Fabio Meazza

Youth Worker, Freelance Trainer, Mobile Video-maker
based in Avilés, Spain

LATEST UPDATE: JAN 2023

About Me

I’ve been a Youth Worker all my life, but I discovered it when I met the Erasmus+ world. From that moment my life changed and so did my professional way: my curiosity led me, step by step, at first to participate and lead groups, then to facilitate and train youngsters from all over the world in my daily life and in international projects. I dedicate myself to what makes me burn with passion, aiming always to grow more, to stay young and to never stop learning and being amazed by the world, youth and – more than all – myself. 
Youth Worker

I am constantly leading groups of youngsters in different contexts, from local to international level, focusing especially on NEETs.

Project Manager

I write, organize, coordinate and implement Erasmus+ projects under any Key Action of the Programme.

Web Designer

More for fun than for a living, I like to experiment with coding and designing websites with CMS platforms.

Trainer and Facilitator

I design and deliver training courses, youth exchanges, summer camps and projects in general related with the Youth sector.

Producer

I ideate, record and edit social promo videos with my camera phone. I also deliver training sessions about media literacy.

Social Media Manager

Social networks and trends are my daily bread, for this I run the social media channels of the projects in which I’m involved.

Job Experiences

The most important and relevant job experiences and collaborations I had so far in the fields of Youth and Media Production.

Before understanding my vocation, I studied and worked in completely different fields. I have always volunteered with young people in summer camps and courses for animators for passion, realising then that this is my way, and I will try to travel on it with all my heart.

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Formal Education

Degree in Tourism Sciences and local communities at “Milano-Bicocca University” with 91/110.

Master Degree in Web Marketing for Entertainment Industry, conferred by Napier Academy.

What I am doing right now and I've done so far

 

  • Asociación Cultural L’Ayalguina (Sep 2018 – Present) 🇪🇸
    Youth worker, trainer, facilitator and project coordinator. YEuropa! project
  • Ye Too Ponese (Nov 2018 – Present) 🇪🇸
    Youth worker, designer of activities and workshops for NEET youngsters. yetooponese.net
  • Freelance Trainer and facilitator in Erasmus+ projects (Aug 2018 – Present)
    🇪🇸 Asociación Cultural En Construcción europaaqui.org
    ↳ 3 youth exchanges; mentoring of 3 volunteers.
    🇪🇸 Associació Cultura Creativa associacioculturacreativa.org
    ↳ 2 training courses; 2 youth exchanges
    🇵🇱 YoWo Poland yowopoland.org
    ↳ 2 training courses; 1 youth exchange
    🇪🇸 Ye Too Ponese yetooponese.net
    ↳ 2 youth exchanges (under KA3)
    🇪🇸 INJUVE injuve.es
    ↳ 2 training courses for ESC newcomers (as a logistic person)

 

  • Tierravoz Producciones (Feb 2020 – Jul 2020) 🇪🇸
    Trainer in a juvenile welfare home, delivering audiovisual workshops. tierravoz.com
  • Europa Aquí (Jan 2018 – Oct 2018) 🇪🇸
    European Voluntary Service working in the youth field, organizing workshops and events for the youth services of the municipality; focused on a project with youngsters NEET, helping with different projects related to active citizenship groups and international mobility. europaaqui.org
  • M2W Sport (June 2016 – July 2021) 🇮🇹
    Supervisor, designer, responsible for the activities of the summer camps. m2wsport.it

Languages

  • Italian 100% 100%
  • English 90% 90%
  • Spanish 92% 92%
  • Portuguese 12% 12%
  • HTML 90% 90%

Hard Skills

 

Seedling on Apple iOS 13.1  Youth Work

Folded Hands on Apple   Group Facilitation

Game Die on Apple iOS 12.2  Educational Games Design

Film Frames on Apple iOS 12.2  Video Production

Laptop Computer on Apple iOS 13.1  Web Design

Mobile Phone on Apple iOS 12.2  Media Workshops

 

Knowledge

  • Windows 90% 90%
  • Mac OS 65% 65%
  • MS Office package 95% 95%
  • Wordpress / CMS 90% 90%
  • Adobe Photoshop 75% 75%
  • Adobe Premiere 87% 87%

