Youth Participation as a Tool for Youth Employment

Aims & objectives

A Training Course "Youth Participation as a tool for youth employment" for youth workers to promote active youth participation in local social development in the time of social and economic crisis in Europe today. Aiming at stregnthening and improving the responsibility of young people in Europe today towards their local communities and their social and civic development as an answer to the current socio-economic crisis.
Empowering youth workers to tackle the local effects of the crisis and to give an appropriate answer through youth participation, and to support the development of skills, knowledge and attitudes of youth workers to motivate, facilitate and in turn empower young people to be protagonists in their own social and civic development.

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

International team of trainers where composed of trainer Lorenzo Nava (Italy), me-Giorgi Kakulia (Georgia), Tomasz Moskal (Poland).

Training methods used & main activities

Simulation exercises, Role plays, Group works, Interactive presentations, practice phase, Open space etc.

Outcomes of the activity

Participants developed their competences on youth employment issues, youth participation and opportunities given by the Youth in Action programme;

Participants developed international partnerships and implemented follow-up projects afterwards.

The prove to the above mentioned was evaluation session and written evaluation questionnaire. As well as feedback from participants about implemented projects after the training was implemented.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

To design, implement and evaluate the activity together with co-trainer;

To write session outlines of the sessions I run;

To contribute to the final report of the training course.

I worked on this training for 7 days days as a full time trainer.