Editorial

Finalizing the previous

trainings

Meeting day by day

New online trainings

Content

August arrived and the participants of the Multi Measure Project “EVS+SVE Sustainable entrepre-

neurship values through E-learning” were ready to meet again for the third mobility activity, which

consisted in 10 days of Training Course. Two months after our nice and fruitful experience in Gre-

ece, we made our luggage and travel to Transylvania where our Romanian partner ATA (Youth As-

sociation from Transylvania) was waiting for us.

Cristuru Secuiesc was our venue and, there, we worked hard during 10 days focused on the ob-

jective of our project: the creation of an e-learning platform which will contain several online training

courses for enabling the people involved in European voluntary Service to universalize, organize,

modify and share knowledge.

Of course, everything was not working and we had plenty of time to enjoy our time in Romania by

visiting the area, having intercultural evenings, movie nights, going to the top of the hill to watch

the Perseid Meteor Shower, playing cards during the nights… and many other leisure activities

that made the group of participants, a team. Many of us had already met in Lefkas for the first trai-

ning, so it was easy to keep the good work. But also we had new faces to replace the people who

could not come to Cristuru and they really worked hard to allow a successful meeting.

And it was indeed a great success. We not only made the final versions of all the trainings we cre-

ated in Lefkas, but also we plan the evaluation & certification methods of our platform and created

nine new online trainings. Obviously, we did not lose our time n Romania and you can see our

progress in this magazine.

Editorial

Article written by Silvia López Reconecting with the project

Finalizing the previous trainings

Testing

TestingSince we finished in Lefkas, a bunch of EVS and exEVS from the organisation partners had tested

our online training course. Then, we made some changes but that was not enough, if we wanted

our trainings to be as perfect as possible. So, we dedicated few sessions of our meeting in Romania

to test all the trainings: the ones we created in Lefkas in June and the ones we created in Romania.

The group of participants turn their role into learners and enrolled on the courses created by other

groups. It was very useful to know better all the courses of the platform and also to give a expe-

rienced feedback to the creators of the courses.

Adjust ingAfter having tested the courses, the participants gave personal feedback to the other groups on

suggestions, grammar mistakes and functionality problems. This phase helped us to realise about

what is not working properly on our courses and, later on, we focussed on changing the courses

basing on the feedback received. By changing the courses in this way, we adapt the trainings to

the needs of the learner.

Adjusting

Evaluation

Evaluation & Cert if icat ionOne of our main tasks for this meeting in Romania was to set up the approaches for the evaluation,

monitoring and the certification of our courses. In other words, how we are going to evaluate the

success and learning progress of the trainings and how we are going to recognise this progress.

To plan the evaluation and certification approaches, first the trainer, Sidik, had a presentation about

the different evaluation approaches and what are the characteristics of each approach. Then, the

participants had to elaborate the “evaluation Matrix” for their training. Based on the objectives of

each course, they had to identify the indicators and the data sources and

methods they would use.

Regarding the certification, the group agreed that the participants who pass

the 60% of the course will get a diploma which was designed by the facilitator,

Reka Hosszu, and it will be the same for all the courses of the platform.

Adjusting Certification

Meeting day by day

Article written by Sasha, Miko and DavidDay 1

The day started with the energizer “funky chicken”. After

the energizer, the trainer introduced the session about the

Evaluation process and gave some tips (why, what, who,

whom, when, how) and the different types of evaluation

approaches (by objectives, competences, achievements,

performance, outcomes and process).

Based on the information provided during the presenta-

tion, the participants had to think about their evaluation

plan for their online courses and had to complete an eva-

luation plan matrix provided by the trainer.

Day 2 Article written by Shushan, Adeline and Renaud

First day was truly amazing. It started with energizers and

"name games", which helped participants to get to know

each other. Divided into four groups, they wrote fears,

hopes, contributions and rules for the training course.

