The proposal includes a program of activities for children and young people and a parallel program aimed at volunteers? learning about the history and heritage of the Villarejo de Salvanes town. This workcamp offers the volunteer group an opportunity for personal growth and a rewarding and fulfilling experience. The tasks would be to promote the ecological perspective in leisure activities, raise awareness about the generation of waste in everyday life and work on environmental education in general.
The Vacaloura Animal Sanctuary was born in 2013 to welcome animals of all species, as long as they can be given a decent life. Currently, more than 100 animals of different species (rabbits, pigs, chickens, roosters, ducks, horses, sheep, etc.) live in the Sanctuary. Volunteers carry out the maintenance of the shelter (cleaning, construction and collection) and collection and preparation of food for animals.
The volunteers will help build a house for the social use of local associations. This year in particular, the team of volunteers is going to plaster the walls, install the water mains, the floors and the windows. The Purujosa town is located in a natural park, so people interested in nature are welcome. The volunteers will also be able to do excursions and cultural visits of the historical surroundings of the village, and do several activities such as yoga, ceramics, going to the swimming pool in a nearby village, sports, etc.
ES-MAD 5.1 – 5.2. – 5.3. – 5.5. Casa Samuel (Salamanca)
Dates:
4 July 2022 – 17 July 2022
18 July 2022 – 31 July 2022
1 August 2022 – 14 August 2022
29 August 2022 – 11 September 2022
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Caritas Salamanca has a safe house for people with HIV, that covers their basic needs and allows them to start a process of personal recovery to achieve the maximum autonomy. As this workcamp will take place in the House for people with AIDS and will offer to the future participants the possibility of living a volunteer experience in a social project, approaching a concrete reality of exclusion of some HIV-positive persons. Volunteers will accompany the residents in their everyday activities and assist in the organization of various activities of leisure time, encouraging everyone to participate and helping those people with special needs (being in a wheelchair or walking with difficulty).
The project tries to help in the manufacture and placement of artificial nests to favor the breeding of the lesser kestrel, fix the nests of owls and kestrels within the biological control project and collaborate in the municipal project “Landmark buildings of Castilla y Leon” (“Edificios emblematicos de Castilla y Leon”) in places of architectural interest.
GREFA is a non-profit, non-government organization, created in 1981 as an association for the study and conservation of nature. Volunteers will work together with the team of professional and amateur naturalists, biologists and veterinarians and, for sure, other volunteers.
Would you like to realise your own ideas? Have you been wanting to initiate your own project? You (and eventually your team) are ready to rock, but you just don’t know yet how to get there and realise your idea(s)? Well… read this call carefully and – if interested – join us!
Aims and Goals
Exchange with international youth workers, activists and volunteers about pressing topics in Europe that urgently need more attention, e.g. forced migration and refugees or social exclusion
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship as a tool for social change and just society
Learn from each other how to improve the processes of planning, preparing and implementing projects to tackle these topics
Develop ideas into concrete project concepts while learning from existing local and international projects, best practices and from the field of NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs
Build a support network to find synergies among project teams and to build on knowledge existing in networks and organisations
Use project management tools to develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate projects’ impacts.
The seminar will gather 30 participants from about 17 countries. The final selection of the participants will be done by the coordination team upon recommendation by the project partners.
Participants
Be able to attend for the full duration of the seminar
Ideally be active and be able to influence decisions of their sending organisations and have experience in volunteering, and related topics, such as Climate Justice, Gender, Social Inclusion, Human Rights, Community Development…
Be willing to commit yourself to spreading their new skills and competences to your sending branch in whatever capacity
We expect participants to actively contribute to this outcome after the Activity by writing short reports about their learnings and activities, and to share them with SCI-D, CVS and their sending organisation
Bring ideas for workshops, methods, tools, best practices and approaches to be shared
Be 18 years old or older
Be able to work in English language
Be motivated and sensitive to work with people from different backgrounds
This call for participants applies only for youth workers, activists and volunteers from EU countries + Albania, Armenia, Kosovo and Ukraine. You can apply if you have a residence in one of those countries or hold a passport from one of them.
