Captain Culture: Mission Employment (Italian participants URGENTLY needed)

An international team of trainers is preparing a training course on intercultural learning and alternative approaches to employment. We will be exploring and using different approaches and tools that youth, youth leaders and youth workers could use when organizing activities related to cultural diversity issues. Main aims are to learn how to empower and train youth and youth leaders on how to deal with cultural diversity, to develop youth and youth leaders learning to learn skills in a way that it can improve their employability, to encourage youth and youth leaders entrepreneurship spirit by developing and implementing their ideas to foster future international projects and collaborations. Come and join us on this journey where Captain Culture is our hero and makes all the prejudices come down to zero! Captain Culture is an experiential 8 days training course (including travelling days). Objectives for participants: - Become aware of the importance that influence of culture has on person’s behaviour and identity. - Recognize and be sensitive for differences that other cultures bring. - Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of intercultural learning and life long learning with young people. - Acknowledge the Youth in Action Programme and Erasmus + as a tool for intercultural learning and Youth work. - Be provided with information about existing possibilities and conditions for the development of co-operation projects in the field of youth work. - Reflect about the importance, possibilities and obstacles of cultural diversity when organizing international youth projects or other youth projects involving ethnic minorities. - Reflect on the current European and national realities relating to youth employment and mobility. - Exchange best practices among youth, and youth leader in working within multicultural environment. - Understand the steps needed to translate ideas into concrete actions and projects. - Develop tools, activities, strategies for improvement of youth work on local level focused on cultural diversity. - Develop an informal network of youth, youth workers and youth leaders between the EU countries. - Identify common criteria and approaches for follow-up projects and initiatives developed on this training course. Methodology: The methodology that is going to be used is based on experiential learning and alternative approaches towards intercultural learning and employability. A specific feature of the training is that in certain moments it will consist of two parallel working groups, meaning that participants who are more focused on learning by doing will follow one working group and the ones that are more oriented on reflective learning style will follow the other. The learning process will be shared with the others bringing out even more outcomes. Also, another specific quality of this training course is the focus on future projects and concrete use of learning products, therefore participants will be supported and guided on development, implementation and evaluation of their own projects for intercultural learning, dialogue and employment. Main working methods will be based on experimental and experiential learning. In specific, the methods that we are going to use will be activities and workshops based on experiential learning, outdoor activities, team and group building activities, open space methodology, roll-plays, simulations, energizers, ice-breakers, etc. In addition, during the training we will follow the principles and values of non-formal learning, where education process is structured and planned, established on voluntary base and assisted by trainer. Technical info: Name: Captain Culture – Mission Employment Dates: 6th -13th October 2013 Place: Praia Grande, near Sintra, Portugal Venue: http://rodaviva.web.pt/online/gal_inst_almocageme/gal_almocageme.html Host organization: Associação Animam Viventem Number of Participants: 31 total Countries: Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Romania, Cyprus and Spain Age of Participants: +18 Profile of participants: Youth workers or Youth Leaders dealing with intercultural issues interested in using alternative approaches in intercultural learning and employability. Some examples: Youth workers working locally in multicultural contexts. Youth workers working in international level. International project organizers and managers. Youth leaders looking for future international cooperation. How to apply: Please complete the application form and send at latest by 31st August 2013 to the email cap.culture@gmail.com. All the candidates will be informed about selection results shortly after the deadline for applications. Trainers team : Rodrigo Vilarinho Sweden / Portugal Milena Lazic Serbia Saro Rossi Italy What to expect? Have you ever recognized funny things about other cultures during your travelling? Did you discover that your friend from East Europe always wears pyjamas and you don’t? Are you the one that is always late while your friends from the North are always waiting for you? Have you ever walked into a French toilet and didn’t know where to seat? Would you like to join us in our mission of exploring these small things? How do you connect a lake, a mountain and a forest with Intercultural Learning? Well, the same way you connect a hike in the woods with the love of your life, or a canoe with the meeting of cultures!