Youth mobility in London 

Testimony of English participant  

ENG:

How to film a story so people learn from it? How to use digital tools to tell a story? How to boost entrepreneurship skills in young people?

Those were the questions we addressed in "PRODEST" Training Course for young people and youth workers in London on March 19-24. The TC was aimed mainly to prepare teams of youngsters from Poland, UK, Slovakia, Spain and France to film interviews with young entrepreneurs in their countries, which would be a base for digital storytelling videos - educational tools to use in non-formal learning activities to develop entrepreneurial skills.

In the same time participants of this mobility were getting together their strengths to organize the process of video shooting and editing, write and test scenarios, prepare resources and motivate each other to do it, which appeared to be...exercising entrepreneurial skills.

This is how polish participants described this experience:

The project turned out to be very successful and full of useful knowledge. Among others I got a chance to familiarize myself with technics of shooting a video, which does not require professional equipment or advanced skills. Apparently, already a proper framing, adequate light and sound, conscious usage of available resources, all coupled with an interesting concept of presenting a story, can provide a magnificent result.

Ewa, 24

I understood how important in movie making is sound and that I have to be conscious about plenty of noise sources during recording. I`ve seen how does movie editing programme look like and I've learned some basics of it, including the patterns of how story should be organised in the movie (percentage of introduction etc.). I felt it before, but I saw it also during this week that I am able to communicate easily my ideas and in understandable way. I see that I should develop listening skill cause sometimes it seems to be hard for me. I see also great value of teamwork in obtaining goals. Once again I noticed that we shouldn't compartmentalise people. At the end of training some people showed their skills which was not visible from first look.

Kaja, 24

It may be cliché, but I really learned basics of video recording. It was a black magic for me before and now I have a general imagination of the process, equipment and software. I also learned what can go wrong during the process adopting the preventive approach saying "I`m getting ready for the worst case scenario", because, as it appeared, it was useful to take that into consideration while planning video shooting. Practical part was also great to do, to see how much of what Jonathan (the trainer) said was true (and it was!) and realise my own limitations in this area. I feel more confident to plan my development in the field of video-making. Aims of the project are much more clear to me now and I feel that this training has linked what was detached so far.

Estera, 23

For me training in London was great opportunity to learn more about making videos. I didn't know many things about interviewing, I hope it will be helpful for me when I will be doing interviews and editing by myself. I've met many interesting people there. It was really nice occasion to practice my English and have a nice chat with great and different people from all over the Europe. I'm really happy that i could take part in this project. I want to thanks everyone for keeping me company, I appreciate it.

Long story short: great people, great team and pretty London

Agata, 20

The training in London was great occasion for learning and fun. I met a lot of amazing people and heard a lot of inspiring stories. Because of this meeting I understood the idea of Prodest and realized that every man has competencies which can develop. The project gave me a lot of power to action.

Kinga, 20

Youth mobility in Slovakia 

Youth Mobilty in Slovakia was held from 30th of July till the 4th of August  2017 in Makov, Čadca, Slovakia.

For more see the video below