"Hello again! My name is Jaanika and I am an ESC volunteer from Estonia. You can read the first blog post about my project in the Netherlands at the Urtica de Vijfsprong farm here. By now I have been in the Netherlands for 6 months and I am more used to the work and living … Continue reading ESC Experience | Jaanika’s blogpost
Category: Experiences
Reviews of local/international projects
"From 4th to 10th of July, youth workers/volunteers from Estonia, Spain and Czech Republic came together between the forests of Brno to learn more about educational escape boxes. During the project, participants were introduced to the concept of breakout boxes, played through some already existing ones and even created some of their own. The workshops … Continue reading Experience | “Breakout Box”
"Bright Colors" was an international youth exchange project implemented by Shokkin Group in the beginning of June together with Lasnamäe Noortekeskus and with the support of Lasnamäe Linnaosa Valitsus and the Estonian National Agency for Erasmus+. Artists from Spain, Cyprus, Norway and Estonia came together to exchange experiences, raise awareness and become more conscious about … Continue reading Experience | “Bright Colors”
The second kamp in our Shokkin Kamp series took place in one of our favourite venues – Paunküla Heaolukeskus, which is located by a beautiful lake and surrounded with stunning nature. Shokkin Kamp, in short, is a youth event where young people come together in a non-formal learning environment with sessions on a specific topic, … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Arts & Crafts | Review
Last April I had the rewarding chance of participating in the "Be Enterprising" training course in Samobor (Croatia) which main goal was to teach how to foster the enterpreneurial mindset in youth and in youth work. The topic itself was personally important to me, since in my line of work fostering entrepreneuership and that mindset … Continue reading Experience | “Be Enterprising”
Shokkin Kamp is back and for the first kamp of the year we returned to EELK Laagrikeskus Talu. Shokkin Kamp, in short, is a youth event where young people come together in a non-formal learning environment with sessions on a specific topic, group building activities and socialising as the main goals. The aim of the … Continue reading Shokkin Kamp: Career Choice | Review
Last March, representatives of six organizations involved in the project "E-scape: Exploring Supportive Creative Alternative Paths for Education" met in Tallinn for a short-term staff training. The main goal of the meeting was to choose the topic and create first drafts of scenarios for online educational escape games. Firstly, our trainer Antonio briefly introduced educational … Continue reading Experience | “E-scape”
"This was my first Erasmus+ project, so I was an open book to this experience. One of the participants told me that this was one of those functional trips "because you can actually get something feasible to take home from here". I guess I landed on a good project! When I first applied I only … Continue reading Experience | “Gamifying Education: Live action games”
After several months of research and work on the production of the first project result "IO1: Breakout Box Manual" it was time for the team behind the project to meet again from 13th to 17th of March 2022, catch up on the process and set a new pathway for the continuation of the adventure. During … Continue reading “Breakout Box” mid-term meeting in Brno
Hello! My name is Jaanika, I am 30 years old and I am from Estonia. In the beginning of 2022 I started my long-term ESC volunteering experience in the Netherlands together with the Lava Legato Foundation. It has been a great experience so far, and I expect a lot more to come from it. Before … Continue reading “My ESC adventure in The Netherlands” | Jaanika’s blogpost