First step in EuroMed: EuroMed Essentials for beginners

Do you want to develop a project in EuroMed?

Do you need more competences and skills?

First step in EuroMed is a training opportunity for motivated and creative people to develop new projects in EuroMed!

Presentation of the activity

The training course is designed for youth workers and youth leaders from both sides of Mediterranean Sea to support their professional development and to extend their competencies in design and run a Youth project taking in account also the Euro Mediterranean dimension.

The group will reflect about the specificities of working in EuroMed and how the cultural and social background has to be taken into account in order to develop an effective training.

Participants will be worked on conceiving by themselves the activities and to experiment them into the learning group.

The working groups will be "laboratory" for active learning about EuroMed and a peculiar context of sharing.

Aims and objectives

The aims are

• To experiment and be acquainted about the peculiar social and cultural background of Euromed Cooperation;
• To support the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders at first experience in EuroMed, about how to design a training activity taking into account all the specificities of Euro Mediterranean context;
• To promote cooperation and to prepare the building of partnerships between participants.

The objectives are

• To explore with participants what are the peculiarities in working in EuroMed;
• To explore with participants what is the learning curve of an international training course;
• To provide and/or to extend the participants' skills in conceive and design a EuroMed training activity;
• To increase participants' knowledge about group dynamics within International groups;
• To reflect about intercultural learning curve within Euro-Mediterranean working groups and with young people;
• To explore with participants the Euro med dimension in Youth projects;
• To provide and/or to extend participants' knowledge about EuroMed Youth Programme IV and Youth in Action Programme (Action 3).

Target group

The participants are youth leaders, potential trainers and youth workers who:

• want to develop and implement a project within the EuroMed region;
• Are beginners in EuroMed Youth Programme IV and/or in Youth in Action programme (Action 3);
• Are directly involved in youth activities;
• Are supported by their organisations.

Practical information

Organisers

The training course is organised by the Turkish National Agency for the YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME in cooperation with SALTO EuroMed Resource Centre.

Working language: English

Dates and venue

10-15 January 2011
Turkey

Recruitment procedures Group size: 30 Apply on line You have to fill in the application on-line. Only the application forms submitted and correctly filled-in will be taken into account. NEW DEADLINE FOR PROGRAMME COUNTRIES: 13 DECEMBER Selection Programme countries: pre-selection through sending National Agencies for the YiA programme Mediterranean Partner countries: Salto-Youth EuroMed Travel, boarding and loading of participants will be covered. The selected participants will be contacted by the organisers about their travel's cost.