This autumn we started the project "Critical Escape", a Transnational Youth Initiative with the aim of creating educational escape rooms for young people. We are running this project with our Swedish partner organisation Awesome People. Escape rooms are becoming more popular every year all over the world. We decided to combine this trend with an … Continue reading Critical Escape: Update nº 2
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On 3rd and 4th of November, we held our first local training weekend at Paekalda Puhkekeskus named “Leader’s Factory”. Ever since the restructuring of the organization, we had been planning different local activities where all new members of the organization and young people from Tallinn could gather to get to know one another, learn about … Continue reading Leaders Factory: an inspirational weekend
Cooperation strengthens with every new physical meeting and we had a great opportunity to host Jadyra from the Institute for Youth Development in Tallinn. Jadyra came for her study visit to Shokkin Group for 7 days to discover our game-based learning approach, get insights into the youth work context in Tallinn and continue working on … Continue reading Hosting the second part of #Prospects4Youth @ Tallinn
This August brought Shokkin Group's team one of the biggest events that we have ever done locally, which was to create and lead our own camp theme for a week. It has been a collaboration with Ole Lukoe Laagrid, who cooperates with us since its beginning. We are very glad to have such great friends … Continue reading Shokkin shift @ Olelukoe Camp 2018!
Starting in May and until November 2018, Shokkin Group Estonia and Shokkin Group International are part of a very exciting twinning project "Prospects for Youth", implemented in partnership with Institute for Youth Development in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). The twinning program includes two study visits, one in Kyrgyzstan (implemented in July 2018) and one in Estonia (to … Continue reading Twinning Program between Europe and Kyrgyzstan
Places: 3 participants (over 18) Venue: Kobuleti (Georgia) Travel Budget: 360 EUR Project Dates: 02-08.09. 2018 Deadline to send application form: 15.06.2018 Description: Youth organisations and NGOs are implementing many projects with and for young people. An important part of youth work is also the dissemination process and the visibility of the organisation's work in general to reach … Continue reading [COMPLETE] TC Show Up! Best Practices On Increasing Visibility Of Youth Work (Georgia)
"In January I packed my bag and boarded a flight to Portugal, Lisbon, in order to attend the Erasmus+ training course "From Protection to Promotion". I arrived a few days earlier to explore the city on my own and it was a really good idea, as there was no time for this later on. Our training … Continue reading Experience: “From Protection to Promotion” in Portugal
Upcycling might not be an ultimate solution to such challenges as climate change or air pollution, but it helps to empower youngsters to consume responsibly and to see new opportunities in area of upcycling.
Moving to a new city is rarely easy – I did it a couple of times in my life already. For the last couple of months, I was really looking forward to moving to Tallinn.
I was sure the participants would be super-ready for this kind of outdoor challenges. But in reality we were not, and that made this Project more powerful!