Eurogaming 2010: NFE in Action – increasing inclusiveness in youth work and volunteering

MAIN IDEA OF THE ACTIVITY Eurogaming 2010 is a two year project with a main aim to increase the level of participation of young people from disadvantaged groups especially young people with disabilities in Youth in Action activities and promote non-formal education among more than 250 stakeholders. This project is built by a partnership between 9 NGOs specialized in international youth work, disability or volunteering and 5 Public institutions from 6 countries from European Union (Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal, UK & Cyprus). This project will contribute to the partners’ long term objectives to promote the use of NFE with other stakeholders concerned with youth and strengthen the partnerships at the local and regional level. Eurogames2010 will contribute to increasing the capacities of young people to volunteer and actively participate and it will also enable the European dimension in NFE to be included at local level. By creating a tool and implementing activities that takes into account the needs of young people with disabilities we also hope to contribute to the continuing diversity in youth NGO membership, and the engagement of a growing number of young people from disadvantaged groups. The project will also contribute to the increased recognition of the value of NFE and help us to develop the NFE Quality Assurance concept that we are working on as part of a bigger initiative with the European Youth Forum. This development will make it easier for other stakeholders to understand and measure the impact of their investment in NFE. Among the several activities held during the overall project, we will host a training course for youth leaders in Italy. The training courses will use NFE using the Eurogames2010 resource developed by the partnership for this project to increase the SKAs of youth leaders working with disadvantaged young people especially related to volunteering and the promotion of its role in raising the skills levels amongst young people especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The training will bring together 18 youth leaders and the trainers’ team working with disadvantaged young people who have some interest in NFE or the possibility to take advantage of an international volunteering opportunity like EVS. OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING COURSE ➢ Develop the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field: ➢ Promote young people’s active citizenship; ➢ Increase the SKAs of youth leaders related to the engagement of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially disabled young people to engage with youth work and NFE; ➢ Increase young people’s sense of European citizenship and foster mutual understanding amongst young people; ➢ Develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, fostering increased social cohesion in the European Union; The training is build on non-formal education working methods.