TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Luis Fernando Marcelino
Allow the participant to reflect on what is a healthy lifestyle and what are the different ways to make people’s lives healthier, becoming aware and trying specific sport/active games, dances or the most popular sport game or physical activity from each participant country to try different ways of physical activities as to raise inter-cultural understanding.
Futhermore the project aims:
1_ learn each from other the skills, knowledge and competencies on the issues related to healthy lifestyle, consequences of obesity and overweight, balanced diets;
2_ To promote the European values about mobility, cultural exchange and cooperation between different countries.
The intecultural aspect of the project will be emphasized through cultural activities in order to improve tolerance among youth and promote the European citizenship.
The target group was composed by youth people representatives of Czech Republic, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, France, Spain and Italy. In general 36 individuals (including 7 youth leaders) taked a part in this project. For the project 4 participants were selected from 7 countries. They were accompanied by one group leader (for Italy 2).
During the project non-formal and informal education methods through active learning will be applied. Under the frame of non-formal learning we will provide the possibility to gain knowledge each from other in the field of nutrition and healthy lifestyle. As homework before departure to project venue, all the participant groups prepared a presentation about their country and also some characteristic game, activity or sport game, dance or the most popular sport game at their country and some nonformal learning activity on healthy lifestyle. Informal learning- it will happen all the time.
The participants were able to develop their soft skills such as : creativity, team work and leadership, critical thinking, communication in the English language, intercultural dialogue etc. As participants are in a foreign country they improved their skills to adopt in another environment and lifestyle. Their communication skills in general and in a foreign language were improved. They developed their orientation skill in an alien environment, as management and teamwork skills through the project activities.
We expect that all the information and practical activities will inspire participants to have a healthier lifestyle also after the end of the main activities of the project. The aim of all games, brought from the 6 different countries, which were played during the activities may lead some of it inclusion in participant’s daily activities. We also expect that participants: had improved knowledge about healthy lifestyle; will get a boost to have more physical activities in everyday life; raise awareness about other cultures and the their enjoyment of physical activities through interesting games shared between the participants with different nationalities; were maked wider their network; will increase their knowledge about EU provided chances for mobility. POTENTIAL LONGER TERM BENEFITS Participants were educated in a non-formal and active way about healthy and active lifestyle, knowledge and experience will stay with them forever. In long term gained experience living abroad cannot be over evaluated. Although the main activities are for short time, all the participants would had to adjust to be in a foreign country so developing their inter-cultural, self-awareness and self-reliance skills. One more invaluable gain to all involved actors is a chance to make their cooperation durable.
I was working on day by day training activities, specificaly on the ground of team building.