Last languague exchange 28/04/2015

Hola a todos!!

Aquí os dejamos las fotos de ayer, como cada martes celebramos los intercambios de idiomas en el ON a las 21:30. En el pasado intercambio jugamos al juego: ¿Quien soy? Esperamos que lo hayáis pasado muy bien. Nos vemos en el próximo martes!!

Hi everyone!!

Here are the pictures from the last event, we'd like to remind you that we meet every Tuesday at the pub: 'On' at 21:30. We played: Who am I?, we hope you had a good time. See you at the next language exchange!!

Training Course:The TopsyTurvy Learning Experience - a quest for learning in a chaotic, upside down world 14/10/015

Training Course

11-17 December 2015 | Bonn, Germany
The idea of Life Long Learning has put 'learning' into new perspectives. Perpectives that are in need of new ways of thinking and innovative approaches. Learners should direct their own learning and be responsible for what, when and how they learn.

The TopsyTurvy - Learning Experience aims to develop the potential of participants about their facilitation, mentoring and coaching capacities when working with young people in a non-formal environment. During this course, participants will get the opportunity to explore learning and autonomous thinking in unconventional environments, through plannend and unplanned workshops and methods about learning and guiding learning. According to individual needs, participants will be able to select their own ways of involvement individually and in groups.

Application deadline: 14 October 2015

Date of selection: 11 November 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: C.A.S.T.! Community building, Awareness raising and Social inclusion through forum Theatre! 10/05/015

Training Course

4-11 June 2015 | Kalamata, Greece

The main aim of the project is to train youth workers on the use of non-formal tools and methods, so as to contribute to the empowerment and increase in self-confidence of the young people, especially of young NEETs.

During the last years, the financial crisis all over Europe has created more “youth with fewer opportunities”, raising the unemployment rates in high percentages especially in the ages between 18-30. Youth are becoming demotivated, entering a negative psychological circle, which is reducing their employability skills and inhibits creativity. 

In addition, one can observe in European Societies the augmentation of nationalism, the intensification of stereotypes (promoted also by the media), the increase of feelings of xenophobia and racism (targeting mostly people of different cultural backgrounds, immigrants, etc) and the increased marginalization and intolerance towards certain groups of people (Roma, homosexuals, people living in extreme poverty, etc).

Many youth organizations are asked to respond to these new needs and they are experimenting with new, innovative, methodologies.

During this training course we would like to explore how Forum Theatre can be used in Youth Work as a tool for building a sense of community, raising awareness on current issues, promoting solidarity and social inclusion, and giving the motivation and will to the young people to become more active citizens and, as Boal himself said, “build their own future, rather than just waiting for it”.

The objectives of this project are:

- To introduce the participants to Forum Theatre and explore how it can be used as a tool in Youth Work

- To map the challenges youth are facing and the ways that youth work, using different tools, can empower the young people in order to overcome them

- To promote the exchange of best practices and the transfer of innovation. 

- To train participants on how to adapt forum theatre methods to the particularities and needs of their own target – group, in order to achieve the best possible results 

- To develop competences in setting up activities for young people from marginalized communities and analyze the challenges they face in their everyday work with youth with fewer opportunities. 

- To share knowledge about the ERASMUS+ programme and create a network for the development of common projects in the near future

To achieve the objectives of the project we will use a combination of non-formal learning methods and tools (round table discussions, presentations, experiential exercises, peer to peer, reflection, role playing etc) and theoretical background, while the main tool that will be presented and which the participants would learn to use is the forum theatre, a technique that is used, among others, to empower groups in crisis, dramatizing the experiences of the participants and exploring different ways to respond to them.

The project is expected to have a direct impact on participants, the organizations that they represent and their target groups, by improving the skills of people working in the youth sector and the services offered to young people and through the exchange of good practices and tools. In the long term, and using a well-thought strategy for dissemination and exploitation of the project’s results, the impact is expected to pass to a wider European and global context, further promoting the importance of non-formal learning and the skills acquired through it, and also the importance and role of youth workers in strengthening and stimulating the confidence of young people to become themselves more active on issues that concern them.

