Young Community Leaders

The TC is to help youth workers and leaders meet challenges of the future, overcome obstacles and become leaders so that they can make a difference and influence in their local communities for and with marginalized youth. They will learn specific leadership skills as:negotiation, public speaking,debating, communication skills AIMS: The main aim of this TC is to develop participants` leadership skills, provide diversity of opportunities, and improve their skills and knowledge in order to take initiatives addressing the issues of marginalized youth in local community. To reach the general aim of the TC, the objectives are: - To strengthen participants’ understanding of key concepts of leadership; - To gain leadership skills necessary for understanding needs of socially excluded and marginalized young people; - To empower participants to take actions and develop initiatives by and with marginalized young people tackling the issues of social exclusion and marginalization in their local communities; - To motivate and encourage the young people to act as multipliers and promote initiatives that would foster inclusion of marginalized groups, especially the Roma youth; Methodology: The TC is designed as a mutual learning situation. The programme and contents are organized so as to encourage participation, shared leadership and responsibility of the group, while using active and participatory methods. The programme of the training course will provide space for individual as well as group reflection and debate, furthermore, take into account the experience of participants before. The main theme of the training course well be: o Communication; o Motivation; o Facilitation and idea generation; o Group dynamics; o Project management; o Intercultural cooperation.