TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for DĂșlio Santos
The overall aim of the seminar is to empower young volunteers to effectively participate in exchange organisations, through work on intercultural projects based on task-forces. The specific objectives are to:
- reflect on the role played by volunteers in their local, national and international organisational structures;
- explore the specifics of project management in volunteer teams working over long distances,
in particular in the intercultural context;
- share existing best practices of task-force based work among the promoting organisations;
- develop and practice competences needed for successful functioning of task-forces;
- plan follow-up steps, including possible cross-border cooperation between task-forces from
different countries.
The team was constituted of 4 trainers, from Denmark, Turkey, Belgium and Portugal.
The participants were volunteers from AFS organisations from Egypt, Russia, Denmark, France, Latvia, Italy, Hungary, Belgium and Finland.
We used some Team-Building, creative thinking, team roles, leadership, motivation and project planning activities.
Several follow-up projects took place after this event, which were coached by the trainers. Some of them were successfully implemented.
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