TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Jessica Reinsch
To learn about the opportunities that ‘small-scale partnerships’ offer. To discover how to add an international dimension to local inclusion work.
To get inspired by project examples and learn from good practices.
To gain project management skills (apply, prepare, partnerships, budgeting/financial management, reporting, etc.) to organise a quality project.
To get to know other organisations working on inclusion (for networking).
To try out to develop a project and receive feedback from NA/trainers.
To get to know available resources to make it happen.
Target group: Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth coaches, Inclusion workers. More specifically: Newcomers to the Erasmus+ programme and more particular to the Small-Scale Partnerships; People working already with young people with fewer opportunities; People who want to change something in their local reality; People from EU countries and third countries associated to the programme (LI, NO, IS, TR, SR, MK).
Team: two trainers from Italy & Germany (Silvia Volpi, Jessica Reinsch), three TCA/programme officers from the Italian and German NA (Luca Pignocco, Mirella Olivari, Mireille Gras) and one SALTO Inclusion & Diversity Officer (Tony Geudens).
A bunch of methods have been used to support the non-formal learning process, helping participants to get to know each other, break the ice, share project ideas and understand the essential quality aspects of Small Scale Partnerships for Inclsuion within the frame of Erasmus+ Youth. Thematic workshops and structured group discussion have been used (e.g. case szenarios, expert groups) same as visualization methods for project managment, the application process or presentations to understand the concept of SSP. Guest speakers have been involved to share their good practices and we had individual and group consultations, so participants could go home with a personal action plan.
The training course provided substantial knowledge and deepened understanding about KA2 Small scale partnerships on Inclusion in the field of Youth. Participants expressed number of learning outcomes linked to networking, preparation of the project proposal and importance of various quality criteria. Based on the evaluation participants, 95% of them identified that course met their expectation quite well or extremely well.
I was one of the two trainers in this project. My task was to prepare, implement, evaluate and report this training. This was done hand in hand with my co-trainer colleague and in regular consultation with the officers for SALTO Inclusion & Diversity and the involved NAs.