CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - TRAINING IN KOSOVO - URGENT!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “EUWAY” which will take place in 21^st February until 1^st March 2014 in Pristina, Kosovo.

The proposed training course is dedicated to European citizenship and youth participation in view to contribute to a cohesive and just European community. As a starting point the current situation of young people in the EU and its neighborhood region will be discussed, focusing specifically on young people with fewer opportunities. Then concepts of participation will be framed by putting them into the context of European citizenship and investigating on the accessibility of EU institutions and decision-making processes for young Europeans and their concerns. At the end, based on the newly gained insights, the participants will be asked to develop participatory projects aiming at the inclusion of young people and social cohesion in Europe starting from the local level.

Methodology: The training course is based on a non-formal and trainee centered approach putting the needs and abilities of the participants into the center of the activity. A wide range of educational methods will be applied ranging from role plays, simulation exercises, workshops, and short interactive exercises.

The applied methodology shall foster the participants’ learning process and exchange of competences among them by involving them emotionally and by providing learning opportunities based on practical examples. Therefore, whenever applicable individual experiences will present the basis for learning and development of understanding of the issue in discussion.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Youth in Action programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with 70% of the travel costs. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 02^nd January 2014

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - YOUTH EXCHANGE IN GEORGIA! URGENT

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Be active, be a citizen!” which will take place in 25^th February until 07^th March 2014 in Bakuriani, Georgia.

The Youth Exchange “Be active, be a citizen!” aims at an introduction of young participants to the field of youth empowerment and inclusion. The YE aims to help youngsters to become active members of the society and improve their capacities to organise and lead actions and projects targeting their own needs and interests.

“Be active, be a citizen!” will explore different possibilities of youth participation and will set a platform to learn how young people can take an active role at local and international level, in order to make their voice heard regarding youth current challenges in their countries. Different tools and approaches for active participation of young people and means of influencing and creating youth policy on local, national and international level will be core elements of the Youth Exchange. Last but not least, the Youth Exchange shall contribute to develop the capacity of civil society organisations and individuals working with and for young people to aggregate their interests and needs on social reality and political agenda.

Participants will also organize a street action in Bakuriani/Borjomi, in order to understand their capacity to self-organize and perform actions by themselves, the process behind them and to have a local impact in the community.

The specific target group of the project is youth volunteering or working with inclusion of marginalized groups, protection of Human Rights, volunteering policies and programmes, democracy and election observation, employability and education, etc.

The event will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 25 years old.

The Youth in Action programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with 70% of the travel costs. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 28^th December 2013

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - TRAINING IN MACEDONIA

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “NFE Let Young People to Learn” which will take place in 1^st until 10^th March 2014 in Struga, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Training course NFE: Let the Young People Learn focus on non-formal education as a way of empowering and activating young people and providing them an opportunity for developing life skills needed to succeed.

NFE: Let the Young People Learn aims to tackle non-formal education as important feature of YiA Programme with goal to provide experienced youth workers, leaders, newcomers in the field of youth work an opportunity to increase their understanding of non-formal education and abilities to use different methods based on non-formal education especially for empowering young people facing social exclusion and its consequences.

Within 8 – days training course that will include outdoor challenges, simulations, role plays, group works, discussions as theoretical insights 28 participants coming from Azerbaijan, Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Malta, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Spain and Macedonia will have an opportunity to develop their skills (facilitation, communication, team work and leadership) as increase their knowledge about non-formal education and its methods needed when implementing activities that are relevant to needs of disadvantaged groups.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Youth in Action programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with 70% of the travel costs. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 10^th January 2014

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - EXCHANGE IN TURKEY!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Smiling Faces” which will take place in 02^nd until 10^th February 2014 in Adana, Turkey.

Most of us enjoy our mental and physical health. We rarely think of the life of handicapped people such as Down syndrome children. Each Down's syndrome child has their own abilities, personalities, thoughts, love and emotions as there are social experiences. Their personal development and behaviours are closely related to education, social environment and awareness of us. However, society isolates them from social life which prevents their personal development. From this fact, we aim to give a ‘Hand’ and encourage Down syndrome children to hold life strongly.

Therefore, the main objective of this project is to increase consciences among participants towards Down syndrome children and also every participant will understands the importance of “being normal”. During the project days we’ll do several activities such as playing, singing, drawing, painting, sports with those children to get into their heart. There will be groups from France, Estonia, England, Turkey, Romania and Lithuania.

The event will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 25 years old.

The Youth in Action programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with 70% of the travel costs. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 28^th December 2013

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - TRAINING IN UKRAINE - URGENT!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Creativity for Employment” which will take place in 1^st until 8^th February 2014 in Svyatogorsky, Ukraine.

This is a training course for youth leader and workers who want to develop creativity as an essential competence to success within the new job market. The aim is to gain key competences and skills which can, afterward, be shared and transmitted to the community they will be working with. In the training course will be used methods of experiential and experimental learning as role plays, simulations and group sharing methods, small and large groups discussions. Together, we will be working on new alternative methods and techniques for young people to be successful in the dynamic, uncertain, and not always clear labour market.

The TC will be held in Svyatogorsk/Ukraine, will last 8 days and the partners are based in Program countries and Eastern Partnership. Svyatogorsk is a famous health resort of Donbass, spread over the picturesque banks of the Seversky Donetsk river. It is famous for its beautiful nature and unique historical architecture heritage and for its charming nature admired by a lot of Russian and Ukrainian writers, painters and composers who visited it in the past. It may be defined the “Donetsk Switzerland.”

The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Youth in Action programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with 70% of the travel costs. There will be a participation fee of 40 Eur. per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to marco@nyh.ee

Application deadline: 08th January 2014

Application form here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT