TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Carolina Loureiro
The training course „Tackling Youth Goals Implementation“ focuses on the following objectives:
• To introduce and build awareness of the 11 Youth Goals and increase the understanding of the challenges faced by young people on the topics concerning „Rural Youth“, „Quality Employment“, „Quality Learning“ and „Participation“.
• To empower the advocacy skill of international youth organisations for implementing the Youth Goals.
• To exchange experiences and good practices on youth activities based on the implementation of Youth Goals, gain various perspectives and learn different skills useful for promoting the implementation of the Youth Goals on a European level.
• To strengthen capacities of international youth organisations across Europe.
• To gain knowledge on models and mechanisms of youth participation on a European level, analyse current youth participation realities and develop an understanding of the importance of and necessary conditions for meaningful youth participation.
• To explore how youth participation can enhance the Youth Goals and strengthen youth citizenship.
The target group was mainly composed by representative of European organizations, committed with the European Youth Strategy implementation and members of National Youth Councils.
The team was composed of 2 trainers and 1 staff member.
By using non-formal education methods and activities (such as team challenges, brainstorming, reflection spaces, experiential learning, discussion), this activity allowed participants to experience, reflect and learning about how their role in the implementation of the Youth Goals as well as its importance.
During the training course, participants were introduced to the main content elements and to the concept of the European Youth Strategy and Youth Goals and, because they expressed their curiosity, also project management. The first stages of the training course were initially created and delivered to provide a safe space for getting to know each other, sharing and learning in order to guide them to design projects that could be executed in their organization and put Youth Goals into practice
The participants
- had the opportunity to develop skills such as networking, collaboration and advocacy.
• Gained knowledge on models and mechanisms of youth participation and the policy dialogue in the field of youth and non-formal learning.
• Got a chance to learn about the best practices on youth goal implementation in various EU countries.
• Gained different skills useful for Youth Goals implementation.
For this Training Course I was the senior trainer, supported by Larissa Lojic, with whom I teamed up. And Sarah Zauner has an impressive role taking care of all the logistics. Both are part of BJV.