The seminar gathered 30 trainers and facilitators from 13 countries, including 3 neighboring EU regions: Western Balkans, Eastern partnership region and Russia. Seminar took place in Lithuania 28.09-04.10 in 2015. It aimed:To explore how internet and technology is influencing the nature of youth work and training and discuss the existing needs and challenges related to this technological and societal change.To present and explore online tools that can facilitate learning, communication and project management;To reflect about the strengths of these tools and the limitations of its use in our own local youth work and training contexts;To learn about recent developments and future applications of online tools for education and youth work.As result of undertaken evaluation, participants highly appreciated the seminar and indicated that all of the objectives were reach to almost full or full extent. The seminar have been developed based on specific professional development needs identified via online survey and live events for trainers and youth workers on European level. Seminar addressed European Training Strategies Set of trainers’ competences, focusing on the competence area “Designing educational programmes” and “Integrating ICT, E-Learning and other tools and methods into the educational methodology” as well as one of the Key competences for life-long learning “Digital competence”The methodology was based on mutual sharing and learning. Programme focused on exploration of diverse digital tools that can facilitate learning, communication and project management (software, online services, platforms, etc.). Sessions had specific focus on: a) tools for co-working, cooperation and online learning; b) creativity, engagement of young people, youth workers through various online tools and games; c) media tools, which can be useful for projects’ visibility, dissemination of results as well as for critical media education or digital literacy development programmes. In terms of impact, youth workers and trainers started using large number of the available online resources in their educational projects and supporting young people in their projects. As part of the project the open Facebook group has been created, which by now attracted more than 400 practitioners from all over Europe, who continue following the group and new online tools for learning, which are added there. Nectarus, as hosting organisation, has built strong image among youth work organisations and now is often identified as the one having good understanding about the use of variety of online tools in youth work.

IN A NUTSHELLThe international 5-day expert seminar “responding to the needs of young people today: youth trainers reboot”, which took place from April 6th to 12th of 2017 in Payerbach, Austria, aimed at gathering international youth work trainers in order to discuss and find new ways of responding to the needs of youth work and young people under the current realities and trends in Europe. We also critically reflected our practices especially in light of assessing the actual impact (and lack thereof) of non-formal education, our unconscious bias in our work, and dealing with failures and challenges. Additional inputs were provided by external experts from the business sector and psychology.The meeting was endorsed by the International Youth Work Trainers Guild (iywt.org), funded by ERASMUS+, and hosted by the Austrian organisation coobra – cooperativa braccianti. Based on a co-operation of 16 partner organisations from 16 different countries from the European Union and Neighbouring Partner regions (Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom), we had 33 participants who were all international youth work trainers with strong commitment to quality and impact in the international youth work (training) sector. Participants were selected in a way to ensure a wide and diverse representation of the international youth work (training) sector and building-up of a supportive community.METHODS AND AGENDAThe seminar was in large parts self-facilitated and based on the active contribution of all participants, complemented by workshops provided by external experts from the business and academic field, delivered both physically and in the form of webinars. In the agenda, we put a focus on four areas:(*) strengthening the capacities of trainers in non-formal education to meet current trends and challenges in youth work, (eg empowering young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, dealing with issues of migration and refugees, discrimination and violence, unemployment, low level of education, digitalization, etc)(*) discussing and finding ways to deal with bias, challenges and failures in youth work trainings in order to create a safe and empowering atmosphere in NFE activities and to support trainers of NFE in their daily work(*) getting inspiration from business and psychological training practices in order to improve our own practices and impact(*) building a community of youth work trainers that support each other (eg through feedback, coaching and 360 processes), and strive for quality, professional development and recognitionThe specific agenda can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GkU0hjxgcxg5NLnKox2y5BBhhQonxOcpIMPACT AND LONG-TERM DIMENSIONThe personal and professional development of the participants has a direct impact on the quality of youth work training in their respective countries, strengthens the capacities of their organizations and the trainer circles they belong to in their countries. Through integrating the developed competences in their training practice, they also have a chance to impact youth workers and youth leaders in their country, who directly work with the end-beneficiaries of this seminar – for example marginalized young people.The long-term impact comprises of and is ensured through:(*) raised competences and capacities of the participants, that will show in future training activities(*) specific follow-up activities, eg “AppRaiser” (a strategic partnership-building project aiming to build a digital environment for the assessment and development of trainer competences through 360 processes, feedback and coaching) and “YouTrain” (a cross-sectorial innovation project aiming to produce video tutorials on methods in non-formal education)(*) strengthening of the outcomes of this seminar through the supportive community and partnerships channeled in the International Youth Work Trainers Guild and their strategic plan focussing on support, quality, professional development and recognition of the sectorFURTHER DOCUMENTATIONA short video summary of the expert seminar can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZHbD2QYz3Q, and further documentation can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GkU0hjxgcxg5NLnKox2y5BBhhQonxOcp

<< Objectives >>The project constitutes a stage in MODE Foundation’s development strategy. It serves to provide our staff with a set of complementary competences that will allow us to implement quality projects in the area of youth work.Based on the situational analysis for our region and our own experiences, responding to the policy direction of local authorities, we have decided to strengthen the competences of our team so that we are able to design. plan, implement and evaluate non-formal and informal education initiatives for young people. We are driven by the awareness that the society increasingly needs to be educated and prepared for the challenges of interculturality. Democratic values and civic attitudes also require strengthening.Upon examining our current situation, we have come to the conclusion that the team includes six people whose professional profiles match roles that need to be covered if we are to effectively pursue our goals. These individuals wish to broaden their knowledge or gain a new perspective for how to employ their competences when working with the youth. This is why we reached out to several organisation across Europe and, upon consulting our needs with them, we have decided to apply for a job shadowing project. It will enable participants to broaden their competences, as well as observe various ways to utilise certain knowledge and skills they already possess.