Seminars organised or supported by SALTO-YOUTH SEE RC

One of the main aims of SALTO-YOUTH South East Europe Resource Centre is to support the work of National Agencies of the Youth in Action Programme especially in the frame of their Training and Cooperation (TCP) activities. Due to that fact SALTO-YOUTH SEE RC is organising or supporting the organisation of several contact making seminars of different National Agencies of the Youth in Action Programme.




2008 ACTIVITIES

Training Course "Intercultural Competences", 05.07.2008 - 12.07.2008 ,Youth Hostel Lultzhausen, Luxembourg OPEN

Training Course "Let's Work with Our Neigbours" 01.06.2008-07.06.2008, Slovenia

Contact Making Seminar on Action 3.1 (in cooperation with the Slovenian, Austrian and Hungarian NAs), 25 - 30 April 2008, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2007 ACTIVITIES

Tool Fair 2nd Edition,12 - 16 December 2007, Antalya, TurkeyCLOSED

EU Neighbourhood policy and Migrations, 27 November - 2 December 2007, Canary Islands, Spain CLOSED

Training course for project development with SEE, with a focus on YiA programme priorities, 17 - 22 November 2007, AlbaniaCLOSED

International seminar "Let's meet our neighbours and the world: Paths to international co-operation in the field of Youth", 30 May - 3 June 2007, INJEP, Marly le Roi, France CLOSED

South East Europe Contact making seminar, 17-21 April 2007 Brighton, UK CLOSED

Contact Points Evaluation and Training Course", 27 September - 3 October 2007, Crikvenica, Croatia CLOSED

PAST ACTIVITIES:

SEE YOUTH Mobility Fair, Ohrid, fYRo Macedonia, 15 - 19 November 2006

"TOOL FAIR", 1-5 November 2006 INJEP, Marly le Roi, France

ACROSS BORDERS - EVS Contact Making Seminar

Workshop »The European YOUTH programme: possibilities for participation and future perspectives«, Tirana, Albania, 12 November 2005

Short study visit to Serbia, 17-23 October 2005

Contact Making Seminar (Action 2), Ireland, 22-25 September 2005

Seminar for the Development of European Voluntary Service Projects between BiH, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, and France, Italy and Slovenia, Igalo, Serbia and Montenegro, 22-26 June 2005

Extended Contact Making Seminar (XL-CMS) for Co-operation between BENELUX and SEE Countries, Luxembourg, 28 Feb. - 6 March 2005

Contact making seminar "Young people, citizenship and participation", United Kingdom, 13 - 18 March 2005

 

CALL FOR TRAINERS: Contact Making Seminar on Action 3.1 (in cooperation with the Slovenian, Austrian and Hungarian NAs), 25 - 30 April 2008, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Main aims of the seminar:

- To facilitate contact making and the first steps of project development.
- To prepare participants for organising youth exchange projects

Profile of participants:

The course targets project organisers from SEE and Programme Countries. They should have
some (limited) experience in developing projects under the YOUTH programme.
Participants should be interested in developing projects under action 3.1.

Dates and venue:

The course will be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and will begin in the evening of Friday, 25 April 2008 and end in the evening of Tuesday, 30 April 2008. Participants are expected to arrive on Friday, 25 April 2008, and to leave on Wednesday, 1 May 2008.

Call for trainers >>

Application form for trainers >>

Training Course "Intercultural Competences"

05.07.2008 - 12.07.2008 at the Youth Hostel Lultzhausen, Luxembourg

Application deadline for participants is 10.02.2007

OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING COURSE

  • to develop mutual understanding for different cultures, religions, ethnic groups and languages,
  • to develop intercultural competences and to promote intercultural dialogue,
  • to help contact making between youth workers and youth leaders from the different countries involved,
  • to share and learn from different experiences and work realities in the different countries,
  • to put questions and find answers,
  • to act as a multiplier after the training,
  • to promote co-operation between youth workers, to initiate projects in the YOUTH in ACTION programme.

