TIMETABLE AND METHODS USED

Day layout

Afternoon Activities 16:00-18:00

• Journalistic and editorial activities - creating newspaper:

Newspaper as a tool of group work, role-plays and as a tool to express opinions, ideas and interest of participants for the matters of actual social and political issues in their countires and in Europe.

• Groupwork:Organising participants into groups provides an opportunity for students to work closely with their peers. The group(s) will be asked to solve a problem, perform a certain task, or to debate a topic. Benefits of group work: Involves participants actively.
  • Facilitates the exchange of ideas and opinions.
  • Develops communication skills.
  • Promotes team working skills.
  • Develops leadership skills.
  • Demonstrates the value of exchanging ideas
  • Highlights how to consider more extreme/radical opinions and negotiate for a consensus opinion.
  • Requires participants to deal with conflict, or establish ground rules for managing disagreements.
  • Enables participants to discuss course content in the specialised language of the subject.
  • Encourages participants who may be reticent about presenting their ideas in large group/class situations.
  • Requires participants to divide work/task into manageable blocks.
  • Ensures co-operation on the delegation of tasks.
  • Allows participants of mixed abilities to work side by side and draw on individual strengths to complete the task.

• Role-plays:

Participants will be presented with a scenario and asked to act out situations in the controlled environment of the camp.
Role-plays:

• Motivate students to learn as they are actively engaged
• Promote and develop critical and creative thinking, attitudes, values, and interpersonal and social skills.
• Provide opportunities for students to see both sides of a debate
• Give students insight into unfamiliar roles in different and varied situations
• Allow students to discuss issues or topics which they might or Icebreakers, warm-ups, and energizers Every day the warm up/ icebreaker, energizer will be done from a nation, so please prepare a warm up session. By ‘warming up’ the group with enjoyable icebreakers or energizers, trainers help participants relax, be more responsive, and participate more positively. The energizers will be used frequently during a training session, whenever people will look sleepy or tired. Icebreakers help the participants play and learn together and set the stage for continued training together. Warm-up activities are usually used to begin a session on a positive note or to ‘recharge’ if the group’s energy seems to be low. Some groups begin with a simple stretching exercise to get warmed up. At other times, energizers may be introduced. Even when people are interested and concernedabout the subject being covered, they can get tired and sleepy. Energizers give people a quick break and may add some humour, contributing to a positive group spirit.
• Topic of the day:
  Each national group will pick a topic, which would like to discuss with the others and during morning activities/programm will try to involve others into it. This way all participants have opportunity to become a coaches and take responsibility for the ‘coaching process’ and for concrete tasks in the project, which will help them to improve their leadership skills, communication techniques, organising content, designing structured activities and processes, giving and receiving feedback, etc.
  • Step: Analysis of the needs of your territory and target group This is the starting point of your one-day programme. Include your topical requirements that all participants can discuss and the reasons that this topic generates, show to the others that there is something necessary to change in the society, expldinarily feel uncomfortable discussing Enable quieter students to participate and express themselves in a more outspoken and direct way.