Day 6: Turns Out We Were Learning More Than We Thought! 🌱

Okay, so today's first question was basically: what have we actually learned during this exchange? And at first, answering that wasn't as easy as expected. 😅 We knew we had participated in loads of workshops, talked to new people and worked on different challenges, but putting all of that into specific competences was another story. During the Youthpass session, we explored the eight key competences and tried to connect them with our own experiences from the week.

For example, the Marshmallow Challenge wasn't just about building a tower. We had practised teamwork, communication and problem-solving. The debates weren't only about winning arguments. We had learned how to organise our thoughts and consider other perspectives. Even communicating in English every day gave us opportunities to practise expressing ourselves in a foreign language. We also learned how Youthpass can help us describe these experiences when applying for future projects, volunteering or jobs.

Then we explored different types of education: formal, non-formal, informal and peer-to-peer learning. We prepared short roleplays to demonstrate each type, including its advantages and challenges. Some of the situations were pretty funny, but they helped us understand the differences. And we realised something interesting: during Impact Makers, we had been learning through activities, mistakes, discussions and other participants, often without anyone standing in front of us giving a traditional lesson.

The afternoon was campaign presentation time! 🎤 We finally showed the posters, videos and other promotional materials we had been preparing since Day 3. Each group explained its chosen issue and tried to convince the others why it mattered. Answering questions was also part of the challenge. It made us think about how important clear communication is when you want people to pay attention to a social problem.

We ended with a Czech intercultural evening. 🇨🇿 Looking back, we felt proud not only of the campaigns but also of how differently we approached challenges compared with the beginning. The biggest discovery was probably that learning doesn't always feel like studying. Sometimes it feels like arguing over spaghetti towers, making posters or having conversations with people from another country. And that's kind of what made it work.

~Reporting Group 6