Application deadline: 10 May 2015

Date of selection: 15 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Last languague exchange 21/04/2015

Hola a todos!!

Aquí tenéis la foto del pasado intercambio, como cada martes celebramos el intercambio de idiomas en el ON a las 21:30. En el pasado intercambio jugamos a un juego de nombres y a un bingo humano, esperamos que os lo hayáis pasado bien. Nos vemos en el próximo intercambio!!

Hi everyone!!

Here is the picture from the last event, we'd like to remind you that we meet every Tuesday at the pub: 'On' at 21:30. We played a name game and 'human bingo', we hope you had a good time. See you at the next language exchange!!

Human Bingo

Time: 20 mins

Suggested participants: 20-150 

Equipment required 

A copy of the Human Bingo grid per participant and one on acetate, participants need pens. A prize would be excellent! 

Activity level 

 People will be walking around talking to one another 

Explanation 

Hand out the Human Bingo Grid to everyone in the group. On the handout are 20 boxes; in each of the boxes is a heading. They must speak to other people in the room, find someone who meets the heading for each box. For example, one of the headings is “Left Handed” they must find someone in the room who is left handed and write their name in the box. It must be a different person for every box. Some of the boxes have an asterisk, in these instances the person must actually demonstrate that they can do what is asked for. For example “Roll their tongue” the person must actually roll their tongue. The first person back to the front with all their boxes filled in is the winner.

Is left handed	Can say hello in 3 languages	Has met someone famous	Someone who is the only child in the family	Has a pet
Can quote 3 lines from Star Wars	Has NOT seen a Harry Potter film	Has a sister	Has been to a different country	Owns a Ford
Is a vegetarian	Was born in a different country	Lives in a different country	Is wearing jewelleary	Has been to a live football match
Can recite a line from Shakespeare	Has the same favourite colour eyes as yourself	Has a birthay this month	Can roll their tongue	Has been abroad this year
Grew up on a farm	Read more than 1 book this winter	Does NOT have a Facebook account	Has been on Disney World	Plays a Musical Instrument

https://ntu.ac.uk/community/document_uploads/85586.pdf

Partnership-building Activity: PBA Make the Move II 19/06/015

Partnership-building Activity

6-11 October 2015 | Vila da Marmeleira, Portugal

Youth Exchanges play an important role in the youth field and remain a cornerstone in the mobility programmes of the Eu Commission. The NA's of BE FR and PT launch this PBA with a clear focus on creating partnerships & developing quality Youth Exchanges.

Second edition of this PBA. First one was in spring 2014 and was a real success, with 10 projects emerging and most of them applied in the following months. And partnerships are still going on and projects created.

Objectives:

• To create an opportunity to find good and reliable partners to make youth exchanges with

• To understand what is needed to plan a youth exchange of good quality

• To create a solid networks of contacts and partnerships

• To equip the youth workers with insight in their role as coach and support

• To experience the possibilities of local involvement

• To understand the impact and social change a youth exchange can have within the local community

Activity overview

For 40 participants: Youth workers and leaders or young people who can represent their group/structure interest and are ready to be actively involved in working on concrete application for future Youth Exchanges. 

For more details about activity, venue and profile of participants: see document attached.

Participants from: 

• Programme Countries

• Eastern Partnership Countries 

• Western Balkans 

• Russian Federation

Details :

Together with partnership building, we will experience the Portuguese culture, we will be living, eating, sleeping and working inside a small rural village (450 habitants) named Vila da Marmeleira. From August 2013 on, this village became the first ‘Rural Centre of Non Formal Education’ in Portugal … therefore you’ll be experiencing a double Non Formal Educational impact! The international evening is organized in small international groups together with 10 local Portuguese families. This training course is organized in close partnership the all the local stakeholders of the village Vila da Marmeleira (young people, families, associations, authority and companies). Be prepared to interact and discover … during an entire week you’ll be a ‘full habitant’ of the village!

Applicants from Partner Countries will be selected by BEFR National Agency in cooperation with the Regional SALTO Centres. Final selection of participants from these regions will be made on 24/07/2015. All costs for these participants are taken in charge.