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS


We are expecting around 25 - 30 participants:

  • 1 participant from each country Eastern Europe and Caucasus ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian and Ukraine),
  • 1 participant from following countries of South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro,
  • 2 participants from Serbia including 1 participant from Kosovo,
  • 1 participant per programme country with special focus on the Nordic countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland),
  • 4 participants from Luxembourg.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

Priority will be given to youth leaders, youth and social workers:

  • who come from organisations who work with young immigrants and/or with multicultural and mixed ethnic groups,
  • who have the will to set up projects with partner countries and programme countries,
  • have an organisation commitment/support.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

For the neighbouring countries:
All applicants from neighbouring countries (South East Europe, East Europe and Caucasus) must apply by filling in the relevant application form and sending it back by 10.02.2008 to the SALTO Resource Centres. This early deadline is necessary as the visas procedures are very long!

APPLICATION FORM

 

TOOL FAIR 2nd Edition

Antalya (TURKEY) 12-16 December 2007

Application deadline for participants is 27 October 2007

Valorisation can be defined as the process of disseminating and exploiting the results of projects with a view to optimising their value, strengthening their impact and making the largest possible number of young people in Europe benefit from it. (DG-EAC)


Background

In order to have an impact (at local, regional, national, and in some cases also at European level), the results of all Youth in Action projects need to produce long-lasting effects and to be better known and actively used.
As far as project promoters are concerned, they should carry out activities aimed at making their projects and the results more visible, better known and sustainable. This means that the results of a project will continue to be used and have a positive effect on the largest possible number of young people once the project has come to an end.
... small projects may aim more towards having an impact at local level by carrying out visibility activities and by raising awareness of the participants. On the contrary, larger projects, based on bigger partnerships, may be more ambitious and aim at creating an impact at sectoral or national and European level through a strategy for the dissemination, exploitation and follow-up of their results.

"Youth in Action Programme guide"

Following the frank success of this large event (France, December 2006) the Salto Youth EuroMed RC will re-organise the second edition of the "Tool Fair".

Once again 150 people are expected!! Participants will come from both "Programme" and "Partner" countries, all stakeholders of the YOUTH programme: young people, youth workers, trainers, etc.
In one place, for 5 days, the Fair will be a "showroom" for the huge variety and richness of tools developed and used under the YOUTH programme, a place to experiment with methods and exercises used within the different actions (youth exchanges, EVS, youth initiatives, training) and based on different themes (cultural diversity, inclusion, cooperation with partner countries, etc...). The Fair could become the creation of the participants themselves and enable their tools to be used throughout the programme. "Savoir-faire" will be gathered in order to create a "common memory".

Partners

This event is co-organised by the Turkish National Agency and SALTO-France-"Good Practice" (www.salto-youth.net/euromed, see SALTO Euromed RC). Partner organisations are:

SALTO South East Europe RC
SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus RC
the Akdeniz University


Aim/Objective

  • To gather and to valorise tools created and implemented within the framework of youth work in general and Youth in Action programme more specifically
  • To test tools,
  • to analyse and to reflect on the transferability of these tools


Profile of the participants:

Participants should:

  • be active in the youth field in general and more specifically within the YOUTH in Action Programme (young people, youth workers, youth leaders, trainers, NA representatives,...)
  • have created a "tool" and experienced it within a YOUTH project;
  • be ready to share it with others during the fair ;
  • A tools selection will be published in a compendium;

To get more inspiration and read examples, have a look on the Salto Tool Box!


What is meant by "tool"?

A tool is any educational means, process or materials which can be used to support trainers, youth workers or young people themselves to better achieve the aims or goals of their activities.
It can be "touchable", "showable", like a video, a booklet, a report, a board game, etc.
It can be experienced, like a simulation game, a creative workshop, a quiz, a role play or any outdoor activities, etc.

APPLICATION FORM

Once pre-selected, candidates will be provided with more specific documents linked this training activity which must be sent back to the Salto Youth EuroMed Resource Centre.

Final selection will be based on the quality of these documents!