Soft Skills

 

Thumbs Up on Apple   Responsibility
Open Book on Apple   Quick Learning
Artist Palette on Apple   Creativity
Man Raising Hand: Light Skin Tone on Apple   Flexibility
Speaking Head on Apple   Communication
Hourglass Not Done on Apple   Time Management
Light Bulb on Apple   Decision Making
Magnifying Glass Tilted Left on Apple   Detail Orientation
Stopwatch on Apple   Work Under Pressure
Handshake on Apple   Build Relationships

Youth Worker and Trainer

My passions lead me to spend my time working with young people, doing things for young people. Some of these experiences are voluntary ones, some not. I consider myself lucky to have had so many opportunities to challenge myself in different contexts and communities, always gaining a little bit more of experience and, more than all, happiness.

All the Erasmus+ experiences are projects dedicated to youngsters of all Europe and partner countries, financed by the EU Community. The main aim is to promote intercultural exchange through the development of different topics.

As a trainer / facilitator / organizer:

  • KA2 “Global Youth Advocacy”; Advocacy and Youth Participation; Avilés 🇪🇸, Dec 2018
  • T.C. for ESC newcomers; training organised by the Spanish NA; Oviedo 🇪🇸, Apr 2019
  • Y.E. “Empathy for Better Future”; Social Cooperation; Alicante 🇪🇸, May 2019
  • Y.E. “We are all Nomads”; Social Inclusion; Alicante 🇪🇸, Oct 2019
  • T.C. “Soft Skills for Hard Youth Workers”; Soft Skills Development, Alicante 🇪🇸, Dec 2019
  • T.C. “Dare to Draw”; Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work; Grotniki 🇵🇱, Sep 2021
  • T.C. for ESC newcomers; training organised by the Spanish NA; online 🌐🇪🇸, Oct 2021
  • KA3 “Demo-Youth”; Youth Learning; Avilés 🇪🇸, Nov 2021
  • T.C. “Employ-Abilities”; Soft Skills for Youth Workers; Góra Kalwaria 🇵🇱, Jan 2022
  • T.C. “V.D.O. Makers”; Social Videos Production; Tskaltubo 🇬🇪, May 2022
  • Y.E. “Progress in Work”; Soft Skills for Employability; Piedras Blancas 🇪🇸, July 2022
  • Y.E. “EUdentity”; European Identity through Visual Arts; Oviedo 🇪🇸, August 2022
  • T.C. “Skills for Success”; Soft Skills Development, Alicante 🇪🇸, Oct 2022
  • T.C. for ESC newcomers; training organised by the Spanish NA; online 🌐🇪🇸, TBD 2023
  • T.C. “Mind-Drawing!”; Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work; Wilga 🇵🇱, June 2023
  • T.C. “Go Graphic!”; Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work; Olomuc 🇨🇿, Aug 2023
  • T.C. “Colourful Hands”; Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work; Oviedo 🇪🇸, TBD 2023/24

[Y.E. = Youth Exchange; T.C. = Training Course; A.P.V. = Advance Planning Visit; KA2, KA3 = Key Actions 2 and 3 of the Erasmus+ Programme]

All the Erasmus+ experiences are projects dedicated to youngsters of all Europe and partner countries, financed by the EU Community. The main aim is to promote intercultural exchange through the development of different topics.

As a group leader:

  • Y.E. “Verbena County”, Youth Participation; Valenzuela 🇪🇸, Jun 2017
  • A.P.V. “The Clown with Me”, Social Participation; Daugavpils 🇱🇻, Sep 2017
  • Y.E. “Exploring Opportunities”, Youth Entrepreneurship; Sirogonjo 🇷🇸, Dec 2017
  • Y.E. “Diversity! Part I”; Diversity in Europe; Wiesbaden 🇩🇪, Aug 2018
  • Y.E. “Map 2 Future”; Identification and Improvement of Soft Skills; Salerno 🇮🇹, Oct 2018
  • A.P.V. “Green Europe”, Environment, Creativity, Inclusion; Mérignac 🇫🇷, Mar 2019
  • A.P.V. + Y.E. “Europe United”; Solidarity and European Values; Athens 🇬🇷, Apr 2019
  • Y.E. “Diversity! Part II”; Diversity in Europe; Hostens 🇫🇷, Jul 2019
  • Y.E. “Don’t Talk to Strangers”, Digital Citizenship; Samobor 🇭🇷, Mar 2021
  • Y.E. “ECO Friends”; Ecology and Sustainability; Tarragona 🇪🇸, April 2022
  • Y.E. “Tool for Cultural Promoters”; Culture and Heritage; Ameno 🇮🇹, July 2022

