The Great Resignation

Aims & objectives

The project aimed to increase the active participation and the involvement of young people into society through the following objectives:
1. Improving the capacity of 20 youth workers to engage with youngsters in their communities, provide information and counselling services in their daily work by developing necessary competences of using digital tools and social media platforms;

2. Empowering 150 youngsters (18- 30 yo) from 6 countries to become active members of society by providing information and guidance about lifelong
learning programs and through a series of 6 podcasts during the dissemination stage;

3. Developing an efficient network of 3 EU and 3 non-
EU NGOs by creating a sharing space meant to
exchange good practices, efficient tools and improve
their services and internationalitation.

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

The project gathered 20 participants, youth workers from Romania, Italy, Spain, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro who are involved with local youth, especially NEETs, and who are using non-formal educational methods in their daily activities aiming to contribute to youth employability (social workers, educators, counsellors, volunteers,
trainers and other related staff);

Training methods used & main activities

Our daily program was divided in 4 - 1:30 hours sessions, 1 hours reflection/evaluation and inter-cultural evenings. In terms of NFE methods (indoor-outdoor), we have used in a holistic approach:
- Energisers before each session;
- Plenary inputs by trainers/experts;
- Guest speakers/study visits - opportunity to listen and observe how ‘others do it’;
- Presentations of participants;
- Digital content creation sessions (videos, posters, e-guide);
- Topic-related board games;
- Team-building, ice-breaking activities;
- One-to-one, group work based on discussion, debates, brainstorming, sharing ideas;
- Learning by doing - especially when testing the tools and undertaking practical exercises;
- Role-play, world-café, forum theater;
- Study cases, problem solving scenarios;
- Cultural awareness activities;
- Open spaces sessions where participants choose their topics of interests;
- Thematic board games;
- Daily reflection/evaluations of the learning process.

Outcomes of the activity

Projects' Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551731654371

Podcast series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJ_Ermtq6M&list=PL64nw4rR3PDodnf45nHMh8SAiFud5t7UO&ab_channel=COSI-CivicOrientationandSocialIntegration

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was co-trainer

I worked on this training for 9 days as a full time trainer.