 

Training course for project development with SEE, with a focus on YiA programme priorities

17 - 22 November 2007, Albania

Application deadline for participants is 7 October 2007

Application deadline for trainers is 16 September 2007

SALTO-YOUTH South East Europe is organising a training course with focuse on Youth in Action programme priorities.

Main aims of the training course:

  • To train participants to develop quality projects with themes related to the four priorities.
  • To facilitate contact making and the first steps of project development.
  • To introduce Youthpass/Key Competences to the participants
  • It aims to prepare participants for organising projects with a clear focus on YiA programme priorities, in particular youth participation in civil society and European citizenship and a result oriented outcome.

The four priorities:
1) European citizenship
2) Participation of young people
3) Cultural diversity
4) Inclusion

Working language:

english

Profile of participants:

The course targets project organisers from SEE (20 participants) and Programme Countries (15 participants). They should have some (limited) experience in developing projects under the YOUTH programme.
Participants should be interested in developing projects under actions 2 or 3.1.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

APPLICATION FORM FOR PARTICIPANTS

CALL FOR TRAINERS

APPLICATION FORM FOR TRAINERS

 

 

International Conference: «EU Neighbourhood policy and Migrations»

Canary Islands, Spain 27 November - 2 December 2007

When we hear the word “neighbourhood”, we immediately think about good relationship and this nice person that always have a cup of coffee or tea to offer, when we go asking for some sugar or wheat. When we hear about policies, our mind picture changes considerably…

Background

During the Middle-Age, the Mediterranean Sea was a common space for civilisations and communities, sharing trade and cultures, beliefs and values, where kingdoms and states - going one step beyond the political or economic interests - experienced the richness of diversity and intercultural awareness... The EU main concern has been the active role of their members in the recovering of the Mediterranean Area as a space for peace and cooperation. Today Canary Islands is one of the place where illegal migration is more acute and for this reason the venue will offer a good starting point for debating on this thorny issue.

Conference main goals

To acknowledge the main achievements occurred since the EU creation, its active role through its euromed policies and the new challenges EU has to face; To promote an active, efficient and authentic neighbourhood policy in terms of migrations, involving and committing young people in this process ; To use the new programmes (YIA and Euromed Youth III) to face the current challenges wihtin the Neighbourdhood Policy; To share tools, methods and strategies related with good practices which emerged in the previous EU funding period;

Profile of participants

The course is intended to be an opportunity for further training for youth workers and youth leaders who:

  • are experienced in the Youth field, familiar with these topics and working with migrants;
  • are open to enrich their knowledge and awareness regarding the other cultures;
  • are committed to prepare themselves for the handled subjects, previous to their arrival and to do the remote work requested by the team in case of selection;
  • are interested to develop projetcs within the Youth in Action and Euromed Youth Programmes;
  • are supported by their organisation and have green light for implementing YOUTH projects;
  • are able to communicate and work in at least one of the two working languages of this event (English and French);
  • are residents in a European Union Member State and/or one of the EU Partner countries.

APPLICATION FORM >>

Fill in the application form and send it back till 16 September to SALTO SEE RC on see@salto-youth.net or by fax: 00386 1 430 47 49

 

 

International seminar "Let's meet our neighbours and the world: Paths to
international co-operation in the field of Youth"

30 May - 03 June 2007, INJEP France, Marly Le Roi

This large event encouraged and supported by the European Commission - DG Education and Culture - and co-organised by the three regional SALTO Resource Centres (EuroMed, EECA & SEE) and the French National Agency will gather 150 youth workers to officially launch the cooperation with the neighbouring countries of the EU within the new Youth in Action Programme.

More concretely this event aims:

  • To inform about the possibilities of cooperation with the Partner Countries of the Youth in Action programme
  • To present the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the relationship of the European Union with its Neighbouring Countries
  • To offer partner matching opportunities;
  • To give participants opportunities to learn more about the neighbouring countries of the EU and to exchange good practices.

