Minority Rights Protection – 20 Years On | Study Session | 6-13 May 2012 | European Youth Centre Budapest, Hungary

The main aim of the study session is to reflect on and raise awareness of the role of international institutions and legal frameworks dealing with minority rights and minority youth organisations as the actors of civil society on local level. 

See call for participants and application form attached.

Training overview

    

This Study Session is for 

30 participants

from 

EASTERN EUROPE AND CAUCASUS, 

SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 

YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders,

Project managers, Youth Policy Makers

Organizer:

Minorities of Europe (NGO/Others)

Minorities of Europe (MoE) is a pan-European minority youth platform which seeks to support and assist the co-operation, solidarity and exchange between different minority communities and young people in Europe.

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Strengthening cooperation in the field of youth policy in the Black Sea region | Contact Making Seminar | 21 - 24 February 2012 | Chisinau, Moldova

National Youth Council from Moldova in partnership with Ministry of Youth and Sports from Republic of Moldova , with the support of Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, during November 2011 – September 2012, organizes the project „Strengthening cooperation in the field of youth policy in the Black Sea region”

Along with implementation of this project we want develop a strategic document referring to the development of sector of youth in the Black Sea region, through the transfer of experience between the Member States of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries.

Project partners are nine states from the Black Sea region – Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. In addition to National Youth Councils involved, we want to create an area for communication and collaboration with government public institutions responsible for youth policies.

In this context, from  21 to 24 of February, 2012, in Chisinau, will go on a Contact Making Seminar, whose aims are to interact and have exchange of experience programs between organizations / institutions for youth from those 9 states, and also to identify the necessity of development for young people from the Black Sea region.

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Go East! | Contact making seminar | 4-9 March 2012 | Lviv, Ukraine

Are you involved in youth work? Have you heard about Eastern Partnership Youth Window? Are you ready to open this "window" for your organisation? If the answers are "YES", then then Contact Making Seminar "Go East!" is for YOU!
           

Aims

* To enhance the cooperation between organisations within the Action 2 - European Voluntary Service and Action 3.1 - Cooperation with the Neighbouring Partner Countries of the Youth in Action Programme between five Programme Countries (i.e., Austria, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia) and six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine);
* To promote new opportunities for international youth cooperation within Eastern Partnership Youth Window;
* To develop new project on inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities living in rural or deprived urban areas;

Objectives

* Bringing together people working with young people in order to create new project ideas within the Youth in Action Programme;

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European Citizenship in Youth Work Training Course in Croatia | Training course | 11-17 June 2012 | Croatia

This training course was developed to encourage the development of a critical, democratic and European Citizenship and in doing so, to support the implementation and quality of the «Youth in Action» Programme. 

Aim of the training course

The training course on European Citizenship aims to support the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders by extending their critical understanding of European Citizenship, exploring and experiencing its potential and by enabling them to recognise and integrate European Citizenship in their youth work.

Objectives

The training course puts into practice priority 1 (European Citizenship) of the Youth in Action programme, by aiming to:

• To critically explore the meaning, relevance and implications of European citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions;
• To promote and facilitate the active use of programmes and structures in support of youth work on European Citizenship, including Youth in Action;

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International Leader Training Seminar | Seminar | 2-8 April 2012 | Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (ActionAid Denmark), Denmark

Do you want to learn how to lead youth and volunteers in doing social change? 

International Leader Training Seminar is a seven day seminar where you develop skills in youth leadership, project management, communication, group dynamics, conflict resolution, motivation and empowerment. Your participation in the seminar will qualify you to lead and management international volunteer groups, international work camps and campaign activities in an NGO settings.

Why?

When you participate in this seminar you strengthen the social and intercultural competencies you need to lead a manifold group. The knowledge and tools you learn at the seminar give you experience relevant to your education, job or organizational work. And the best part - you will learn to lead by leading other participants during the seminar.

How?

All topics and tools introduced at the course are focused on how to act local with a global mindset. This means that the tools throughout the seminar is focused on how to lead other people to do social change, which matters locally and globally.

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Tbilisi Takeoff | Contact making seminar | 26-31 March 2012 | Tbilisi, Georgia

Are you involved in youth work? Did you hear about Eastern Partnership Youth Window? Are you ready to open this "window" for your organisation? If the answers are YES, then the Contact Making Seminar "Tbilisi Takeoff' is for YOU!!!

     

Aims of the seminar:

(1) To enhance the cooperation between organisations within the Action 2 - European Voluntary Service and Action 3.1 - Cooperation with the Neighbouring Partner Countries of the Youth in Action Programme between five Programme Countries (i.e., Austria, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia) and six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine);
(2) To promote new opportunities for international youth cooperation within Eastern Partnership Youth Window;
(3) To develop new project on inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities living in rural or deprived urban areas;

Objectives

(1) Bringing together people working with young people in order to create new project ideas within the Youth in Action Programme;

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Human Resources European School | Training course | 1-8 April 2012 | Kiev, Ukraine

Human Resources European School (HRES) is a 7-day international training course that aims to empower youth NGO members - who are involved in the field of Human Resources - to develop, implement and manage HR strategies in their organisations. 

The Human Resources European School (HRES) is a 7-day international training course that aims to empower youth NGO members - who are involved in the field of Human Resources - to develop, implement and manage HR strategies in their organisations.

At HRES an international team of experienced trainers - with the methods of experiential learning and peer to peer education - will help 25 motivated participants to gain knowledge and skills in HR, which they can apply and multiply in their NGOs.

Aims of HRES

- to get an overview of the common tools used in each stage of the HR cycle
- to be able to make practical use of the techniques taken from motivational theories, conflict management, group evolution and coaching
- to confidently apply strategic planning and the tools of change management in a local youth NGO setting.

