What do participants think about our project?

Some of the participants shared their experiences of taking part in our training course. Let's listen what they said!

 

Our webinar

 Check out the webinar we organized during the training course!

Oxford style debate

 During our training course we conducted an Oxford style debate on the topic of visibility of the projects.

The thesis of the debate was 'Production of t-shirts to increase visibility of youth projects is a waste of money'. 

There were two teams: proposition and opposition who were giving arguments for or against the thesis. Audience also could join the discussion in the next rounds, adding some arguments or asking questions.

At the end the best team and best speaker was chosen. 

You can see the course of the debate in the video below:

Theater game

 Participants had a good opportunity to get to know what a Live Action Role Play is.

We played the game called 'Sleeping Town'. Everyone got the description of their characters and some tasks to fulfil during the game. Thanks to that they got to know another educative method that can be used in their future work with young people.

We also made the video presenting the course of LARP and explaining more about how we prepared to the game and how we played it.

Visiting Zamość

During the training course we visited town hall in Zamość, where we met with the vice president of the city - Ms. Anna Maria Antos. We also could hear very inspiring story from the vice chairman of Zamojskie Voluntary Service Center - Mrs. Krystyna Rybińska-Smyk, about the tools they use for making their actions visible.

Later we visited Center of Tourist and Historical Information in Zamość where we got to know about their ways of promoting the city. In the end we met with the representatives of 'Bastion' Foundation at the city walls and take part in the historical reconstruction shooting with the cannon.

That day brought us a lot of new experiences because we could see not only how NGOs are enhancing visibility of their actions but also how the public sector is doing it. 

Videos, photos, publications...

Another day brought us another workshops. This time we focused mainly on three tools of visibility and dissemination which were: photos, videos and publications. For the whole day we participated in workshops connected with one of those topics. 

Photo group had a chance to learn how to use smartphone to take good quality photo of details, people and pairs. 

Video group learned how to record an interview and how to edit it later. 

Publication group got to know all the steps of making a publication, starting from the idea, through writing editing and publishing.

 

First days of workshops

First two days of our training course started with the activities that helped us to know each other better. We had a chance to express why we came to this course and we could discuss what experience connected with international projects all of us have.

We also focused more on the main topic of the training course. We were trying to define the words 'visibility' and 'dissemination' and understand the difference between those two concepts. It is very important to understand it if we want our activities to reach a larger group of people. 

At the end of the day we had a workshop connected with presenting examples of disseminating the results and enhancing the visibility of the projects. We split into three groups and in each of them there was a person who was presenting the methods used in projects, their strengths and weaknesses. 

TC has just started!

 Despite all the obstacles connected with the current situation in the world, COVID-19 restrictions and difficulties connected with travelling, 22 youth workers and people interested in the topic from 7 countries finally met to learn about the visibility and dissemination of the projects’ results.

The training course begins! We cannot wait until we start our first workshops.

Announcement video

 Check out the video announcing our Training Course ;-)