After these introduction activities, the participants visited

"Youth Association from Transylvania" which is prisided

over by Attila Nagy, our facilitator on this training course

and there we met with local EVS volunteers. After deli-

cious lunch, Sidik from Bosnia and Herzegovina explained

what Moodle is and how it works.

Later on, the group was divided in small groups and chec-

ked out the online learning platform created in Lefkas.

Productive day was concluded by beautiful intercultural

evening.

The day began with a breakfast as usual. After the break-

fast groups started working on the developing and impro-

ving their courses and evaluations. Meanwhile Sidik

visited each group to give some instructions and to help

them. Groups continued their work after the break. At the

end of the day, some of the groups presented their cour-

ses emphasizing on what they did during the day, what

difficulties and problems they had and what they still need

to do.

Presentation finished and participants went into their fa-

mily groups for day reflections during which they discus-

sed what was good, what was bad, what they learnt and

what suggestions they had.

Day 3 Article written by Syuzanna and Yordan

After lunch break, the trainer also presented Google

Analytics, a tool for collecting some data such as the num-

ber of visitors on the website of our online training cour-

ses, the countries where the visitors were connected from

and many other statistics which could be useful.

The participants who didn’t have the time to finish their

evaluation plan have been encouraged to complete it. The

next step would consist in modifying and completing their

training courses based on the Evaluation plan they’ve cre-

ated. The working process lasted till the dinner and all

groups were tired because of the long lecture of the trai-

ner.

The session ended by the Daily evaluation with the “Fa-

mily” groups. In groups, we had to discuss about our best

moments and less good ones, about what we’ve learnt

and also make suggestions to the Training team.

The forth day of training course was the excursion day

when we discovered a small part of Romania. The first

stop was at Praid, the salt mine, which is situated in Harg-

hita county and is one of the largest salt mines in the

country and Europe. It is situated at a depth of 120 meters

and the visitors can find numerous recreation areas, play-

grounds for children, restaurant, chapel for prayer, even

a museum that shows methods of extracting salt from an-

cient times until today. Amazing it was the salt mine is

mentioned in documents in 1200 and the archaeological

evidence proves that salt extraction from the mine is still

under Roman Empire era.

The afternoon continued with the further discovery le-

gends that Romania offers - "Sighişoara" - the place

where Vlad Dracula was born. In the courtyard we saw

and visited the Old School, Clock Tower, the Tailors' Tower

Day 4 Article written by Antoanela, Hanna and Marius

The 6th day of the training course was definitely produc-

tive and interesting. The day started with a warming up

activity, which boosted the power and gave us energy to

start the working day.

The morning started with the sharing of feedback and ma-

king necessary amendments followed by the conduct of

focus groups in order to come up with new topics of online

training courses. Working in groups was very effective and

the participants suggested a wide variety of interesting to-

pics for online courses. Soon after, the groups were for-

med to work on the approved topics:

- Media activities in EVS,

- EVS Management,

- How to get prepared for EVS,

- How to work with children in EVS activities,

- Non formal education and Youth Work,

- Sustainable development education,

- How to organize sport activities.

The participants started to define the mission statement,

syllabus and learning objectives of online courses. Later

on, the participants presented the achievements of an in-

itial work and reflected on daily activities.

The day was very fruitful and full of outstanding ideas.

Day 5 Article written by Magda, Tamta and Tako

Day 6 Article written by Katya, Alina, Rebecca

The day before today was perfect we were on the unfor-

gettable excursion to Vlad Dracula's birthplace, learnt a

lot things about Romanian history thanks to our guide At-

tila who was really professional, we want to say . But

today, we have continued working on our training courses

which were started in Greece on the first training. We had

time to finish them until next day morning and other parti-

cipants also tested our courses. Working in the Moodle

doesn't seem as difficult as it was in Greece 'Practice

makes perfect , that's true absolutely.

built in sec. XIII-XIV, Tobacco Tin and Shoemakers Tower

with approx. 164 houses with over 300 years old pastel,

narrow cobbled streets, all leading to a medieval atmos-

phere.

