Going International - Opportunities for All!

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Are you a youth worker? Working with young people with fewer opportunities, socially excluded for whatever reason? Are you planning to run an international youth activity but feel your experience is not that wide?

Then the "Going International - Opportunities for all!" booklet is for you!

WHY THIS BOOKLET?

At various meetings with Inclusion workers (youth workers working with young people with special needs) and National Agencies, SALTO-Inclusion perceived the need to have a practical publication with concrete ready-to-use methods for youth workers who are on an international project with young people with fewer opportunities: practical hints, tools and methods that can contribute to the quality of the inclusion project.

The aim of the "Going International" booklet is to document good practices & concrete working methods in international inclusion projects. It is a practical booklet with useful methods for youth workers taking young people with fewer opportunities on international projects. This way, we hope that inclusion youth workers, with little international experience will have it easier to start or carry out successful international youth activities with their target group.

Note:

• "Going International" booklet is something different from the T-Kit on Inclusion in the sense that it is more ‘ready to use’, more concrete, less theory/text, more methods = the things you need when in the middle of an international activity when no time to read through many pages.
• It is different from "Including All with the YOUTH Programme" (the Commission’s inspirational booklet on inclusion), which aims to give examples and motivation.
• The "Going International" booklet focuses more on concrete situations that occur when on an international activity with young people with fewer opportunities)

The authors of "Going International"

• Lynne Tammi (Author & Editor)
  http://trainers.salto-youth.net/LynneTammi/
  Lynne lives in Scotland UK and works for Article 12 www.article12.org which uses peer education to enable marginalized young people to promote ‘youth rights’ (in the frame of the White Paper). 20 years of youth work practice and frequent use of the YOUTH programme to promote youth rights. Has developed several publications, one of which is http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/269.html. Lynne participated in the SALTO EuroMed Step AT course and is now active in the EuroMed programme as well.
• Eugen Gherga (Author)
  http://trainers.salto-youth.net/EugenGherga/
  Eugen lives in Romania and has extensive experience in setting up projects with different types of young people with different needs (orphans, drugs users, disintegrated families, delinquents, disability…). Working for the Intercultural Institute in Timisoara www.intercultural.ro and member of the Youth Express Network www.y-e-n.org and has carried out big inclusion projects such as European Human Bridges etc. Active with Council of Europe activities as well as with European YOUTH programme. Has been involved in writing many practical educational publications.
• Andres Abad Pacheco (Author)
  http://trainers.salto-youth.net/AndresAbadPacheco/
  Andres lives in Spain and has long experience in international youth projects and youth work, as well as adult education, both in face-to-face work as well as coordination. He also has the luggage of being involved in other European educational programmes such as Grundtvig and YouthStart, which for example focuses on developing young people’s social and communication skills, besides being involved in YOUTH Programme projects (for example Large Scale Action 5). Has developed several publications such as a training guide for young people with fewer opportunities and adult education material.
• The booklet was coordinated by Tony Geudens of the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre
  http://trainers.salto-youth.net/TonyGeudens/

FORMAT:

The "Going International" booklet aims to be to the point (well indexed, short but clear), easy to read (pleasant layout and visual appearance, easy to find parts), easy to carry (not too many pages, smallish size), easy to reproduce (electronic pdf format for print-out, photocopy version)

The "Going International" booklet offers to youth workers easy access to methods which deal with concrete situations that the youth worker might face when organising an international youth activity with young people with special needs. "Going International" contains tips, practical guidelines, concrete methods for including young people with fewer opportunities in an international project, such as in the preparation, travel, the intercultural dimension, meeting other people, etc…