Deadline for application: 19/06/2015

Pre-selection by agencies: 26/06/2015

Final selection: 24/07/2015

Application deadline: 19 June 2015

Date of selection: 26 June 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Social ARTpreneurship for Innovative Solutions 10/05/015

Training Course

15-22 June 2015 | Llinars del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain

The project aims at making an important contribution to the promotion of "Social Entrepreneurship" at European level, emphasizing the possibilities that art and culture can offer to young people, in order to improve their working conditions.

The project "Social ARTpreneurship for Innovative Solutions" aims at making an important contribution to the promotion of "Social Entrepreneurship" at European level, emphasizing the possibilities that art and culture can offer to young people, in order to improve their working conditions. The project foresees a training course to be held in Llinars del Vallès (Barcelona, Spain) from the 15th to the 22nd of June 2015. The training course will involve 25 participants, mostly youth workers and volunteers from partner organisations, coming from Spain, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Hungary and Italy. The methodology used during the project will be based on Non-Formal Education principles. The working methods will be based on art and creativity, and will include games and dynamics; group cohesion activities; moments of reflection and analysis; simulations; theatre workshops; individual and working group activities; sessions to exchange experiences and best practices; and a presentation to an external audience. It is expected that the project will get the following results: the acquisition by participants of new competences based on art and creativity, that will enable them to improve their working conditions, and a greater spirit of initiative; new reflections about the concept of "Social Entrepreneurship" in Europe, and the role that art and culture can have in this sector; new "creative" solutions to the problem of youth unemployment in Europe; new network projects between European youth organisations. It is expected that the project will impact both directly in participants, in international partner organizations and in the local community where the activities will take place, as well as indirectly in the communities of origin of the participants, through a deep multiplier effect. In a long-term perspective, the project will promote and disseminate the use of art and creativity as privileged working tools in educational interventions carried out for young people.

Aims & Objectives:

• To analyse the concept of Social Entrepreneurship.

• To share good examples and practices of Social Entrepreneurship in Europe.

• To promote active participation in European young people and their Social Entrepreneurship.

• To empower European young people through the development and the recognition of new artistic and creative competences, supporting their professional development.

• To explore creative methods in the fight against youth unemployment in Europe.

• To foster social development of Europe through culture and arts.

On the other hand we want to emphasize that the practical activities proposed contain in themselves social values and meet the following specific objectives: 

• To develop individual values: the challenge that mean the different theatrical disciplines help us to develop the spirit of perseverance and self confidence, to improve self-esteem, to develop a sense of safety and risk, to discover our capabilities and our limits, to develop creativity.

• To promote group values: the performing arts are team disciplines, where you learn that active participation, cooperation and group cohesion are essential to achieve a long-term objective.

• To facilitate and develop the integration through education for diversity, solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue.

Working methods:

Social theatre, clown, street theatre, performative theatre. The training course is based on practical work: activities will include a very good overview and practical experience of these methods through individual work, working groups and collective group work, and at the end of the training we will realise a final performance in the hosting local community, using the techniques we will train during the course, as a result of the work done and as an important learning opportunity for participants.

Each participant will end this project with ideas about how to use these tools in their future actions. A purpose for this TC is to proceed with already existing network members to follow-up plans, to exchange good practices and to prepare future quality projects.

Application deadline: 10 May 2015

Date of selection: 12 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Coach Youth Change 4/06/015

Training Course

29 July - 5 August 2015 | Brioude, France

General Objective: Develop youth workers/leaders competences to support young people on how to deal with the challenges they face in a changing world.

Topics: 

Youth coaching and personal development,

Group dynamics and participation,

Youth learning and inclusion.

Objectives:

General Objective: Develop youth workers/leaders competences to support young people on how to deal with the challenges they face in a changing world.

Specific objectives:

how to encourage young people to follow their passion/interests and develop their potential;

how stimulate critical thinking and inner analytical competencies;

help youth workers to increase participation of young people in society;

how to transfer the acquired competences and inspire others to adopt the coaching approach;

develop a coaching approach to improve the quality of youth work with the support of Erasmus+/Youth.

Working methods: 

We will use a mix of the following methods depending on the needs of the participants and the group dynamic: Creativity; Experiential learning; Theoretical input; Good practices sharing; Visits; Show your skills workshops; smelly cheeses tests and more surprises...

