The middle of May brought some beautiful weather along with a group of 23 great youth workers from 8 different countries to Vihi, Estonia. They came for a training course named “Createamity” that aimed to develop competencies of youth workers and leaders to use game-based learning and specifically escape quests in an educational context. It … Continue reading CREATEAMITY: Educational Escape Rooms back home
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From 3rd to 10th June, I took part in the training course "Strategic PartnerSHIP" in Örebro (Sweden) as a Shokkin Group Estonia participant. This project's main aim was to increase the level of involvement of small youth organizations in cross-sectorial strategic partnership projects. During this time we learned about different types of KA2 projects, their … Continue reading My sailing experience at “Strategic PartnerSHIP: How to Make it Float”
Our project Critical Escape has been underway now for many months, so let us introduce the rooms that we have created! When we started to brainstorm the topics, we mapped the most common social problems among the youth in Estonia. We involved social workers and youth workers, as well as active members of the community … Continue reading Critical Escape Update: Our rooms!
Places: 20 participants Venue: Palupõhja looduskool Dates: 30.07 and 31.07.2019 Deadline to fill in participation form: 25th July 2019 Description A "Shokkin Kamp" is a 24-hour youth event where young people come together in a non-formal learning environment with sessions on a specific topics, group building activities, project idea challenge and socializing time in a friendly and open … Continue reading [LOCAL] Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act! VOL.2
I would like to say that participation in "Upgrade" training course in general is very interesting and useful to me. So was also the first part, what we attended in May in Tbilisi. For me each day brought something positive and as I am a youth worker, then it was so inspiring to communicate with … Continue reading First training mobility of “UPGRADE” in Tbilisi (Georgia)
The transnational youth initiative has been running for 9 months now. In this time we have created two and a half escape rooms, game-mastered around 20 escape games and visited several youth centers, as well as participated in the Tallinn Old Town Days. And the project is not nearly over; we are at a place … Continue reading Critical Escape Blog: Update nº5
Last May, five lucky participants of the Critical Escape project were able to escape from their life routine to Sweden, to be concrete to a beautiful town in the very heart of Sweden: Örebro. The aim of this trip was to share updates on ready escape rooms of both partners (a very important step of … Continue reading Critical Escape meeting with partners Vol. 2, Sweden, May 2019.
"Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act!" is a local ESC solidarity project implemented by Shokkin Group Estonia, funded by the European Solidarity Corps and supported by the Estonian National Agency Noorteagentuur. The project consists of five 24-hour events which involve youngsters aged 16-24 from Estonia. The first Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act Vol.1 event, … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Your Decision to Act Vol.1
I am part of several organisations that with different hindrances holding back either members from being more active, their services underused, long-term aims unreachable or current processes flawed. Initially my main reason to take part of the TC “Impactor” was to eventually make my own local project idea come true within my sending organization, but … Continue reading Experience: Enhancing the local impact of NGOs at “IMPACTOR”
“We Are All Timebankers” youth exchange took place in Pontevedra (Spain) from 8th until 16th of May, 2019. During this time, we learned a lot about timebank basics, performed lots of workshops and played games that were not only fun and interesting, but were an educational source. It was the very first project of mine, … Continue reading #TIIIIIIIIME…. BANKERS! Our experience in Pontevedra (Spain)