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Friday, November 14, 2014

URGENT - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - INTERNATIONAL MEETING

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a International Meeting called Employability United” which will take place in 18th until 25th January 2015 in Strasbourg (European Youth Center), France.

We, Y-SRN, are a group of young people and adults coming from a different background and with different professional profiles who are willing to work together towards improvement of access to social rights for young people. One of the priorities for our working plan 2014 – 2016 is to support the employment of young people across Europe, and to create a long term partnership between different stakeholders in order to support young people in gaining autonomy and accessing employment.

Being aware that youth employment and autonomy matters to everybody, we decided to make a step forward and invite young people, youth workers, local authorities and business sector representatives at “the same table” to join efforts and establish partnerships needed to support access to employment and autonomy of young people in Europe, their inclusion in societies and active participation as responsible citizens.

Aim and objectives
Aim: To promote and support access to employment and autonomy for young people by training and networking among young people, youth organizations/youth workers, local authorities and business sector representatives.
Objectives:
 To familiarize participants with the specific aspects of gaining autonomy for young people;
 To discuss and share attitudes, knowledge and experience related to employment and employment trends in Europe affecting young people;
 To familiarize participants with practices, policies and systems that support access to employment for young people in different local realities;
 To discuss and reflect on knowledge, skills and support measures that youth workers, local authorities, business sector representatives need to be competent in, so as to support young people in gaining autonomy and accessing employment;

We are looking for 3 participants with the following profile:
Young people
 18 – 30 with little or no experience in international activities who have never been to European Youth Centre;
 Highly motivated;
 To have a good understanding of and to be able to work in English;
 Social Entrepreneurs, freelancers, employed, unemployed and others.

Local authority’s representatives
 Highly motivated;
 To have a good understanding of and to be able to work in English;
 Knowledge and experience on access to social rights for young people with accent on access to employment and employment related issues;
 Working in sectors related to youth issues or employment.

Business sector representatives
 Highly motivated;
 To have a good understanding of and to be able to work in English;
 Working in structured company with min. 5 employees;
 Involved in decision making process in the company.

This event will bring together 40 participants from 10 European countries. The event will be held in English. 

There are 3 vacancies (1 per profile) available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.
The European Youth Foundation will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants. There will be a participation fee of 80 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: 25th November 2014

Thursday, October 30, 2014

EXCHANGE IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called Let’s Stop the Move which will take place in 23rd until 31st January 2015 in Sivas, Turkey.

Our main aim is to gather young people from different backgrounds and organize several meetings with youngsters about obesity and its negative influences on young generation. We are intending to find out the reasons of obesity, the effects on young people’s physic and psychology, and to search the outcomes of obesity on youth which have made a global effect on our age without making any cultural or geographical changes and to get rid of its negative effects and to help the young people be away in a safe training and entertaining way by using of sports and outdoor activities. We hope that it will have influence on local society and people will be interested in our actions.

The exchange will take place at guest house of Cumhuriyet University. The venue is located in the campus area of the public university of Sivas province. The city centre is only 15 minutes away from the campus.

This event will bring together 30 participants from Turkey, Estonia, Croatia, Italy and Romania. The event will be held in English. There are 6 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 270 euros). 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: 15th November 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

TRAINING IN SICILY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants residents in Estonia for a Training Course called TC BEST - We are Building Experience, Skills and Tools which will take place in 08th until 14th January 2015 in Nicolosi (Sicily), Italy.

From last decades Europe is facing two phenomenon that is changing all societies from its habits, cultures and background. Together with that change in the identity of the society, young people are facing more than never huge obstacles to enter the job market in an effective and sustainable way. Young people’s experiences of employment are at present, and have been for a decade or so, characterized by precariousness, a hollowing out of opportunity for quality employment, a lengthening yo-yo trajectory in and out of short-term work, unemployment and training or education.

In the same time young people are more open to work with diverse communities and have a huge potential to improve their competences and integrate themselves into a constant dynamic World. That reality opens some questions: How is possible that we have more capable young people and their employment rates continue so low? What are the new competences that can improve young people chance on labor market? How youth creativity can be a major tool for that integration?

