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!
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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
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
Places: 2 participants Venue: Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia) Hosting organization: Shokkin Group Estonia Project Dates: 10th-18th September 2019 Deadline to send application form: 15th July 2019 Description "Eduboards" will be an international Erasmus+ training course organized by Shokkin Group Estonia. The main activity of the project will take place in Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia) during the period 10th-18th September 2019, including participants … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Training Course “Eduboards” in Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia)
Recently, I’ve been lucky enough to take part in ‘European Activist Factory’, a project organised by Shokkin Group International. It was held in Vihi (Estonia) and it was my first project in my home country. Never before had I participated in any Estonian projects, to be honest I did not even know what Vihi was! … Continue reading The #ActivistFactory effect. “European Activist Factory” Part I
Places: 5 participants Venue: Pontevedra (Spain) Hosting organization: Ticket2Europe Travel reimbursement: 360 euros/participant Project Dates: 8-16 May 2019 Deadline to send application form: 26th April 2019 Description The European Commission considers that the civil society has an important role in the elaboration of the European policy and will follow supporting the actions of the non governmental organizations, the … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Youth Exchange “We Are All Timebankers” in Pontevedra (Spain)
Places: 2 participants Venue: Vihi (Estonia) Hosting organization: Shokkin Group Estonia Project Dates: 15th-23rd May 2019 Deadline to send application form: 15th April 2019 Description When looking at employability skills desired in the current job market, we see the importance of effective communication, teamwork, creative thinking and problem-solving is increasing. However, this set of skills is hardly … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Training Course “CreaTeamity” in Vihi (Estonia)
From 21st until 24th February our Message Wear 2018 team had the final meeting of the Transnational Youth Initiative (Erasmus+) with Shokkin Group Netherlands in Amsterdam. During those amazing days we shared the results of each national team, did brainstorming, had a screen printing workshop and even designed our own T-shirts together, combining small sketches … Continue reading MW Amsterdam final meeting