As a participant:

  • Y.E. “Don’t Mind the Gap”, Project Management; Gandia 🇪🇸, Sep 2016
  • Y.E. “Step into the Future”, Youth Employment; Sibenik 🇭🇷, Apr 2017
  • T.C. “Moving Youth”, Education through Sports; Samobor 🇭🇷, Aug 2017
  • Y.E. “Play Forward”, Human Rights and Sports; Ommen 🇳🇱, Aug 2017
  • E.V.S. “Lights Camera Action”; Vila Real de San Antonio 🇵🇹 🇪🇸, Oct – Dec 2017
  • E.V.S. “Como està El Patio”; Avilés 🇪🇸, Jan – Oct 2018
  • T.C. “Play Station”; Education through Games; Bruxelles 🇧🇪, Oct 2018
  • T.C. “Global Coaching”; Coaching and Mentoring; Hollókő 🇭🇺, Feb 2019
  • T.C. “Between Theory and Practice”, Training of Trainers; Leszno 🇵🇱, Jul 2019
  • T.C. “Inclusive Outdoors”, Inclusion through Outdoor Activities; London 🇬🇧, Aug 2019
  • T.C. “Video Impact”, Social Promotional Video Making; Limassol 🇨🇾, Sep 2019
  • T.C. “Markers”, Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work; Tallinn 🇪🇪, Jan 2020
  • T.C. “goInternational”, International Cooperation for Youth Policies; Vilnius 🇱🇹, Feb 2020
  • T.C. “The Social Entrepreneurial Youth Worker”, S. Entrepreneurship; Zagreb 🇭🇷, Sep 2020
  • T.C. “Youth Voice through a European Digital Radio”, Networking; Online 🌐, Apr 2021
  • T.C. “Game On!”, Youth Participation through Gamification; Mollina 🇪🇸, May 2021
  • T.C. “Stay Sane”, Mental Health; Šaštín-Strážea 🇸🇰, Aug 2021
  • T.C. “Youth Voice through a European Digital Radio”, Networking; Bari 🇮🇹, Dec 2021
  • T.C. “Safebook”, Safety and Security in Youth Work; Niš 🇷🇸, Sep 2022
  • T.C. “KA2: Sin secretos”; Erasmus+ Key Action 2; online 🌐🇪🇸, Feb 2023
  • T.C. “Diversity in Cinema”, Filmmaking as Educational Tool; Cubillos del Sil 🇪🇸, Mar 2023

[Y.E. = Youth Exchange; T.C. = Training Course; A.P.V. = Advance Planning Visit; E.V.S. = European Voluntary Service]

Essentially, I always participated in summer camps and weekly activities since I was 6. I started to be an animator when my time as a child finished; so I became an animator at first by inertia. Time let me know that that was my way and lead me to make myself more responsible as a person and so has a worker, becoming summer camps’ organizer.

  • Various Communities (2010 – 2021)
    12 summer camps as a organizer, supervisor and responsible of the activities and the proper conduction of them in the Oratories of Cressa (2010 – 2013), S.Stefano di Borgomanero (2012 – 2013), Bogogno/Suno (2015), Vaprio d’Agogna (2016), Salesian Institute Don Bosco (2016 – 2021).
  • Los Glayus (2018)
    1 Summer camp while doing a training course for supervisors. Association of Avilés, Spain.
  • Various Communities (2013 – 2017)
    2 summer camps as an animator for the Oratory of Pella (2013) and the Municipality of San Maurizio d’Opaglio (2017).
  • Oratory of Borgomanero (2000 – 2009)
    10 summer camps, 3 sleepaway camps and 10 years of activities during the whole year.

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