Engage and empower youth through volunteering

During the program participants will have the opportunity to share their ideas and experience about volunteering and also as a group they will have a chance to plan and actually do their own volunteering project as part of their learning process. This practice project of volunteering during the training will provide an opportunity to learn about how to facilitate volunteer groups and how to support the growth of vulnerable young people. 

With the experience of building a volunteering project together they can learn about volunteering as a tool of social inclusion and active citizenship. They can challenge themselves to try different roles in a group, experiment with their boundaries. They will have a chance to meet fellow professionals from other countries, make new friends and form potential partnerships for any future projects they may wish to create.

We would be thrilled to welcome a group of enthusiastic and motivated youth workers, who are actually working in the field. We hope to host a diverse group of youth workers workers with different target groups.

In order to learn as much as possible, we invite participants speaking at least a good level of English, as this will be the primary means of communication during the training. 

Aims of the Training Course is learn how

• to use volunteering as a tool when working with vulnerable target groups in youth work
• to be able to involve young people with disabilities in their programmes
• to facilitate the learning of their participants
• to be able to create safe, trusting learning spaces

-promote active citizenship amongst youth workers and equip them to address this topic with their youngsters - facilitate learning through volunteering and address topics related to active citizenship and democratic values

-reflection on professional competences of youth workers through the ETS competences framework