YES - Youth Exchange System

Aims & objectives

YES is a TC aimed to empower organisations (especially newcomers) and Youth workers in planning and developing quality Youth Exchanges. It is planned in order to provide learnings and tips on quality system in each phase, from planning idea to implementation to dissemination of results. At the end it will support participants in developing their own project Application forms and creating partnerships. It offered 1 month of mentoring by the Trainers on the Project idea and Application form.

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

10 partner organisations from EU (newcomers in Erasmus+ or willing to improve quality in their Youth Exchange projects): Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia (FYRM), Croatia and Bulgaria.
PARTICIPANTS PROFILE AND NUMBER: Youth workers, Project managers and coordinators, Responsible of Organisations.
2 motivated participants with high decisional capacity in their organisation, from each organisation

Training methods used & main activities

Non-formal and interactive tools, exercises and games. Teamwork, simulation games, and evaluation tools for self-assessment.

Outcomes of the activity

We produced a Booklet with all the activities-actually still to be published on Salto- and a website
https://yestc.jimdo.com/

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Trainer- especially on the formal rules of Erasmus+, project design and assessment-

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