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SOHO in France - European Training Course for EVS Support People | Training course | 31 March - 4 April 2012 | France

International training for those who are directly involved in the support system around the volunteer (mentors and task-related support persons) on the hosting, sending and coordinating side in the European Voluntary Service (EVS) – Action 2

The training course is designed for those who are directly involved in the support system around the EVS volunteer (mentors and task-related support persons) on the hosting, sending and coordinating side. The participants from Sending and Hosting organisations should already have some experience in EVS (minimum of being in the process of sending or hosting a volunteer, better having been already sending or receiving the first volunteer).

The overall aim of the SOHO TC is: To increase the quality of EVS activities through development of competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) of key actors involved in the support system around EVS volunteer. The specific objectives of the course are:

• To get a better understanding of the concept of EVS as “learning service” and related quality aspects in EVS
• To improve the ability for co-operation and working in international partnership
• To reflect on the roles, responsibilities and challenges within the EVS volunteer support system

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European Citizenship in Youth Work Training Course in Belgium | Training course | 14-20 May 2012 | Belgium - FR

This training course was developed to encourage the development of a critical, democratic and European Citizenship and in doing so, to support the implementation and quality of the «Youth in Action» Programme.

Aim of the training course

The training course on European Citizenship aims to support the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders by extending their critical understanding of European Citizenship, exploring and experiencing its potential and by enabling them to recognize and integrate European Citizenship in their youth work.

Objectives

The training course puts into practice priority 1 (European Citizenship) of the Youth in Action programme, by aiming to:

• To critically explore the meaning, relevance and implications of European citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions;

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Practicing Coaching Training | Training course | 2-8 February 2012 | Ommen, Netherlands

This training can be described as a coaching session that lasts for seven days, where you have the opportunity to be coached on getting what you want, while coaching others towards their own desires and wanted results. 

Synergy trainings are aiming to train individuals to function better in society. The International Synergy Group, with its basis at the Olde Vechte Foundation, specializes in training amazing skills through experience-based learning, conducted in trainings, in which the learning experience gives you the possibility to create your own results. The outcomes and the results are easily implemented in the daily life.

Synergy trainings enable and encourage you to discover your talents, to experience them and to put them into your active reality. Through this journey, you have the opportunity to upgrade the quality of your life and make the essential difference that you want for yourself and your surroundings.

This training can be described as a coaching session that lasts for seven days, where you have the opportunity to be coached on getting what you want, while coaching others towards their own desires and wanted results. This training is designed in a way that can be tailored to your individual needs.

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S.T.E.R. | Training course | 28 March - 3 April 2012 | Poland

TC designed for those directly working with young people interested in personal and professional development.

The title comes from key words in TC:

S. – as a Sociotherapy

T. – as a Theatre

E. – as Empathy

R. – as Rhythm and Relaxation.

The “S.T.E.R.“ course conception was developed by people believing that theater, sociotherapy, rhythm and empathy concentrated communication is the best approach in work with youngsters especially those having difficulties with proper functioning in group of their peers. „S.T.E.R.“ is a six day training course : we won‘t have a lot of time but we hope it will be a good starter for further experiences for those interested in personal development and wanting to improve their ommunication skills and set of practical techniques and methods when it comes to work with youngsters.

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Empowering Women II: Gender equality and the third sector | Seminar | 26-31 March 2012 | Paris, France

This partnership building seminar will focus on the concept of "empowerment " circumscribed in the wide area of the third sector.It will overview the different approaches in the third sectors- realties (community and voluntary sectors, etc) 

Aims and objectives

- facilitating the networking process among participants and promoting new common projects.
- letting participants deepening the topic of empowerment in the third sector (precisely in NGOs)
- deepening the analysis of the realities of empowerment in NGOs in the four regions (EU + MEDA + SEE + EECA)
- enquiring on the effective gender equality inside the third sector and participants’ NGOs
- giving hints on practical methods for reaching an effective empowerment in and outside the organisations (gender budgeting, gender sensitive internal rules, quotas, flexible working hours, e-work...).
- getting a direct touch with the external environment, with organizations and bodies with strong connections with the thematic
sharing experiences and best practices in the field

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ATOQ Advanced Training On Quality for youth exchanges | Training course | 24-29 April 2012 | Vilnius, Lithuania

ATOQ is a training course to increase quality within youth exchanges. An international group of youth workers will look back to past experience(s), focus on quality aspects and improve management competences in order to raise quality in future exchanges 

The aim of the ATOQ is to support experienced youth workers/leaders in increasing the quality of the European youth exchanges they set up within the Youth in Action Programme.

The ATOQ will provide the participants with opportunities to:
1. Critically reflect upon their previous international youth exchange experience(s) and the impact on young people;
2. Increase the understanding of different quality aspects of youth exchanges such as: active participation of young people , involvement of promoters and stakeholders, diversity and intercultural learning, European dimension and citizenship;
3. Experience a non-formal learning process and understand its importance in youth exchanges;
4. Improve their project management competences ( knowledge, skills and attitudes) in order to better organise the different phases of a youth exchange.

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Factory of Change | Training Course | 24-29 April 2012 | Poland

Training course which aims at creating a space where participants can explore: the role of change in their life, how do they respond to change and how to support young people in the changes they are facing.

Our intention:
Creating a space where participants explore:
- the role of change in their life;
- how do they respond to change;
- how to support young people in the changes they are facing.

Our assumptions:
- When we are aware of how we deal with change, we can better respond to changes young/other people are facing.
- Change happens – the question is how we deal with it.
- Change affects us on all dimensions of life (spiritual, physical, emotional, cognitive).
- We are part of the change that we experience.
- Change is an opportunity to learn.

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