<< Activities >>Each participant will undertake a job shadowing activity in a foreign organisation that possesses substantial knowledge and experience in a certain aspect of youth work. By doing so, they will significantly broaden their competences in an area of their interest.The project envisions six mobilities for members of MODE Foundation’s staff that will take the form of job shadowing. An average duration of the mobilities is 5 days (excluding travel). All of them will take place in EU countries, in organisations with proven track records in youth work. The mobilities are scheduled to take place within an 18-month period beginning from August 2019.During the mobilities, participants will observe the work of a tutor, whose professional experience, knowledge, abilities and scope of responsibilities match the needs that the Foundations has identified with regards to the development of its team. Each job shadowing has a schedule, created in consultation with the tutors and based on tutors’ expected work plan for the given period.<< Impact >>Upon returning to Poland, participants will share their experiences with each other and the remaining members of the Foundation’s staff. Each of them will develop in an area in which they already possess certain knowledge and skills, and can therefore act as experts within their parent organisation. Naturally, we do not expect that as a result of the project all participants will gain an identical set of competences. As a dynamically growing entity, MODE needs to allow the specialisation within its ranks. The sharing of knowledge that will occur after the completion of mobilities is meant to provide the basis for an assessment as to whether we are able to implement youth work of the scale and quality that matches our goals.If the answer to the above question is positive, we will take further steps. We will form a team responsible for preparing and implementing a broader, more comprehensive range of activities aimed at the youth. The division of tasks within the team will, of course, correspond to the specialisation of each member. The group will devise a detailed plan of subsequent operations.First of all, we will develop a comprehensive strategy for the build up of our youth-centered initiatives. Subsequently, we will work on several aspects simultaneously. One part will encompass managing this entire segment of MODE’s operations and translating the concept into specific projects / activities. Equipped with broader knowledge of various available support forms, administrative models and legal requirements, the team will be able to operationalise the strategy into a set of undertakings. At the same time, we will verify whether the Foundation has sufficient resources to implement each activity.The second part of work will occur in the aspect of communication. We will select channels and tools most suitable for reaching the youth. Then, we will determine how to best promote our activities, inform, encourage and engage with potential beneficiaries. Team members specialising in the role of trainers / facilitators will design various educational tools: seminars, workshops. etc. They will draft detailed programmes and prepare necessary materials.

This project aims at the validation, recognition and appreciation of the practice of coaching in both international and local youth work. The purpose is to equip youth workers and youth organisations with coaching competences so that they will in turn use them to empower and support young people in goal setting and career guidance. While this project will work internationally to empower and support youth workers into becoming good and efficient coaches according to the international coaching federation standards, it will also give them an opportunity to practice their newly gained competences by establishing coaching services aiming at young people. Therefore each partner in the project will create a local partnership, which, according to the local reality, may include one of from the following not excluding list: University, High School, Educational Institution, Local Authority, TVET Centre, Adult Learning Centres etc. Aiming at a partnership of 3, youth organisation and 2 local bodies.Our partners will provide participants for 3 trainings for coaches. The 1st round of training for coaches will provide participants with basic competences on how to structure and implement a coaching service, while the second round will provide participants with intermediate competences and the third one will provide participants with advanced competences and a coaching certification provided by 2 private entities besides the YouthPass.OBJECTIVES:· To empower youth workers, youth leaders, adult educational professionals with advanced coaching competences.· To establish local pilot programmes aiming at the implementation of the coaching practice and application of the gained competences in reducing unemployment as well as harmonising career choices through goal elicitation.· To create a solution-oriented approach in tackling youth unemployment and thus foster employability and entrepreneurship.· To establish long-term and sustainable coaching practices aiming at developing the competences of local youth towards community leadership, initiators of local projects and activities aiming towards regional development through the promotion of cultural diversity and social inclusion.· To provide international mobility opportunities for both coaching practitioners and final beneficiaries in order to enhance the European dimension of the project and team understanding.· To actively advocate to the relevant local, national and European authorities for the recognition and validation of coaching as a tool and method for working and fostering competence development in young people. There will also be these activities happening in parallel to support the project implementation and accomplishment of its goals:1) Social and Anthropological Research, to assess the situation and state concerning the participants in the international programme, the final local beneficiaries and their communities. The Research will be an ongoing assessment which will provide by the end of the training empirical data concerning the efficacy of coaching.2) Use of modern technologies and approaches will be extensively used in order to promote the goals and activities of this project, by ensuring constant visibility on social media, by disseminating video tutorials and audiovisual production, such as a video documentary on how the project is being implemented, and by writing, drafting and disseminating literature on the topic created by the team.The expected outcomes are the following:- Each of the 5 partners will have 4 internationally trained and certified advanced coaches.- Each coach will assist a minimum of 10 people in career guidance and goal setting, with a minimum outreach of minimum 200 young people.- A minimum of 10 (2 per country) local youth initiatives will be promoted and coached until completion of average each including a minimum of 5 young people, for a total of 100.- A minimum of two partnership per country will be signed and established with public and educational bodies, for a minimum total of 30 local public bodies and authorities involved Europe-wide.- 3 publications / coaching manuals to be compiled and publish.- Minimum 20 video tutorials to be produced.- Minimum 30 interviews with participants of the international training course.- 1 Video documentary shot and edited about how a coaching process functions.- Minimum 20 Non Formal Education tools created and implemented.- Academic anthropological and sociological research on youth needs and the impact of coaching. To be published on a paper.- Presentation of the project outcomes and results to relevant local/regional/national/European authorities in Strasbourg and Brussels.

