Youth Finance Academy

INFO-PACK

TRAINING COURSE_FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE & ENTREPRENEURS

May 31 - June 5th 2022 Lithuania (Check-in: 30.05 - Check-out: 06.06).

Introduction

COVID-19 is painfully exposing the existing and persisting health, social and economic inequalities in our societies. This pandemic has the heaviest impact on the lives of people living in deprivation or facing difficult socio-economic circumstances. The constant threat of financial crisis has made it crucial to address the need for financial literacy educational programs. Without it, people fail to make the right decisions. As it affects everybody, it covers all demographics, all geographies, and all cultures, the involvement of youth workers, educators and educational leaders as the frontline staff is essential to help young people and young entrepreneurs build financial literacy – money knowledge, skills, and habits at key transitional moments. We believe that today’s youth should become empowered economic citizens, capable of understanding the importance of saving, to be equipped with the skills to be employed and create their livelihoods. By empowering youth, we can help them transfer their knowledge to their families and to entire communities.

Mobility for youth workers in Lithuania

Preparing a generation of trainers and youth workers is a key component of the success of the Youth Finance Academy project and ensuring the sustainability of the program at the local and national level.

22 youth workers/trainers will be involved in a two eLearning and mentoring phases provided through the Monomyths Learning platform (3 weeks before and 3 after TC) to ensure deep processing of the material, while the residential training will provide hands-on experience, professional cooperation and personal guidance for youth workers.

The learning objectives

To create a learning environment for 22 youth workers and future financial education trainers from 8 European organizations to become financially literate, understand the key-concepts and finance psychology, develop their core competencies, and feel confident managing their own finances.

New Tools

We aim to provide access to up-to-date resources and professional development opportunities for 22 youth workers and trainers to ensure that they can deliver high-quality interventions for YP/YE. The youth workers will discover how to use gamification mechanics and digital financial education resources to implement accessible, flexible and engaging learning opportunities.

Practical Learning

The participants will explore practical ways to mentor, motivate and inform about financial resources the young people and young entrepreneurs. Together we will build a common understanding of the training approaches, contents, and tools used and ensure a very practical perspective to the training materials developed jointly.

Existing practices

During the mobility you will explore the existing national financial programs discovered during the two-phases research and the digital maps designed under Youth Finance Academy project.

Profile of the participants

Youth Workers 18+, active in youth not-for-profit organisations from Romania, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria, motivated to acquire the needed know-how to provide essential financial education services to young people affected by the current economic crisis.

You want to explore new ways and resources to empower young people despite the current financial restraints and limitations, to provide guidance to young entrepreneurs in early phases of their start-ups.

Day 1 - 31.05

Team Dynamics; Presentation of project and training; Presentation of Erasmus+ & YouthPass; Aspirations and contributions; Objectives and outcomes of the training; Daily evaluation.

Day 2 - 01.06

Intro in financial education; Key-insights of the two-phases research; Financial education mind-maps; Profile of financial education facilitator; Daily evaluation. Intercultural evening

Day 3 - 02.06

Intro in Youth Finance Academy; Getting familiar with the methodology and multimedia resources of the 1st module (Dedicated to young people); Testing and debriefing a selection of activities; Daily evaluation.

Day 4 - 03.06

Getting familiar with the methodology and multimedia resources of the 2nd module (dedicated to young entrepreneurs); Testing and debriefing a selection of activities; Daily evaluation.

Day 5 - 04.06

Study visits @ financial education providers in Vilnius;

Day 6 - 05.06

Getting familiar with the YFA decision game (prototype 1.0) Collecting insights & feedback; Local DEOR activities planning; Reflection on individual learning process & Youthpass. Evaluation of the youth mobility and closing;

ABOUT TAVO EUROPA (HOSTING ORGANISATION)

Tavo Europa is more than just another NGO working on the development of society by making those choices. It is a platform that gathers youth and different kind of experts who work together. We are home for the knowledge-hungry professionals that deeply care about their job, about career development and about youth. This is a safe place where non-formal education methods meet different environments and miracles really begin to happen. Teachers, trainers, instructors, researchers, activists and youth leaders gather together to make the choice – bring a positive change, while giving floor to youth and helping them advance their major skills.

Life is all about making choices, but to help youngsters make the right ones, we provide tools and methods striving to create a stronger link between youth mobility experience and further professional prospects. Through various projects and different local activities, we are looking for new ways of how educational activities can meet the demand of new generations. In a liquid, constantly changing and evolving environment such as the nowadays age of knowledge that we are living in, it is essential to readjust the teaching-industry relationship, while experimenting with new ways of learning, thus making new great and better choices than ever before.

