Corso di Formazione per Animatori Giovanili

Aims & objectives

Youth Policy Sector of Ancona Municipalità has years of experiences on the realization of activities for youth aimed to support the mobility and the European awareness of the youngster. Through this training course the Municipality aimed to develop compentences of his youth leader on leadership, intercultural learning, non formal education methods and problem solving within intercultural projects.

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

Target group: 30 youngster between 20-33 years old interested on developing competences as youth leader of youth exchanges.

International team of trainers from Spain, Turkey and Italy.

Training methods used & main activities

Non formal education methods like energyser, human bingo and teambuilding, Small working groups, plenary and buzz groups, simulation activities, debates and case studies.

Here below some examples:

Problem solving: case studies, theatre of the oppressed and debates

Intercultural activities: simulation activities, debates and presentation in plenary of concepts and challenges

Outcomes of the activity

10 applications for international youth exchanges were submmitted by participants

7 participants became active group-leader for international youth exchanges in 2011

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the trainer’s coordinator, responsible of the training content and i was trainer in all the sessions in teamwork with the following trainers:

Daniele LUCARELLI (Italy)
Andres ABAD (Spain)
Emanuele NARGI (Italy/United Kingdom)
Zeynep Tugce CIFTCIBASI GUC (Turkey)

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.