Wilderness Ventures

Aims & objectives

- Acquire and hone skills in delivering effective outdoor learning;
- To advance youth workers’/educators’ skills and competencies in planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating efficient educational outdoor activities;
- To advance youth workers’/educators’ skills and competencies in developing and implementing efficient social media campaigns;
- To advocate outdoor education as a tool for establishing a sense of active citizenship, self-responsibility, creativity, leadership skills, and source of physical/mental health among youth;
- To popularize non-formal methods of education – outdoor learning in particular, as a means of young people’s personal development, thus achieving positive changes on local, regional, and international levels on various domains;
- To promote mutual understanding, intercultural discourse, social engagement, and unity between young people in EU and EaP countries;
- To view opportunities of Erasmus + program from different angles such as mobility, youth empowerment, and non-formal education;
- To identify the certifications that Youthpass provides and to introduce European non- formal learning projects., Republic of Moldova.

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

Youth Mix (Armenia)
SLOE (the Netherlands)
Asociacion Madrid Outdoor Education (Spain)
BITISI (Georgia)
GeoClube (Portugal)
CYC (Ukraine)
TDM2000 (Italy)
Mentor Me (Moldova)
Karaman Int. Group (Turkey)
Civil Forum (Belarus)

Training methods used & main activities

The whole training course was based on non-formal education. Different methods, such as outdoor education, bivoac, hiking trips, rafting, simulation activities, cooperative games, individual work, small discussion groups, plenary work, group dynamics and
etc.

Outcomes of the activity

Info-Kit on the outdoor education

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was full time co-trainer in the project.

I worked on this training for 8 days as a full time trainer.