Training Course: iLOOP - including Learning Outcomes in Our Projects. 30/06/015

Training Course

18-23 August 2015 | Mollina (Málaga), Spain

How can we include "learning" during the whole project: preparation, application procedure, development and evaluation process? Is already “Learning” as a key part of our projects? For all people involved in it? Also for the team involved in the project?

Main aims: 

Including "learning" during the whole project: preparation, application procedure, development and evaluation process. Learning as a key part of our projects for all the people involved in it, from the target group until the team involved in the project.

Specific objectives: 

a) Improving the quality of the Erasmus + projects including “learning” in the whole project cycle. 

b) Increasing the awareness of the youth workers and coordinators about their role as learning reflection processes supporters. 

c) Developing the competences of the participants creating learning environments inside the Erasmus + projects. 

d) Increasing the awareness about learning recognition during and after Erasmus + projects. Increasing the use of the Youthpass as a tool for the recognition 

e) Reflecting and sharing how the teams can reflect about their own learning during the project cycle.

f) Increasing the quality of the application processes and of the Erasmus + applications.

Approach:

We will try to create a space to learn and share about analysing our previous project experiences and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way to include learning in every part of the project cycle. We will work in possible real projects of the participants, or that the participants will have the chance to create. We will also analysed the personal learning process during the training course and try to create methods to implement in the teams that the participants work in their countries. We will work in the “Erasmus + / Youth in Action” application forms, and the see if learning should be a basic part on them.

Application deadline: 30 June 2015

Date of selection: 7 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.

Training Course: ‘Equal life chances for Youth!’ 22/05/015

Training Course

2-7 August 2015 | Wexford, Ireland

A Training course for youth organisations/N.G.O.’s that want to understand, build and support activism on issues of economic equality. Looking for participants from Ireland, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, The Netherlands & Spain. In Ireland from 2-7th August

Equal Life Chances for Youth is an inititiative of Eolas Soileir. It is to give the opportunity to youth organisations and N.G.O.’s to educate, build and support activism on issues of economic equality. Income equality is a key indicator of a sustainable economy and environment as well as a cohesive society.

It will give the participants a chance:

1. To explore economic equality issues

2. To develop a capacity to engage with these issues 

3. To build campaigning work in this field

The objectives:

* To have a deeper understanding of the concepts and the issues around economic equality.

* To share the experience in your own country and community.

* To build participants knowledge about and ability to talk about a wide range of economic equality issues

* For participants to learn, try out new ways of campaigning and work as part of a team in developing and exploring new ideas

* To find international partners & develop international projects

* Learn more about the funding possibilities of the Erasmus+ Programme.

METHODS

Non-formal interactive methods: group work, discussion, sharing, intercultural activities, workshops, exchange of experience, theory and practice, exploring the local reality, reflection

Profile of organisations:

• Ready to cooperate in an Erasmus+ Project 

• Want to learn more about the Erasmus+ programme

• Are willing and able to communicate in English

In total 18 participants - from Ireland, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, The Netherlands & Spain – two participants from each organisation.

We will have a productive and enjoyable week in a dynamic environment.

If you are interested in becoming a participant on this training please complete the application form below asap or before the 22nd May 2015.

The training will take place in Clonmines (Wellington Bridge), Co.Wexford, Ireland, a beautiful rural location situated near the sea.

Only apply if you are excited, interested and willing to work hard at the training. You will be challenged to take risks and go deep into issues.

Please see below for information about venue, trainers etc.

Application deadline: 22 May 2015

Date of selection: 29 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 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