TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Anna-Liisu Arukask
It was a training course with the aim to fight against the pessimistic view of the current world economical situation, which leads young people to social exclusion, and presented itself as an opportunity to develop new attitudes, presenting social and business actions that can contribute to change, in times when these are extremely necessary.
The project was focused, on one side, on the Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship topic, on the other side on Collaborative Consumption and Shared Economy topic, presenting them as an innovative economic model and as a different perspective on how interaction between people can really make the difference in quality and sustainable lifestyle.
The objectives of the training course were:
- Raise awareness towards SSE and its opportunities among the youth workers from promoter organizations;
- Promote use of SSE tools in youth work, sharing best practices and equip youth workers and other young people by competences and methods for their personal and professional development;
- Explore the CC and SE topic and present them as innovative methodologies to develop new tools and workshops in the youth work field
- Present Collaborative Consumption platforms as a feasible way to finance project ideas
- Opening reflection regarding the global challenges, such as ecology, poverty, accessibility and providing the space;
- Strengthen sense of initiative, entrepreneurship and creativity of the project participants and other stakeholders;
- Stimulate the participants to become active in society and develop new skills;
- Promote Erasmus+ program and cooperation between EU and partner countries through building new partnerships;
- Promote diversity, intercultural and inter-religious exchange, tolerance and solidarity.
Target group: Active youth, volunteers & youth workers in their local communities interested in collaboration and this topic
Countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Italy, Ukraine, Georgia, Greece, Belgium, Spain.
Treasure hunts, business stimulation game, design thinking, crowdfunding
As a result of the project, the participants had the following impact:
- Gained knowledge about Collaborative Economy, Social and Sustainable entrepreneurship
-Discovered new instruments of Collaborative Economy and entrepreneurship that can be actively used in youth work
- Identified the possible gaps, challenges and ways to tackle the different topics of the project
- Learned different methods of NFE that they can use in their work places
- Learned different ways of funding your own project, idea or business
- Found out and putted in practice innovative tools that will be useful in their life and work
- Developed new skills in terms of mentoring and empowering youngsters in their job careers
- Shared and learned from the other participant’s experiences in the project related to collaborative consumption and social and sustainable entrepreneurship
- Discovered real and feasible examples of social and environmental projects
- Improved communication, leadership and social skills
- Improved understanding and speaking in English language, improving their language skills
- Improved their creativity, sense of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
- Worked in international and intercultural teams, improving their cultural awareness
- Discover new cultures and traditions
- Developed themselves as more active European citizens
- Became more tolerant and open-minded towards diversity
- Increased their networking skills by cooperation with people from different countries and organizations
Co-trainer: facilitating sessions about idea creation; business simulation game and possibilities of crowdfunding.
I confirm that Anna-Liisu Arukask was a full time trainer in the Cooperation for sustainable development training course I organized as a project coordinator of La Víbria Intercultural. As a trainer, Anna-Liisu has the skill to develop excellent quality workshops that tackle the needs and objectives of the project, using non-formal education methodology and innovative tools and approaches, which creates great results and numerous learning impacts on the participants.