
5 projects were created as a result of the training course. the topics includede an anti-bullying and anti-violence campaign for men and sexual assault prevention among the refugee women.
Presentation of the project created by the participant Anh: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-sEYKxq3KiWBijEu05EctYjZE8oE-vy/view?usp=share_link
Some of the videos from the training course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6-oyuP88E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpVGWVRRhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqx8m_T0LU
Photos made by participant Inga
Day 1: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B145qXGF1rlniHF
Day 2: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14G4TcsmqEwU45
Day 3: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14532ODWrfgMsn
Day 4: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B14GY8gBYq0migC
I have been involved in the preparation and implementation of the activity, as a part of the prep team and trainers team. I was in charge of the creation and delivering of the training program and reporting.