This CMS is open only to Norwegian, Bulgarian, Greek and Meda partner countries' participants!

 

BACKGROUND

Euromed cooperation has been developing and enriching constantly since its beginning. EU and Meda countries have been bridging both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, youth organisations have been contributing to create links and to make out of this cooperation between countries a reality of youth projects.

The new generation of programmes "Youth in Action" and "Euromed Youth III" will offer to young people the opportunity of enriching their own individual educational pathway by Euromed Voluntary Service and to
youth organisations the chance to turn these individual wills into an exciting local hosting project, which could give them the opportunity to develop new projects, new ways of working.

EUROMED VOLUNTARY SERVICE

This is the meaning of European Voluntary Service in Euromed: create links, between individual projects of young people, and strategies of Euromed cooperation between youth organisations from Nordic countries and countries from the Southern bank of the Mediterranean Sea.
To create or to reinforce these links, the SALTO Youth Euromed RC will organise this CMS in cooperation with the Norvegian, Bulgarian and Greek National Agencies which will be held in Norway from the 8 (arrival) to 13 April (departure) 2008 - 4 working days.

OBJECTIVES

- To create a space of Euromed cooperation in the field of European Voluntary Service.
- To support the creation and development of new innovative and quality EVS projects in Euromed.
- To facilitate the contact making between Norvegian, Bulgarian, Greek youth organisations active in EVS (or willing to become so) and the Mediterranean partners countries.
- To get acquainted with the new programmes "Youth in Action" and "Euromed Youth III" and its developments.
- To get a common understanding of the voluntary work and of the various educational perspectives in regards to cultural diversity.

PROFILE OF THE GROUP

30 participants: 15 from Meda countries and 15 from Norway (5), Bulgaria (5) and Greece (5)

- Full time and/or volunteer youth workers, representing of youth organisations (or similar).
- With capacity in making decision on the behalf of their NGOs or with a clear mandate, that might help them to commit into partnerships and projects.
- With practical experience in the Euromed Youth Programme III (all actions) or with experience in the European Youth Programme and knowledge of the Euromed Youth Programme (all actions).
- With experience of EVS in the frame of Euromed Youth Programme and/or European Youth Programme, and/or with a concrete sending or hosting project in EVS.
- Committed to attend the whole working programme of the seminar.

WORKING LANGUAGES

English

VENUE

The CMS will take place in Vettre.
Thon Hotel Vettre Konglungveien201 -1392 Vettre
www.vettre.no

PROGRAMME ELEMENTS

• Contact-making oriented
• Stands and organisation market
• Exchange of practices: in Euromed, in EVS
• Partner matching
• Project and partnership time: Work on sending and hosting projects

QUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE-ORIENTED

• Voluntary work in Euromed: Inputs and workshops
• Educational perspectives (Educational systems and visions of non formal education in the different Euromed countries): Input and workshops
• Information on the future of the Euromed Youth Programme and the future infrastructures for Meda countries (Input)
• Reflection on EVS and Euromed in a wider cultural and geopolitical framework: administrative and political barriers, cultural habits and local customs...

APPLICATION FORMS

Deadline for applicants is OVER.

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