TRAINING COURSE IN ARMENIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Conflict vs. Connection: A Practical Training for Young Peace-Builders"” which will take place from 10^th until 17^th April 2017 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The course will be focusing on diversity, conflict transformation and emphatic communication. Seeing diversity as a barrier instead of appreciating its enrichment has been playing a substantial role in both the national and international debates and politics in each of the participating countries for decades. The transformation of the conflicts starts from us: our hearts being in war or in peace, our way of communication. When we grow in peace with ourselves, we can continue to bring the transformation to our surroundings: our interpersonal relations, the way we connect and relate to our families, friends, acquaintances, strangers, communities. All these topics will be brought to attention in the TC.

Getting a better understanding in how we, people, function and what gets us together and keeps us walking the same direction is crucial for youth workers and peace builders of today. This will be done by promoting non-violent approaches leading to actions on peace-building and promotion of Human Rights. Moreover, young leaders will discuss the significant role of youth participation in grass-root peace-building initiatives.

Through non formal education methods the participants will get to know each other and will be given a space to exchange experiences and forge new friendships, across any barriers that may exist. All the topics will be brought to attention in the training using the 'learning by doing' methodology, where the participant becomes the protagonist of the learning experience, gets new insights and learning after observing and reflecting over his or hers behaviour in different exercises, games, processes and role plays offered by the trainers and gets a possibility to try out new approaches, ways of communicating and actions in a safe environment of a group setting. The participants will acquire the skills and knowledge to transfer the used methods to concerned parties outside of the project.

This event will bring together 36 participants from Armenia, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey. The event will be held in English. There are 3 vacancies available and participants should have minimum 18 years old and interested in 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 330 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: 09^th March 2017

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EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN CROATIA FOR 12 MONTHS - CALL FOR VOLUNTEER!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteer for 1 European Voluntary Service placement called "Rural EVS MOVEment" for 12 months, which will take place from 25^th May 2017 to 25^th May 2018 in Ozalj, Croatia.

About the organization:

Local Action Group (LAG) Vallis Colapis was founded in 2009 as an effort of rural towns and municipalities in the north of Karlovac County to implement EU LEADER program procedures for rural development. LAG operates in the area of 13 rural towns and municipalities and rural settlements that are part of the cities Karlovac and Velika Gorica.  LAG was founded as a non-profit organization whose founders are municipalities, local public institutions, representatives of the local business sector and non-profit organizations from this rural area.

LAG Vallis Colapis covers an area of 1025 km2 and has over 45.000 inhabitants and works on strengthening local capacities in order to empower local community to be self-sufficient in different fields relevant for this area - entrepreneurship, industry, tourism, agriculture, youth.. Through various cooperation’s with local and European stakeholders we have developed numerous project and programs that have greatly influenced local communities.

Description of the project:  

The volunteer will spend 5 days per week, up to 35h per week, 7h per day involved in activities of LAG Vallis Colapis: project managment, promotion, volunteering activities, organization, communication with local stakeholders, organizing activities, events, local presentation, mobilizing local youth, informing local youth, developing new projects ideas within Erasmus+ and other donators, as in the activities LAG supports in the local community as schools, local NGOs within which will develop specific tasks for the EVS volunteer(s) taking into account their special interest.

That means the volunteer will participate in all activities (workshops, presentation, promotion, photography, working with youth, working with people of different profiles, problem solving, brainstorming, different activities based on the character of the project and programs currently held by organization).

Holidays/weekends: volunteers have, in general, weekends off and the holidays as scheduled.

The main activities for the volunteer are:

-        projects in field of education, culture, sport, arts  for young people,

-        focused in the field of voluntary service in the local community, coordinating European volunteers in order to increase the active participation, European citizenship among youngsters;

-        non-formal educational project for youth with fewer opportunities

-        developing and implementing activities including peer-to-peer education

-        ideas exchange for new projects and presentations

Accommodation:  The volunteers will be provided with completely furnished apartment in the town with a good location and close proximity to the office.

Food and Pocket Money: Volunteers will have monthly food and pocket money

The Erasmus + Programme will reimburse 100% of the travel costs for the participants (up to 275 euros). We will provide full health insurance for the volunteer during the voluntary period.

All the interested people should fill send the CV and Motivation Letter in English to marco@nyh.ee as soon as possible!

Application deadline: 17th March 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 “Change your View on Migration” which will take place from 27^th March until 03^rd April 2017 in Velden am Wölthersee, Austria.

"Change your View on Migration" is a training course designed to explain and develop deeper understanding about migration in nowadays world. Couple of last months has shown how big the phenomenon actually is and that there's a big lack of knowledge among youth workers. Migration is a crucial interest to young people whether they come from countries affected by in-migration and those suffering the consequences (and reaping benefits) of emigration. Knowledge of migration processes, the causes and consequences of migration and rights of young migrants are relevant to young people’s needs particularly if they are likely to become migrants or participants of mobility schemes or if their home communities are affected by migration.

Competences in addressing migration in youth work are essential for building community cohesion in those countries.

The main aim of the training course is to develop youth workers/leaders competences in the field of migration to give them proper tools and methods to help young people to adapt with the situation of high migration level in all its aspects. Solidarity, tolerance and integration are fundamental values that TC intends to promote. Activities will focus on the principles of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion, from both, European and global level. The challenges of migration, such as inclusion and integration of migrants, require development of solidarity and tolerance, and the TC aims to equip participants with tools to spread these values among young people, to contribute to the promotion of a more open and informed society that offers the same opportunities to everyone.