Target group:

Actors from Programme Countries as well as from the Neighbouring Partner Countries experienced in youth work and interested in developing projects in cooperation;

Participants:

150 participants will be invited: 20 from each of the three neighbouring regions (SEE, EEAC and EuroMed) as well as 70 from the programme countries.

REPORT

DOCUMENTS FOR DOWNLOAD

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS >>

ONLINE APPLICATION FORM >>

IMPORTANT: Please CHECK and UPDATE your personal details (country, contact email address & phone nr, etc.) that are automatically transfered from your SALTO profile when applying!!!

Application deadline: 31 March 2007

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South East Europe Contact making seminar, 17-21 April 2007 Brighton, UK

The UK National Agency of the Youth in Action programme will be hosting a contact making seminar to develop projects with programme countries and partner countries in South East Europe, under Action 3.1 of the new programme.

The Seminar will take place in Brighton in the UK (which is easily accessible from Heathrow and Gatwick airports) from Tuesday 17 April to Saturday 21 April. The UK NA will cover the costs of accommodation and expenses within the UK and participants will be expected to pay for their own travel to and from the seminar. For those participants attending from countries without a National Agency, we will be able to consider supporting all travel costs.

The seminar is for youth workers looking at developing work in South East Europe and there will be limited spaces for National Agency staff as well. The programme will focus on building partnerships within the region, looking at how projects can be developed in 3.1 of the new Youth in Action Programme, with citizenship as a specific thematic focus.

application form

Please send completed applications to Sarah.Hitchcock@britishcouncil.org.

Contact:

Sarah Hitchcock
Connect Youth
British Council
10 Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN
+ 44 (0) 207 389 4746
sarah.hitchcock@britishcouncil.org

 

Contact Points Evaluation and Training Course

27 September - 3 October 2007, Crikvenica, Croatia

The training course aims to bring together the 16 Contact Points in order to evaluate their work in 2005 and 2006 and raise capacities by training for carrying out tasks according to the specific requirements of the Youth in Action programme.

Objectives and aims:

  • To evaluate past cooperation Contact Points - SALTO SEE RC
  • To collect ideas and good practices from all the Contact points in South East Europe
  • To explore possibilities for future cooperation
  • To offer detailed information about Youth in Action programme

Participants:

  • Who come from organisations that were nominated as Contact points in 2005 and/or 2006
  • Who have experience in cooperation with SALTO-YOUTH SEE
  • Who have experience in dealing with projects within the YOUTH Programme and information providing to other organisations and/or individuals

CALL FOR TRAINERS

APPLICATION FORM FOR TRAINERS

 

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ACTIVITIES HELD IN 2006

SEE YOUTH Mobility Fair

The mobility fair is planned as a major contact making event for the YOUTH/Youth in Action programme in 2006.

The three-day event wants to increase the visibility of the possibilities for co-operation with SEE within the Programme through a larger-scale event, which will offer the opportunity for 60 participants to meet and initiate project ideas and plans around the different Actions as well as priority themes (such as cultural understanding, equal partnerships, issues linked to cultural diversity and inclusion, different methods in youth work, or youth participation). The fair will also be the first occasion to raise awareness and inform about possibilities for cooperation with Partner countries under the Youth in Action programme.

Application deadline for candidates from SEE: 8 September 2006 - CLOSED

Extended application deadline for candidates from Programme countries: 6 October 2006 - CLOSED

Participants:

30 from SEE and 30 from Programme countries.

Dates and venue:

3 working days, 15 - 19 November 2006, Ohrid (fYR Macedonia)


APPLICATION FORM FOR PARTICIPANTS

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

APPLICATION FORM FOR TRAINERS

CALL FOR TRAINERS

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"TOOL FAIR"

This event is organised by the French National Agency (www.afpej.fr) and SALTO-France-"Good Practice" (www.salto-youth.net, see SALTO EuroMed RC) in cooperation with SALTO SEE, SALTO EE&CA, SALTO Youth Initiatives and several National Agencies.

1-5 November 2006 INJEP, Marly le Roi, France

2006 is the end of the YOUTH programme. We want to take this opportunity to valorise what has been achieved during these years in terms of creation of new tools for non-formal education.

