The network is composed of small and medium sized youth organizations, the oldest one being registered in 2011. Even though the network and its members are relatively young, we already have a notable list of achievements reached in cooperation with one another.
- 2020 | Shokkin Group Estonia
Tallinn’s Youth Organization of the year - 2018 | Ticket2Europe
YE: Building Peace Through Inclusion (Good Practice by Spanish NA) - 2017 | Shokkin Group Netherlands
Best youth organization of Nieuw-West of Amsterdam - 2017 | Awesome People
TC: Coach’EM (Swedish NA contest) - 2017 | Shokkin Group Norge
YE: Get Out! (Good Practice by Norwegian NA) - 2016 | Shokkin Group Norge
YE: Tell a Different Story (Good Practice by Norwegian NA) - 2014 | Hea Hombre
TC: Don’t Wait – Facilitate (Good Practice Estonian NA) - 2014 | Shokkin Group Estonia
TC: CSR+: Bringing CSR & Youth Work in Erasmus+ (Good Practice Estonian NA) - 2013 | Shokkin Group Estonia
TC: Young Entrepreneurs in Action (Good Practice Estonian NA)
In the years that the network has been operating, member organizations have cooperated and implemented a wide range of international activities in the field of youth and education using non-formal methods. We have been implementing activities on the topics of game-based learning, innovation in youth work, youth entrepreneurship, employability, creativity, youth involvement and others.
2021
An online festival dedicated to game-based learning that gathered more than 100 youth workers, educators, trainers, project coordinators and game developers interested in game-based learning and innovation in the educational field. The festival aimed to: create a space for participants to:
- get inspired by experts from the research, youth work and game design fields.
- discover new online/offline educational games on civic education, soft skills and entrepreneurship.
- interact, exchange and network with like-minded people from all over Europe.
2020
MARKERS
An international Erasmus+ Training course that aimed to improve youth workers/leaders’ ability to support the ideation process of young people by using visual thinking and visual facilitation tools. Its main results were an open event for youth workers/educators in Tallinn and a series of six visual dictionaries with ready-made visualizations of key terms based on topics relevant in the youth work/educational field.
Game ON: Developing Educational Board Games for Young Entrepreneurs
A long-term strategic partnership in the field of youth implemented in 2019/20 between Shokkin Group International (Estonia), Ticket2Europe (Spain), Awesome People (Sweden) and Solidarity Mission (Greece). The project developed innovative board game-based methods that promote entrepreneurship education and develop entrepreneurial skills of young people, through co-creating, testing and disseminating new educational board games. The two main results of the project were an educational board game development manual and a set of four educational (printable) board games.
2019
European Activist Factory
After receiving the official accreditation as European Network by the Council of Europe and the European Youth Foundation, in 2019 we implemented our first Annual Work plan “European Activist Factory”. European Activist Factory was born to connect youngsters, youth leaders and organizations around the topic of campaigning and social activism, increasing the visibility of the network and member organizations and enhancing the ‘international feeling’ of belonging to the #ShokkinFamily. The main aim of the project was to raise the level of active citizenship among young people by training them in social activism, campaigning and providing space for creating Europe-wide social campaigns. You can get to know more at www.activistfactory.org.
Critical Escape
This Erasmus+ Transnational Youth Initiative (KA2) implemented by Shokkin Group Estonia and Awesome People throughout 2019 aimed to empower young people from various backgrounds to develop critical thinking and raise the level of their involvement in the community life through participating in educational escape rooms created and implemented by young people. The project made possible the creation of 6 portable escape room concepts, testing and quest events and one educational escape room toolbox.
Lead It Like You Mean It
This international Erasmus+ Training Course was hosted by Shokkin Group Norge in Norway in July 2019. The project focused on the role of group leaders in youth exchanges, steps for proper preparation of participants, design of non-formal education sessions and support of follow up stages and involvement of participants.
Strategic Partnership
Implemented in June 2019 by Awesome People in Örebro (Sweden), this Training Course aimed to increase the level of involvement of small youth organizations in cross-sectorial strategic partnership projects in the youth field through providing space for cooperation to stakeholders from various fields and increasing their ability for developing and implementing KA2 strategic partnership projects.
2018
To Be a Person is to Be a Story
This international Erasmus+ Youth Exchange was organized by Ticket2Europe in September 2018, in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The project, done in collaboration with other Shokkin Group International member organizations, included 32 participants from Spain, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands. The aim of the project was to introduce and promote storytelling as a means to address social exclusion and inequity by giving voice to those who have experienced discrimination due to their nationality, religion, gender, language, etc. Watch the video here.
PIF Base International
A KA2 Strategic Partnership project done by Awesome People and Un Strop de Fericire aimed at improving the quality of youth work by implementing an innovative method in three different countries. The project, based on developing social entrepreneurial skills among young people through intensive coaching, will be taking place throughout 2019.
Critical Thinking – Clean Mind
An international youth exchange developed by Logos and Shokkin Group Norway about critical thinking and media literacy implemented in Lviv (Ukraine) in March 2018. As a result of the project, the international Skepsis movement was created, of which you can learn more here.
Shokkin Therapy
“Shokkin Therapy: Building Future Together” was a contact-making event (CME) for partners of the Shokkin Group International network implemented in Rødvig (Denmark) in February 2018. The CME aimed to improve the quality of the youth work field by working on a strong and consistent international cooperation with partners ready to contribute to the development of the European youth through non-formal educational events and projects with effective experience-exchange practices.
2017
Escape Rooms for Human Rights
The training course “Escape for human rights” gathered 24 youth workers and youth leaders on 7-day training course in October 2017 in Kiev (Ukraine). The aim of the project was to provide participants with knowledge and skills needed for the creation of educational escape rooms to be used when working with young people on the topics of Human Rights education.
Coach’EM
The training course “Coach`Em – supporting young people through coaching” happened in Örebro (Sweden) in August 2017 including 28 participants from seven SGI member organizations (Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Turkey, Romania, Norway, Cyprus and Netherlands). During the 8-day training course, the topics of youth support, needs of NEET young people and coaching methodology were shared and testes with local schools.
Get Out!
An outdoor youth exchange that took place in Femundsmarka National park (Norway) in August 2017. The youth exchange gathered 31 young people and leaders from the SGI network members from Denmark, Romania, Estonia and Norway with the aim of raising the level of awareness among young people about the benefits of a sustainable lifestyle and create the feeling of responsibility of the impact they have on the environment by taking part in outdoor activities. Watch the video here.
Involve’EM
The training course involved 30 youth workers/youth leaders from Estonia, Turkey, Spain, Latvia, Sweden, Denmark, Cyprus, Romania, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Poland in February 2017 in Viljandi (Estonia). The project aimed to further develop competences of project coordinators who are responsible for participant selection, evaluation of their learning and involvement of youth leaders in local youth work. The training course equipped participants and organizations involved with specific tools to reach a wider spectrum of youngsters and encouraged them to foster youngsters’ involvement in their own projects and activities. Watch the video here.