The venue
The training will take place in Hotel Complex Jeravna, which is situated in Bankya (Bulgarian: Банкя) – a small town and hot springs spa district located on the outskirts of Sofia. The district is famous for its healing and clean air and mineral springs and baths that have been used for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years.
The accommodation will be organised in double or triple rooms, which have a private bathroom, bed linens and towels, and free WiFi. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided in the restaurant of the hotel, according to the specific food needs of the participants mentioned in the registration form, starting with a dinner on 30th June and finishing with lunch on 5th July 2022.
Trainers
More information about the trainers, draft program, conditions and project you can find in the detailed call here.
We are happy to share with you that on 17 May 2022, Tuesday, 18:00 CEST the first webinar of Learning Lab(oratory) project will take place. The topic is Visual Facilitation for Boosting Learning – how to apply visuals in our in-person and online educational activities. It will be led by Svetla Todorova, an amazing trainer in visual facilitation.
More information about the webinar and the trainer you can find here.
The webinar is organised in the frame of the “Learning Lab(oratory) – quality non-formal education in the digital world” project by SCI Poland, co-funded by the European Union.
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Are you planning an anti-racism action, and are you looking for funds? XminY may be able to help! Read on to find out how.
What is XminY
XminY supports social movements, action groups and changemakers fighting for a fair, democratic, sustainable and accepting world.
XminY is a unique worldwide action fund that has been supporting social movements for more than 45 years. XminY is supported by a few thousand individuals in the Netherlands who donate to the fund. This ensures our independence and freedom to determine our own political position and strategy.
Firestarters
XminY believes in the power of people to shape their world. Every great social transformation starts with brave individuals who take the first steps along the road to change. These are ordinary people who stand up in their communities, encourage others, and work together with them in the struggle for a fair, just, sustainable and accepting world.
Bottom-up change XminY believes that problems can best be approached from the bottom up. Local activists and grassroots organisations know best what is the most effective way to realize their goals and how to give a voice to those who are unheard. XminY is proud to support these changemakers in their struggles.
Grassroots groups XminY primarily supports groups that are new, small or controversial. Often, they do not receive support from bigger donors or governments; they do not meet donor requirements, of their questioning of established interests makes them contentious in their own regions. The projects XminY supports stand out because of their critique of the current economic and governance systems, and their dedication to putting people and planet before profit.
What we support XminY supports demonstrations, occupations, direct action and other creative ways to change the world. XminY supports projects within the following categories: ecology, living and land rights, emancipation, media and democracy, peace and human rights, refugees and anti-racism, work and globalisation. We fund individual projects with a maximum grant of €3000, and the budget for the entire project cannot exceed €20.000.
How to apply
Applications can be submitted by using the forms on our website. Please read our general criteria (below) and the costs we cover carefully before submitting your application. It would be a waste of your time if you put a lot of effort in an application that doesn’t match our criteria! We ask you to provide background information, concrete data, your planned activities and a detailed budget. There is no deadline for sending your application to XminY. But please keep in mind the decision making process can take up to two months, so apply on time!
XminY only supports groups, organizations or social movements that fight for an honest, just and ecologically sound society.
XminY only supports projects that aim to mobilize and inspire individuals and groups.
XminY only supports projects that go beyond specific individual or ethnic interests.
XminY prefers to support demonstrations, blockades, occupations, direct actions, revolts, revolutions and other creative forms of confrontational action.
XminY prefers to support grassroots organizations.
XminY prefers to support politically controversial projects that have difficulty finding financial aid elsewhere.
XminY prefers to support projects that lead to political actions.
XminY prefers to fund projects that are part of a long term strategy.
XminY supports projects with a maximum of 3,000 euros.
XminY only supports projects with a total budget of less than 20,000 euros.
XminY doesn’t fund structural costs like wages or rental costs.
XminY doesn’t support conferences, seminars, debates or other meetings unless they clearly aim to prepare for political actions.
XminY doesn’t finance juridical procedures unless these are part of a broader activist campaign.
