EXCHANGE IN CZECH REPUBLIC - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Socially Aware Youth + (SAY+)” which will take place in 14^th until 21^st July 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

We will bring youngsters from eight different EU countries in order to create a multicultural environment and stimulate international interaction from the first day. This will contribute to free participants from prejudices about other cultures, and/or nationalities, and would allow the project to tackle down xenophobia, separatism, racism and other forms of discrimination.

The activities will promote a healthy, sustainable life style and will encourage participants to interact and help each other. This will contribute to strengthen social cohesion and to develop the participants’ individual skills and their communication abilities. The activities will encourage participants to look for creative solutions to the issues they will be presented with throughout their stay.

Specific workshops include, but are not limited to: nutrition, first aid, issues and solutions to daily activities faced by disadvantaged persons, neuro-linguistic programming, gender equality issues, minorities in the EU, body language, yoga, and development of young people's creative talents in the arts and applied science/technology.

This Exchange will bring together 40 participants from European Union countries. The exchange will be held in English. There are 6 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 50 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: 15^th June 2013

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

TRAINING IN ITALY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Volunteers – Give more and Get the Future” which will take place in 03^rd until 10^th June 2013 in Nicolosi (Sicily), Italy.

Volunteers – Give more and Get the Future! is a training course for youth leaders who work and are willing to continue working with European voluntary service action. The project will be held in Sicily and its main topic is based in voluntarism, its promotion to youngsters, exchanging of experiences and improving competencies of participants while dealing with EVS projects. The idea of this project is to also create an opportunity for trainers, youth workers, SO-HO mentors (and future mentors) from different countries from SEE and EU and with different backgrounds to come together in Italy and use the opportunity to meet and exchange their experiences discussing for different positive and negative situation that are created while working with EVS.

This Training Course aims therefore also at giving the participants knowledge, skills and developing their attitudes towards future work with partner countries from SEE, both in Balkans and in Programme Countries. Also, it aims at the establishment of personal contacts between participants and potential sending/hosting partners for European Voluntary Service.

This event will bring together 32 participants from European Union Member states and South East Europe countries. The event will be held in English. There is 1 vacancy 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: 15^th April 2013

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

TRAINING IN GEORGIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “When Social Meet Rights” which will take place in 24th until 31st May 2013 in Kobuleti, Georgia.

The training course When Social Meet Rights is a 6 days 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 30 participants from European Member states and Eastern European and Caucasus countries. 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: 15^th April 2013

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

EXCHANGE IN ITALY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Eurocycle for Environment” which will take place in 20^th until 28^th June 2013 in Scurcola Marsicana, Italy.

How we treat in the Europe the natural environment protection areas in a sustainable way? Are we aware how to protect the environmental areas in our communities? What kind of experiences and ideas can be shared, to enhance environment protection and recycling and also increase young people's attention to ecosystems and sustainable natural lifestyles?

In EuroCycle for Environment we intend explore the local natural environment in a natural and sustainable way of life. We will discover the exciting world of recycled materials and create new old things!

This youth exchange wants to give a push to the cooperation with others countries by offering the opportunity to a youth group   and youth leaders to discover other culture and work together.

As an output, the youth exchange aims to improve the quality of future projects and establishing partnerships in the frame of the Youth in Action Programme and to develop common guidelines on environment, Training Course and Youth Initiatives.

This Exchange will bring together 30 participants from Portugal, Poland, France, Estonia and Italy. The exchange will be held in English. There are 5 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old and maximum 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: 30^th April 2013

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

TRAINING IN GEORGIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Active Citizens of Today” which will take place in 2^nd until 10^th May 2013 in Kobuleti, Georgia.

The term European citizenship has recently become a buzz word. Everyone speaks about it, but no one really knows what does it mean and people keep asking: Is it just about politics? Is European citizenship a V.I.P. club? Where does it start and end? How can put it to our projects? How can we make it concrete and practical?

ACT is a training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the (European) citizenship issues. We will approach the idea of citizenship on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. We will work on cases, examples and Europe in practice. Together, we will be working on improving the methods on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond.

This event will bring together 24 participants from Estonia, Georgia, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Macedonia. 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: 3rd April 2013

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

EXCHANGE IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS URGENT!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “Filografi - Calligraphy and painting with wire and nail” which will take place in 08^th until 15^th April 2013 in Mus, Turkey.

Filografi is a handcraft. It was born in Middle East, than became popular all over the world. A person devoted to studying and producing written works. The word, "philographer," literally means "lover of writing/written works."

Participants will have different workshops in philographic and will discuss among the countries about traditions and many arts that are disappearing with time. European countries call it '' String art'' or '' Owl String Art''. 

During the programme, the participants will have intercultural workshops using different philographic as a tool for learning among different countries and cultures.

This Exchange will bring together 30 participants from all around Europe. The exchange will be held in English. There are 5 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 we buy the tickets and the participants has to contribute with  30% 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: 1^st March 2013

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

TRAINING IN AUSTRIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “CityZens of Europe” which will take place in 28^th March until 06^th April 2013 in Deutschlandsberg, Austria.

The training course that aims to support the professional development of youth workers, youth leaders and trainers, who are working in inclusion field 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 will use 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 with fewer opportunities (disabled people, people with migration background, people from rural areas, etc.) 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.

This event will bring together 24 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 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: 3rd March 2013

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