International Initiatives for Cooperation
| TITLE | A crash course for youth workers about EVS |
| FOUNDING PROGRAM | Youth in action/Action 3.1 Cooperation with Neighbouring Partner Countries |
| PERIOD | From 01/03/2011 to 15/06/2011 |
| PARTNERS | 1. European Movement Estonia/ EURO 26 2. Seiklejate Vennaskond 3. Association of Initiatives and Cooperation “Yard” 4. Active youth” AY 5. ORGANIZATIA TINERILOR CU INITIATIVA 6. The Black Sea University Foundation (BSUF) 7. ASOCIACIÓN OPENDOORS 8. ESN Anadolu 9. Youth Development and Sport Club Association 10. Walk Together 11. Albanian Life Quality Union 12. NGO’ Eko Leonardo’ Youth Club Priboj 13. Better Life In Kosova- BLINK 14. NGO “LETS SHINE TOGETHER” 15. Multi Project Organisation 16. Association of law students and young lawyers pavel satev kocani 17. The citizens community „Helm” Zrenjanin |
| OBJECTIVES | The overall aim of our training course is to increase the quality of EVS projects by providing organizations with little or no experience in EVS with all necessary competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) on how to prepare, implement and evaluate good EVS projects between Programme and SEE countries.We believe that good preparation for doing EVS projects (of the project, the various partners – volunteers. HO, So, CO, the local community, etc.) is the key for making a good EVS projects.
In this project we aim to: Also two permanent priorities of the YiA Programme – participation of young people and cultural diversity – and are the annual priority of youth unemployment will be tackled while discussing the general impact of EVS projects on various partners involved in it and the positive effects of EVS on development of volunteers’ competencies and their future competitiveness in the labour market. |
| OUTCOMES | The main tool to disseminate the outcomes of the project will be blog with daily summaries. To make participants more involved and enable them to reflect the on the training, each day there will be a different team that will be asked to write short summary what was going on during the day and what things they learnt that might be useful for them in the future work. This would be done in the form of blog, because we believe that this is the most attractive way for young people to share the information nowadays. Nevertheless, knowing the realities in Albania, if there will be force majeure and it will not be possible to have reasonable connecting to Internet throughout the time of whole TC, then the report will be done in a regular form – electronically. This report will serve participants as a good material to go back later when they have forgotten some things from the training, it could be shared with other members of their organizations and used also for future trainings. Apart from this we will make a simple short film about the training with pictures and messages from the training that will be uploaded in youtube and later posted on participants’ facebook. |
| SUMMARY | International training “A crash course for youth workers about EVS” is designed to increase the quality of EVS projects by providing organizations with little or no experience in EVS with all necessary competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) on how to prepare, implement and evaluate good EVS projects. We have chose to make this training course, because we want to give the organizations with no prior experience in this field equal opportunity to get involved in EVS programme as organizations, which have been active in this field for many years and have in a way monopolized it.The training course would last for 7 days, include 35 participants from 9 organizations in Programme countries (Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Spain, Turkey) and 8 organizations from South East European countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYOR Macedonia and Serbia). It will be held in Durres, Albania.
To assure the maximum effect, for the training course we have chosen interactive and highly involving non-formal education methods. Apart from more traditional forms of work like work in groups, presentations, case studies and role-plays and simulations, important part of the training will include good and bad practice example case studies, visits to organizations that currently host volunteers to learn their experience as well as meeting with current and ex-volunteers. |
| BUDGET | Total budget 22 407,50 / Co-financement 5 842,50 |
| LINKS | Walk Together WEB: www.walk-together.com Email: info@walk-together.com |
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