New Media Ambassadors

Objectives: 1. Empowering youth workers to use multimedia tools to fight discrimination and to promote European values such as tolerance, democracy, respect to human rights, equality; 2. Providing new media skills to youth workers in order to use social media tools to improve communication and fundraising activities of their organisations; 3. Stimulating youth workers to cooperate at European level, to share good practices to network in order to raise their organisations advocacy capacity towards other stakeholders; Activities: NMA is a complex training course where theoretical, networking and sharing experiences will be mixed together with practical sessions where the participants will have the opportunity to work on their own projects. Methods: The training course will be based on several methods of non-formal education. The following methods will be use throughout the training course: energizers (simple and funny games which will be used to open some sessions when the energy of the participants seem to be low), name games (in order to facilitate the learning of the other participants names), ice-breakers (games and other activities used to facilitate the non-formal introduction of the participants), brainstorming, debates, teamwork in intercultural subgroups. Timeline* - until 30th of August 2013: applications are opened | support during applications (this is the deadline for Turkish applicants); - 31st of August 2013: selection of Turkish participants and starting the visa procedures (sending the invitation letter etc.); - until 10th of September 2013: applications are opened | support during applications; - until 15th of September 2013: communication of selection results and confirmation; - until 30th of September 2013: travel arrangements; - until 2nd of November 2013: documentation and preparation of participants; - 3rd - 11th November 2013: training course takes place; - after 11th November 2013: evaluation, follow-up, reimbursement; *please note that these dates may suffer slight changes if we don't receive the grant agreement on time