About

Shokkin Group is a youth organization composed of young people 16-30 years of age based in or connected to Estonia. The organization was founded in October 2011 in Tallinn, with the main aim of empowering young people of Estonia to live a pro-active lifestyle by providing them with opportunities to develop competencies for personal, professional and social growth.

The organization’s motto is imagine, inspire, act! And it describes the whole idea of Shokkin Group in the best possible way. In the organization we hope that modern youth will imagine, be inspired and inspire others to act for a stronger society!

Since establishing the organization Shokkin Group carried out or partnered in more than 150 projects and events. Hosted more than 450 young people and youth workers in Estonia sent more than 250 young people to participate in international projects and involved more than 1000 young people in local events.

Team

Shokkin Group is run by a managing core represented by a team, which we call “Shokkin Pro”.

Pavel Vassiljev

Pavel graduated university abroad and then returned to Estonia, where he became one of the founders of Shokkin Group with the goal to create space for innovative ideas in the youth field. Seeing ideas of young people become a reality is what drives his passion, so now, many years later, Pavel supports Shokkin Group by being in charge of long-term projects and overall organizational development (and cleaning the office!).

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Olalla González

Olalla moved to Estonia in 2017 from her home country Spain after having lived in different countries. One of the main reasons? The drive behind Shokkin Group's values and energy. Since then, she has followed a very organic participation cycle, taking up roles little by little. Olalla is in charge of external communication, member management and coordinates local and international projects with Shokkin Group.

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Georgi Lugovskoi

Having been a Scout Troop Leader for 13 years, Gosha joined Shokkin Group as participant for Gamechangers in 2019, and was afterwards part of the teams behind Nature Hike youth exchange and Critical Escape, as well as smaller member weekends and board game evenings. In Shokkin Group, he is in charge of internal communication and event coordination for Shokkin members and he is also passionate about any project connected with outdoor activities.

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Julia Divonina

Julia discovered Shokkin group in 2017 through a local event and has since become an active participant in various activities. She enjoys interacting with people in the youth work sphere and finds immense inspiration in assisting young people with their ideas, just like herself in 2017. In Shokkin Group, she is involved in managing local youth initiatives and communication with partners regarding services of the organization.

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Recognition

In 2020 we received the award of “Tallinn’s Youth Organization of the year. In a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and barely physical meetings, Shokkin team found space to be creative and discover new approaches, which led to the implementation of different small-scale local activities led by youth and for youth.

One of our first projects: “Graffiti Festival” received the Väike tegu award from Tallinn Youth & Sports Department back in 2013. More recently, our youth event “InJam Estonia” was awarded as the best activity for young people in Tallinn in 2023 in the city’s youth work recognition competition “Suured Teod”.

Among international projects there are those awarded as good practice by various National Agencies for Erasmus+:

  • Strategic Partnerships: Breakout Box, Gems of Youth Work, Gamifying Education, Emplayability
  • Youth Initiatives: Critical Escape, Messagewear
  • Mobility Projects: Make It Happen, Eduboards 2.0, StressOff, Game Exchange, Trainbow, Shokkin Therapy, Game Zone, Coach’Em, Game Magic, Don’t Wait – Facilitate, Up-Cycle Your Life, CSR+, Entrerural, Young Entrepreneurs in Action

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