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: France, Estonia, Spain, Romania, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia & Hungary.

Application deadline: 4 June 2015

Date of selection: 5 June 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Scene for unity - Scene 15/05/015

Training Course

4-13 June 2015 | Bátonyterenye, Hungary

Advanced verbal expression, communication, group leading

Training tools:

*improvization techniques (verbal, movement, expression)

*drama and theatre practices

*group leading skills

*experiential education techniques

*supervision of real cases

Basic concept:

As a youth/social worker we work in high complexity environment in various ways:

* Environment: less supportive structure (institutional, working place, co-working partners)

* Clients: difficult youngsters (behaviour, social background)

* Results: we might face with a seemingly slow impact in our youth work

* Internal: having doubts about our skills relating our youth work

If you feel interested in any of the above topics please join us to learn about how to be more confident and joyful despite all the complexity you meet!

Aims:

_ Developing social sensitivity of underprivileged youth and youth workers amongst difficult situations

_ Helping them develop their social and cognitive competencies

_ Involving youth with different social back ground makes it possible to understand the concept of integration and realize the channels for knowledge sharing

Application deadline: 15 May 2015

Date of selection: 20 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: BiTriMulti (BTM) - Multilateral Training Course for newcomers in youth exchanges 7/06/015

Training Course

21-25 October 2015 | Norway

The aim of the BiTriMulti course is to offer an international learning experience for practitioners active in the youth work field, enabling them to develop their competences in setting up quality Youth Exchange projects;especially newcomers to this field

The BiTriMulti training supports voluntary as well as full-time youth workers dealing directly with young people in developing their first international Youth Exchange in the framework of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

The aim of the BTM training course is to offer an international learning experience to practitioners active in the youth work field, enabling them to develop their competences in setting up quality Youth Exchange projects.

Objectives of BTM:

- To provide an informed introduction to the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme, focusing on Youth Exchanges and their capacity to enhance young people’s active engagement in the making of Europe (though not exclusively) for newcomers to the programme;

- To offer an individual and group learning experience through a simulated process on setting up a Youth Exchange project;

- To develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to organise a Youth Exchange, based on the non-formal learning practice, principles, and quality standards of the EU youth programmes;

- To enable participants to reflect on their learning and to familiarise themselves with Youthpass – the strategy on the recognition of non-formal learning in the youth field, its technical tool to produce Youthpass Certificates, and its application in Youth Exchanges in particular and the EU youth programmes in general;

- To offer the opportunity to meet possible partner groups and to make contacts in other countries.

Programme: The BTM training is a learning-by-doing experience, built on a simulation exercise which is interspersed with workshops, info sessions, activities to improve the group dynamics, and ends with an evaluation.

The Network of National Agencies for "Youth in Action" organises a series of BTMs each year. You'll find an overview on all the upcoming BTMs at http://www.salto-youth.net/BTM/.

Application deadline: 7 June 2015

Date of selection: 20 June 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Volunteering for knowledge 20/05/015

Training Course

9-16 August 2015 | Sofia, Bulgaria

“Volunteering for knowledge" is TC that will deal with the importance of volunteering as a tool for acquiring new skills and knowledge. Duration: 09 - 16 August, 2015 - 6 full working days activities, 8 days including the travel dates.

“Volunteering for knowledge" is an International Training Course (TC) that will deal with the importance of volunteering as a tool for acquiring new skills and knowledge.

Organized by “Bulgarian sports development association”, Bulgaria.

Duration: 09 - 16 August, 2015 - 6 full working days activities, 8 days including the travel dates.

Main topic of the content: The overall aim of the project is to empower young people/youth workers with the innovative way of acquiring skills and knowledge, using volunteering. The main target group will be focused on volunteering in sports, as an innovative approach to involve more young people to have real working skills and provide them with more employability opportunities. The transfer of good practices between western and eastern European countries, living the good examples during the TC will empower the fight with youth unemployment by creating opportunities for self-employment and employment through volunteering.