IMPACT

By the end of the training, 22 participants from 7 countries will be equipped with the necessary tools, resources, skills, and know-how to become multipliers of financial education workshops and training courses. They will become members of the international network and they will have the opportunity to exchange good practices with educational consultants/financial experts and facilitate local dissemination workshops.

Each participant of the 6 days short-term joint staff training will receive a Youthpass certificate where they will have the opportunity to evaluate their learning process.

TRAVEL TO LITHUANIA

Lithuania is a country that can be easily reached by low cost flights. Good tickets websites are: www.skypicker.com, www.skyscanner.net, www.momondo.com, www.kiwi.com and some Lithuanian websites like www.greitai.lt and www.skrendu.lt. We encourage you to find your flight using various flight companies, but buy to it directly from the airline (usually it is cheaper) Your final destination is Vilnius oro uostas (airport) or Kaunas (airport). Regarding the additional days after or before the project you shall discuss with the official partner from your country. If you would like to spend more time here, discuss it with your project coordinator.

Vilnius is really worth visiting and we strongly recommend you to plan a trip to the capital. It is full of history, amazing architectures, Art galleries, street musicians. Vilnius was the 2009 European capital of culture.

The local currency in Lithuania is the euro; the state language is Lithuanian, while many residents of the country communicate in English, Russian and Polish. The official language of the project is English. Feel free to contact our members for recommendations of hotels/hostels or local places that are interesting to see. Keep in mind that accommodation and food for extra days that you will stay in the country is covered by you.

VENUE & ACCOMMODATION

During the project we all will stay in „La Villa Royale“. It is a villa house commonly used for weddings, team building activities and other big gatherings. The venue is situated 36 kilometers from Vilnius and 12 kilometers from Trakai. Participants will be accommodated in rooms of 2 people of the same gender (can be changed upon request). If you have any requirements regarding the room arrangements please let us know in advance (not later than two weeks before the project starts). You can see more pictures of the venue here: http://www.lavillaroyale.lt/lt/galerija/gamta. Participants will be provided with towels, but you must have your own toiletries. During one of the evenings we will have a sauna evening. Please bring your swimwear.

HEALTH INSURANCE

Health insurance is the responsibility of the participants! Please, make sure you are covered with an insurance plan during your stay in Lithuania! Please take an European Health Insurance Card. The European Health Insurance Card (or EHIC) is issued free of charge and allows anyone who is insured by or covered by a statutory social security scheme of the EEA countries and Switzerland to receive medical treatment in another member state for free or at a reduced cost, if that treatment becomes necessary during their visit (for example, due to illness or an accident), or if they have a chronic pre-existing condition which requires care such as kidney dialysis. The term of validity of the card varies according to the issuing country. All EU members have right to European Health Insurance Card – get one before coming to Lithuania. You can find more info on http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1073.aspx. We also recommend to take additional health insurance. Participants that do not have any travel insurance will not be able to do check in the venue. Keep that in mind!

PACKING CHECK LIST

Swimming suit/shorts.

All participants should prepare for intercultural evening (in the second day each country will present their culture) During the presentations, PC and projector will not be allowed. Be creative☺

There is a pharmacy nearby, but we recommend you to bring your own medicines.

Bring a hair dryer if needed. At least one per team.

KEEP IN MIND

This is a training course is not a personal vacation or an excursion.
Be prepared to learn a lot of new things.
Though, you should be prepared to have tones of fun.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

We will start with the dinner on 30th of May and programme will be over on 6th of June after breakfast.

Your arrival time must be planned in Vilnius airport before 6 PM on 30th of May.

Your departure time shall not be earlier than noon of 6th of June.

Programme does not allow to arrive late or departure early. However, you are allowed to have extra days in Lithuania before and after the event. Bear in mind that all you shall take care of all expenses during your extra days in Lithuania.

YOUTHPASS

At the end of a project you will get an Youthpass. Youthpass is a European recognition tool for non-formal and informal learning in youth work. It will confirm your participation in the project and will reflect which skills you learnt during the project.

More about Youthpass you can read on the official website: www.youthpass.eu

REGISTRATION FORM

All selected candidates must submit online registration form. Before submitting the form be sure that your sending organisation shortlisted you for the event.

REGISTRATION FORM

THE TEAM

Emilia Radu

Trainer

monomythsassociation@gmail.com

Greta Paskočiumaite

Trainer

Greta@tavoeuropa.eu

Donatas Verseckas

donatas@tavoeuropa.eu

+37066223369

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