XminY doesn’t support political parties.
XminY doesn’t support groups that try to exclude other progressive movements.
XminY doesn’t fund projects specifically aimed at disabled people or children.
XminY doesn’t fund humanitarian aid or healthcare.
XminY doesn’t fund emergency aid.
XminY doesn’t support cultural or educational projects that only aim at raising awareness.
XminY doesn’t fund micro-credit programs or income generating projects.
XminY doesn’t support projects through third parties. We want to cooperate directly with the groups we support, without an additional bureaucratic layer in between.
When and Where: 6th to 13th March 2022, Mutters near Innsbruck, Austria
The project
International peace and volunteer work is rooted in face-to-face exchange of people from different regions and backgrounds. Regular trainings, seminars and volunteer camps where youth workers and young people can exchange experiences and ideas, form the basis of this. The need for personal exchange comes along with a greater need for travel and transportation.
Currently, many of the travel distances are covered by airplane. This contributes massively to the climate crisis and to increasing social inequality. Besides, the restrictions imposed by COVID19 have forced us to take a more urgent look at alternative forms of mobility. Among all the challenges, this also offers an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned regarding mobility in international peace work during the pandemic.
The Project MOVE makes mobility a peace issue and considers the acute need to raise awareness and to promote critical reflection of current mobility choices in international volunteer projects and peace activities. Its main objectives are:
to enhance the knowledge, skills and competences of youth workers on the main topics,
to equip them with tools to make their activities ecologically and socially more sustainable, and
to create ideas and follow-up plans for innovative climate-friendly projects.
The project consists of four parts. This call for applications comprises the last two parts (Activity 2 and follow up), the “Landing and Spreading” Seminar near Innsbruck 06.-13. March 2022, and a Follow-up Period to finalise the project outputs and start implementing new project ideas.
During the training, participants from peace/volunteering organisations from 17 countries gathered in Nuremberg in September 2021 to learn about the intersections of mobility, climate justice and peace work. They created and shared tools and ideas for activism, education and structural change regarding the topic. Between the training and the seminar, the training participants are implementing workshop ideas ‘On the MOVE’. They gather content and feedback for a toolkit on sustainable mobility and localise the topics discussed at the training – including running local or online workshops on travel guidelines.
Now we are looking for applications and participants for the second activity of the project, the “Landing and Spreading” seminar near to Innsbruck. There, we will discuss more topics connected to global sustainable mobility, such as e.g. gender and mobility. Part of the seminar will be to discuss the outcomes of the ‘On the Move’ period and to gather more information for a toolkit on sustainable mobility for volunteering organisations. The toolkit will be developed at this seminar. The seminar also gives space to connect to other international organisations and get information about their ways of sustainable travel. These activities will be held in English language.
The Venue
The seminar will take place in the youth house “Jungscharhaus Mutters”: https://innsbruck.jungschar.at/jungschar haus/. It is located near Innsbruck, Austria, well connected to public transport and close to the mountains.
The Team
The seminar will be facilitated by an experience team of trainers/facilitators of SCI Germany and SCI Austria. Simon*, Jakob, Noah Marschner, Esther Wawerda and Sophia Schmid will be part of the facilitating team (for some days).
Aims
*Understand the link between (global) mobility, climate justice and international peace work *Empower and train active volunteers, camp coordinators and seminar facilitators to advocate for sustainable means of transportation and implement local actions with their sending organisations *Enhance networking capabilities, create & share tools and ideas for local activism and campaigning *Initiate structural change regarding mobility within SCI and partners *Create a toolkit about sustainable mobility and a draft for a sustainable international travel policy
Topics
*Local and global impacts of global mobility on resources, climate change and social justice *Structures behind global mobility (acceleration, economic growth, global inequalities) *Economic and political approaches to sustainable global mobility and their critique *Peace work, mobility and its climate impacts *Approaches to a more climate-friendly peace work, lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic *Ideas/inspiration for local workshops and new projects including Project Management *Travel Policies of different international organisations
Outcome
*Mobility Toolkit – contents: NFE methods about global mobility, climate justice and peace, background knowledge to develop guidelines for sustainable projects, examples for sustainable approaches in peace and youth work *Draft for a sustainable international travel policy *Ideas and networks for new international cooperation in the field of sustainable global Mobility
Methods
We’re going to use a broad variety of non-formal education methods, such as world cafe, snowball discussions, re- search, silent exhibition, simulation games, theatre, visual harvesting, arts, energizers, role games, team building ac- tivities and more. There will also be project visits to local initiatives.