This event will bring together 30 participants from Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Cyprus. The event will be held in English. There are 2 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 235 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: 27^th February 2017

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YOUTH EXCHANGE IN SLOVAKIA - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange named "Rural areas for You(th), You(th) for rural areas" which will take place from 23^rd until 31^st March 2017 in High Tatras, Slovakia.

Are you interested in photography, nature and development of rural areas? We invite you for a youth exchange where you can improve you skills in photography but also help to promote and develop tourism and business in rural areas.

Slovak villages are beautiful but running off people, therefore we also want you to share experience from your countries and we can all together find new ways how to change that situation. And maybe you face the similar situation in your countries, so we can look on that problem more globally and try so search for solutions in all participants’ countries.

There will be various activities during the youth exchange: getting-know each other’s activities, teambuilding activities, energizers, intercultural evenings. The main program will be divided into two parts: development of rural areas through promotion and tourism - workshop how to work with camera and take good pictures, how to edit them, how to use graphic design software (of course basics of it), field trip where we will visit various villages in Slovakia and collect materials there (pictures, videos) which will be later used in preparation of promotional materials. The second part of the youth exchange will be focused on development of rural areas through business. We will have discussion with entrepreneur from rural area in Slovakia, also some skype calls with some others, we will discuss what are challenges to do business there, how to overcome them. The project aims also to familiarize participants with other projects, programs and possibilities that they can use in the future, such as Erasmus+, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, European Voluntary Service, possibilities to apply for grant as „new entrepreneur“, etc.

This event will bring together 30 participants from Slovakia, Estonia, Cyprus, Spain, Italy and Turkey. There are 5 vacancies available. Participant should be minimum 18 until 30 years old.

The event will be held in English.

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 170 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: 15^th February 2017

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TRAINING IN TURKEY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Training of Trainers in Non-Violent Communication” which will take place from 6^th until 13^th April 2017 in Ankara, Turkey.

Our project aimed to inform the youth workers and youth trainers about nonviolent Communication and Nonviolent Actions and to work in these areas. As Platform of Human Rights Educators implementing studies about non-violence and non-violent struggle, wants to add international dimension to its work and equip youth workers about non-violent communication concept and work to cope with violence and to disseminate the usage of non-violent communication in youth work.

At the same time, we will also work on Non-violent Actions concept that youth workers will adopt the usage and implementation of non-violent actions, role in influencing social policies and advocacy and also impact of these actions in society and acquire competence to use these tools.

With the activities held during the project, the young people and participating organizations will be affected directly and they will develop competences on non-violent actions and also non-violent communication. Besides that, the participating organisations with the activities held by them, they will acquire competences to implement projects about non-violent communication and non-violent.

This event will bring together 29 participants from trainers from 14 different program countries Estonia, France, Sweden, Italy, Latvia, Hungary, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, Croatia and Turkey. 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 90% 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: 8^th February 2016

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TRAINING COURSE IN GERMANY - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “ACT Non- Formal” which will take place from 16^th until 24^th March 2017 in Wiefelstede, Germany.

The goals of "Act Non-Formal" are to provide new innovative methods to international youth organisations that can be applied on a local level in their daily activities, especially in order to include young people from marginalised groups, refugees, youngsters with minority background, people with disabilities and other groups with fewer opportunities.

It is connected with the goals of the Erasmus+, as it provides new innovative methods and skills for youth workers to include marginalised youth into the society and provides opportunities for them to develop skills, Furthermore, it brings young people from different cultures closer together, and it helps young people to express and reflect their opinion, gain self-confidence and take active part in the society. The methods that the youth workers will learn during this project will help them to work in their local communities to foster cultural diversity, understanding and implementation of common European values, such as tolerance and respect of human rights.

Basics of drama and creative writing - The participants will learn how to approach, address, work with disadvantaged groups - minorities, refugees, disabilities, young people without self-confidence etc. We will have several workshops that give introductions to basics of drama education that can be used for all target groups of young people, continuing with statues what is non-verbal expression and are useful working with young people that have language barriers and lack of self-confidence.

Improv theatre and theatre of the oppressed - we will introduce two very different techniques that are applicable for two different target groups: improvised theatre as a tool for the participants useful for young people with disabilities and theatre of the oppressed for target group of marginalised youth. We will have a workshop on teamwork in non-formal education and working in an international team. This is important for the youth workers as most of the times working in pairs is common in non-formal education and a smooth cooperation is essential for a good learning outcome when working with youth.

This event will bring together 38 participants from Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Malta, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia and Spain. The event will be held in English. There are 4 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 255 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: 15^th February 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 “YOUth Are The Voice” which will take place from 20^th until 27^th March 2017 in Velden am Wölthersee, Austria.

“YOUth Are The Voice” is a training course based on non-formal and on the principles of hands-on learning and transfer of skills, however according to non-formal technics. Nowadays, it is vital for young people and civil society youth organizations to grasp the work of social media, not only because they are tools of free promotion of one’s activities and projects, but also because they are now the most powerful tools that activate communities behind a cause.

The course will present to the participants the basics of communication, public speaking, influence, persuasion and rhetoric and how this applies to social media and how messages and values are transmitted to the public and audience. The TC will consider the sociology and psychology of mass communication, as well as analyze the most recent existing movements that have made extensive use of social media, which have proved to be essential for their success.

The most important part of the TC includes strong elements of practice and handson transfer of knowledge, in which everything that has been learned during the sessions can be put into practice through the development of a media strategy and its implementation under the support and the coaching of the international trainers. In fact, the training course is aimed at youth workers, young activists, members of youth organizations who may face difficulties in promoting their work and values among the general public and audience and to who wants to gain more knowledge of the issues considered.

This event will bring together 31 participants from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden. 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 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: 1^st February 2017

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