In order to apply, you need to fill out 2 documents:

1. Application Form
2. Tool Description Form

Please send:

the Tool Description Form by EMAIL to see@salto-youth.net
and the Application Form by FAX to SALTO SEE: +386 1 430 47 49


Application deadline:

Participants from SEE: 1 October - CLOSED

Background

The "Tool Fair" will gather 120 people coming from both programme and partner countries, all stakeholders of the YOUTH programme: young people, youth workers, trainers, etc.

In one place, for 3 days, the Fair will be a "showroom" for the huge variety and richness of tools developed and used under the YOUTH programme, a place to experiment with methods and exercises used within the different actions (youth exchanges, EVS, youth initiatives, training) and based on different themes (cultural diversity, inclusion, cooperation with partner countries, etc...). The Fair could become the creation of the participants themselves and enable their tools to be used throughout the programme. "Savoir-faire" will be gathered in order to create a "common memory".

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE FAIR

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ACROSS BORDERS - EVS Contact Making Seminar

This contact making seminar is organised by the Hungarian National Agency of the YOUTH Programme.

Application deadline: 20th March 2006!

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE SEMINAR

Theme: EVS as a tool for inclusion of young people and possible co-operation across borders.

Place: Hungary

Date: 20-24 May 2006

Participants: maximum 25 participants from the neighbouring countries of Hungary: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Ukraine, Slovak Republic (3 participants from each country, 4 participants from Hungary.)

Context: In the last one and a half years the Hungarian National Agency has been working nationally on the encouragement of organizations to get involved in short- (or long) term EVS projects with neighbouring countires including disadvantaged and / or disabled young people. The reason for this being that it can be a relatively smaller challenge, an easier first step for these young people to try themselves in a safe environment which is not so far from their home.

Target group:

  • Participants from Programme countries should be representatives of EVS sending and / or hosting organisations. They are supposed to already have some experience in EVS (at least to be in the process of sending or hosting a volunteer, but preferably having already been sending or receiving their first volunteer).
  • Participants from Partner countries do not necessarily have to have experience in EVS.
  • Participants should be open to start a short- or long term EVS project after or as a result of the seminar.

Costs: The Hungarian National Agency is going to cover all the hosting costs including accommodation, food and program costs.

The sending National Agencies are kindly asked to pay the international travel costs of their participants to the venue of the seminar.

The Hungarian National Agency of the YOUTH Programme will reimburse cheapest fare international travel costs to participants from Partner countries.


Applications and the complete call for participants can be downloaded at:
http://www.salto-youth.net/SEEseminars/

How to apply?
The applicants from Programme countries should send their application form to their respective National Agency. The National Agencies are kindly asked to send the application of their 3 candidates to the address below before 27th March 2006 to Hungarian NA.

Applicants from Partner countries should directly apply to the Hungarian National Agency (see address below) by 20th March 2006 at the latest! Every applicant will be informed about the result of selection by 3 rd April 2006.

Please send this application form by 20th March 2006 to your National Agency of the YOUTH Programme, or (only from Partner countries) to Mobilitás: Budapest Zivatar u. 1-3. 1024 Hungary, e-mail:kepzes@mobilitas.hu.

For any further details and application form please contact:

Viktória BALLA
Mobilitás European Training Unit
H-1024 Budapest, Zivatar u. 1-3.
Tel.: +36 1 438 1096, Fax.: +36 1 438 1055
E-mail: balla.viktoria@mobilitas.hu
Éva JÁROSI
Mobilitás European Training Unit
H-1024 Budapest, Zivatar u. 1-3.
Tel.: +36 1 438 1093, Fax.: +36 1 438 1055
E-mail: jarosi.eva@mobilitas.hu

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ACTIVITIES HELD IN 2005

Workshop »The European YOUTH programme: possibilities for participation and future perspectives«, Tirana, Albania, 12 November 2005

SALTO SEE, in cooperation with the Albanian Society in Development (ASD) organised a workshop on »The European YOUTH programme: possibilities for participation and future perspectives« in Tirana, Albania, on 12 November 2005.

