Seminar on Urban Youth 2007

A seminar organised for youth workers and project organisers working with urban youth or in disadvantaged urban settings - about how to use the European YOUTH programme as a tool to create meaningful projects for this target group in this context.

Social Exclusion? Unbelievable!


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YouthAndTheCity/

The SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre is cooperating with the French NA (INJEP), within its strategy to promote the inclusion of a variety of specific target groups with fewer opportunties in the YOUTH programme. SALTO Inclusion published a youth worker manual about setting up international projects with urban youth - "Youth and the City" - based on this seminar. Download or order it here.

Dates & Venue

• This seminar took place in Les Mureaux (a suburb of Paris) in France from Wednesday 12 December till Sunday 16 December 2007 = 3 full working days.

Aims & Objectives

• Explore and analyse how international youth projects can be used to work with young people in disadvantaged (sub)urban areas

More concretely:

• present good practices of previous urban youth projects and deduce principles for working effectively with this target group
• get to know local urban realities, both on site in Les Mureaux, as well as in each others' countries.
• develop how the Youth in Action projects can contribute to change in young people's lives living in disadvantaged (sub)urban areas
• share existing resources (funding, methods, publications, activities,...) for urban youth work

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Target Group

There were places for 60 participants at the seminar, selected according to the criteria below:

• directly working with youth in difficult or disadvantaged (sub)urban areas - this can be (volontary or paid) youth workers, social workers, educators, peers and others who are working with/organising projects for the target group in these areas.
• having organised/implemented international youth projects and cooperation activities in (sub)urban areas - either within the YOUTH programme or other programmes or initiatives.
• having a good working knowledge of (international :-) English, the working language of the seminar
• available to actively attend the full duration of the course
• willing to participate into a follow-up questionnaire 6 months after the training course.

Team of Trainers

The trainers team is composed of these 2 trainers, plus a representative of Les Mureaux, INJEP & SALTO inclusion.

SALTO Inclusion did a call for a trainer/author to work on the Urban Youth Seminar - and selected Katrin Alban. The other trainer selected by INJEP is Patricia Brulefert.

Gilles Baccala of the French National Agency (INJEP) will coordinate this seminar. Tony Geudens will be on the team for the SALTO-Inclusion Resource Centre.

• Read more about the Team

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Methodology

• the programme was a mix between presentation of participants projects, working group discussions and common analysis as well as project visits in the field.
• There were also some inputs about resources that can be used in (sub)urban youth work.
• The work was facilitated and documented by the Team (with contributions from the participants)

Programme Elements

• Find an overview of the programme here

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Practicalities

• Participants from a YOUTH programme country (27 EU countries + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein & Turkey + Switzerland) get their travel costs (partly) reimbursed from their National Agency - contact your NA if you are applying.
• A participation fee of 50 Euro (to be paid to SALTO Inclusion upon arrival in Euro in Cash)
• Programme costs, food and accommodation were covered by the French NA - Les Mureaux put at our disposal their 'Espace des Habitants' multipurpose rooms and provided us with links to local projects.
• Working Language: (international) English
• Persons from minority groups or with a disability are encouraged to apply!

Application and Selection Procedure

• Interested applicants that fit the Target Group description could apply online before 4 November 2007
• The National Agency in the YiA programme countries pre-selected the candidates from their country (and reimburse travel costs of selected participants)
• INJEP & SALTO Inclusion did the final attribution of available places according to the NA's priorities.

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The following downloads are available:

Youth and the City - meaningful youth projects in disadvantaged (sub)urban areas - 2008 (2326.4 kB)
An practical Inclusion for ALL booklet guiding youth workers to set up international Youth (in Action) projects with and for young people in difficult (sub)urban areas. Based on the Urban Youth Seminar 2007. (Rightclick & download to your PC)

Author: Tony Geudens / Contact: / Last modified: 2010-03-12

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