The training course is as a module for youth leaders to help them to answer their questions concerning the Creativity to support Employment. We will approach the idea of creativity on different levels and the self-assessment of the new competences that improves the chance of young people in the labour market composed by a huge diversity of cultures, traditions and habit in the European context. We will work on case, examples and Creativity in practice. Together, we will be working on improving their competences and how to motivate young people to use their creativity for a sustainable and desirable work placement.

This event will bring together 34 participants from 17 countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Macedonia, Turkey, Romania and Poland). The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 340 euros). 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: 01st November 2014


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

TRAINING IN IRELAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Let’s talk about the Unspoken which will take place in 26th until 31st January 2015 in Clare, Ireland.

The aim of the training course is to develop and enhance the ability of youth workers/leaders to recognize and deal with conflict situations that can arise during the life cycle of youth exchanges. The training course is for youth workers/leaders who have implemented youth exchanges and feel the need to improve their understanding and ability to deal with potential conflict that can arise.

The experience of the participants will be the starting point of the activities and we will explore potential conflict situations through theatre, discussions, group work and creative methods.
The training will be very practical and one of the outcomes will be a publication on how to deal with conflict in the life cycle of youth exchanges

This event will bring together 20 participants from 11 countries (Turkey, Croatia, Poland, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Ireland, Moldova, Italy and Georgia). The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 310 euros). 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: 15th October 2014


TRAINING IN CYRPUS - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Developing Entrepreneurship through the Improvement of Key Competences” which will take place in 20th until 27th November 2014 in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The project will focus on the needs of social workers, youth workers, youth leaders and youngsters with fewer opportunities (with a low standard of living, disabilities or learning difficulties, socially excluded and/or unemployed) to improve their entrepreneurial skills and their self-esteem, therefore to develop new ideas through non-formal education, transnational mobility, active participation in society/communities, active citizenship and empowerment through positive collaboration.

The chosen methods will be: non formal learning approaches using simulations, role plays, energizers, reflections/debriefing, case studies. Moreover we will implement outdoor activities such as exploring/investigating in order to facilitate the motivation and poster and flash mob making. Moreover we will visit youth centers and places where youths are having time together and cultural and historical places of the area to link to the topic of intercultural unity of the european.

This event will bring together 30 participants from 10 countries (Estonia, Cyprus, Malta, Lithuania, Turkey, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Finland and UK). The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 335 euros). 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: 15th October 2014

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

URGENT - TRAINING IN GERMANY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Gender: ReThink, Retweetwhich will take place in 22nd until 29th October 2014 in Bad Breisig, Germany.

This training course is designed to address matters related to gender, how it is constructed and how we could use social media to promote gender mainstreaming and to fight gender based discrimination and online hate speech. Other topics we are planning to discuss will be sexuality, identity and human rights and all will be addressed within the training course through very interactive approach based in non-formal education and experiential learning methodology.

The aim of this training course is to provide youth leaders, volunteers and youth workers to get familiar with basic terms used in discussion on gender related issues, gender based discrimination and opportunity to learn about the way media influences gender and different ways to fight discrimination based on gender by using online and offline tools.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Estonia, Albania, Belgium, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Serbia and Turkey. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 275 euros). 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: 23th September 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

TRAINING IN POLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Get Active to Get Healthywhich will take place in 05th until 13th November 2014 in Poronin, Poland.

GET ACTIVE TO GET HEALTHY is an international training course for youth workers, facilitators who on daily bases work with youngsters trying to encourage them to take an active way of spending free time with benefits for health. Many of young people working at desk for eight hours a day working in from of the computer and then go home and head for couch to surf the Internet, watching TV or playing computer games.

Research indicates that the amount of leisure time spent sitting in the front of a screen can have such an overwhelming, seemingly irreparable impact on health. We want to offer, exchange and develop tools to encourage youngster to do physical activity which produce much more benefit. Main goal of our project is to promote healthy lifestyle, pro-health prevention and healthy eating. We will try to show alternative options of leisure and changing sedentary activities to active leisure.

During the training people will get to know each other, break stereotype and gain knowledge about national traditions and culture other country. This project will be also a good possibility to development knowledge in new EU program Erasmus + which European Union offered to young people who dream about better self-development and healthy life style.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany and Latvia. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 275 euros). 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: 30th September 2014

URGENT - TRAINING IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Our Rights and Responsibilities as Citizenswhich will take place in 01st until 08th November 2014 in Ankara, Turkey.

