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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YOUTH EXCHANGE IN SPAIN - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Youth Exchange called “World in Movement” which will take place from 08^th until 17^th May 2016 in Puente Genil, Cordoba, Spain.

“WORLD IN MOVEMENT” is a youth exchange about migration, aimed to work on integration, active citizenship and entrepreneurship through interaction to make young people discuss about migration and how migration is presented at national, European and global level.

Therefore, the main goals we propose for this project are:

 Establish a deep understanding of the migration to break stereotypes and prejudices.

 Promoting mutual understanding between young people from different backgrounds.

 Strengthen the idea of European citizenship.

 To promote an active and entrepreneurial spirit among young people.

This event will bring together 30 participants from Spain, Estonia, Georgia, Italy and Romania. The event will be held in English. There are 6 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: 28^th February 2016

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

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TRAINING IN ENGLAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Action! - Film and Drama as tools for community development” which will take place from 20^th until 26^th April 2016 in Windsor, United Kingdom.

The training is based on working with young people using film and drama as tools to explore social issues, and to support young people to tell their own stories.

The methods of our work is that young people are the experts on their lives and situations, and that our role is to help give disadvantaged young people a voice, to empower them to share their perspectives, to support them to develop and create their own films.

Film is an increasingly relevant medium for working with young people; with most phones anyone can make and upload a decent quality video, whilst modern digital cameras & editing software mean that any group can make a broadcast standard short on a modest budget.

The course will show you how to work with your group to develop ideas, create stories and take a film from script to screen, with the young people delivering every aspect of the process.

You will learn exercises and techniques for developing characters and storylines; how to keep the whole group involved & engaged; how to approach difficult or challenging subjects; and how to manage creative conflict.

There will be practical film making sessions; both on how to develop your own film making skills, but more importantly on how to share this with the young people. As well as technical skills, we will look at how to involve young people in scheduling, budgeting and running their film project. These are all skills highly relevant to the 21^st Century workplace.

This event will bring together 24 participants from European Union and neighboring countries. 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 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: 10^th February 2016

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

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TRAINING IN IRELAND - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for participants for a Training Course called “Re-ENACT - Empowerment through Nature, Authentic Communication and Theatre” which will take place from 03^rd until 09^th April 2016 in Clare, Ireland.

The training course designed to develop the competences of youth workers, trainers and youth leaders to engage and empower young people in their lives, work and communities.

Using the tools of Nature, Authentic Communication and Theatre we will learn together how to empower the young people we work with by developing their skills in enhanced communication, conflict resolution techniques, entrepreneurial thinking and active participation. The programme involves theoretical inputs and practical workshops, discussions, group processes and individual work.

The objectives of Re-Enact:

• To identify effective and creative methods to engage young people to be active in their lives and communities

• To explore and understand how theatre & outdoor based methods can be used as tools for youth empowerment

• To introduce effective communication techniques in order to create positive dialogue and authentic communication

• To develop competences to implement tools, non-formal and informal educational methods of conflict resolution

• To provide space for participants for discussion and sharing best practices and to develop their training skills and competences

• To improve knowledge about Erasmus+ Youth Programme as a tool for improving project quality

This event will bring together 24 participants from Turkey, Hungry, Estonia, Czech Republic, Lebanon, Italy, Portugal, UK, Armenia, Georgia and Morocco. 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 310 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: 05^th February 2016

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

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CALL FOR 2 VOLUNTEERS only residents in Estonia - APPROVED PROJECT IN SICILY!!!

Noored Ühiskonna Heaks (NYH) is promoting a call for volunteers for a European Voluntary Service 

“Media and Journalism”

-What?

NYH is looking for 2 volunteers aged from 18 to 30 years old for an EVS project in Mussomeli (Sicily - Italy).

-When?

6 months, from beginning of April 2016 to end September 2016.

-Where?                              

Associazione Culturale Strauss is a nonprofit organization that was born in Mussomeli in 1999. It is a self-financed organization that is part of ARCI (Italian Cultural Recreational Association).

"Arci Strauss” has as main objectives the promotion of a multicultural and multi-ethnic society, the dissemination of culture and values of the European community in marginal and peripheral areas such as the province of Caltanissetta, and to support for young people.

Main mission of our organization is in fact to meet young people’s needs and provide them services for their social, professional, cultural and personal growing.

-Which activities?

The project involves the active and participated support by volunteers in various areas related to the topic and some of the activities are developed in collaboration with centers for disabled people and disadvantaged youth:

-          Creation, layout, printing and distribution of "L’ALTERnativo"; Periodical of local information and social protest; historic brand of Strauss;

-          Investigative reporting and writing articles on " L’ALTERnativo";

-          Journalism workshops conducted with the support of professionals;

-          Preparation and management of the newsletter, the website and the Facebook page;

-          Care of the "section of the EVS volunteer", on online local newspapers as "castelloincantato.it and magaze.it";

-          Photo editing and Video Making activities;

-          tours of photography; photo exhibitions.

The volunteers will always run these tasks closely with the project manager of ArciStrauss, also supported by a tutor. Tutors will help volunteers in developing new competences related to their field of action. The languages used while volunteering will be Italian & English mainly. The volunteers will serve 5 days a week, 6 hours a day.

- Practical arrangements:

Volunteer will be housed in the apartment upper the association’s office, of which Strauss is owner, thanks to an agreement with the Municipality of Mussomeli. The structure is part of the Palazzo Spinnato. The floor plan planned to host volunteers has 2 entrances, one internal and connected with the offices below, one independent. The “House of the Volunteer” is provided with 5 bedrooms, all with window, with a total area of ​​113 square meters, a kitchen of about 32 square meters, 2 areas for toilets and divided by gender for a total of about 38 square meters, a laundry room, a solarium and other common spaces for more than 150 square meters.. Accommodation and Bills are fully covered and they will receive 115, 00 Euros /month for maintenance, on top of 135, 00 Euros / month as Pocket Money to cover personal expenses (tot. 250 Euros/Month).

Travel costs (go and back) are covered by the Erasmus+ Project

Finally, the project provides a medical insurance.

We can provide more details of the project and example timetable to the candidates, upon request.

Info about the hosting organisation and also some of the proposed activities you can find here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ih0dub4f6e7ly7/6MkR-cKjsT 

How to Apply?

Send your CV and a motivation letter in English to marco@nyh.ee   by the 10th March 2016.