During all the day, we played a lot of logical and perspi-

cacity games. The game of the day was: How many cows

do you have?

We made a lot of photos, we laughed and we had fun.

This was seen through our eyes as the cultural day!

Today we had an opportunity to continue our work in

teams to create new online courses. After the morning

meeting, we spent some time on searching the data help-

ful to provide valuable training´s content.

By the lunch time most of the groups already had all the

data completed so after the tasty meal and the afternoon

break we could focus on preparing the actual trainings´

content. At some parts we worked individually – each

group member was responsible for different part of the

course. Before the evening meeting, we had a chance to

discuss what else has to be done tomorrow. During the

general meeting we shared our today´s progress with

other groups.

After the session, we went for a dinner where we had a

chance to say goodbye to one of the training´s participant

– Tamta from Georgia. At that moment we realized that

our Training Course is unfortunately finishing soon.

Day 7 Article written by Alba, Juan and Michal

Day 8 Article written by Awatef and Hafedh

Today was day number eight in our training course; it has

been an important day because we had to finish our pro-

jects...we were very busy and in hurry. You could find us

upstairs, downstairs, outside, inside... we were working

everywhere all the time. Everyone is connected to his

computer to search for information or logging in the web

side of the project .

In the afternoon, we started testing our projects and make

some changes according to the suggestions of the other

participants.

After the evaluation day, we went to the restaurant to get

dinner and at the same time celebrate Alex´s birthday, it

was amusing and we really need some fun after a full day.

The morning has started with working on the online cour-

ses, and giving feedbacks for the others. According to the

feedbacks, participants have tried to fix the online traning

courses. They have learnt how to create certificates for

the online courses. After, they have added the online cer-

tificates into the courses. E-learning team has evaluated

the training course, they have given the feedbacks, and

they have filled the evaluation papers for the project. All

the participants and organizers have shared their feelings

about the training course. They have ended the day with

beautiful dinner and the goodbye party.

Day 9 Article written by Neslinur and Melek

New 9 online trainingsAfter finalising the adjustments in the training courses created in Lef-

kas, we had time to create nine new online courses for our platform.

Preparing for EVS

NEWS in EVSYOUth Work and NFE, A Way towards Future

How to work with minorsGraphic facilitation

How to use WebRadio for promoting your EVS projectHow to Organize Sport Activities in EVS

Things You Need To Know About You EVS

Ecologically responsible behavior for EVSers

The course shows how the volunteers can

find information, what institutions they can

use to find reliable information about ongoing

and upcoming events.

This training course is focusing on giving in-

sights into youth work, its essentials, inclu-

ding non-formal education, competences and

recognition across Europe.

The objective of this training course is to pro-

vide necessary information on how to be-

come EVS

This course is about how to work as educator

and workshop facilitator for children. It is di-

vided in three parts: working with 2-6 years

old children, working with children 6-12 and

how to work with teenagers

This course will teach you how to use your

creativity to draw in order to facilitate works-

hops in a graphic way

The online training course “How to use We-

bRadio for promoting your EVS project” will

teach EVS to use radio media as a tool for

successfully promote his/her project. For this,

we aim with this training course to show a

way to create an online radio and radio ma-

terials.

You will find useful information in this trai-

ning course about how to manage your

EVS. We will help you with some sugges-

tions about how to prepare you in this pro-

cess. Also, you will find the ways to

re-integrate and prepare yourself after EVS

life. And, you will find helpful information

about how to be in a good relationship with

your hosting organization.

In this e-learning course you will be able to

gain practical and specific knowledge regar-

ding planning, organizing and managing the

sport activities. To make it easier for you we

have provided some basic guidelines on how

to encourage your participants and how to

optimize your financial and time resources so

you can be useful to your community.

EVS volunteers will learn how to respect

environment and how to behave ecological

responsible during his/her EVS project.

This publication only reflects the views of the authors and the European Commission cannot be

held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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