The main aim of the project is to increase youth workers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes on citizenship and active citizenship issues. We take care about citizenship and citizenship related issues. We believe that it is one of the key factors for development of societies. Our target groups are youth workers/youth leaders who are interested and motivated to work on citizenship issues and will be able to act as multipliers after the training course.

We have planned to use non formal education methods for our training course. We will have interactive workshops such as role plays, simulations, theatres, presentations, working in small groups as well as field visits and case studies. This course also will be the opportunity to enhance exchange, partnership and co-operation.  
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This event will bring together 24 participants from different European Union Countries. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 360 euros). 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: 10th September 2014

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

TRAINING IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Innovation and creativity in non-formal educationwhich will take place in 08th until 15th October 2014 in Nevsehir, Turkey.

Aim of this training course to increase the creative application of non-formal education, to improve their skills and knowledge. To promote Creativity and Innovation within Erasmus+ Projects. Supporting youth workers and youth leaders to think in innovative ways of approaching youth related topics and develop creative solutions to increase the impact and efficiency of youth activities. To develop innovative methodologies that increase effective participation of all project-actors involved in youth projects: partners, youngsters, local communities, policymakers.

Broadly, learning outside the formal school/vocational training/university system, taking place through planned activities (e.g. with goals and timelines) involving some form of learning support, for example:
Programme to impart work-skills, literacy and other basic skills for early school-leavers
in-company training
structured online learning
courses organized by civil society organizations for their members, their target group or the general public.
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This event will bring together 24 participants from Romania, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Estonia and Lithuania. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 275 euros). 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: 28th August 2014

Monday, August 4, 2014

TRAINING IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - URGENT!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called U-Happy” which will take place in 13th until 21st September 2014 in Sorgun-Yozgat, Turkey.

The project will touch about unemployment and unemployment youth and its issues. We would like to headline "Youth Unemployment," with different European countries by bringing youth workers, social workers and young people together to make comparisons between countries, institutions and organizations working in this area. We also would like to see the solution of this problem and how the organisations work to deal with unemployed problems. There will be many visits to institutions and organizations working in this area and also various workshops.

As a result of the project we aim to see the different problems of youth unemployment in the different European countries and also to see the proposed solutions and best practices to take steps to transfer to their home countries. We will use will be diverse working methods in non-formal education.

This event will bring together 27 participants from 8 countries from European Union and Turkey. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 360 euros). 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: 12th August 2014

Saturday, July 19, 2014

TRAINING IN GERMANY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Exchange+Education+Empowerment of Youth Leaders” which will take place in 23rd until 30th September 2014 in Potsdam, Germany.

Young People will come together in order to improve quality of Youth Exchanges by sharing experiences, developing their competences, getting inspiration und motivation for future work as youth leaders.

Participants will learn about their role as a Leader, facilitation, communicating, planning non formal education and intercultural learning processes, organizing a project in the youth field within an international team. They will also learn to promote Youth Participation and Active Citizenship as key elements when designing an international project.
The training course seeks to not only improve the qualities of future youth exchanges (in the frame of Erasmus+) but also facilitate cooperation between organisations and their networks.

During this training course we expect to assist in the development competences, knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours through different tools, activities and methods that can be seen in the programme.

This event will bring together 26 participants from Germany, Estonia, Poland, Georgia, Portugal, and Azerbaijan. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 275 euros). 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: 10th August 2014

Friday, July 11, 2014

TRAINING IN ROMANIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called ESD Go On!” which will take place in 20th until 29th August 2014 in Valenii de Munte, Romania.

The change required by the EU for "Sustainable Development" can only come from education, a new type of education that requires new resources. Existing crises in education do not provide the required resources to transform education towards sustainable development.
In the context of global issues reorienting education requires effort from all stakeholders - governments, ministries etc but primarily from those who actually work with youth : youth workers , teachers etc.


The purpose of "ESD Go On" is Increasing awareness of youth workers towards global issues, the impact that they have on their lives and their communities and propose through educational materials it contains, a model for action at individual, community and global levels.


