TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Jana Tikalova
The training course aimed to train facilitators from youth organisation in non-formal education
for ensuring a high quality standard in preparing, implementing, evaluating and securing
effective follow-up of international youth training activities in particular study sessions,
organised and run in cooperation with the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sport.
The objectives of the training course were:
To increase participants’ understanding about values underpinning European non-formal
education youth activities;
To familiarise participants with the values, mission, structure and ways of working of the
Council of Europe and in particular the Directorate of Youth and Sport;
To develop essential competences for facilitators in non-formal education with
multicultural youth groups assuring quality criteria in all aspects of study sessions and
international youth training activities;
To explore the concepts of intercultural learning and human rights education and how
these can be integrated in non-formal education activities;
To develop participants’ competences in implementing the study session cycle in
particular assuring administrative and educational follow-up and dissemination of results
of a study session.
Team: Turkey, Czech Republic, Macedonia, the UK, Budapest and Strasbourg - educational advisors of the Council of Europe.
Group: Caucaus countries, France, Germany, Czech Rep., Latvia, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Russian federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, FYRoM, UK, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria
non formal education, holistic learning,
discussion, role plays, simulations, debriefings, open space, group activities, presentations, personal assignments, debriefing, feedback, facilitation tools
workshops on: gender, intercultural learning, Human rights education
= practice sessions allowed participants to explore
human rights education and intercultural learning more
closely and to link them to issues as gender equality or
social exclusion.
=skills to approach them in all the phases of
implementation of an international youth activity
=understanding of the non-formal education approaches
=ability to further train facilitators for international youth activities
=undeerstanding of a complete study session cycle
Senior trainer:
- general preparation, running and evaluation of the training course
- theoretical inputs (HR, HRE)
- cowriting of a final report
- consultations during the course for the participants