“Lead it Like You Mean It” – Training Course Experience

"Have you ever considered becoming an incredible youth leader? If yes, ‘Lead It like You Mean It’ has to be a ‘must’ project in your to do list! Recently I was lucky enough to become a part of an inspiring and extremely motivating Erasmus+ training course held in Brandbu, Norway by Shokkin Group Norge and Shokkin … Continue reading “Lead it Like You Mean It” – Training Course Experience

CREATEAMITY: Educational Escape Rooms back home

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

My sailing experience at “Strategic PartnerSHIP: How to Make it Float”

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”

Experience: Enhancing the local impact of NGOs at “IMPACTOR”

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”

[COMPLETE] Training Course “Eduboards” in Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia)

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)

Exploring new digital tools in youth work at #DigiboxTC (Turkey)

The training course “Digibox: Enriching Youth workers Digital Toolboxes for Involvement” took place from 28.04 - 05.05 in Trabzon (Turkey). The project was focused on the study of new digital tools and their use in educational processes with young people. During the project we had many different sessions and activities, some of which I really want … Continue reading Exploring new digital tools in youth work at #DigiboxTC (Turkey)

Experience review: “Visual Dreamers” and the magic of graphic facilitation

What does perfection mean to you? In April we experienced this in beautiful Scanzano Jonico, Italy. Lovely sunny weather, seaside, sunsets and sunrises, amazing accommodation in a 4-star hotel with pool, tasty Italian food, unlimited amount of sweet juicy oranges, like-minded people around and learning something new every day on topics we were passionate about … Continue reading Experience review: “Visual Dreamers” and the magic of graphic facilitation

[COMPLETE] Training Course “LEAD : Leadership Exploration and Development” in Dingli (Malta)

Places: 2 participants (1 female+1 male) Venue: Dingli (Malta) Hosting organization: MUYA-Malta UNESCO Youth  Association Travel reimbursement: 360 euros/participant Project Dates: 25.08.2019 - 02.09.2019 Deadline to send application form: 20th June 2019 Description "LEAD: Leadership Exploration and Development" will be an international Erasmus+ training course organized by MUYA Malta. The main activity of the project will take place in Dingli (Malta) during the period 25th … Continue reading [COMPLETE] Training Course “LEAD : Leadership Exploration and Development” in Dingli (Malta)

[NEW] Training Course “Board Builders: Exploring Educational Board Games” in Turku (Finland)

Places: 3 participants Venue: Turku (Finland) Hosting organization: Sondip Travel reimbursement: 180 euros/participant Project Dates: 08-14 October 2019 Deadline to send application form: 20 July 2019 Description The training is designed to equip participants with knowledge and skills of need assessment and learning design tools as well as to empower participants to take out of the box approach … Continue reading [NEW] Training Course “Board Builders: Exploring Educational Board Games” in Turku (Finland)

Experience in “European Education: Utopia or Reality?” in Denmark

Would you like to live in an Utopia, or Reality is enough for you? How does the Utopian education look like and how to get there? Alina, Marina and Ksenia were looking for answers for these questions during a week in Denmark on the training course “European Education: Utopia or Realty?”. They shared and discussed educational … Continue reading Experience in “European Education: Utopia or Reality?” in Denmark