Together = No Limits

Aims & objectives

Together = No Limits was a partnership building seminar with a focus on intercultural learning. The Slovakian and Hungarian National Agencies of YiA thought that they need to take a joint effort to increase the number and quality of biletarel youth projects between the 2 countries. The seminar aimed to tear down the barriers between Slovaks and Hungarian, to create space and time for project development and to give useful tools of intercultural learning for the future projects.

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

The participating group was made of 10 Slovaks and 10 Hungarian, mostly members of NGO's. The trainer team was a duo, made of Martina Cujova from Slovakia and myself from Hungary. Beside the duo the to NAs provide help with 1-1 colleague.

Training methods used & main activities

We used team building/icebreaking activities with joint decision-making exercises. We used methods of intercultural learning, for example simulation about diversity and stereotypes. We had drama workshop about discriminiation. We also organized project developing sessions.

Outcomes of the activity

The seminar was succesfull, we had good feedbacks on the last day and there was a follow up meeting 2 months later in Budapest where most of the Hungarian and some of the Slovak participants attended. There were also implemented projects (youth exchange, training) which were born in this seminar, for example:
http://cseresznyezunk.blogspot.hu/2011/08/connectors-szlovak-magyar-zenei.html

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

The 2 NAs gave the main goals, as 'customers'. The whole training program was created by the trainer duo. The full training program was implemented by Martina Cujova and myself.

I worked on this training for 3 days as a full time trainer.