People of #CATEYEbyCET
The beautiful humans and amazing participants of #CATEYEbyCET who have made this Erasmus+ Training course in Krushevo, N. Macedonia a BIG success and an unforgettable experience for everyone involved.
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Putting the gained competencies into practice! Activities in Krushevo’s high school and final evaluation of the training course
In the afternoon of the last day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor”, we went directly to the local high school “Naum Naumovski Borče” in Krushevo where we were meeting the students after their classes. After everyone…
Preparing activities for Krushevo’s high school students
It is the last day of our training course, but there are still some important activities to do while in Krushevo. The final segment of our working agenda was to plan and implement activities with young people from the Krushevo’s high school “Naum Naumovski Borče”.…
Photo-shoot, learning about Erasmus+ and planning follow-up activities
Before we started the afternoon sessions, we did a photoshoot with messages about the Erasmus+ programme and our project themes as a way to promote them to a wider audience after publishing them on our social media. Then we got together to do a final…
Second batch of testing and evaluating created non-formal learning activities
The show must go on, so the morning of the 7th day of our training course #CATEYEbyCET continued with the participant-led activities, testing and evaluating them before we include them into a Toolbox of non-formal educational activities for youth engagement, improvement of key competencies, intercultural…
Showtime! Implementing and testing our newly developed non-formal learning activities
The afternoon sessions of #CATEYEbyCET were all about practicing our roles of non-formal educators and youth workers, testing our newly developed non-formal learning activities. But, before we made the draw of who will be the first team to implement their activity, we still had some…
Planning and creating non-formal learning activities for youth engagement
Once we have finished with the comedy segment of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor”, it was time to dive deeper into the next part of the project, focusing on youth engagement and improvement of our facilitation skills…
Performing stand-up comedy acts on social issues
The afternoon sessions of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” were all about putting the previously learned principles and techniques of stand-up comedy and public speaking into practice. But, before we got into that, we did a fun…
Finalizing our stand-up acts and sharing ways to overcome stage fright
We started the 5th day of #CATEYEbyCET with an outdoor energizer, that involved movement, fun and competition that made us ready for the upcoming day. We jumped into the day with recap of yesterday’s activities, debriefing the process of creating jokes and comedy acts. We…
Preparing stand-up comedy acts on social issues
In the afternoon of the 4th day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” everyone returned to their groups and collectively learned about some different templates that are commonly used in creating a good joke. Then by following…
Learning about principles of stand-up comedy and elements of joke structure
We started Day 4 of our training course with 2 energizers to loosen up and be ready for the day. Then we started with a simple exercise of debunking fears and stigmas of doing stand-up comedy and delivering jokes. By writing 3 fears of ours…
Exploring visual perception, verbal and non-verbal communication through theater techniques
The afternoon sessions of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” started with very much needed movement after the lunch, so we did a musical chairs energizer. Now it was time to discuss and learn about visual perception, verbal…
Diving into the world of comedy and understanding the youth of today
The third day of our training course #CATEYEbyCET started nice and fun with a lovely energiser, setting up the stage to dive deeper into the world of humor and comedy. We started by sharing our personal understandings of the terms and what they mean to…
Team-building around Krushevo and presenting our organisations
After a wonderful lunch, the afternoon sessions of the second day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” started with a team-building activity around Krushevo. Split into 5 teams, the task was to exchange a pen for something…
Getting-to-know each other better
We started the second day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” with activities to get to know each other better by doing different ice-breakers and name games. Firstly, we said the meaning of our names and an…
Arrivals and first introductions
The arrival day for every participant of our Erasmus+ training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” began a little bit differently. Some of the participants arrived in Skopje and had a van waiting for them. Three participants from Turkey, three…
We are ready for the training course”Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor”
We are days away from the start of the implementation of the training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” in #Krushevo that from the 26th of October to 3rd of November 2023 will bring together 26 youth workers, youth leaders…