Follow up (non-residential)
Participants implement their own projects and workshop about the projects topic. They will also finish their work on the Toolkit and the Travel Policy draft.
Participants Profile
Everyone who comes to this seminar should…
be vaccinated against Covid 19 or recovered (obligation)
have experience in international peace work
ideally be an active member and be involved in the process and decision structures of their sending organisation;
allow time and ideas for both the seminar and the finalisation phase;
ideally be motivated to participate actively in the production of the outputs;
be committed to abstain from flying and travel to the events via overland route instead;
bring ideas for own workshops;
have sufficient English language skills (spoken and written);
be committed to spreading their new skills and competences to their sending branches/organisation, e.g. via a workshop or a camp coordinator training.
Participants who already participated in the MOVE training (09/2021 in N?rnberg) will be given priority, but we are also very much looking forward to meeting new people.
Please note that there will be opportunities to visit Innsbruck, but that this is not a “getting to know the region” pro- ject. On some days the seminar also foresees evening sessions.
Logistics, financial conditions and sustainability
Simple life: The seminar will take place in a seminar house with simple living conditions. You will sleep in a room shared with few other people.
Money, money, money: We can cover all essential costs of the program (including vegan food, travel costs up to a maximum amount per distance (maximum travel reimbursement amounts: 10-99 km = 20 Euro, 100-499 km = 180 Euro, 500-1999 km = 275 Euro, 2000-2999 km = 360 Euro), visa costs, accommodation and seminar) through a European project grant by Erasmus+. Your sending organisation might ask for a small participation fee. The costs will be reimbursed to you after submission of a complete expenditure summary and original receipts after project completion.
Sustainable food: The food we provide will be vegan. This is not just a practical decision, but also an ideological one: SCI believes in the values of sustainability and climate justice – and if we want to contribute to a more peaceful planet, we need to give up on industrialized animal agriculture and its destructive effects on our planet. We will also take care of the food ourselves so that’s a good opportunity to share food from your region
Sustainable travels?: This is also why we ask you to come to this seminar through more sustainable means of transport rather than flying (e.g. by train or bus), if somehow possible. Innsbruck is easy to reach with (night) trains and busses from many places. We will give you more guidance on how you can reach the venue once you are accepted to the seminar.
How to apply
Please send your application for the Landing and Spreading Seminar via this application form asap. After we accept your application, you will receive a detailed infosheet.
Covid19 Regulations
Please be advised that due to the pandemic and related measures, there may be changes. We ask you not to book your trip before we have informed you that the training will take place at the planned location. We will let you know about this about four weeks before the seminar starts. For the protection of all participants on site, we will only accept participants who are fully vaccinated with one vaccine accepted by the Austrian government and the last dose (second or third) is not older than 270 days:
BioNtech/Pfizer Comirnaty/BNT162b2/Tozinameran AstraZeneca Moderna Sinopharm / BIBP (Beijing Bio-Institute of Biological Products Co-Ltd.) Sinovac-CoronaVac Vaccine Johnson/Janssen + a second dose with another vaccine from one of the above
If you’re recovered you need a Covid-19 recovery certificate. This is valid until 6month (180days) after your positive pcr test. After 6 month you need one vaccination shot with one of the vaccines, mentioned above. This is valid 270 days after the vaccination, then you need a second dose.
We will also ask you to bring your own supply of FFP2 masks and a certificate of a negative Covid19 rapid test result no older than 48 hours (no exceptions). If the current situation in March forces us to do so, we will either do it online on the same days or postpone this seminar to another date and will inform you immediately. Upon confirmation, you are responsible to ensure that your trip complies with the latest recommendations of the health authorities regarding the spread of Covid19. For Austria, the regulations of the government agency apply.
