Training Course: The Spirit of EVS: Communication and learning within the European Voluntary Service 12/06/015

Training Course

17-23 September 2015 | Laugarvatn , Iceland

EVS is about gaining and growing from a shared experience that is beneficial for all actors (HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and recognise the learning journey that it involves. Join us on a journey to EVS.

Have you faced any of these challenges within the last years?

• A difficult communication and flow of information between the many different actors involved in EVS (such as: HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) or

• Little awareness of the different needs, roles and responsibilities within EVS

• Little shared understanding of the concept of EVS as a learning programme

We particularly want to focus on these three areas:

Information: Too often there is a lack of information or not fully functioning flow of information between the different actors (e.g. HO <-> mentors, HO <-> SO, HO <-> Volunteers, NA <-> volunteers, etc.…) and we want to make sure that during the course all the actors get the information they need (such as rights and responsibilities, EVS concept and what they mean in practice etc.)

Communication: To have all the information one needs is often not enough to have an enriching EVS experience for all the actors involved. The quality of the relationships between the actors is crucial and communication an important element. We want to strengthen participants’ communication skills by offering concrete tools and methods to help them be able to communicate well and efficiently, covering the aspects described above.

Spirit of EVS: When talking to organisations and volunteers we often hear: ”EVS is more than a programme” and we want to emphasise this aspect. It is about gaining and growing from a shared experience that is beneficial for all actors (HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and recognise the learning journey that it involves.

Aims

• Provide information and knowledge on the concept of EVS including rights and responsibilities, learning in EVS, intercultural learning, involvement of the local community.

• Create understanding for the different needs and realities of all the actors involved in EVS.

• Support the communication and problem solving between the different actors through methods such as NVC (Non-violent communication), the Way of Council and Mediation.

• Raise awareness and deepen the understanding of the spirit of EVS (EVS as a learning programme for all the actors involved)

• Support the transfer of what is learned within the course to the reality of participants back home

Approach and methods

In order to really understand EVS as a whole we want to have all the different actors (at least the following: HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and their perspectives present. This means we want to work together with the Sending National Agencies to select different roles for the available places, if possible. 

What is important here, however, is deepening the understanding of the spirit of EVS and what this means for all the actors involved. Only then can EVS become an experience that involves learning and benefit for everyone.

Application deadline: 12 June 2015

Date of selection: 29 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.

Mind and Surf

www.mindandsurf.com (also in English)

Synergy colabora en la difusión de Mind and Surf, un proyecto un proyecto internacional pensado para ofrecerte la oportunidad de entrar en contacto con prácticas como el yoga, surf y meditación que te mostrarán una filosofía de vida diferente.

Virginia y Meg trabajaron en el campo de gestión de conflictos y educación para la paz. Se conocieron en Hungría en 2012, pero no fue hasta 2014 cuando descubrieron su pasión común por el surf, yoga y una vida sostenible.

Inesperadamente, el pasado otoño se encontraron en una pequeña aventura en la que viajamos para surfear en Algeciras y Tarifa. Entonces alrededor de una taza de té, compartieron sus ideas sobre las dificultades de nuestro trabajo en resolución de conflictos y paz y lo aislado que te puedes llegar a sentir. Así que pensaron en crear un proyecto que sirva como encuentro de personas con la misma filosofía a la vez que un espacio de descubrimiento personal.

Entonces pensaron: 

Qué bonito sería crear un proyecto juntas en el que podemos combinar nuestras pasiones: surf, yoga y meditación, con los principios de no violencia y sustentabilidad que nos gustaría integrar en nuestra vida diaria.

Ese momento en Tarifa les hizo decidir e ir a por ello.

Además, será un lugar de encuentro para personas de distintas nactionalidades, una oportunidad inmejorable para aprender sobre otras culturas y formas de ver el mundo. Tanto Meg como Virginia tienen inglés y español como idioma de trabajo.

Aprovecha esta oportunidad también para practicar tu inglés y conocer gente de otras culturas!

Mind and Surf tendrá lugar en una eco-aldea en Bolonia (Tarifa) situada en plena naturaleza. Además estamos situados entre algunos de los mejores spots de surf de España. ¡Ven y descúbrelo!

El alojamiento será en una pequeña eco-aldea que ha sido especialmente diseñada para crear el mínimo impacto medioambiental. Se dormirá en yurtas traidas desde mongolia, tipies indios y bungalows totalmente integrados en la naturaleza y ¡sin electricidad! Lo que además de tener un menor impacto ambiental ayudará a desconectar de la tecnología y el estrés diario.

¡toda una experiencia y para algunos incluso un reto!

Training Course: ECO-OIKOS: Sustainable Options12/06/015

Training Course

13-23 July 2015 | Bitonto/Molfetta, Italy

This Training Course aims to enhance youth worker's competences to empower young people to take active participation in the change towards a more sustainable society.

"Eco-Oikos: Sustainable Options" is a 10 days Training Course, where 27 youth workers, from 9 countries, will have the opportunity to explore the idea of sustainable development.

Based on the values of Democracy, Participation, Active citizenship, Ethics and Empowerment, this initiative offers a new approach to these issues, through the direct involvement of participants: in fact they are the protagonists of the entire design process, creating opportunities to meet and debate, aiming a sustainable development and focused on good practices.

The sessions will be non-formal and experiential, with space for feedback and evaluation, with a session for reflection each day.

The path of the project will be an opportunity to make choices and make decisions. The attention of young people for so urgent problems can make it turn it into a mission not only at the national and international level but worldwide. The possibility that each youngster has to give strength and contribution to the improvement of a situation that currently appears stagnant, making active participants and protagonists of the present and future generations it's an important role.

