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WEcan! The role of youth workers in local development

Training Course

10-16 June 2019 | Anticoli Corrado (RM), Italy

WeCan is a training course for youth workers for facilitate community processes on local development based on economic and social criteria. Our tools are based on participatory planning, diversified networking, peer learning, non formal education.

The training

Youth leaders need to increase their skills in the ability to activate territorial networks and participation in order to mobilize the community and each individual actor to participate in local development. The civil economy and the sharing economy offer methodological inputs and guidelines to follow in order to work on this process. The common good and the community are elements from which to improve the involvement of all the actors towards a re-launch of the territories and the feeling of citizenship and participation. It is important to focus on young people and know how to involve them by enhancing their skills and creativity, avoiding marginalization and isolation.

We Can is a training course for youth leaders and youth workers with the aim of increasing the skills of educators to be process facilitators who, through participatory planning and networking among different stakeholders, promote and work on local development towards a wellness community, which have not only economic but also social objectives.

The training follows the values and principles of the sharing and civil economy, promoting cooperative governance with the integrated use of different participatory methodologies coming from non-formal and informal education. The training will be developed in 4 phases: presentation, input, output and follow-up. The participants from 7 countries, in 7 days of training, will therefore have the opportunity to receive and experiment new knowledge, share and network their skills, transform the input received into output through a creative group process and plan follow-up activities and dissemination of results outside the project.

From 10 to 16 June 2019, the village of Anticoli Corrado, a small town in the Aniene valley, will host a group of 23 people from Italy, Greece, Spain, Estonia, Czech Republic, Great Britain and France. This training, which in the short term is an opportunity for training and updating for youth leaders, in the long run fits among the seeds planted to work ever more to the development of communities and inclusive societies that know how to work on their local development through the enhancement of people and resources, both public and private, towards a common goal of community welfare.

The training will be conducted entirely in English.

A Youthpass Certificate will validate the competences acquired by the participants during this experience.

How: phases and contents

The training will be developed in 4 phases:

Presentation: day 1 - presentation of the project and the participants, team building. Participants are requested to share their idea of civil economy and tell their work experience on the territory and on local development

Input: days 2-5 - sharing experiences about local development, sharing and civic economy, cooperative governance; team working, debate and intercultural comparison with participants proposing sub-themes and working together on common problems and solutions

Output: days 5-6 - work on solutions and ideas to put into practice. Participants will be invited to propose ideas, activities, projects

Follow-up: day 7 - final evaluation, planning of project and personal follow-up activities of the participants; identification of future perspectives, possibility of collaboration and dissemination and continuation of the project both within and beyond.

Follow up: impact and dissemination

Dissemination strategy will be planned during the training. Participants and sending organizations will be encouraged to develop actions and innovations in their territory.

The participants will organize 1 to 3 workshops with the tools learned during the training. Sending organizations will activate local projects dedicated to the development of the territory. They will organize three meetings focused on participatory planning, aimed at encouraging the involvement of young people in local development.

Participants

We are still looking for:

3 from United Kingdom

1 from Greece

3 from Czech Republic

3 from  Estonia

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Training overview

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/7965

This activity has already happened!

This Training Course is

for 23 participants

from Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

and recommended for

Youth workers, Youth leaders

Accessibility info:

This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

A.P.S. Tavola Rotonda (Others)

Tavola Rotonda - Associazione di promozione sociale - Rome, Italy

Tavola Rotonda association was born in 2005. It’s a non profit and non political association working in Rome area and its surroundings, especially in the valley of the river Aniene. It’s a “social promotion association”, meaning it works in several areas, like environmental education, gastronomy, green economy, responsible consumption, civil economy and many cultural and social themes. Tavola Rotonda aims to promote creativity through projects about innovative ideas and development of the territory.
Since 2007 T.R. works in synergy with Legambiente Mondi Possibili, an environmental focused association, creating several activities aimed to a better world.
T.R. organizes events of many kinds, always mixing culture, environmental care, entertainment, fun and creativity, mainly concerning four areas:
Non-formal education: sharing skills and knowledge through the use of mixed approaches and methodologies;
Promotion of volunteering: summer camps, groups retreats for the youth about environmental issues, waste, active citizenship, heritage protection. T.R. has been organizing international and national volunteering camps for years;
Cultural events: informal activities aimed to promote socialization and discussion on topics of social interest, with festivals, film forums, public debates, workshops for adults, children or young people;
Responsible and sustainable tourism: activities aimed at promoting the importance of the short supply chain, developing awareness about resource consumption, responsible consumption and environmental protection.
Each activity contributes to the common target: promoting active citizenship that takes part in the development of the territory within a process of social, economic and environmental regeneration.
www.tavolarotonda.org

Contact for questions:

Francesca Baliva

E-Mail:

Phone: +393397805358

Costs

Participation fee

No fee is required from the hosting organization. Every partner organizations may ask a little fee (contact them for more details)

Accommodation and food

Food and lodgement costs are offered by the coordinating organization are covered at 100% by the project.

Travel reimbursement

The maximum travel grant for participant is €275,00.

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

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