The workshop aimed to bring the YOUTH programme closer to Albanian youth NGOs. 40 participants had the opportunity to learn about, share experiences and discuss issues related to Albania's participation in the YOUTH programme.

The workshop was opened by Mr. Joaquim Tasso, Acting head of the Public Administration, Economic and Social Development Section at the Delegation of the European Commission in Albania, who explained more in details the current developments of the Albanian association process to the EU and the importance of a stronger involvement of Albanian NGOs in the YOUTH Programme.

The workshop took place in the framework of developing a strategy for the further implementation of the YOUTH programme in the Partner Countries of South East Europe. This year, SALTO SEE in consultation with the European Commission nominated 12 youth NGOs in countries of South East Europe as Contact Points for the YOUTH programme. Since September 2005, their main role has been to assist SALTO SEE in enhancing the visibility of and access to the YOUTH programme in their countries. YOUTH Contact Points have been set up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro. The SALTO SEE Resource Centre is also planning to set up YOUTH Contact Points in Albania and UNMIK Kosovo in 2006. These steps aim to increase the participation of the countries of South East Europe in the YOUTH programme and are a part of the European Union's overall strategy of drawing the countries of the region closer to the prospect of European integration.

More info & workshop program in English
More info & workshop program in Albanian

For more information about YOUTH contact points in SEE, please consult www.salto-youth.net/SEEstrategy .

   

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Study visit to Serbia / Extended contact making seminar in Serbia, 17-23 October 2005, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

This international activity was organised by the SALTO-YOUTH SEE Resource Centre in cooperation with the National Agencies of the YOUTH programme from Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Belgium and with the support of the YOUTH Contact Point BalkanIDEA Novi Sad.

The study visit gathered youth NGO representatives from Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden. It was an opportunity to share impressions of the realities of youth, youth work and youth policy in the participants' countries, establish new partnerships and get to know the reality of young people in Serbia. As results of this seminar 9 concrete projects were developed, and many more are planned to be carried out in the future.

Many of the participants coming from EU countries visited South East Europe for the first time. Discovering Novi Sad and its people was a chance to break their prejudice about this region.

The participants were also invited to attend the reception/contact making meeting organised and hosted by theProvincial Secretariat of Sport and Youth of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina andBalkanIDEA Novi Sad and had the opportunity to meet about a hundred youth NGOs from Serbia, and to learn more about the way they work, their activities, problems they are facing...

This reception was also an attempt to promote the YOUTH Programme within Serbia. The Contact Points of theYOUTH Programme in Serbia (BalkanIDEA Novi Sad, Group "Let's..." from Belgrade and Youth House Nis) presented their work of promotion of the YOUTH Programme and plans for future actions. Also some of the Contact Points from Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were present. Due to strong media coverage the meetingreached beyond the youth public and local community. The presence of the governmental representatives Ms. Ivana Cirkovic from the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Republic of Serbia and Mr. Srdjan Majstorovic from the Office for European Integrations of Republic of Serbia as well as representatives of big NGOs and foundations from Serbia indicated that the YOUTH programme is already quite visible and recognised as an important tool for the activism and mobility of young people in Serbia.

Link to NA SwedenLink to NA PortugalLink to NAFR BelgiumLink to NA FinlandLink to NA Estonia

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Exploring Global Justice Issues - Contact Making Seminar for the Development of European Voluntary Service Projects (Action 2), 22-25 September 2005, Ireland

This activity was organised for organisations interested in youth involvement in projects exploring Global Justice Issues and in hosting or sending volunteers in their organisation.

The Contact Making Seminar offered participants the opportunity to meet partner organisations from Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Sweden, Slovenia and South East Europe, with a view to developing European Voluntary Service on the themes around Global Justice Issues. The seminar aimed to gather organisations, interested in similar themes to share experiences and develop European Voluntary Service Projects together. The seminar was organised by National YOUTH Agencies of the above countries in co-operation with the SALTO South East Europe Resource Centre.

