Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Call for participants!


Partnership building seminar in Estonia

Contact making seminar
25-30 May 2012 | Valga county, Estonia
Partnership building seminar in Estonia FOR YOUTH EXCHANGES: THINK RURAL, FEEL GLOBAL, ACT INTERNATIONAL. Seminar will bring together 24 youth workers from rural areas or small towns to develop new partnerships with the focus on youth exchanges.
Partnership building seminar will bring together 12 youth workers and leaders from Estonia and 12 from following countries: Romania, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. Activities will last for 5 days and take place in Valga county in South-Estonia.
The aim of partnership building activity is:
- Contact making with future partners and developing new partnerships
- Giving participants knowledge of Youth in Action programme with the focus on youth exchanges and quality of youth exchanges
- Developing new project ideas with partners from contact making to mapping down the programme of the exchange
- Developing new projects in Youth in Action framework with focus on youth (un)employment and entrepreneurship
- Getting to know Youthpass as a tool, process and certificate for conscious learning in youth exchange
- Develop international cooperation in youth field which involves Estonian youth from rural areas/small towns and youth from similar areas of participating countries
Profile of participants:
- Able to work in English
- Not experienced in international youth work
- Working with youth in rural areas or small towns
- Looking partners for international cooperation to develop youth projects
- Have not organized themselves youth exchanges, but wish to organize one in near future