Young Environmental Citizens for Climate Change (Food and water Security view from the Caucuses)

This is a 8-days training course? (Including 2 days travel) that will take place in March 2013 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The project will be organized by Act Global (UK) and Stepanavan Youth Center (Armenia).

The project will bring together up to 40 youth people from 10 countries. The project will look the issues of food and water security in Europe, the challeges ahead and how action by young people can create security for their future.

The aim of the project is through non-formal education to demonstrate to young people that local action can make an impact, both locally, across Europe and beyond. We want to bring together organisation that have created projects in the area of climate change, ask them to give a presentation to share ideas and strategies on how to combate this issue.

Participants will be 18 years old and above and should have a background of being involved in enviromental projects, campaining and knowledge of the issues around climate change.

The main objectives

· Support young people to develop their skills in these areas

· Allow young people to present their culture, learn about others, and foster an environment to identifying themselves as Active Citizens

· Enable young people to see themselves as agents for positive change, while bringing about social cohesion through non-formal education

· Create new partnerships in and out of the EU for further cooperation, exchange of best practice and networking

· Knowledge of the YiA programme and how to use it to create further projects

We are looking for partners & young participants from EU member countries, South East Europe, EuroMed and Eastern Europe and Caucasus.

Each participating organisations will send 3 young people and 1 support worker (youth workers, youth leaders, volunteers, etc) who will fully participate in the programme and each country will give 2 presentations. The first will be on an example of a project they have done around the environment, highlighting what it achieved and tips for others.

The second will be a cultural presentation of their country and culture, which will be accompanied by food and drink for young people to experience. We ask that each group try to make their presentation informative, entertaining and most of all, fun.

The working language of the project is English.

If you are interested in participating in this project, please follow this link to fill in an application by 20th September

We need 10 reliable partners who can commit to bring 4 participants (including a group leader). Partners are accepted on first come first served basis. Please fill the application form at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdZSkNETzVGQnBlRXFRd1c3bkJtTGc6MQ#gid=0