TRAINING IN IRELAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “LEAD II – A learning and Developing Journey in Leadership” which will take place in 21^st to 28^th June 2014 in Wellington Bridge, Ireland.

The aim of the training course is to provide leadership skills for today’s diverse world. We will be asking participants:

• To reflect on their personal leadership style, values, attitudes and skills in relation to leading in a diverse world.

• To gain a better understanding of working with gender and how to include people with different cultural backgrounds in your team.

• To exchange with other participants the challenges arising from diversity in your own environment and to build a network of exchange.

• To benefit from new knowledge and ideas on how to be more inclusive in their leadership role.

• To return home with new knowledge and ideas on how to be more inclusive in their leadership role with young people

You will learn more about the funding possibilities of the Erasmus + programme and a chance to network with European partners.

Our approach is creative, non-formal & participative. We will have a productive and enjoyable week in a dynamic environment.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 18 participants from Ireland, Estonia, Austria, Italy, Denmark and Romania.

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: 24^th April 2014

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 “GO ON! Training course on Outdoor Methods for Inclusion” which will take place in 10^th to 18^th May 2014 in Bakuriani, Georgia.

The “GO ON! Training course on outdoor education and experiential learning methods for inclusion”, will bring young people together to train them in the use of Outdoor Education and Experiential learning methods in working with social disadvantaged youth.

The participants will go through an experiential learning circle in order to get a practical knowledge for themselves so that they can use it in their daily work with young people. Through this way, they will work around empowering their skills in using outdoor methodologies and experiential learning styles, but also to work together, get to know each other’s culture better and so promote a better understanding between each other, practicing citizenship at the same time.

Aim of the project: Improving quality of inclusive youth work by rising trainers’ competences and youth workers to use and know the limitations of outdoor education and experiential learning methods, as renewed ways to reach a more diverse and inclusive group of youth.

The event will be held in English. There are 4 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 32 participants from 8 different countries from EU and Eastern Europe and Caucasus.

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: 24^th March 2014

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

TRAINING IN MOLDOVA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Active Youth Innovates” which will take place in 7^th to 14^th May 2014 in Vadu Lui Voda, Moldova.

Active Youth Innovates is a training course, which was developed as a module for youth workers/trainers 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.

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 event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 24 participants from 8 different countries from EU and Eastern Europe and Caucasus.

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: 24^th March 2014

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

TRAINING IN AZERBAIJAN - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Understand the Differences, Act on Commonalities” which will take place in 4^th to 11^th May 2014 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

"Understand the Differences; Act on the Commonalities" Training course is an international youth project for rising participant’s awareness of other cultures and different understanding of European identity. Our main goal is the exchange of ideas, points of view, personal knowledge and experience and ways of thinking among youngsters with different cultural background.

The project also fosters intercultural dialogue through active citizenship through various workshops and activities, challenge games. It also aims at the dissemination of results of this event through the multiplying effect of the follow-up activities implemented by the participants in their local communities and /or at international level.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 24 participants from 8 different countries from EU and Eastern Europe and Caucasus.

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: 19^th March 2014

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

URGENT - TRAINING IN SICILY - 1 VACANCY!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Diversity to Improve Your Skills” which will take place in 3^rd to 10^th April 2014 in Montedoro (Sicily), Italy.

“Diversity to improve my skills” is a training course that aims to support the professional development of young leaders and workers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning diversity. The training course uses methods of experiential and non-formal 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 using multicultural approaches.

Participants will be facilitated to better understand different cultures, their values, expectations, behavior and communication. During special activities and debriefings they will lose their prejudice and stereotypes about nations and cultures and appreciate richness of diversity and advantages of peaceful cooperation among nations. The will anticipate and solve problems in intercultural teams and taste intercultural cooperation on the real project. Participants will work in multicultural groups on youth meeting preparation and find out how evaluation could increase quality of their projects.

The event will be held in English. There is 1 vacancy available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 38 participants from 12 different countries from EU and South East Europe.

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: 08^th March 2014

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

TRAINING IN ALBANIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Green Light in Green Entrepreneurshp” which will take place in 17^th to 24^th April 2014 in Pogradec, Albania.

The theme of our training course is the creation of young entrepreneurs by educating and training them for green opportunities. In the same time the theme is creating a strong message to companies for green job ideas by youth entrepreneurs that will bring triplet awareness, to community, to participants and to companies.

Green job we understand a soft work space inside one company, group or individual that increase the welfare of the community about environmental quality and sustainable development.

This Training Course is aimed to increase competencies of youth workers/leaders/youth entrepreneurs/ in green benefits from innovative ideas such as green job opportunities and how to translate into action "green entrepreneurship concept”. We want to use specific actions through self-awareness and policy raising and country reality in order to proceed from intercultural dialogue to intercultural cooperation based in environment and youth inclusion. Our target is to learn by sharing each other opinions and develop mutual understanding for new green ideas by youngster of different countries, economical, ethnic, religious, social and coming in the end with a national recommendation directed to companies for beneficiaries of green jobs.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 26 participants from 12 different countries from EU and South East European countries.

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: 07^th March 2014

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

TRAINING IN ARMENIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANT

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Seminar called “Gender Equality – from theory to equality” which will take place in 13^th to 20^th April 2014 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The main aim of the seminar is to increase the awareness of young people and youth workers about gender issues, and focus on the topic of equality between men and women.

The objectives of the seminar are following:

-to learn about gender equality and share / compare the realities

-to exchange experiences between youth workers and young people on the difficulties to find a gender balance in terms of participation of women,

-to promote gender equality in youth work and international youth projects,

-to facilitate a networking process among participants and promote new common projects related to gender.

The event will be held in English. There are 2 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old. The event will gather 30 participants from 12 different countries from EU and eastern Europe and Caucasus.

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: 23^rd February 2014

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