We are looking forward to your application The coordinating team – Britta, Esther, Sophia, Noah, Mirna & Simon*
For any questions contact: simon.jakob@sci-d.de
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The training will take place from 8th (afternoon) till 15th April 2022 (7 working days and one travelling – 8th arrival and first working day and 15th April – departure day) in Sofia, Bulgaria.
34 participants ***15 partner organisations***13 countries:Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. Residents of other EU countries are also welcome to apply!
Objectives
to improve the understanding of youth workers about the specifics of working with people with physical disabilities (motor, visual and mental);
to increase knowledge on how to reach and involve young people with physical disabilities in everyday life activities of partner organizations;
to provide youth workers with concrete ideas and tools for the inclusion of disadvantaged young people;
to provide a set of specific methods for training and supporting young people with special needs in their involvement in various activities at local and international level;
to encourage a positive attitude towards the implementation of projects with the participation of disadvantaged young people;
to develop skills for empathy, acceptance and non-discrimination;
to increase the attitude towards acceptance, solidarity and the promotion of social inclusion.
Profile of participants
Age 18+
youth workers, social workers, mentors, coaches of youth initiatives and solidarity projects, volunteer coordinators, trainers, facilitators, activists
participants may have experience working with young people with physical disabilities (motor, visual and mental) who wish to share with other participants and increase their knowledge and develop their competencies, or
so far have no experience and wish to start promoting and supporting the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities
youth leaders who can turn into multiplayer and peer-to-peer trainers
willing to share knowledge, ideas, useful tips
willing to participate in the creation of the Toolbox for Social Inclusion
able to understand and express themselves in English
are committed to attending for the full duration of the event
are committed to doing a follow-up/dissemination activity to be implemented in their country after the training
Practicalities
More information about the project and the training, the participation conditions, practicalities, eligible travel costs and reimbursement procedure, COVID19 protocol and appication procedure can be found in the detailed CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS.
More information about training activities and schedule can be found in the preliminary training PROGRAM.
If you are interested in participating, there are still free places for Bulgarians. Please apply by filling inthe ONLINE APPLICATION FORM by 22.02.2022.
For any further questions, please contact us at trainings@cvs-bg.org or at + 359 888 751684.
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In September, at the foot of Lozen Mountain, together with twenty-five youth workers, volunteers and activists from nine countries – Bulgaria, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Ukraine and Armenia we studied, created and shared stories and good practices in the context of gender equality. All this happened within the international training “Visual Storytelling from A to Z”, organized from 14 to 23 September 2021 by CVS – Bulgaria, the Bulgarian branch of the international peace movement for and volunteers exchange network Service Civil International.
The training program was divided into thematic modules to provide new information, improve knowledge and develop the skills of the participants and enable sharing in a safe and creative environment. The program included meetings with visual arts experts, as well as a visit to several organizations that shared their own practices in the field of gender equality and further contributed to the training and development process. The modules were arranged thematically: “Meeting and getting to know of the participants”; “Introduction to the topic of gender equality”; “Expert meetings”; “Visual campaigns” “Visual stories become reality”; “Evaluation and reflection”. Also included were “Thematic evenings”, in which they managed to have fun, relax from the work process, but also continue to study and share prints. We created a safe space where everyone can feel comfortable sharing personal experiences and situations, as well as feel free to develop their creativity.
The project aimed to raise the level of self-awareness of the participants regarding their identity and to support their perception as individuals and not as objects of gender-determining stereotypes. The development of these competencies was assessed by the partner organizations as extremely important for the participants, so that they could, within their volunteer organizations at local level, pass on what they have learned to the volunteers and young people they work with. The times in which we live require young people and youth workers to increase their literacy on the topic of gender equality in order to achieve better self-knowledge and confidence to apply in their daily interaction on a personal and professional level. This need responds to their expectations. Objectification of people is very common in different countries and especially among young people brought up in an environment where it is perceived that strength is for boys and emotions are for girls. In the age of technology, young people spend more time online, where many problems are projected. This reality also showed the need to increase media literacy. The world of media and social networks is becoming more and more visual, so the need to develop competencies to distinguish the good from the bad examples of media provocations was also assessed as urgent.