Learning objectives:

- To raise knowledge and gain new experiences on volunteering and volunteering in sports as tools of recognition of skills and knowledge; 

- Developing the potential for young people to help them access labor market with real skills and knowledge and this way - enlarge the youth employment.

- To clarify the challenges of volunteering in sports regarding to content and methodology, non formal and informal learning process, inter cultural learning and impact on local community; 

- To create a network of professionals (youth leaders, social workers and Trainers) who work with unemployed young people and people with fewer opportunities using volunteering as a tool for education and ready to develop new E+ projects raising awareness on personal, social and professional development during the work activity.

This project is focused on teaching youth/social workers/youth leaders/trainers/sport coaches how they can use volunteering as a motivator and way to increase employability in their daily work with young people.

The profile of the ideal candidate:

- Youth /social workers/youth leaders/trainers/sport coaches, active within their organization or society;

- Be motivated to develop their competences in volunteering and sport; 

- Already have experience in working with young people, organizing initiatives and projects; 

- Be able to act as a multiplier in our local community, ensuring the snowfall effect;

- Be committed to attend for the full duration of the course and participate fully in all activities; 

- Be aged 18+ but preferably 25+; 

- Competently able to work in English language.

Working methodology: a combination of different creative and interactive methods will be used by the Trainers team and adapted upon the profile of participants. Some examples of working methods: theoretical inputs, round table, Compass/Salto sessions, individual/group activities, group exercises, work on examples in a small group, case studies, real attempts.

Application deadline: 20 May 2015

Date of selection: 30 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Partnership-building Activity: ”P.L.A.Y: Passion, Love, Active Participation, Employability” 10/05/015

Partnership-building Activity

1-9 July 2015 | Recoaro Terme, Italy

Partnership Building Seminar on share methods on discover traditions through arts and sports in order to motivate unemployed young people to use their talent to become entrepreneurs

Themes of the Partnership Building Seminar:

- Develop and improve the competence of Sense of creativity and entrepreneurship of young people through arts and sports;

- Share and explore methods of non - formal education through arts and sports in order to recognise cultural values and traditions;

- Motivate unemployed young people to discover their talents and cultures through different arts and sports activities;

- Provide opportunity to find strengths, creativity, culture, traditions and combine all of them in an entrepreneurship in the sake of young people and local community;

- Find partners with similar needs and interests and target group in order to explore talents and traditions together locally and disseminate in European level through KA1 and KA2 projects according to the proposals of Erasmus + programme.

The overall aim of the Partnership building seminar is to train youth workers, youth leaders to be able to prepare, run and evaluate such type of non – formal educational methods which support young people to explore their talents meanwhile discover their own cultures. Practicing education through arts and sports in order to find strengths and creativity in traditions, which were forgotten and revise them, make it modern and popular among local community and European level. To support young people to recognise their roots and find their talents there and using their talents, to foster their sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. To make traditions through talents of young people well – known in Europe e.g. running youth projects according to the proposals of KA1 and KA2 according to the proposals of Erasmus + programme.

Learning objectives of the partnership building seminar are:

- To get acquainted with priorities of Health and Well Being and Culture and Creativity of the European Youth Strategy “Investing and empowering young people”;

- To explore key competences with special focus on sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;

- To practice non – formal educational methods as education through sports in order to discover traditional sports and games; 

- To practice non – formal educational methods as education through arts in order to discover music, dance, paintings, architecture. 

- To invent self – assessment tools in order to support young people to recognise their talents during non – formal educational methods and identify their learning outcomes;

- To make a link between learning outcomes and entrepreneurship;

- To make proposals for local and European youth projects in order to use the talent and traditions of young people together in the sake of local communities;

- To make solid partnerships for KA1 and KA 2 youth projects according to the proposals of Erasmus + programme.

The methodology of the partnership building seminar:

The methodological flow of the seminar:

1. To get familiar with theories and strategies of European Commission: Health and Well - Being and Culture and Creativity of the European Youth Strategy “Investing and empowering young people” and key competences with special focus on sense of initiative and entrepreneurship from Youthpass learning process;

2. Share methods for education through sports: participants collect traditional sports and games from their local communities and send a description of it to everyone. They will present it and practice during the seminar. Then till the end of the seminar, they will make a traditional sports and games booklet in the language of all participants of the seminar. After each presentation, there will be a discussion what young people can learn from the certain traditional sport or game. 

