Super volunteer- intercultural voluntary mission

Who is Super Volunteer? Super Volunteer - Intercultural voluntary mission training course can bring some fresh ideas and approaches in Learning in the field of volunteering and the field of Intercultural Dialogue. International voluntary experiences such as Evs are great opportunities to practise intercultural learning and to explore culture diversity. At the same time also in volunteering at local and national level, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue are in question because of the coexistence of different cultures in society and in the same organisation. But are organisations and youth workers prepared enough to support intercultural learning process and intercultural dialogue in voluntary activities at local and international level? An international team of trainers is preparing a training course on how to support intercultural learning processes of volunteers and alternative approaches towards it. The training course will involve, during 7 days (included travel days), 22 youth workers and leaders dealing with intercultural learning and volunteering at local or international level (such as ngo representatives, Evs mentors, etc. ) Main aims are to learn how to deal with cultural diversity, to use cultural diversity as a tool to discover identity and to work with concrete aspects of cultural diversity in a specific context such as international voluntarism. Come and join us on this journey where Super Volunteer is a hero and makes all the prejudices come down to zero! Objectives: − Awareness of the importance that influence of culture has on person’s behavior and identity, especially in international voluntary activities. − Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of international voluntary activities: mentoring system in sending and hosting organizations and share good practices on this topic. − Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of intercultural learning and life long learning with young people. − Pointing out the importance of international voluntarism and cultural issues in YIA Programme. − Developing tools, activities, strategies for improvement of youth work on local level focused on international voluntarism and cultural diversity. − Promoting multiplying effect of youth workers in local participation. Profile of participants: Youth workers or Youth Leaders dealing with voluntarism and intercultural issues interested in using alternative approach in these fields. Participants should come from one of the project partner countries: Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden. In case of places available candidatures from other Youth in Action programme (EU members + EFTA + Turkey + Croatia) countries can be considered. Candidature from other countries can’t be considered. We're still LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia.