ATYPIC - Advanced Training on Local Youth Participation in High Diversity Contexts | Training course | 8-16 September 2012 | Portugal

8 days training aiming to improve youth participation in high diversity local contexts by developing already active youth workers competences trough an in depth experiential training.  

BACKGROUND:

Youth Participation is often a challenge for NGO’s, from the point where they advocate for the youth added value to civil society to the authentic emancipation and empowerment of young people as equal social actors and precious agents of social transformation.
AIM:
To improve youth participation in high diversity local contexts by developing already active youth workers competences trough an in depth experiential training.

OBJECTIVES:

- Experience typical difficulties of a multicultural work setting, developing participants positive approach towards diversity and promoting antidiscrimination attitudes.
- Explore youth participation common obstacles and challenges, while formulating corresponding – and eventually innovative – solutions in the frame of youth work and non-formal education.
- Increase participants understanding of the importance of youth participation in its different dimensions: decision making, youth policy lobbying, NGYO’s programmes & activities, transformational leadership and civil society in general, as a human right.
- Introduce the “Have your say! - Manual on the Revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life” as a reference tool to work in the field of Youth Participation.
- Develop participants understanding of conditions for youth participation and different co-operation forms between local authorities, youth organisations and young people.
- Exchange experiences, practices, opinions, educational tools and materials related to youth participation and diversity.
- Provide participants with standard theory, skills and tools to design, implement and evaluate meaningful and effective youth participation projects, including coaching good practices.
- Provide an opportunity for participants to design a youth participation project to implement as a follow-up of the training, while strengthening the network between the involved partner NGYO’s.
- Introduce a series of resources and funding opportunities that can be useful for bringing participants projects to reality, including Council of Europe and European Youth Foundation programmes.

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International training "Wizard of Communication" | Training course | 7-13 May 2012 | Lviv region, Ukraine

NGO "Ukrainian Youth Center" invites you to an exciting International training "Wizard of Communication" what will take place on the 7th - 13th of May 2012 in Ukraine! 

Have you ever been questioning: how can people so easily convince you to do something, immediately build the trust and make you feel comfortable or how can some people create an exciting story and the others - boring, gray mass. Even so the information is the same - in one case it brings inspiration and in the other - it doesn’t create anything?

Somebody call it charisma, gift, we call it – “magic of communication”.

You have the opportunity to get to know the magic of communication for 7 days in picturesque Ukrainian comfortable place together with international company by the help of experianced.

About Training

The aim of the training: to develop your communication skills to improve the quality of your life .
Communication is an important part of any work, including youth work. It is sharing of ideas and information between youngsters, youngsters and adults, between organizations, youngsters and organizations. This training is open to everyone, nevertheless our organization is working with youth and youth organizations what will represent most of the participants. In the same time in this training will be involved participants who are working in the other fields (like business or state institutions) what can create transmition of information and elaborate communication between youth and non-youth field to support the development of quality of youth work and allow youth workers to find partners and ideas for future projects with young people.

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REactor - conference and workshops on media in youth work with disadvantaged groups | Conference and workshops | 19-25 May 2012 | European Youth Center Budapest, Hungary

31 peer educators, youth workers, trainers, and professionals - experienced and interested in media literacy and/or human rights, preferably with practical experience using media related methods will meet to share practices and results. 

Aim: to focus on youth work with media and new information technologies, sharing results, information and creating a learning forum. The key element of the meeting is the concept of active and expressive media literacy as an innovative methodology in youth work and human rights education. This concept is to be discussed through results and examples.

The Focus

- What inspires and interests youth in the age of digital media?
- What are the benefits and the challenges of using media in youth work?
- How can disadvantaged youth be reached through and included in the media?
- How can human and social issues be joined and shared through the media?

During the meeting participants will have the opportunity to share, reflect and develop activities through personal discussions, workshops and other contributions.

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Europe in action | Training course | 3-8 June 2012 | Berlin, Germany

Training for (potential) applicants of the YOUTH IN ACTION program, to give tools and methodological support for projects with a European dimension. 

This Training Course is in GERMAN!

This Training aims at providing youth workers with tools to work on the dimension of Europe with young people through which they can encourage the debate and confrontation of young people with the topics of Europe, EU, citizenship and Mobility. The training focus on:

- motivating youth workers to deal with it
- let participants learn about different tools and methods, and adapt them to the needs of their target group
- empowering participants to use the achieved competences and methods in their daily work at home

See details at this link.

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”Partnership in Action” | Partnership Building Activity | 17-22 June 2012 | Predeal, Romania

A Partnership Building Activity with training elements aiming on creating viable partnerships with a focus on the projects to be submitted under the Eastern Partnership Window. 

If you are a youth worker willing to get involve in creating a international partnership and developing a youth projects, you arrived in the right place!

Why would you come?

Because this event aims to:

• create a space where you and the other participants will develop partnerships able to submit good quality applications and implement effectively Youth in Action and Eastern Partnership Window projects
• provide you the necessary information for understand the key related to Youth in Action and Eastern Partnership Window projects
• provide a space for sharing knowledge and experiences between organizations involved in youth work.

Actions under which the Partnership Building Activity is expected to develop projects:

- European Voluntary Service
- Youth Exchanges
- Training and Networking Activities

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