RETOOLED - Social Diagnosis

Aims & objectives

The main aim of this TC was to connect youth projects with social diagnosis and base its needs analysis on solid research. Namely - to learn how to make evidence-based projects and how to research on problems. Activities were thereby a set of practical and theoretical input in the field of social studies methodology: designing and implementing social research.

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

The TC was done for youth workers and heads of youth organisations from: Poland, Serbia, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Spain, Romania and Czech Republic.

Training methods used & main activities

Methods used were a mixture of knowledge transfer and practical implementation of it: designing a mini research on concrete social problems and implementing them in Kraków. It included interviews, questionnaires, qualitative content analysis, visual data analysis etc.

Outcomes of the activity

As a result, participants received a guide for social research making and examples of research reports they made under the supervision of trainers.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Needs and expectations analysis, design of the training programme, implementation and evaluation of the programme.

I worked on this training for 6 days as a full time trainer.