What have I learned during this project? At first, of course I learned a lot of hard skills such as starting a fire, correctly packing a backpack and cooking food on a fire. I understood the concept of living in the nature in tents, I learned how to dress correctly for temperature, the basics of … Continue reading “Nature Hike: Explore!” our first Erasmus+ Youth Exchange
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Activities are rolling in "Gems of Youth Work", and in the last couple of weeks the team has been preparing intensively in order to officially take the first steps. With the project's official visual identity confirmed, on Monday 17th of May we held a 1-hour workshop on "basics of radio interviews" with Aleksandr Žemžurov. Aleksandr, … Continue reading Basics of radio interviews | Gems of Youth Work
Educational games are designed to help people learn about certain topics, expand concepts, reinforce development or assist them in learning a skill as they play. They use motivational qualities of games for relevant learning purposes, meaning knowledge acquisition, skill acquisition or training and/or attitude or behavior change. Educational games are enhanced when incorporated into a … Continue reading Educational Games and their forms
On 4th and 5th February, 2021, Awesome People implemented the online international dissemination conference in the strategic partnership "PiFbase international" where they presented the intellectual outputs produced in the project. The two-day online dissemination conference provided youth workers/educators and project managers from all over Europe with insights about innovative methods to involve underrepresented groups of young … Continue reading PiFbase International Dissemination Conference
With the gift season around the corner, you might be thinking what to get your colleagues or organization as a present. In SGI we recently published two card decks that might be interesting for everyone working in non-formal education: Intercultural Talks: a set of 17 method cards and 54 question cards to discuss and discover … Continue reading Official launch of SGI card games!
After a difficult and uncertain summer 2020, in which the Shokkin Group International family did not have as many chances to meet as we would have liked, the board decided to contribute to keeping the connection between members of the #ShokkinFamily by creating a space for meeting, sharing and “caring” about one another. The Online … Continue reading Online Shokkin Getaway Event 2020
One of the biggest highlights of 2018 for the Shokkin Group International network was to receive the support from the European Youth Foundation and the Council of Europe to implement a work plan, a 1-year long project to be developed between 7 of the organizations belonging to the network: Shokkin Group Estonia (Estonia), Awesome People (Sweden), … Continue reading Start of the project: “European Activist Factory”