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Go Visual: visual thinking tools for youth work and education

2022-1-AT01-KA153-YOU-0000720482022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: AT|PL|DE|HU|IT|AM|GE|PT|RU|IL|AZ|UA · Grant: €31,027
Creativity, arts and cultureNew learning and teaching methods and approachesQuality and innovation of youth work

Objectives

This project was born from the idea to empower youth workers, trainers, and educators to use interactive and creative methods in education and equip them with skills of graphic facilitation, visual thinking tools, graphic recording, and other tools of visualisation in order to support & foster the educational process, empower youth motivation, ensure effective communication and increase learning results and addressing challenges such as intercultural dialogue, educational work with marginalised groups, preventing bullying, hate speech and radicalisation of young people and to develop critical thinking abilities. Objectives for the TC: Objectives: - To increase awareness and importance of the use of the visual thinking tools in education and youth work, and how to apply them to youth work and training; - To learn basic elements of visual language and how to use it to create meanings and to develop your own visual library - To explore sketch-noting & graphic recording techniques: to visualise and structure concepts and ideas in an easy and concise way - To explore why visuals are useful and how they help to better remember & understand things, empower and motivate, grab attention & and call to action. To learn what graphic facilitation is and how to use it in different contexts and for specific goals - To learn how to stimulate critical thinking and creativity with graphic tools - To become more self-expressive and to reduce risks of misunderstanding -To create visual instruments to support the self-learning process of visual think and graphic facilitation competence development -To discuss the ways visual thinking tools contribute to social inclusion in education and youth work The training course took place on 17 -25 June 2023 and involved 33 participants from 12 countries: Austria, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Russian Federation, Ukraine. The project was supported by the Austrian National Agency of Erasmus+. The applicant organization is Plattform Generation Europa.

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