TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Martin Fischer
The EU-China Year of Youth was a first step into deeper cooperation between these two global players. Youth was their first field of cooperation and explored similarities and differences between the needs and interests of young people in both regions. The conference consisted of two parts. In the first stage a high level exchange took place between representatives of different youth organisations. In the second stage we traveled and learned more about Chinas culture.
The group consisted of youth leaders from the EU and from China. The average age amongst European participants was 26, amongst Chinese participants 35.
In the workshop we used mainly small group discussions and creative work, in order to avoid language barrier and the fear of other people hearing in. We did world cafe style discussions and partisan debates and in the end launched a competition between the participants for their presentations of the outcome of their discussions, to create more group spirit.
The outcome was a political document based on reports from the different workshop sessions. The documents can be found here: http://www.eu-chinapdsf.org/EN/pdsf1activity.asp?NewsId=1216
I was responsible to prepare and implement workshop 2 on "Young people, a multi-polar world and the role of regional organizations".