Posts Tagged ‘training’

This training course in youth leadership, project management, motivation techniques, conflict resolution and communication will be held from 28 April until 3 May in Copenhagen, Denmark. A mix of tools and ‘hands on’ experience will be used that will develop skills to analyze, reflect and act in leadership situations. Are you a youth leader and do you want to develop skills in leadership? Apply online for this seminar before the application deadline of 22 January 2010.

Get in Net Training Course aims to improve international co-operation and to increase the quality of Transnational Youth Initiatives within the framework of the Youth in Action programme.The course will be based on the principles and practice of non-formal education taking into account your needs, motivations and previous experiences as starting point of the programme. A diversity of working methods will be used for learning about Transnational Youth Initiatives management, such as thinking together, brainstorming, creating new ideas, discussions and simulations. The training course will take place on 4 -9 May 2010 in Porto, Portugal and is open to young people between the age of 18 and 30 years old, belonging to an Youth organization or a group. Apply online before the deadline of 19 March 2010.

The ParTCpation training is a training course on youth participation, new trends in youth participation and participatory approaches. The training will be held from 10 to 17 May 2010 in Ankara, Turkey. Are you a youth worker, youth leader or a youngster between the age of 18 and 30 years old interested in the issue ‘participation’? Read more information about the training programme or apply online before the deadline of 15 January 2010.

Body Response is an integrated movement and expression training based on the method developed by the German psychologist and dance therapist Wilfried Gürtler (1950 – 2003). The training will increase your self-awareness and your ability to express things through movement, beyond judgments. This approach will create space for creativity and spontaneity. The training for youth workers, young people and educators will take place on 22- 24 January 2010 and on 29-31 January in Thessaloniki, Greece. Are you interested in this Movement & Expression training? Read more information or apply online before 18 January 2010.

The French National agency invites European organizations for a contact making seminar. The main goal of this event is to develop good practices in the fields of youth and participation and to enhance a dialog between young people and policy makers. The seminar will take place on 10- 14 March 2010 in Vernon, France. Participation deadline: 1 February 2010. Interested? Read the seminar description.

This international seminar for new organizations and projects in the European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides the possibility to learn all around the concept and philosophy of EVS and the Youth in Action programme. Do you like to host young people from all over Europe in your organization, or do you want to send young people from your country to other organizations in Europe? But you don’t know how to start? This seminar for project managers and youth workers will help you to create, develop and prepare your first EVS project. The seminar will take place on 30 September until 5 October 2010 in Bonn, Germany. More information and online application on the SALTO website. Deadline: 15 juli 2010.

ERYICA’s project Safety and Quality in Online Youth Information will provide training for 30 trainers and 2 international workshops for 50 younsters. Some objectives of the project are: to develop,implement and promote ‘Principles of Quality in Online Youth Information’, to help young people improve their use of high quality information from the Internet, to promote the use of interactive platforms for youth information workers, to develop quality information from the internet and involving young people in producing quality online youth information. The project will be running for 17 months until April 2011.

Many people travel to London to do their Christmas shopping. They go to Harrods to buy toys, to Oxford Street for Christmas stockings and to Hyde Park for toffee apples. Not me. I travel to London to give trainings about YouthNetworks!

As I was walking towards the conference hotel, I saw the first snow of the winter falling upon the fashionable people that roam the streets of London, and thought about how happy I was with this job. Life’s good when you’re abroad and it’s snowing. I felt all Christmassy, and a bit lost, as I didn’t exactly know where the hotel was. But a few phone calls further I found it. Lights and trees and mistletoes guided me along the majestic stairway, as I was taking of my hat and gloves. I was right on time, grabbed some coffee and took a seat.
I have to say the crowd was a bit tough, and the presentation didn’t go exactly as planned, but luckily some people attending came up to me in the break to tell me they liked it. Thank God for confirmation!
I couldn’t beat the presentation of one of the others though. A woman from Liverpool told a very interesting story about her project: Merseyside Polonia. She did her best to show the good side of the Polish immigrants in her city, by organizing food festivals, get-togethers and talking to media. She really made a lot of effort, and put her heart into it, and all the participants loved her story. More information about her project can be found on http://merseysidepolonia.com.
When the training was over, I walked to Hyde Park, to the Winter Wonder Land. There was a Christmas market, an ice rink, some carnival rides and a singing moose with a German accent (see picture). Excellent!
Before I left for home in the night, I was invited to a Christmas Party by one of the participants. It was very nice: the British like to meet up with their friends and eat a lot of food before they go home to their parents to celebrate the holidays. The play weird games, put on festive slingers and have a laugh. It was very nice. But I had to go home at some point, so I said goodbye to the snow in London and went back to my own country, which ironically, was in total chaos from the big amount of snow there. Oh well, life is never as usual as you think it is. Now let’s go out and have a snowfight! Merry Christmas everyone!

The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe is launching a call for applications to the National and Regional Training Courses on Human Rights Education for 2010. The call is addressed to non-governmental and governmental organizations and institutions involved in human rights education with young people. Application deadline: 26 January 2010. More information about the training courses is available on the portal of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme.

This training course for facilitators in non-formal education with young people in the field of social inclusion is designed for voluntary or employed staff of INGYO’s and other youth networks. The main aim of this training course is to train participants on applying quality standards in organizing, implementing, evaluating and planning an effective follow up of study sessions and other intercultural non-formal education activities in cooperation with the Council of Europe’s Directory of Youth and Sport. The training course will be held on 14-22 February 2010 at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg. Visit the Council of Europe website for a course description or to apply online before 7 January 2010.