Deadline: 18 July 2011
Open to: project managers, trainers, youth leaders, youth policy makers and youth workers from Program Countries and Neighbouring Partner Countries
Costs: board and lodging costs are covered by the organizers. For travel costs check with your NA
Venue: 25 – 30 September 2011, Rio Maior, Portugal
This training course, organized by the Portuguese National Agency, aims at improving the impact of Non Formal Education (NFE), principles and methods in empowering young people as real actors of the society (from local to Europe) and experiencing Portuguese culture through interactions and partnerships with local communities.
In order to have real impacts, the participants experience an innovative approach, using a full immersion in the experiential learning cycle: doing/ feeling, reflecting, transferring. The participants are encouraged to really build their own training and learning process.
Objectives:
– To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (NFE) by experimenting different kind of non-formal educational methods.
– To analyze the role and reception of NFE in our different countries within a common Europe.
– To discover and debate the European strategy of NFE.
– To fight against the growing consuming approaches towards young people in the non-formal education field.
– To explore meanings, roles and complementarities of different educational approaches and methods (formal, non-formal, informal).
– To reconsider daily youth work practices.
– To understand the principles of program building and NFE within Youth in Action.
– To experience Portuguese culture through increased involvement in the training of local communities.
Eligibility
Project managers, trainers, youth leaders, youth policy makers and youth workers from Program Countries and Neighbouring Partner Countries.
Application
Costs
Hosting (accommodation and food), transfer from the airport to the hotel and training related costs are covered by Portuguese National Agency. Travel costs of the participants from Program Countries can be covered by the sending National Agency.
Contact
Portuguese National Agency for Youth in Action Programme
João Vilaça
Rua de Santa Margarida, n.º 6 4710-306 Braga Portugal
Phone: +351 253204260
Fax: +351 253 204269
E-mail: joao.vilaca@juventude.pt