3. Share methods for education through arts. Participants will bring music, dance, photos of paintings and architecture they believe that represent their culture the most. They will present it through different tools and techniques to the others. Make a DVD about it!

4. Participants have to make a local research on traditional games, sports, dance, music, paintings and architecture of the town, what young people know about it.

5. Invent and explore different tools and techniques which can support young people to recognise their learning outcomes and from their learning outcomes to recognise their talent. 

6. Triple T Strategy: Talents, Traditions, Together – make a strategy for initiation and entrepreneurship in local and European level. 

7. Build up strong partnerships for realisation of the Strategy and invent new projects to implement it locally and European level.

The seminar is based on non – formal educational methods with special focus on education through sport and arts. Experienced trainers will facilitate the learning process of participants and provide space for learning theories, put theories into practice, facilitate research, conduct learning process and support to identify learning outcomes. The programme is built up according to the needs and expectations of partner organisations and the main organisational aim is to use the methods, tools, techniques, strategy at home and foster the outcomes into European level.

Who can participate in the Partnership building seminar:

- At least 18 years old and there is no upper age limit!

- Youth workers, youth leaders, young people, project managers, etc.;

- Ready to take part in the whole Partnership building seminar; 

- Have organizational support for further youth activities;

- To be able to communicate English.

Application deadline: 10 May 2015

Date of selection: 18 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Language Exchange

Tomorrow we'll celebrate our 2nd Language Exchange of April. We'll be in ON, in C/Alfonso XI, for our weekly Language Exchange. English, Spanish, Dutch, French ... and more!! :)

We really wanna see you again and have a great time with you all. We'll be in ON at 9.30! We wanna spend some time meeting people while we speak different languages ;)

If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

E-learning: Erasmus+ Funding Opportunities for Youth 03/05/015

E-learning

4 May - 1 June 2015 | This course is online so no venue country!!, Belgium - FR

You have heard about Erasmus+ but you don’t know so much about it. You have applied within E+ but haven’t been lucky this time. You would like to learn more about European youth cooperation but don’t know how to start.This MOOC on E+ is made for you!

This course provides an overview of the purpose, priorities, and expected impact of the European Union’s funding programme Erasmus+: Youth in Action. Learn how you can get involved in European youth cooperation and make a positive impact on your youth group, organisation, and community.

This first MOOC, running from 4 May until 1 June 2015, is expected to guide you through Key Action 1 Mobility Project for Young People and Youth Workers (youth exchanges, EVS and mobility of youth workers).This course will create space for networking and building distributed knowledge about European youth cooperation and international youth work by applying funding available through the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme..

Course resources will include video materials on topics ranging from general information about the Programme to specific steps about how to develop good quality projects(formal and quality criteria). Specially designed quizzes will help you understand and retain essential content. Peer review will support your understanding of how the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme can be beneficial to you.

No prerequisites and no fees are asked but your active participation during the 3-4 hours of online courses per week is requested! You will not be alone because experienced course facilitators will lead forum discussions, clarify questions, and contribute with feedback and guidance.

This MOOC is coordinated by SALTO-YOUTH Participation Resource Centre in collaboration with the “Erasmus+ Youth in Action” National Agencies from Belgium (FR), France, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Hungary and United Kingdom.

The course is funded by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The course content reflects the views of the authors, and SALTO-Youth Participation RC and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Application deadline: 3 May 2015

Date of selection: 4 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: E+VDE=? – Spread it, Use it, Change it 19/04/015

Training Course

2-9 May 2015 | Gheorgheni, Romania

Provide space and opportunity for youth workers, youth leaders to get to know more about methods, tools and techniques of visibility, dissemination, exploitation of youth projects supported byErasmus+ programme under KA1andKA2.

