Learning to Learn

One of the main topics in the EVS trainings is learning.
Learning a language, learning how to behave with different mentalities, to show respect, learning from different persons you work with, from the daily life in another country...
We talked about many different situations and what we could learn out of it. EVS can be a very challenging experience within Non Formal Education, not just in the project. This means to make clear that you can learn something new every day. Very often we just do not recognize that we learned something really important.

The principles of Non formal education include creativity, active participation, self-directed learning and initiative. So as you can see everything is up to ourselves whether we take the chances to learn something or not.

One of our advantages is that we work on a computer and so the whole knowledge of the World Wide Web is open for us. We could learn so unbelievable many things in different topics and from different people. Nowadays E-learning is already very popular and there are many websites where you can take some courses. I have informed myself and wrote something together.

Through this work I did not just only motivate myself more to learn from such websites I also used the first time the Microsoft Publisher, which is by the way a nice program for a lot of stuff and for me a good alternative to Adobe InDesign.

If you want to know exactly what EVS, Learning to Learn and especially Non formal education means, here you can find a lot more information. https://www.youthpass.eu/downloads/13-62-57/Publication_YP_EVS.pdf