TRAINING COURSE IN NORWAY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Volunteering: A Tool for Success” which will take place from 8^th until 16^th December 2017 in Oslo, Norway.

What is more, volunteering is a tool to foster civic engagement for social matters and an expression for social cohesion by giving own time to those who need it the most in the local community. However, for volunteering to be a success story, motivation, enthusiasm and creativity of volunteers need to be framed and volunteers need to be supported and to reach the set objectives. It is a difficult art for project coordinators and appointed youth leaders to coach local volunteers to realise activities independently and successfully.

Moreover, even if volunteers are successfully involved in civil society initiatives, or even their leading force and main implementer, very often these positive examples do not reach a wider public, because visibility measures to promote these success stories are not in place or only of limited reach. Volunteering in many countries is the low involvement of disadvantaged youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Volunteering is, unfortunately, in many cases something done by young people with higher education and from higher economic background.

Thus, the project aims to respond to the following challenges for building democratic civil society structures based on personal commitment and participation:

-  Lack of conceptualisation of volunteering as an instrument for addressing social challenges

- Structural and organisational problems in managing volunteer projects from the selection of the volunteers, to the implementation of the project until its reporting and documentation phase.

- Limited abilities of volunteer coordinators to plan, structure, monitor and evaluate the learning and work process of volunteers

- Lack of inclusion of marginalised youth in civil initiatives

- Low visibility of citizen initiatives and youth participation/ volunteering on community level resulting in a low recognition of voluntary engagement of young people

This event will bring together 30 participants from Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Italy, Spain and Slovenia. The event will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should 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: 20^th November 2017

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YOUTH EXCHANGE IN POLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Let’s play together!” which will take place from 6^th until 14^th December 2017 in Olsztyn, Poland.

The main purpose of the project is to show the alternative of spending free time in a creative way, using national games that were popular in the old days when there were no smartphones, TV or the Internet and our grandparents played it, and for us are unknown. During the project, you will get to know the various popular games from the other country, play them, and then in two international groups we will be working on new games, combining some of the elements from previously known games. New games will be presented and tested by children from the Town Kindergarten. The best game (after voting by our „testers”) will be distribute in our countries.

The project will allow developing creative thinking while creating a new original game and will feel that all participants create something new, innovative, original and useful for the whole of Europe. Participants will learn to work in international groups, develop their creativity, critical thinking, and gain social competence. During the exchange, young people will become acquainted with the culture and language of the partner countries, overcome stereotypes and linguistic and cultural barriers. The activities planned in the project are intended to stimulate imagination and creative thinking as well as international integration. Games have a big impact on human development of mind, memory, concentration, reflexes, perception, imagination, and well affect integration and contacts with youth from foreign countries. By participating in the project participants will acquire new skills and competences that they will be able to use in the future.

This event will bring together 30 participants from Estonia, Poland, Romania, Italy and Lithuania. The event will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should be 17-25 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: 5^th November 2017

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TRAINING COURSE IN AUSTRIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “European Voluntary Service Level UP” which will take place from 25^th November until 02^nd December 2017 in VELDEN AM WÖRTHERSEE, Austria

EVS Level Up is a training course for youth leaders who work and are willing to continue working with European voluntary service action. The project topic is based in voluntarism, its promotion to youngsters, exchanging of experiences and improving competencies of participants while dealing with EVS projects. After twenty years of EVS, experience shows that social transformation takes place within EVS project participants. “EVS Level UP” will introduce methods to consider a political dimension into the EVS by

Objectives:

• To train youth workers, leaders who are working with young people with fewer opportunities (socio-economic, educational, cultural, religious, geographical, disability, sexual orientation and of both genders backgrounds) to work in the context of volunteering;

• To provide new tools for youth workers and activists for work with EVS underlining the political dimension;

• To develop skills of youth workers on the specifics of work environment;

• To bring together people from across Europe to share and exchange experiences, opinions and values, to learn from each other and build new initiatives for the future;

• Extending the critical thinking and knowledge about policy making, democracy and human rights of participants;

• Raising awareness of participants through sharing good practices;

• Enabling participants to better understand and use the political dimension in their work in the EVS cycle.

This event will bring together 31 participants from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Spain. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old and involved on the youth field.

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 245 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: 16^th October 2017

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