The primary aim of this course is to enhance youth worker's competences to empower young people to take active participation in the change towards a more sustainable society. We hope to contribute to build a SUSTAINABLE LIVING between citizens and the environment and a future in which ECOLOGY is no longer an emergency but a way of life and where ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION no longer a series of concepts to be transmitted but the concrete daily practices.

Apply if you are:

- Curious to explore the idea of sustainable development;

- Motivated to learn new tools, methods and ideas to be used as a way to achieve a sustainable healthy lifestyle;

- Ready to actively participate in the whole training and to contribute;

- Able to work and communicate in English;

- Able to use the acquired skills in future activities.

Application deadline: 21 May 2015

Date of selection: 28 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: iLOOP - including Learning Outcomes in Our Projects. 04/06/015

Training Course

18 July - 11 August 2015 | Amsterdam , Netherlands

We would like to invite you to join a unique training course for youth leaders and youth workers on the ways to use cultural heritage in youth work.

A unique training course on learning the methods of use of cultural heritage in youth work and intercultural development.

The course is structured in the following way - from MON to FRI participants will have trainings from 9 am to 12 where trainers will discuss the issues of use of cultural heritage in youth work and intercultural development. In the afternoon participants will visit museums investigating cultural heritage in order to discuss it during next trainings.

Also significant attention will be given to issues of intercultural development. Participants will be given a number of trainings on intercultural learning delivered by experienced trainers.

The aims of the course:

Develop intercultural skills of participants

Give the knowledge and skills on use of cultural heritage in youth work

Develop together possible projects on the use of cultural heritage in international youth work

The unique methodology allowing to use cultural heritage in youth work will be applied.

Application deadline: 4 June 2015

Date of selection: 18 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: The Spirit of EVS: Communication and learning within the European Voluntary Service 12/07/015

Training Course

17-23 September 2015 | Laugarvatn , Iceland

EVS is about gaining and growing from a shared experience that is beneficial for all actors (HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and recognise the learning journey that it involves. Join us on a journey to EVS.

Have you faced any of these challenges within the last years?

• A difficult communication and flow of information between the many different actors involved in EVS (such as: HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) or

• Little awareness of the different needs, roles and responsibilities within EVS

• Little shared understanding of the concept of EVS as a learning programme

We particularly want to focus on these three areas:

Information: Too often there is a lack of information or not fully functioning flow of information between the different actors (e.g. HO <-> mentors, HO <-> SO, HO <-> Volunteers, NA <-> volunteers, etc.…) and we want to make sure that during the course all the actors get the information they need (such as rights and responsibilities, EVS concept and what they mean in practice etc.)

Communication: To have all the information one needs is often not enough to have an enriching EVS experience for all the actors involved. The quality of the relationships between the actors is crucial and communication an important element. We want to strengthen participants’ communication skills by offering concrete tools and methods to help them be able to communicate well and efficiently, covering the aspects described above.

Spirit of EVS: When talking to organisations and volunteers we often hear: ”EVS is more than a programme” and we want to emphasise this aspect. It is about gaining and growing from a shared experience that is beneficial for all actors (HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and recognise the learning journey that it involves.

Aims

• Provide information and knowledge on the concept of EVS including rights and responsibilities, learning in EVS, intercultural learning, involvement of the local community.

• Create understanding for the different needs and realities of all the actors involved in EVS.

• Support the communication and problem solving between the different actors through methods such as NVC (Non-violent communication), the Way of Council and Mediation.

• Raise awareness and deepen the understanding of the spirit of EVS (EVS as a learning programme for all the actors involved)

• Support the transfer of what is learned within the course to the reality of participants back home

Approach and methods

In order to really understand EVS as a whole we want to have all the different actors (at least the following: HOs, SOs, COs, mentors, volunteers, NAs, accreditors, trainers) and their perspectives present. This means we want to work together with the Sending National Agencies to select different roles for the available places, if possible. 

What is important here, however, is deepening the understanding of the spirit of EVS and what this means for all the actors involved. Only then can EVS become an experience that involves learning and benefit for everyone.

Application deadline: 12 June 2015

Date of selection: 29 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: iECO-OIKOS: Sustainable Options 21/05/015

Training Course

13-23 July 2015 | Bitonto/Molfetta, Italy

This Training Course aims to enhance youth worker's competences to empower young people to take active participation in the change towards a more sustainable society.

"Eco-Oikos: Sustainable Options" is a 10 days Training Course, where 27 youth workers, from 9 countries, will have the opportunity to explore the idea of sustainable development.

Based on the values of Democracy, Participation, Active citizenship, Ethics and Empowerment, this initiative offers a new approach to these issues, through the direct involvement of participants: in fact they are the protagonists of the entire design process, creating opportunities to meet and debate, aiming a sustainable development and focused on good practices.

The sessions will be non-formal and experiential, with space for feedback and evaluation, with a session for reflection each day.

The path of the project will be an opportunity to make choices and make decisions. The attention of young people for so urgent problems can make it turn it into a mission not only at the national and international level but worldwide. The possibility that each youngster has to give strength and contribution to the improvement of a situation that currently appears stagnant, making active participants and protagonists of the present and future generations it's an important role.

The primary aim of this course is to enhance youth worker's competences to empower young people to take active participation in the change towards a more sustainable society. We hope to contribute to build a SUSTAINABLE LIVING between citizens and the environment and a future in which ECOLOGY is no longer an emergency but a way of life and where ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION no longer a series of concepts to be transmitted but the concrete daily practices.

Apply if you are:

- Curious to explore the idea of sustainable development;

- Motivated to learn new tools, methods and ideas to be used as a way to achieve a sustainable healthy lifestyle;

- Ready to actively participate in the whole training and to contribute;

- Able to work and communicate in English;

- Able to use the acquired skills in future activities.

Application deadline: 21 May 2015

Date of selection: 28 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: 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.