Nordic Appetiser - Youth Exchanges for Beginners

The training is targeted for youth workers and their young people who have not any experience in Youth in Action or Erasmus+ youth exchanges or whose experience is very low. Training gives an opportunity to learn how youth exchanges are planned and carried out and what is young people's role in them. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim is to plan youth exchange projects that can be applied during 2015. The objectives of the training are: * to understand the opportunities available for international youth activities offered by Erasmus+ Youth in Action and to be aware of the support available for project building * to understand what is good quality in international youth exchanges and learn good working ways for international projects * to plan future youth exchange projects and create a strategy for international youth work that highlights young people's active participation in it PARTICIPANT PROFILE We are looking for motivated participants, who are willing to start youth activities in the Nordics and who already have an interested group of young people behind them. We invite motivated teams from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland to join the training. A team involves an adult youth worker who will bring along a young person, who is preferrably 14-17 years old, but "older young people" up to 20-21 can also participate. * Youth workers can represent municipalities, other public youth work organisations or youth work done by NGOs. They can be professional or voluntary based youth workers that work directly with young people. * The young person is selected by the project group who is willing to carry out a youth exchange in the future. The desired age is 14-17 but the motivation is more crucial than that age limit. MOTIVATION The group and their representatives will commit to do a small preparatory exercise before the training and a couple of more tasks after the training. The team take with them the motivation, interest and plans of their group and have the mandate to present it to other participants. Both of the participants are willing and able to take part for the whole of the training from the beginning to the end with the rest of the group. ABOUT THE TRAINING The training will be lead by two Nordic trainers: Marie Svensson from Sweden and Annina Kurki from Finland. The training is also open for the representatives of the Nordic National Agencies and participants have a good opportunity to meet with a National Agency on the spot. The training will be held in English, but Scandinavian languages may help too. Perfect English is not needed, just courage to work with the skills you have! The proposed programme can be downloaded below.