Marie Svobodová

Current occupation

Project manager and leader

Work experience

Since 2015, I have been designing and leading various extra-curricular activities for elementary schools. I have developed a drama class, a club of board games, that worked on a regular, long term basis. I have designed many projects for elementary schools focusing on following topics: intercultural learning, first aid, human rights, ecology and green life, contemporary history, philosophy, soft skills and cooperation, literacy skills.

2016-2022, I was a summer camp leader and I lead a group of campers from being children towards being young leaders.

Since 2016, I have been the project manager in a youth NGO TOM Dumánci. Between 2016 and 2021, we organized more than 20 Erasmus+ projects. Me and my colleague built the organization from scratch and designed many interesting projects and programmes.
http://www.dumanci.cz/

Since 2016, I have facilitated more than 15 youth exchanges, my focus is on these topics: non-formal education methods, intercultural dialogue, using games in education, learning in/from nature, outdoor activities, camping, soft skills, critical thinking and media literacy, youth work.

Between 2017 and 2021, I facilitated 3 "Digital Youth" training courses, during which we connected learning digital skills with intercultural dialogue and created interesting short movies addressing the topics of intercultural dialogue and respect towards diversity.

Since 2018, I have been working for Handule -a company that organizes outdoor activities for children and youth. I worked there as youth leader and medical assistant.

In 2019, I started using P4C (Philosophy for Children) and designed a 5-day project for elementary school pupils based on this method.

In 2020 and 2023, I facilitated training courses "Beginner's Guide to Youth Work" and "Skin in the Game", which aimed to improve leadership skills of youth workers who are just beginning to be active in the field. Together with my colleague Isaac, we developed a brochure with activities that can be used by facilitators of similar TCs.

2022-2024, I have been the project assistant for an Erasmus+ project Debate not Argue at the Goethe-Institut Prag. Within this project, we coordinated a partnership of 6 European organizations, develop educational materials concerning media literacy and debating and organize international workshops, online workshops in Gather.town and an international conference for 80 youth workers.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/en/kul/the/dna.html