TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Margaux Richet
The CME aims at supporting organisations from program countries from EU28 who are working on a daily basis with the
target group “youngsters with fewer opportunities” in implementing international mobility projects for socially
and individually disadvantaged youngsters within Erasmus+/Youth.
One of the main aspect of the CME was to learn more about the "Child and Family Care" systems of the participant's countries in Europe. This helped to identify different political answers to a social topic that societies are dealing with and to find ideas and alternatives to include more in Erasmus + youth projects the target group of the partner's organisations.
The countries who were represented during the CME are Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands.
The participants of the Contact-Making Event are experts who are working in specific institutions (as living
groups, institutions active in daily care for youth with difficulties, projects working with fixed groups, similar in-
stitutions) , means at first hand social workers, pedagogues, advisers, tutors as well as responsible persons from
the management.
The team was composed of:
- for the coordination : Sarah Zdun and Anna Kunze from Stiftung "Dr. Georg Haar" and Markus Rebitschek from EJBW
- for the trainers: Wolfgang Sieberth (Austria) and Margaux Richet (France/Germany)
The implemented activities are based on the principles and practices of non-formal education, in which needs,
motivation, interests and experiences of the learners are taken into consideration. Within the activities individu-
al learning and learning in groups are connected. Role-plays, simulations, exercises, group works and discussion
rounds are connected with theoretical inputs in order to achieve the biggest possible learning experience.
In a middle- and long term perspective cooperations for the time frame 2016 – 2018 in the frame of Erasmus+/
Youth are foreseen, as Youth Exchanges, EVS, mobilities for experts (as Training Courses, Study Visits, Job shado-
wing, development of strategic partnerships).
For instance and concretely a youth-exchange with a boat-trip aspect and a training course for youth workers working on a daily basis with “youngsters with fewer opportunities” are on their way to be realised next year.
A daily report of the CME was made by Kevin and Daniel, two educators and social workers from the Stiftung "Dr Georg Haar". Inthe following link you can see and read all the details of the project:
https://wewillcometogether.wordpress.com/
A radio report of the meeting was made by "Radio Lotte", a local radio of Weimar.
As a trainer I was responsible with my co-teamer Wolfgang Sieberth for the whole implementation of the activities in concertation with the coordinators.