Tools for youth exchanges

Training Course
27 October - 2 November 2018 | Laugarvatn, Iceland

for 25-30 participants
from Austria, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain

and recommended for
Youth workers, Participants must have experience in organising and/or participating as a team member in international youth exchange or have applied for a youth exchange project

Working language(s): English

Organizer:
Rannís, National Agency of Erasmus+ in Iceland (National Agency)

A Youth Exchange needs content – behind the content are tools. Tools for Youth Exchanges is a training that enables participants to explore tools around group processes, (intercultural) learning, involvement of young people and how to facilitate these tools during a youth exchange.

The overall aim of TYE - Tools for Youth Exchanges - is for youth leaders and youth workers to explore, share and adapt tools that can be used to improve their Youth Exchanges.

Further TYE is designed according to the following objectives:

• To increase awareness of group processes and tools that facilitate group development during Youth Exchanges.
• To develop competences in designing and facilitating educational workshops for youth exchanges.
• To explore tools that focus on learning processes and intercultural learning
• To explore tools that motivate young people to be actively involved in Youth Exchange activities.
• To gain understanding and experience of how to develop effective tools for dissemination.

Expected profile of participants
The training course is designed for voluntary and professional youth workers, working directly with young people and who have one from the following experiences with ERASMUS+: Youth in Action:

• Have experience in organising and/or participating as a team member in international youth exchange;
• Have applied for a youth exchange project funding and are waiting for an answer or just about to implement a youth exchange;
• Have applied for a youth exchange project and has been rejected (and are planning to apply again).

You should have a direct contact with young people who are already involved or want to get involved in an international youth exchanges.

This training course will be in English, without any possibility of permanent translation. Therefore, we ask you to have a good level of English (to be able to understand and to communicate).

Participants should be at least 18 years old.

Expected group size is approximately 25-30 participants

Course programme
TYE course programme is built on the past experiences of participants and offers variety of workshops, info-sessions, activities to improve youth exchange practices of using tools and methods. Attached is the provisional programme of the course. 

Training overview

Costs
This project is financed by the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. Being selected for this course, all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered by the NAs involved in this project - except a participation fee which varies from call to call and country to country. Please contact your Erasmus+: Youth in Action NA to learn more about the financial details, and how to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

Note: Hungarian applicants are expected to apply on a Hungarian and on an English application form, too.

Jelentkezési lap
Kódszám a jelentkezéshez: 2018-1-HU01-KA218-000014

Application form in English

Application deadline: 15 August 2018
Date of selection: 3 September 2018

Contact for questions:
Tóth Xénia / Ms Xénia Tóth
Pályázati referens / Programme Officer
xenia.toth@tpf.hu 

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