One of the biggest challenges in the last decade among youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, young people who are enough brave to apply for a youth application of European Commission through its youth programmes e.g. Youth programme, Youth in Action programme, and now Erasmus + programme to find relevant and useful tools, techniques and methods how they can make their youth projects more visible, how they can spread the results of their projects more efficiently and how they can support other organisations, young people, youth workers or even politicians to use or adapt their project results as exploitation. How to reach the micro – level impact and the meso – level impact or even to achieve the macro – level impact with their visibility, dissemination and exploitation activities. Now in the new Erasmus + programme, there is even bigger request from European Commission for these actions, to make huge waves of the supported projects, to reach more people from locals, from Europe and even among youth policy makers. So with our project, we plan to initiate such type of youth projects under KA1 and KA2 which from the beginning give a huge focus on visibility, dissemination and exploitation as good practices for other youth workers, young people that they can participate then use the tools and techniques and methods in their projects as well. 

The overall aim of the seminar is to provide space and opportunity for youth workers, youth leaders to get to know more about methods, tools and techniques of visibility, dissemination, exploitation of youth projects supported by Erasmus + programme under KA1 and KA2. Through common project ideas and project developments to invent and adapt tips and hints for methods, tools and techniques in order to make these new projects more visible, and how to disseminate and exploit its results. Provide opportunity for youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, young people to find solid partnerships, getting to know more about KA1 and KA2 youth projects of Erasmus +, invent together new projects with practicing already how to use tools, techniques and methods of visibility, dissemination and exploitation of their youth projects. 

Learning objectives of the seminar are: 

- To refresh the knowledge of youth workers, youth leaders, project managers and young people on international youth exchanges, EVS and trainings regarding to project management according to the proposals of Erasmus + Programme Key Action 1 Mobility project for young people and youth workers;

- To enhance competences to use the new Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships in the field of Education, Training and Youth with special attention its project- management;

- To make a difference and define what is visibility, dissemination and exploitation of these projects’ above and share tips and hints how they can be made efficiently in these projects;

- To invent new projects according to the proposals of KA1 and KA2 with special focus on its visibility, dissemination and exploitation.

The whole seminar will be an example for project management with special focus on partnership, visibility of the project itself and the results of the project, dissemination and exploitation of the results of the project. So partners and participants will gain theoretical and practical inputs from these topics and the whole project will be used as meta – reflection for partners and participants.

Application deadline: 19 April 2015

Date of selection: 20 April 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Cherry on the Cake – Youth exchange in the context of a long-term work with inclusion groups 04/05/015

Training Course

16-23 June 2015 | Bled, Slovenia

The 2nd international training course Cherry on the cake will focus on social inclusion in order to discover potential and understand the ways of using Youth Exchange as an opportunitiy for long term inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.

In this TC participants will:

• explore the place of Youth Exchange in the long term work with young people and its potential for inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities.

• understand the inclusion process of the Youth Exchange: involvement of youth in all phases, empowerment of everyone involved and tailoring the Youth Exchange to the different needs expressed.

• understand the roles of Youth Leader in all the phases of Youth Exchange.

• develop the competencies to recognize and support the learning processes of everyone involved throughout the Youth Exchange project.

• develop the competencies in ensuring the safe and supportive environment.

• identify the challenges the international setting of a youth exchange brings and to reflect on how to approach them.

• explore the partnership as the basis and added value of Youth Exchange.

• feel the importance of partnership as the basis for inclusive environment.

We are looking for participants who:

• have implemented and/or led the group in the youth exchange,

• are interested in including youth with fewer opportunities in their activities,

• are passionate about work with young people,

• are at least 18 years old,

• and come from programme countries or western balkan countries.

The programme will start on the 17th of June 2015 at 9 am and end on the 22nd of June 2015 in the late afternoon. (Therefore, please note that the arrival and departure days are 16th and 23rd of June!) Below you can find a detailed programme of the TC.

Application deadline: 4 May 2015

Date of selection: 15 May 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: The TopsyTurvy Learning Experience - a quest for learning in a chaotic, upside down world 20/04/015

Training Course

6-12 June 2015 | Haus Enzian Diemtigtal, Switzerland

When you would look up ‘topsy turvy’ in the dictionary you would find ‘upside down’ and ‘in a state of confusion’. That’s exactly what this training course is about: turning ‘learning’ upside down and exploring the confusion

When you would look up ‘topsy turvy’ in the dictionary you would find ‘upside down’ and ‘in a state of confusion’. That’s exactly what this training course is about: turning ‘learning’ upside down and exploring the confusion, which will be caused by that.

