ESNers in KomPrax

On 14th - 16th  of March  in the middle of small town Šala, in nice hotel Central, 5 ESN Slovakia members (Simona Ježiková, Katarína Škvarková, Marek Vajdiar, Paulína Lišková and Barbora Korchňáková) participated in the KomPrax course (Competencies for Practice). This course was made by Iuventa agency and was available for everybody, who wants to make something good for youth. Two tutors (Timea Škulibová and Mária Horníková) were leading this group of 24people, who would like to learn how to work effectively with youth (0-30 years old). Participants were learning how to write project perfectly and apply for a dotation. ESN members caught this great opportunity to improve their skills for working with youth, for writing succesfull project and to get money for that. 

This course was really interesting because this group of strangers had great ideas for projects which would be be able to try solve various problems of youth. 

The first part was about getting to know each other in very creative way and then we continued by talking and discussing what problems youth really has. 

We defined which problem we would like to solve. Then we stated to discuss about our purposes and ideas for solutions. But the specificity of this course was interesting and funny way of learning by a lot of games and other kinds of nonformal learning. We didn't have any  time for boredom. It was weekend full of positive energy, friendly atmosphere and laughs. 

Participants of the course were dealing with different projects to solve the inefficient time utilization of youth. Whole team prepared many interesting activities such as exploring the past of some important figure of the village, or task to build a maypole which are important to restore the folk traditions. Other activities were for example the creation of pleasant common area for students to spend time together during the high school, the renovation of the castle area, orientation runs in the nature or sightseeing tour. 

Every ESN member prepared own small project , which will realise during the Erasmus Week, when ESN International will celebrate 25th anniversary and ESN Slovakia 10th anniversary. Barbora prepared Erasmus in schools, Katarína Sport event,  Simona and Marek various propagation activities. Paulína prepared SocialErasmus project dealing with help for castle reconstruction

It's a great feeling, we will find that good people with hearts in the right place, willing to volunteer in their spare time to help his surroundings, still live among us! 

Good luck to all participants in project implementation!

Don't give up! Think positive!

Author: Barbora Korchňáková, ESN Košice PR & webmaster

Photo: Mária Horníková