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2020-1-BE05-KA105-0028242020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BE|ES|CY|GE|AM|FI|EL|PT|MD · Grant: €34,420
Rural development and urbanisationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The main aim of this training course was to build the capacity of the youth workers, educations, leaders from youth organizations to design, facilitate and evaluate meaningful educational activities for young people using both animation technics and games. The specific objectives were the following: - To discuss the topic of animation and games as the educational tools in youth work; - To give participants tools for mapping and identifying needs of their target group in their local communities; - To provide tools and methods of animation like art-using recycling materials, facepainting, balloons modeling, theatre, juggling and etc; - To share a framework for creating educational and experiential games and to give participants tools for the creative approach in youth work; - To build capacity of the participant in practicing in feedback, empathy and communication skills, hot issues, common challenges and best practices in learning processes and youth work, self-assessment, coaching and professional development plan; - To provide space for sharing experience and broadening the understanding of animation practices and educational games in different countries, urban and rural areas and working context of the participants; - To give the space for creation and testing the own educational modules in a local youth organization during the Final event(s) and the local projects in their local communities; - To promote Erasmus+ as an educational tool and encourage international participation of represented organizations and groups; In this training course we wanted to target both youth leaders, educators coming from youth organizations from rural area and cities as we think that having different experiences in the group will ensure various side learning. During training participants were receiving general backpack of knowledge and were given opportunity to work in the international teams on creating their own activities on the topic and test it in the local youth organizations (from Antwerpen - KRAS vzw and Youthzone from Antwerpen Luchtbal) beneficiaries during the final event of the training.

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