Organisations working in the area of or interested in Global justice Issues and interested in hosting or sending volunteers (15- 25 years) from YOUTH programme countries and Partner Countries in South East Europe were invited to apply.

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Contact Making Seminar for the Development of European Voluntary Service Projects between BiH, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, and France, Italy and Slovenia

Link to NA ITALYLink to NA SLOVENIA

 

Link to NA FRANCE22 - 26 June 2005
Igalo, Serbia and Montenegro

This contact making seminar was organised jointly by the National YOUTH Agencies of France, Italy and Slovenia and the SALTO SEE Resource Centre. It aimed to promote and develop European Voluntary Service activities in the Balkan countries and to develop EVS sending and hosting projects between partners from 3 YOUTH programme countries (France, Italy and Slovenia) and 3 countries in South-East Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro).

The seminar wanted:

  • To provide the possibility to find partners for future projects;
  • To provide a space for learning about each other's realities, especially the specificities of European volunteering to and from the Balkans;
  • To provide training in some technical, administrative and educational aspects of organising EVS projects in order to ensure the quality of the projects, and
  • in particular, to prepare participants for developing concrete EVS hosting and/or sending
    projects within the year following the contact making seminar.

28 participants took part in the seminar: 15 from the countries of the participating National Agencies -
France, Italy and Slovenia -, and 13 from Partner Countries in South East Europe - Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro.

Click here to get the REPORT of the Contact Making Seminar!


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Extended Contact Making Seminar (XL-CMS) for co-operation between BENELUX and SEE countries

Venue: Luxembourg (Larochette)
Dates: 28 February - 6 March 2005

Five National Agencies (NAs) from Belgium (the Flemish, French and German speaking Communities), the Netherlands and Luxembourg and SALTO-YOUTH SEE Resource Centre organised together a first common Contact Making Seminar (CMS) to promote co-operation between the BENELUX countries and the countries from South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia and Montenegro).

This first experience was hosted in Larochette, Luxembourg, and 27 very motivated youth workers from both regions, were working together during 5 days in a constructive atmosphere. They shared information about their work; they defined project objectives in the frame of the "YOUTH" program and came up with concrete project ideas for a stronger co-operation between the regions.

The youth workers participated in activities and workshops about Intercultural Learning, youth work realities of the present countries and the "YOUTH" program in general. They opened the process of partner finding and the preparation of projects for European Youth Exchanges, European Voluntary Service projects and Support Measures (Trainings, Seminars and Short Study Visits). One of the main targets was to break prejudices between the two regions, an objective which will be a priority of different projects developed during the seminar and which will for sure be an investment in promoting the understanding between the participants coming from different countries.

OUTPUTS: A total of 8 projects were developed by the participants during the contact making seminar, including 4 youth exchange projects, 2 short study Vvsits, one European Voluntary Service project and one seminar.

Click here to get the report of the seminar!

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Young People, Citizenship and Participation

Organized by the Regional Youth Work Unit for the North East England
Dates: 13-18 March 2005

The North East region of the UK organised a contact making seminar on the theme of youth participation and citizenship in March 2005. Twenty four delegates from 22 different countries attended, with many coming from partner countries in South East Europe and the Caucasus. The delegates met with over twenty organisations from the North East, with the aim of establishing relations and discussing potential future exchanges. The seminar took place over 5 days, and included an international market place, seminars, organisational visits and project planning. The success of the seminar was the openness of all delegates to new opportunities for learning and cooperation. We hope that the seminar will act as a launch pad for new relations between youth workers in the North East and partner countries across Europe.

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The following downloads are available:

Across Borders cms - Application form (73 kB)

Accross Borders - EVS contact making seminar description (709.6 kB)

REPORT-Contact Making Seminar for the Development of European Voluntary Service Projects between BiH (530.8 kB)

Report of the Contact Making Seminar XL (1000.1 kB)


Author: Katja Spur / Contact: / Last modified: 2008-01-17

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