Learning and education are under discussion more then ever. New concepts arriving from the political level like Life Long Learning and Learning to Learn but at the same time new insights from the practical and methodological level about how people learn are turning our ideas about learning upside down. It becomes more and more clear that education needs a revolution. Although a lot of discussions are about formal education it would be a bit too easy to think that in non-formal education we don’t need a critical look at our approaches. We think it’s the perfect opportunity to explore new ways, ideas and concepts about learning. If you are into that… join us!

What to expect?

‘The programme will take you...’ No!! The programme will not take you…you will take and make your own programme. We are aiming to built a structure where participants can follow their own interest and questions, find different ways to work on that, meet peers to work with and discover inspiring environments to work in. The programme will offer a rich diversity of tools, methods, sessions, environments for you to use if you want to. The main objective is that you will be able to work, together with others, on your questions and will share your findings and new questions with the whole group. An exploring event where we hope to find new ideas and new questions concerning learning and the facilitation of learning that can be brought into practice in the different actions of the Erasmus+:Youth in Action programme. We believe there is a strong connection between the exploring of your own learning and the facilitation of the learning of others. In order to assist participants in finding their questions and focuses an online platform will already start one month before the actual course and will be available to exchange ideas and wishes.

Objectives of the course:

To support participants to identify their own ‘natural’ way of learning

To support participants to further develop and broaden their facilitation, mentoring and coaching- capacities.

To explore how creativity, ‘chaos’ and unconventional environments can provoke new

perceptions about (self-directed) learning.

To create a challenging non-linear learning environment to provoke divergent and creative

thinking.

To share theories and concepts on learning and facilitation of learning.

To explore the possibilities to apply ‘new learning’ in the different actions of the Erasmus+: Youth 

in Action programme

Application deadline: 20 April 2015

Date of selection: 25 may 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Training Course: Project Factory - Training course to develop cross-sectorial projects for youth at risk and in NEET situation 01/06/015

Training Course

19-24 October 2015 | Athens, Greece

Training course on cross-sectorial project development, involving and targeting youth at risk and in NEET situation.

This training course will bring together 25 different stakeholders (formal, non-normal, social & business sector) to develop long-term partnerships and projects involving and targeting youth at risk and in NEET situation.

If you have experience in working on the issue of vulnerable young people in NEET situations (either face-to-face workers as well as managers/decision makers), then is this training course for you!

General aim:

To create bridges and sustainable cooperation between the youth and other sectors in order to increase the number of young people at risk and in NEET situation in E+: Youth in Action programme and create better opportunities for them.

Objectives:

• To make a better use of the Erasmus+:Youth in Action programme, especially of the Key Aaction 2 in addressing the issues that youth at risk and NEET are facing.

• To explore possibilities and develop cross-sectorial partnership projects for youth at risk & NEET

• To develop Erasmus+:Youth in Action project management skills

• To exchange about possible ways to work together and methods to intervene

• To get to know different realities and share good practices

Profile of participants:

• Youth workers 

• Teachers, school support staff, alternative education staff, vocational programme staff,…

• Social workers, representatives of social services

• Researchers, academics with focus on NEET

• Local authorities/policy makers responsible for social provision

• Employers, apprenticeships programmes, employment agencies, job centres, job clubs, job coaches…

Website: www.salto-youth.net/neetprojectfactory

Application deadline: 1 June 2015

Date of selection: 3 July 2015

More info: Salto Youth. We will help you to translate and do your application. If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.

Language Exchange

We're back from holidays! Tomorrow we'll celebrate our first Language Exchange of April. I hope you all had a great time during last week so we'll have a lot of interesting adventures and travels to speak about. We'll be in ON, in V, for our weekly Language Exchange. English, Spanish, Dutch, French ... and more!! :)

We really wanna see you again and have a great time with you all. We'll be in ON at 9.30! We wanna spend some time meeting people while we speak different languages ;)

If you have any doubt, please leave your comment below or contact our coordinators.