YOUTH EXCHANGE IN PORTUGAL - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Act for Our Europe” which will take place from 19^th until 30^th June 2016 in Oeiras, Portugal.

During the activity, the young people will take part in several activities of non-formal learning linked to European diversity, in which we want to highlight not only the cultural differences that show the identity of each country, but above all the similarities that connect the participant countries, as a way of fight against stereotypes and contribute to the development of a more inclusive Europe.

Each day there will be a subject regarding Europe and activities under that subject. Some examples are Citizenship, Culture, Heritage, Sports, Social Causes, Sports and Healthy Life-styles or Environment. There will be group works, ateliers, and sport activities, cultural visits, volunteering actions, “Photovoice” and a street action. It's also planned a "Market of Cultures", in which each group will present his own country and culture to the local community.

The young people will have the chance to know the local community and to have contact with the Portuguese culture and habits and share at the same time their own culture with the other members of the group.

This event will bring together 46 participants from Portugal, France, Italy, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Greece and Slovenia. The event will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old until 30 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 400 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: 4^th March 2016

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

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TRAINING STEP OUT - STEP UP IN ESTONIA - INFO AND REPORT!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) held a Training Course on outdoor activities and leadership called “Step Out – Step Up” which took place from 22^nd until 30^th July 2016 in Viljandi, Estonia.

Step Out - Step Up is a training course that aimed to support the professional development of young leaders/trainers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning outdoor activities with learning methodologies. We approached the idea of leadership and outdoors activities on different levels: group dynamics, learning outcomes and intercultural context.

The training course used methods of experiential learning as role plays, simulations and hiking methods and group sharing methods as small and large group discussions. All over mission of the training course was to find the ways how to make the issue of outdoor activities attractive and uselful to the youth. Step Out - Step Up was designed to take place in Viljandi Suure-Jaani County in Estonia having the length of 8 days with participation of 32 youth leaders from Estonia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Spain, Georgia, Armenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Austria and Moldova.

The training course was designed to empower youth workers to develop their competences on the Learning Process and importance when used in outdoor activities and its methods and then to make it relevant for young people. The activities were designed to fulfill those needs.

Objectives were:

 To experience and reflect upon real-life processes of a group.

 To gain a deeper theoretical and practical understanding of Outdoor Education and Experiential Learning, as well as the dynamics of group processes.

 To gain practical tools and methods for group facilitation.

 Develop cross-cultural awareness by providing structured space for sharing, experiencing and addressing inter cultural learning.

 Developing teamwork, leadership and cooperation

Here you can check our Report and more info about the project and activities: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/deklwn69t492ksd/AABE3KFdz_NSuwnYPnujf9uva?dl=0

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission Erasmus+ programme. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Projekti toetab SA Archimedes Noorteagentuur Erasmus+ programmist.

Find More About SA Archimedes Noorteagentuur in: http://noored.ee/

TRAINING COURSES ON GLOBAL EDUCATION - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a long term training course on clobal education  called “Be Part of World’s Future”. The project includes two training courses, one of which will take place from 15th until 24th April 2016 in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, and the next one from 21st until 30th October 2016 in Busteni, Romania. In between and after the training courses  there will be opportunity to actively initiate local activities in your desired field together with your team members.

The long term project is developed in cooperation of 7 partners and lead by the organization Youth Dialogue Programme (Serbia). The organization’s main focus is intercultural dialogue and understanding, together with the empowerment of young people, especially the ones coming from marginalized and vulnerable groups.

The main goal of the project is to build capacity of youth organization to implement global education with young people, to increase their level of global responsibility and global citizenship competencies. A global citizen is a person who has a global perspective and mind-set, understands the global implication of their actions, takes the responsibility attached to them and is constantly making changes in their lives in order to accommodate their impact on the world in a positive manner. Global education is one of the approaches which have proved to be very efficient in contributing to a raise in the number of global citizens. It is the education which develops global citizenship competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes).

More specific objectives of this project are:

·         To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies (from environmental, cultural, economic and political approach), global issues, climate change, consumerism and sustainable lifestyle; sustainable development;

·         To stimulate the internalization of global values (as solidarity, global consciences, responsibility, etc.) for youth workers, young people and youth organization which will be reflected on personal, professional and community level;

·         To increase the level of sustainable life styles of young people, youth workers and youth organization;

This event will bring together 28 participants from Cyprus, Estonia, Romania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia. The event will be held in English. There are 4 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years of age.

The Erasmus + Programme will cover 100% of the accommodation, food and activities and will reimburse 100% of the travel and visa costs for the participants – up to 550 euros (275€ for one training course). There will be a participation fee of 50€ (25€ for each training course) per participant.

All the interested people should fill the application form below. The application form must be sent to helen.heinsalu@gmail.com . 

Application deadline: 28th February 2016

Application form here:  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97202119/Application%20Form_Be%20Part%20of%20Worlds%20Future!.doc

Take a more close look at the project’s aim here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97202119/Call_Participants_Be%20Part%20of%20Worlds%20Future!.pdf

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