TC "Value of Difference"

Aims & objectives

THE AIM OF THE TC:
* Creating unified culture atmosphere with participation of several cultures and trying to find the meaning of Value of Difference.

OBJECTIVES OF THE TC:
* To understand intercultural situations in international team work and partnership
* To improve the participants’ practice and comptencies in intercultural dialogue related to international youth work
* To gain intercultural knowledge of different cultures and working methods through the opportunity of sharing experiences in formal and informal moments

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

24 PARTICIPANTS
* CZECH REPUBLIC
* FRANCE
* LITHUANIA
* TURKEY
* MOLDAVIA
* UKRAINIA
* AZERBAïDJAN

Training methods used & main activities

ALL METHODS IMPLEMENTED DURING THE TRAINING COURSE RELIED ON:
* NFE with active methods
* Peer Education and sharing of experiences
* Experts' inputs
* Inter-active evaluations (YouthPass process, mid-term evaluation, and final evaluation)

FOR EXAMPLE:
. Ice breakers and presentation games
. Energyzers
. Team building games
. Short outdoors games
. Creation of a FB group
. Active presentation of participating organisations (Open Market)
. Active national présentations on the topic of the TC with inter-active exchanges
. Play-role and theater games to introduce important issues, followed-up by debates
. Intercultural Evenings where a focus is requested on adding original présentations (in addition to usual Powerpoint présentations and buffet of specialities...)
. Visits to local places of interest to discover the local hosting environment
. Inter-active presentation of YouthPass process
. Activities of producing main lines of future projects to be implemented further on, by small groups around topic chosen during an Open Space Technology short session specificaly dedicated to this purpose.
. Evaluation process:
1. Small groups of reflection each day (30 minutes) on "What I have learnt today ?" (part of the YouthPass process)
2. Inter-active collective mid-term evaluation with a common Target to fill-in and exchange of points of views between the participants
3. Final evaluation realised in 3 steps: a) Filling-in of an individual questionnaire b) Collective feed-back of National delegations about the whole TC c) Free words from each participants and beginning of the closure of the TC.
4. Awarding of the YouthPasses in a funny way at the restaurant with somekind of funny presentation.

Outcomes of the activity

This TC generated the following outcomes available on the FB group:
* Detailled presentation of the participating ONG
* Reports on the situation of the minorities in the participating countries
* And other relevant collective productions...
* List of participants and contacts
* Daily realised programme of the TC
* And some photos as usual !

This TC generated the following ideas of projects
* Project idea of the group working on a Youth exchange about "Arts, Young people dialogue for Peace in Ukrainia"
* Project idea of the group working on Gender Equality in EU and Caucasus countries"
* Project idea of the group working on a TC about "Sexual Education and Prevention of dangerous teenagers sexual practices".

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

MY TASKS AS COORDINATOR AND SENIOR TRAINER OF THE TC HAVE BEEN:

Logistics:
* Monitoring and stimulating the logistician

During the TC:
* Responsible for the correct implementation of all the training sessions
* Using participative methods inviting participants to bring and share their knowledge (for example) energyzers, different team-building games, YouthPass process...
* Responsible for the correct delivery of all YouthPasses to the participants
* Feeding of the FB group during and after the TC.

I worked on this training for 10 days days as a full time trainer.