SALTO Inclusion 2000

The 'SALTO adventure' started in August 2000 with the recruitment of a part-time project officer, Tony Geudens, who formerly worked as an educational advisor in the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.

Starting up

Part of starting up a support network of Centres for 'Support and Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities' (SALTO) is to discuss and plan our field of work. The 4 SALTO coordinators had regular meetings in order to coordinate their efforts towards the National Agencies and youth workers, the target group of the training courses.

Training Courses

The main task for SALTO Belgium (Flanders) was the preparation of the 2 training courses going to take place in 2001, as a follow up from the Commission's working group and conference on Inclusion & EVS (Portugal 1999). The need for a training course on Inclusion and EVS became obvious. SALTO Belgium (Flanders) took on this challenge and fine-tuned ideas at the Action 5 officer meeting in Marly-le-Roi (October 2000) and at the European Steering Group for Training (a twice-yearly meeting of NA representatives, SALTOs, Partnership and Youth Forum, invited by the European Commission, to develop a coherent European Training Strategy)

Working Group on Inclusion

The Commission's working group on 'Disadvantaged Youth in EVS' enlarged to become a working group aiming to develop a European Strategy on Inclusion. SALTO Belgium (Flanders) who was working on a training course on this topic, actively participated in this working group, which culminated in the Kick-Off seminar for the European Strategy on Inclusion in 2001.