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Seminars and Training Courses

Seminars organised:

April 2006 - Contact Making Seminar “exploring cultural diversity and exchanges”

During this Contact Making Seminar youth workers and leaders from European youth  organisations were  able to meet each other and worked on creating connections for future Youth Exchanges, focussing on cultural diversity. Participants from: Belgium, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

May 2006 - Contact Making Seminar “One World Citizenship, exploring the need for a network of Global Youth Workers.”

Participants for this seminar came from two One-World Citizen courses (2005 / 2006). We explored the need and the possibilities for creating a network for global Youth Workers. Participants from: Ireland, Czech Republic, Poland, The Netherlands, Spain, Malta, Estonia, and Palestine

Training Courses organised:

January 2007 - Training Course “the street is a theatre and we are all actors on it”

"The street is a theatre and we are all actors on it"

The course focussed on Cultural Diversity in an European Voluntary Service setting. It had strong elements of teambuilding, discussions and theatre which provided the participants to some extend with skills to use Theatre of the Oppressed. The main focus of the course was to create understanding and skills for dealing with Cultural Diversity during European Voluntary Service, taking in account the viewpoint of volunteer, hosting and sending organisations.  This Training Course had participants from: Jordan, Hungary, Greece, Israel and Ireland

June 2007 - Training Course “Media and Citizenship”

This course was designed for youth workers and leaders to improve planning and campaigning activities associated with strategic media planning and visibility.

Training course was divided into two parts, the first part “Strategic Planning” provided participants with the knowledge and know-how for creating effective and long-lasting actions  to improve local realities.

The second part was made up of simulation workshops where participants were asked to work on a media project, such as creating video news, radio broadcasts, internet based press agency and a newspaper. During this part participants were monitored by professional journalists who provided the knowledge and skills for effective media communication.

Participants from this training course were from: Hungary, Armenia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, UK, Russia, Azerbaijan , Romania, Turkey, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Ireland, Moldova and Bulgaria

          April 2008 - Training Course “Intercultural Mediators” – in Ukraine  

Youth workers came together to learn about intercultural dialogue and facilitation in an intercultural group. During the training 32 participants experienced intercultural learning and worked together

 on developing and facilitating workshops to assist young people’s intercultural learning. Participants from Ukraine,  Ireland, Poland,  Bulgaria, Lithuania , Romania , United Kingdom , Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Hungary