ACTive YOUth!!! - A Seminar to Discover the qualities, definitions and needs for ACTive YOUth Participation

The main focus of the Seminar “ACTive YOUTH!!!" Participation” is to share good practice in methods of increasing active youth participation of marginalized youth such as young people from Roma communities, ethnic minorities and those in poverty. The aim is to gather youth, youth workers, leaders, researchers and policy makers, and will emerge them into dialogue with the aim to identify new approaches and methods in building active societies. The type of societies that are based on diversity & involving discriminated young people such as those with with fewer opportunities, disabilities and from socially excluded backgrounds. The seminar will discuss models and approaches to enhance collaboration among youth work stakeholders and develop quality support systems to increase youth participation of socially excluded youth with specific focus on Roma and young people with disabilities due to the area towhich the seminar willbe held. The theme is to share youth work practices on active youth participation across Europe; and also to develop techniques and tools with which to empower socially excluded young people to have a voice in policy making. Participants will gain practice in implementing non-formal education methodologies and share youth work practice from very different cultural perspectives, backgrounds and organizations. The seminar will makes links between theory and practice with real life examples from each organization. Learning outcomes can then be applied in participants’ home communities and developed in the countries they represent across Europe. The outcome of the seminar will be a publication created by the participants and the promoters of the project that will gather the methods and tools shared during the seminar. This publication will be a toolbox for inclusion and improvement of active participation of socially excluded youth and so and will be further disseminated among European organizations and networks. The objectives of the project are: - Introduce principles of Active Youth Participation and focusing on participative social inclusion of youngsters with fewer opportunities - To develop competences needed for developing and running youth led, participative projects that especially inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities - Develop participants understanding of participation projects, including needs analysis, aims, objectives, methodology, plan of activities, evaluation and follow-up - Exchange experiences, good practices, opinions, educational tools and materials related facilitating ACTive YOUth Participation YOU MUST SPEAK A COMPETENT LEVEL OF ENGLISH TO COMPETE. More information and details are contain in the Call for Participants info pack. To Apply you much read the Call for Participants pack download and complete the application contained in the link at the end of project call information.