<< Objectives >>We want to achieve a comprehensive set of competencies for youth workers to develop competences as youth non-formal education trainers and as coaches by adding skills as graphic facilitators. In order to initiate a culture where the trainer who provides activities to develop competences is also enabled to coach participants after the training into implementing those competencies in their daily, professional and academic lives. This is achieved in a two-step training, the rationale behind it is, given the extent and size of competences to be developed, to allow consolidation time in between the training, initiating both a local and an international process of capacity building. That is one training for trainers on social inclusion through graphic facilitation tools, and creation of a non-formal education-based training with elements of graphic facilitation on social inclusion to be delivered in each local partner reality, where local participants will have to develop action plans concerning interventions on social inclusion, followed by an evaluation meeting and training for coaches, where participants upon returning to their reality will need to coach the local participants of their training on implementing the competences gained and follow-up on their action plan. Objectives: - To train youth workers to become trainers on social inclusion while also developing competencies of empowering with visuals, enabling them to locally implement training on social inclusion in their local reality.- To train the same group of youth workers, upon completion of the local training on social inclusion with a basic set of coaching competencies, and to work with the participants on the local training on social inclusion to develop their action plans.- To train young people to think visually (as a base for graphic facilitation) and to give them a how-to-use guide in youth work with a special focus on social inclusion- To observe, monitor, assess and evaluate both the residential international pieces of training for trainers and coaches and graphic facilitation, as well as the local actions, in order to provide empirical evidence and verifiable indicators of the efficacy of this formula, and its need to be further implemented and invested upon. << Activities >>What activities are planned for implementation? 1. Training for trainers on social inclusion with graphic facilitation and harvesting tools 2. Implementation of local pieces of training, delivered by participants, on social inclusion3. Training for coaches on social inclusion with graphic coaching tools4. Implementation of local coaching of the action plans created by local participants. Number of participants: in total 24 participants will attend two training courses. 2 trainers will be facilitating both training courses: Lorenzo Nava and Dorottya Túros. Two support staff from team MeOut will be present on both training courses and be responsible for all local logistical matters (tickets, reimbursement, mobility tool, photo taking, etc.) in Hungary.Dita Palascakova will be training only on the first training course, organized in Hungary.Marcus Vrecer will be facilitating only in the second training course.One support staff from Hungary will be helping in logistics during TCs in Hungary.In total, we will have 24 participants, 4 trainers, and 2 support staff.Profile: Youth Workers, youth educators, and mentors, active locally within the local partner organisations either as employees or volunteers. Working on social and inclusion and with either direct experience with marginalised groups of young people or with a personal background from those groups.<< Impact >>Two trainings implemented with the same group of youth workers, 3 months apart from one another. 24 youth workers trained to become trainers and coaches to apply both sets of competencies to work on the betterment of local social inclusion of young people processes and projects.24 youth workers will build up a personal visual vocabulary and tools to use them in practice and coachingMinimum 10 training modules on youth and social inclusion implemented locally reaching a minimum of 80 local youths at risk of social exclusion in each realityMinimum 40 local youths will be coached into implementing their social inclusion action plansMinimum 3 Erasmus+ Key Action 1 projects will multiply the results of this programme, and a minimum of 1 Long Term EU supported project will follow-up on the results. Minimum 1 Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project will be created. Participants will build strong friendships (they meet twice) and will start cooperating on a European level.The impact is foreseen: - The double training will equip participants, for the first time, with a mix of competences as graphic facilitators, trainers, and coaches, that will allow them to deliver strong training sessions, and to coach individually participants to accomplish their action plans and implement their competences.- Innovative non-formal education approaches to social inclusion will be delivered locally, and the foreseen action plans created as a result of this training will be supported, coached and monitored until implemented. - Youths from marginalised groups at risk of social exclusion will be reached out for and trained and coached to take action and ownership of their and their group’s future.- Mobility activities will multiply, providing the original target groups of the local training to participate, explore Europe and learn from their peers.