European Citizenship Training Courses

Since 2001, the Partnership Programme between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the filed of youth developed and implemented training modules on European Citizenship.
Since 2006, the courses - hosted and co-financed by the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme - are developed and implemented as a cooperation project between the Partnership and the SALTO Training and Co-operation Resource Centre.

During the current period, the ECTCs listed below are planned to take place. The National Agencies will select the participants from Programme Countries. Participants coming from Neighbouring Partner Countries in the regions of South East Europe and Eastern Europe and Caucasus will be selected by the SALTO EECA and SEE Resource Centres.

• ECTC-NO in Norway (11-17 October 2010), including participants from Norway, the Flemish speaking community pf Belgium, the French speaking community of Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and from the regions of Eastern Europe and Caucasus and South East Europe.
• ECTC-HU in Hungary (21-27 February 2011), including participants from Hungary, Austria, Bulgarai, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and from the regions of Eastern Europe and Caucasus and South East Europe.
• ECTC-IT in Italy (11-17 April 2011), including participants from Italy, the Flemish speaking community of Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and from the regions of Eastern Europe and Caucasus and South East Europe.
• ECTC-FR in France (06-12 June 2011), including participants from France, Austria, the French speaking community of Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Gemany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Romania. the United Kingdom and from the regions of Eastern Europe and Caucasus and South East Europe.

The training courses are implemented by a trainers pool consisting of 5 European trainers: Andreas Karsten, Elena Kasko, Nuno da Silva, Paola Bortini, and Xavier Baro Urbea.

On the right you can find the evaluation results of the 5 courses which took place between October 2008 and October 2009 and the more detailed information pack for participants of the courses.

Aim of the training course on European Citizenship
The training course on European Citizenship is aimed at supporting the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders by extending their critical understanding of European Citizenship, exploring and experiencing its potential, and enabling them to recognise and integrate European Citizenship in their youth work.

Objectives of the training course on European Citizenship

• To critically explore the meaning relevance and implications of European Citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions;
• To promote and facilitate the active use of programmes and structures in support of youth work on European Citizenship;
• To experiment and explore the potential of European Citizenship for active democratic change in society;
• To associate the participants with the current discourse on European Citizenship (its concepts, formal meanings, and expressions);
• To exemplify (make clear, make explicit) the connection between European Citizenship, Human Rights, Democracy, and ICL as well as the underlying values.

Target group of the training course on European Citizenship
The course is intended to address individuals working with young people in a professional capacity on a paid or voluntary basis (e.g. youth workers, youth leaders, community and social workers, teachers), who:

• have experience in directly developing and managing a project with and for young people;
• have organised or co-organised at least one youth project with a European dimension;
• are committed and motivated to work directly with young people on issues related to European Citizenship;
• are supported by their organisation in their current and future work;
• have a general knowledge and understanding of youth and youth work realities in their contexts;
• are motivated to undergo training and able to attend the course for its full duration;
• are able to work in English; and
• are resident in a Member State of the Council of Europe or in another country signatory to the ECC.

 

Links for further reading:

www.european-citizenship.org: This website on «European Citizenship» is a joint initiative of SALTO, the Partnership on Youth, Connect Youth and Frankly Speaking. Through this portal, the institutions and their partners would like to offer a central point of information, exchange, feedback, and reflection to former and future participants of trainings on European Citizenship as well as social workers, NGO activists, researchers, policy makers and citizens.