Training Activities

The project implemented two training activities in Spain and Turkey with 30 young people and 20 youth workers from participating countries focusing on the social rights of young people and the dilemma of Ni-Ni ( NEETs ) and Yo-Yo ( prolonged youth ).

First training was implemented in 11-17th of April 2022 in Alcala la Real, Spain with the involvement of all partners and report of the training will be published under Training Report Section. Second training was planned to be implemented in Şanlıurfa, Turkey though due to earthquake it was implemented in Giresun, Turkey in March 2023.

Human Rights of Youth: Training for Young People

11-17 April 2022, Alcala la Real, Spain / Hosting organization : Verdesur

Human Rights of Youth: Training for Young People was developed as a the training for the young people concerning youth citizenship, social welfare structures, and the human rights of youth. The training activity was implemented in Alcala la Real for 5 day period with the involvement of 30 participants and 5 trainers in April 2022. During the implementation of the training, the trainers implemented a series of workshops concerning the human rights of youth, social welfare systems, implementing research with young people. The idea behind the implementation of the training activity was to qualify young people to engage with their peers for the research activity in the participating countries through their networks.

Goals of the training : 

  • To make the young people aware about the issues concerning the social welfare structures
  • To qualify the young people willing to involve in the research activity with their peers to make them able to engage in survey work
  • To create a network of young people who will engage in dialogue through social media and face to face with the politicians
  • To make young people to become changemakers in their own communities
  • To plan the research methodology and receive the feedback of young people about the decided areas within the project

Training Methodology : https://niniyoyo-toolbox.verdesur.org/human-rights-of-youth-training-for-young-people/ 
Monitoring and Evaluation Report : https://niniyoyo-toolbox.verdesur.org/monitoring-and-evaluation-report-of-human-rights-of-youth-training-for-young-people/ 

Training of Trainers for Youth Workers  

The training activity was implemented in Giresun, Turkey for 5 day period with the involvement of 20 youth workers and 3 trainers in March 2023. During the implementation of the training activity, the trainers implemented workshops concerning the training development, lobbying, human rights of youth and will present the outputs that developed and receive feedback. The idea behind the implementation of the training activity was to engage youth workers to the lobbying process in their own countries. The methodology of the training  was developed during the development of the IO2 : Human Rights for Youth and Tackling with Denied Youth Citizenship : Methods for Youth Workers in Southern Europe and the aim of the training was to test the methods developed and share the experience with the other youth workers in the process. One night during the training, the video-series were shown the participants to receive feedback prior to make available for the outer audience online with an aim to receive feedback.

The goals of the activity :

  • To make the youth workers aware about the issues concerning the social welfare structures
  • To qualify the youth workers as lobbyers to involve in the advocacy activity and make them aware about the issues of young people
  • To quality the youth workers as trainers in the field of Human Rights of Youth and Implications of the Social Welfare Assistance in the lives of young people
  • To create a network of qualified youth workers to implement activities with young people
  • To make youth workers engage with the policy makers in their own countries
  • To receive feedback on the outputs developed during the implementation of the project

Methodology of the training : https://niniyoyo-toolbox.verdesur.org/training-of-trainers-for-youth-workers/