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 and trainers from 
Macedonia, 
Bulgaria, 
Greece, 
Poland, 
Romania, 
Serbia, 
Slovenia and 
Turkiye.
The main aim of the project is to improve the competencies and quality of the youth work of 24 youth workers in the fields of communication, facilitation, and youth engagement by using non-formal educational methods and stand-up comedy techniques. The project is developed upon the idea that we can transfer important complex ideas and important concepts to young people we work with in a simple, visual and easily comprehensible way through humor and techniques from stand-up comedy storytelling.
The project doesn’t aim to make the youth workers professional stand-up comedians but to give them guidelines on how to cultivate their sense of humor, communicate better their ideas, explain easier complex concepts and how to create captivating activities for the young people they work with. The project will help the involved youth workers to understand better what stand-up comedy is, how to use humor in a well-structured manner and to give style in the delivery of different important ideas and concepts to young people. The youth workers will learn and practice different competencies and methods of communication and facilitation.
During the training course, the participants will have an opportunity to plan, develop, facilitate and test non-formal learning activities and methods for improving young people’s engagement in social issues and/or personal, professional and social development. In the same time, the training course will facilitate the exchange of good practices, methodological approaches and resources for youth work, communication and facilitation between the participants and organisations. In this way the project will provide opportunity for networking and partnership-building, fostering future cooperation and improvement of quality of youth work.
The training course will use methods that are based on non-formal and experiential education in order to provide all the participants with the information needed to enhance their learning process, but also in order to create an inclusive and learner-centered learning environment.
The project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union through the Macedonian National Agency for European educational programmes and mobility.
Our partners are: International Youth Activity Center – Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Patras Youth Club (Greece), Youth Support Centre (Poland), Asociatia Tinerilor cu Initiativa Civica (Romania), Debatni klub Grada Niša (Serbia), Fundacija Študentski tolar, ustanova ŠOU v Ljubljani (Slovenia) and Pi Youth Association (Turkey).
Thanks to Vila Gora – Krusevo for being our host once again and for their hospitality!