Thus, the problems of our time identified in the planning process determined the goals of the training and the various thematic blocks of the curriculum. In the first part of the training, participants addressed various topics and concepts related to gender and gender equality, feminism, gender-based violence, human rights and discrimination, sex education and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. They shared the various challenges they identified in their local community, found many similar problems and grouped by interests to create visual narratives to counteract what was happening.
As part of the visual tools we looked at, we visited the premiere screening of the film “Women Do Cry”, which through the stories of several collective female images presents the problems faced by women in Bulgaria. The film was extremely influential and the participants were enthusiastic to discuss the plot lines in detail and to reflect on their own perceptions, connecting the problems shown with the real challenges in their own realities.
In order to achieve a deeper understanding of the topics and to gain a deeper insight into the specifics of the situation in the country, the participants met with experts from Bulgaria, in the person of Lili Dragoeva and Gloria Filipova from Bilitis Foundation, as well as with Yavor Konov from the Ivor Foundation, who painted a realistic picture of the challenges they face in their daily work in the field with people from the community and care for their mental and physical health, as well as the successes they have achieved over the years of hard work.
As part of the program, we organized a Human Library, during which participants were able to meet young people from the LGBTI community, who told them about the difficult personal journey they have taken and the constant struggle they have to lead every day to be themselves in an intolerant and often openly hostile society.
The program in the last module included four mentors-creators and experts in visual arts and social media: Victoria Marinova – an expert in creating concepts and content for social networks, Isabella Markova – a graphic designer who supports a variety of social causes with a unique style of illustrations, Violeta Apostolova – Leti, a photographer who captures details of the soul of the people standing in front of her lens, and Nikola Gulmezov, a journalist and photographer and videographer, whose photo and video stories not only convey the reality refracted through his talented style, but also inspire. For two days, they all supported and guided the participants in the preparation of their mini-campaigns, guiding and giving them useful advice, sensing their wishes about what they wanted to show and offering them a purposeful framework and guidance in the visualization process. Thus, in the second practical part of the training, together with mentors in the field of visual arts and social media, the participants created various mini-campaigns in different media formats on topics such as: sex education, obstetric violence, feminism, the right to abortion and the beauty of diversity. See the great results of this creative process, which the participants themselves are already spreading within their local communities, among friends, families and young people they work with, as well as internationally, through their network of partnerships.
FEMINISM is… Instagram @page.by.page.2021
MATERNITY Instagram @informed_maternity_care
I AM YOU
RIGHT to SAVE ABORTION
GENDER DRESS Instagram@the.gender.dress
Game -sexual eduaction
The project “Visual storytelling from A to Z”,2019-2-BG01-KA105-062826 is supported by Erasmus+ Programme, under KA1, Youth workers mobility
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Deconstructing culturein youth work and non-formal education
Be your country seminar from December 3rd until December 10th provides space for youth workers and staff from volunteering organisations around Europe to critically reflect about their own practices of culturalization in non-formal education programs, energizers, support and training structures and free time activities. We will guide the seminar using techniques and approaches from antidiscrimination, antiracism and critical whiteness.
Topics
Some of the questions and topics to be explored:
What do we personally and our organisations mean when we say „culture“? What effect does this understanding of culture have on our participants?
What is the role of national cultures in international youth projects – and how does this relate to nationalism, nationbuilding, pan-Europeanism and internationalism?
How can we deconstruct and play with the definition of „culture“ that our participants bring with them to our youth projects?
What non-formal education methods can we share or create that have critical or constructive approaches to culture? What can be progressive alternatives to an „international evening“ and to talking about “cultural shocks” solely from a national perspective?
How does the setup of Erasmus+ programs reinforce certain notions of culture in our projects?
