EuroPeers Training Course

Hello (future) EuroPeer! 

• Have you done a volunteering activity, participated in a youth exchange, travelled through Europe with DiscoverEU or organised a youth participation project or a solidarity project?
• Did you learn & grow from the experience and get to know Europe from an exciting perspective?
• Are you interested in sharing your experience with other young people and want to learn how?
• Do you want to become part of the EuroPeers network? 

If you can imagine telling other young people about your European experiences and encouraging them to try such a thing, we invite you warmly to become a EuroPeer! EuroPeers are young people who have already taken part in an European Solidarity Corps/Erasmus+ project. They share their experiences and inform other young people (their peers) about these opportunities and other ways to go abroad. This can be done in different ways and in the framework of various events. 

During this international training course you will discover how you can become part of the national and European EuroPeers network, how you participate in (and organise) local and international EuroPeer activities and how to share your European experience effectively with others.

You will become part of a growing international network of active young people, meet other EuroPeers, get to know more about the European youth programmes and develop your way to promote these programmes and the European idea.

You will also have time to develop your first own EuroPeer activity. During a virtual follow-up meeting about one month after the training course (date tbd) you will reconnect with the other participants and plan future events. At the end of the training you will receive a certificate. 

Curious now? 

Information about both the EuroPeers project and previous events organised by EuroPeers over the last years can be found here: 

• www.go-europe.nl/europeers  (the Dutch EuroPeers network)
• www.europeers.de/international/  (information about the international EuroPeers network)
• www.instagram.com/europeers.eu/ 

Who can participate? 

You can participate in the Training Course if you took part in a Erasmus+ or European Solidarity Corps project and:   

• you are motivated to share your experiences with peers   
• you want to become part of your national and the international EuroPeers network
• you want to raise awareness among young people of and reflect on European issues and activities;   
• you feel confident to express yourself in English;   
• you are committed to attend the full duration of the course;   
• you are at least 18 years old;   
• you are a resident of one of the countries which are part of the EuroPeers-network: that is Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium (DE), France, Italy, Romania, Norway or Austria.   

Provisional schedule of the Training Course 

This Training Course is hosted at Slot Assumburg, Heemskerk in The Netherlands.

30st of August: arrival and start of the Training Course
31nd - 2nd of September: full Training Course days with a diverse programme 
3rd of September: evaluation & closing until lunch; departure after lunch 
October (half day): virtual follow-up event 

Selected participants are committing themselves to attend the full duration of the course.