Using non-formal methods , under the guidance of two international trainers, participants will conduct the activities in order achieve the specific objectives:
- development of future oriented-thinking
- development of a responsible behavior towards resources
- development of skills to initiate change
- setting a communication network to contribute in changing mentalities and attitudes in communities


The schedule of the course was designed as to produce a change in the cognitive, emotional and behavioral level of participants. Benefits obtained regarding competences conceptually - certified by Youthpass, provide participants the necessary resources to produce a positive impact in their organizations, at their place of work, in the community.

This event will bring together 30 participants from European Union countries. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with most part 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: 20th July 2014

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

TRAINING IN AUSTRIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called ACT – Active Citizens of Today!” which will take place in 24th until 31st August 2014 in Villach, Austria.

"ACT – Active Citizen of Today!" is a training course that aims to support the professional development of young trainers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning citizenship. We will approach the idea of citizenship on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. The training course uses methods of experiential learning as role plays, simulations and drama methods and group sharing methods as small and large group discussions.

Together, we will be working out and improving ' method toolkit' on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond. All over mission of the training course is to find the ways how to make the issue of citizenship attractive to the youth and their responsibility into his process.

We will be hosted in the following place:

This event will bring together 22 participants from Estonia, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Italy and Greece. The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse the participants with most part 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: 10th July 2014

Monday, May 19, 2014

TRAINING IN ARMENIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called When Social Meet Rights in Armeniawhich will take place in 13th until 20th July 2014 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.

The training course When Social Meet Rights in Armenia is a Training Course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the (Social) rights issues and its implementation in their communities. Have the European Social Charter as base and background; we will approach the idea of Social Rights in different levels: Housing, Education, Health, Employment, Non-Discrimination, Legal and Social Protection and Movement of Persons. The idea is to support the professional development of young activists and to raise the quality of their projects concerning Social Rights in disadvantage communities.

We will work group discussions, studycase, examples and community in practice. Together, we will be working on improving the “good exmaples” on how to motivate youngsters aware and active on their community and beyond.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Estonia, Poland, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Armenia. 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: 31st May 2014

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

TRAINING IN MACEDONIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called Creativity at Youth Work” which will take place in 21st to 29th June 2014 in Struga, Macedonia.

‘Creativity at Youth Work’ is a title of training course aiming to increase abilities of the participants working with young people including young people with fewer opportunities to include creative tools, methods and techniques in their practices and by undertaking this step to empower young people, support their active participation in the civic life of the society and contribute to development of their communities.

This Training course will provide participants various activities aiming to increase set of individual skills and competencies as well as ability to use and share new gained tools and practices with other youth workers, leaders, project managers and advisors. Important part of the training course will be also sessions focused on inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities facing social exclusion and discrimination implemented with goal to strength the abilities of the participants to use creative approaches and methods when delivering the key services to young people coming from marginalized groups.

The event will be held in English. There are 4 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 22 participants from Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Estonia.

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: 24th April 2014

SEMINAR IN SICILY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Seminar called Youth Policies – Good Experiences to Compare” which will take place in 02nd to 06th June 2014 in Palermo (Sicily), Italy.

The project proposed is an international seminar aimed to exchange of best practices in the field of youth policies at local, regional, national or European levels.
The seminar will held in June 2014 and the duration will be of three days (excluding travel) and it will regard the focusing of specific themes through the exposure and the sharing of good practice relating to the following topics:
-promotion of healthy behaviors implemented by outdoor and sports activities;
-initiatives to enhance youth employment through training activities;
-spreading among young people of the spirit of initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment;
-supporting the social inclusion of young people.

In addition to plenary moments during which each partner will present their experience identified as "good practice", it will be provided specific sessions for each theme identified by workshops and activities "face to face" aimed at deepening the individual good practices and the creation of new partnerships. The heterogeneity of partners involved from the point of geographical origin, cultural and social baggage and experienced brought, as well as the diversity of contents and methods of practice presented will represent added values and specific aspects of enriching of the our seminar.

The event will be held in English. There are 4 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 40 participants from Italy, Turkey, Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain, Greece, Slovakia and Malta.

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: 24th April 2014