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Training Course
14-22 August 2021 | Split, Croatia
The benefits of volunteering are enormous to an individual volunteer, her/his family and community. Aside from helping with college applications and resumes, volunteering can also have a life-changing effect on their personal life. One fantastic thing that volunteering can offer is a new understanding of volunteers’ own abilities. Whether they are planning a huge event or making flyers for a small gathering, every task can help them understand how to accomplish something new. Volunteers can learn important skills like how to plan a budget or how to supervise and manage. Or, they can take time to enhance skills they already have by spending more time actively using them. An added side effect of volunteering is that it gives volunteers an opportunity to try out possible careers and opportunities, depending in which department they volunteer: fundraising, PR, project management, youth clubs, event management, etc.
Though volunteers may not have any idea what they want to pursue now, volunteering can help them solidify their interests. It’s also a great way to network. Sometimes, giving back can give volunteers a great sense of fulfilment. Though their skills and help might improve the local community, they can improve their own self-esteem and confidence by accomplishing something they never thought they could.
The whole programme of the TC is developed based on non-formal education and learning by doing methods. The first part of the TC will serve as some kind of the ice-breaker, will enable participants to meet each other, get introduced with Youthpass certificate, set their own and group learning expectations, observe possible challenges and obstacles they might face during the activity, but also their contributions to the TC topics, to examine the principles and values of volunteering and finally to share realities about their volunteering background and volunteering programmes in their organisations and countries.
The second unit will concentrate more on TC activity’s general topic – interconnection between NFE and volunteering: starting from exploring basic concepts and values of non-formal education, experiential learning and relevance of NFE for volunteering. Participants will explore how an organisation can support volunteers and their learning process; and also, how to incorporate NFE in volunteer programmes, in volunteers' job description and in monitoring and evaluation of volunteers.
Throughout this process, participants will develop and adjust the volunteering programme of their organisations to the learning needs of their (present and future) volunteers. In the final part, participants will explore and share examples of good practice, explore the Erasmus+ programme and reflect on their own learning during the TC.
This project focuses on the needs of our volunteers, especially on their learning, as most of the volunteers are youngsters and they will benefit from using basic concepts and values of non-formal education. We need and want to develop the management of volunteers to be based not just on our organisational need, but also on the needs of our volunteers; as we strive to focus more on incorporating non-formal learning in our volunteer management.
Objectives of the Training Course:
For the preparation of the activity, participants need to:
Follow-up:
Participants from each country should organise 1 multiplication meeting/workshop after they return home from the TC, where they will share acquired knowledge, information and competencies with other youth workers and volunteers. These meetings can be organised as online events.
The organisers will follow the development of the ongoing pandemic and communicate all necessary information. The health and safety recommendations will be implemented: masks will be used when needed and necessary sanitising equipment will be provided.
Costs of necessary tests will be covered by organisers (receipts required!).
More information will be provided to the selected participants.
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http://trainings.salto-youth.net/9447
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This Training Course is
for 30 participants
from Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors
Working language(s):
English language
Youth Power (Youth NGO)
A society with positive social values, healthy lifestyles, gender equality and zero discrimination is our main goal. In order to achieve that goal, we are continuously working with young people from all around Europe. Programs currently implemented by the organisation are directed towards non-formal education of young people on topics of entrepreneurship, cultural diversity, volunteerism, mental health, the inclusion of refugees and migrants, healthy lifestyles and violence prevention.
Contact for questions:
Daniel Medeiros
E-Mail:
Phone: +49 176 4333 0623
None.
All costs are covered by organizers and funded within the Erasmus+ program.
Germany - 275 €
Serbia - 180 €
Sweden - 275 €
UK - 275 €
Croatia - in arrangement with the organisers (up to 180 € depending on the city of the participant)