Appetiser - How to use the YiA programme for local youth work

The training seminar is aimed at bringing together people, who work with youngsters in different places of Europe and to introduce them to the possibility of working in an international setting.

Aims and objectives
The overall aim of Appetiser is to give a first strong positive experience of international youth work and motivate the participants to use the Youth in Action Programme.

This aim summarises the entire idea of the seminar - to give a feeling, what it means to work with young people in an international setting. Leaving all explanations and knowledge aside, it is about giving a space for the participants to explore the advantage of 'internationality' themselves.

Appetiser is designed according to the following objectives:

• To taste non-formal and intercultural learning,
• To enjoy a first intercultural youth project experience,
• To exchange local youth activities in an international context,
• To explore possibilities of support available for international youth activities offered by the Youth in Action Programme,
• To analyse examples of qualitative youth projects supported by the Youth in Action Programme
• To see how to benefit from the international context in the participants' local work practice.

Profile of the participants
Appetiser is aimed at youth leaders and/or youth workers working actively at local and/or national level willing to extend their youth activities to international level.

Appetiser is mainly addressed to inexperienced people, not only to inexperienced organisations, i.e. an organisation, which is already implementing international activities can send a representative, who does not have international experience.

Thus important criteria for participation in this training course are:

• participants should have some experience in developing youth activities at local/national level;
• participants should be motivated and consider to broaden the activities of their organisation to an international context;
• participants have to be able to communicate in English and be at least 18 years old.

On an annual basis, the SALTO Training and Co-operation RC co-ordinates and monitors several Appetiser training courses for youth workers from all over Europe. The training courses are hosted by the NAs and are implemented by a trainers pool consisting of 4 European trainers: Monika Kezaite, Eylem Certel, Sakis Krezios, and Yvor Broer.

Below, one can find further information on the evaluation results of the previous Appetiser and more detailed information about the cource concept.

During the current period, the Appetiser training courses listed below are planned to take place. The NAs will recruit and select the participants; please check the details when you click on the relevant course.

• Appetiser-IT in Italy (27-31 March 2010), including participants frm Italy, the Flemish speaking community of Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The following downloads are available:

Appetiser 2010 promotion brochure (476.1 kB)

Appetiser 2008-9 evaluation (525.7 kB)

Appetiser information material (482.2 kB)

Appetiser Training Seminar Joint Report 2004-2007 (977.5 kB)

Author: Christina Norwig / Contact: / Last modified: 2010-02-08

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