TOTALY TRAINED

http://total.org.pl/basic/trainer-without-training-resources-is-like-a-library-without-books/

Non formal education has got rising impact on young people all across Europe. European Union is supporting different forms of non-formal education, and includes it in its policies and structures. At the same time, this sector is not fully regulated, and formal approaches to professionalization of education and development ofnon-formal education staff are uncommon and limited.
How to become a trainer? Who issues the certificates? What is the difference between junior and senior trainer? How to ensure quality of delivered trainer’s work? There are any questions and issues for a debate so that it why we have started with Training of Trainers and Active Leaders - the projectwhich is complex and includes 3 mobility activities: TOTAL Basic, TOTAL Advance and TOTAL Lab.

                Training of Trainers and Active Leaders – TOTAL Basicwas organised by TDM2000 Polska and took place from 12^th to 19^th of September 2016 in Krzyżowa, Poland and equipped 35 young leaders, youth workers and junior trainers coming from partner organisations from Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Malta, Cyprus, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom and Italy with new experience and provided them with an opportunity to professional development and space to contribute to quality of youth work in Europe.

Main aims and objectives which were achieved during the Training are:

·         to empower involved organisations to implement non-formal education activities in their local communities and on national and European level;

·         Professional development of trainers and youth workers, starting from basic skills, through development of training modules, training strategies, to improvement of youth work and training.

·         to prepare participants for individual work as junior trainers and together with other trainers within their organisation, and prepare follow up activities;

Participants of TOTAL Basic developed innovative training methods; used creative tools, available resources, and new skills necessary in youth work. They are in process of local follow up activities after the Training Course as a part of results’ dissemination. New generation of European trainers and TOTAL Pool of trainers has been created and established in order to plan future project ideas which will be developed and implemented locally and internationally with collaboration of all partner organisations.



The Project is funded by Polish National Agency within Erasmus+ Programme, organised by TDM2000 Polska.




Partner organisations of the project Training of Trainers and Active Leaders:

Centarzamejdunarodnamladejkadeinost – IYAC – Bulgaria
ASHA Foundation – United Kingdom
Fingerprints – Malta
Network for European Citizenship and Identity – NECI – Cyprus
CET Platform – Croatia
MladaSered – Slovakia
AssociaçãoRecreativa e Cultural Universitária do Minho – Portugal
TDM 2000 – Italy
IHNILATES TOU FOTOS – Greece
UrbanoOpshtestvo – FYROM
Go Europe – Spain
VsIInovacijubiuras – Lithuania
AsociatiaSUPER TINERI (ASIRYS) – Romania
Development Initiatives for a Common Europe – DICE – Czech Republic
TDM 2000 Polska - Poland

TOTAL BASIC 2016

Summary of The DEM Presentation

The presentation was held on 30^th January 2016 and on 31^st January 2016 in Thessaloniki. The place was given by the organization SOPSI with whom we cooperate lately. As target group, we chose social workers as we have many volunteers who represent this group. Ten people participated. On 30^th January we presented the theoretical part of DEM in an interactive way ( by writing down the basic things on big papers) and we showed to the target group some scenes from movies which included stories with disabled.. The second day ( 31^st January) we did the activities which DEM suggests and we added some role playing e.g. we closed the eyes of participants in order to feel like blind people in order  to gain a little empathy. The participants were also separated in groups and they wrote down their opinion about different kind of disabilities and then they presented their opinions to others. In addition, we discussed about the problems in families who have members with disabilities, as a request of the participants. They underlined that the real problem is in the state and in families. If families are not well informed and educated about disabilities, they will create obstacles in integration of these people. The participants found some of the activities boring and not helpful and they asked for role playing, focused not only on business but also on families and education. The whole presentation lasted 8 hours (4 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday). We used some material also for the situation in Greece and we concluded that the people who are members of minorities, confront integration problems.