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Go Visual

2023-1-DE04-KA153-YOU-0001316302023Mobility of youth workersfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DE|EL|PL|HU|CY|LT|TR|ES|IT · Grant: €57,278
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 migrants and refugees, preventing bullying, hate speech and radicalisation of young people and to develop critical thinking abilities as well as develop participants’ digital competences in visualisation in order to address current demand for accessible and engaging digital solutions. Objectives for the LTTC: - 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 about various digital visual tools, which educators can use for engaging learning process with their target groups - To learn how to stimulate critical thinking and creativity with visual thinking 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 Structure: TC1: Go Visual graphic, which focused on visual thinking tools and graphic facilitation as well as using infographics and other visualisation tools. It took place in Weimar, Germany on 22-30 July 2024. Online module and local phase TC2: Go Visual: Digital, which focused on the usage of digital visual thinking methods in youth work. It took place 23-31 October 2024 in Nea Makri, Greece. Each training course involved 29 participants (58 participants in total) from 9 countries: Germany, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Lithuania, Italy, Spain. The project was supported by the German National Agency of Erasmus+ - Jugend für Europa. The applicant organization is Culture Goes Europe (CGE Erfurt).

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