How can we challenge existing cultures within our projects and our societies (e.g. patriarchy, heteronormativity, white supremacy, militarism) in order to create a culture of peace?
Participant’s profile
The project aims to gather 30 participants (up to 2 per partner organisation). The participants will be youth workers, trainers as well as staff, activists, camp coordinators and active volunteers from volunteerig organisations. All participants selected for this project should meet the following criteria
be 18 years old or older
be able to work in English
be interested in the seminar topics and have a strong motivation to act as a multiplier
Able to attend for the full duration of the seminar
If somehow possible and feasible, be committed to come to the seminar without flying, and to travel instead by overland route.
Applications should be sent to trainings@cvs-bg.org with a subject Application_Be your country_YOUR NAME. Final selection will be done by SCI Austria. Here is the application form:
All those accepted will later receive a detailed infosheet (incl. info on how to get to the venue, how to book your travels, more info about the agenda of the project).
First deadline for applying is November 1st 2021.
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We are opening the call for participants of 4 training courses, part of the long-term project “PEACE INNOVATION LAB: YOUTH WORK EDITION”, supported by EACEA through ERASMUS +, Key Action 2.
The first training course is called “Building Bridges” and will be organized from September 25th until October 2nd in Krusevac, Serbia.
Below you will find some short info about each training course. And here is the detailed call.
BUILDING BRIDGES | Krusevac, Serbia | 25.09 – 2.10.21
Training course on peace and reconciliation in youth work dimension. Training aims to equip youth workers with deeper understanding of peace and reconciliation processes, elements and strategies. It will build competencies of youth workers to promote peace, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialog, against violence, discrimination and hate speech.
Through this training we will empower youth workers to engage in the complex topic of peacebuilding and peacekeeping, conflict transformation, anti-discrimination and intercultural learning/dialogue providing them with necessary skills, attitudes and knowledge.
CHANGE ACADEMY | Bitola, North Macedonia | 31.10 – 8.11.21
Training course on peace and reconciliation training and education in youth work field. This training aims to build capacities of youth trainers and educators in youth work field to successfully develop detailed programme and methodology, facilitate, implement and evaluate training activity with focus on peace and reconciliation topics.
TRAINING TOPICS:
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Stereotypes, prejudice, hate speech
Changing narratives and combating conflict propaganda
Designing a Training programme
Methodology in non-formal education
Group dynamics, motivation and participation
Facilitation skills
Culture, identity and intercultural learning
Peacebuilding education
ART-&-FACT | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.01 – 30.01.22
Training course on creative forms of reconciliation, solidarity and conflict transformation advocacy and promotion in youth work. Training aims to explore different cultural and art expressions, methods and tools with purpose to promote peacebuilding, understanding, respect, conflict resolution, diversity and raise capacity of youth workers/youth activists to employ creative advocacy and promotion in their work with young people and in community.
EUREKA EFFECT | Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12.03-19.03.22
Training Course on social innovation of reconciliation process through youth work using cross-sectoral approach and different design methods. With this training we aim to build capacities and advance skills of experienced youth workers in innovating and re-designing their approaches and activities towards reconciliation and youth cooperation empowering peace building, providing deeper and more socially responsible youth work agenda.
TRAINING TOPICS:
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Conflict transformation on small scale
Active role of youth work
Setting up the innovation process
Creative process of design thinking
Co-creation in youth peacebuilding initiatives
Pitching the idea
PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS FOR EACH TRAINING
is an active member of the partner organization;
has some previous experience in youth work;
is able to contribute to the development of the topics of the training;
will be actively involved in preparation and leading youth activities in near future;
is able and ready to be involved in all the relevant activities of the project: online learning modules, residential training and follow up practice activities
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM
Online learning platform is online space which contains different resources, materials, training tools and methods, ideas and proposals. It has interactive character for direct communication and support, expert advice, sharing experiences, good practice examples and easy cooperation, reporting, management and teamwork. For these purposes, we will use DISCORD as our main hub space and other digital tools and storage space additionally according to the needs of the project and activities. We have a Platform Manager who will support all the activities on the platform and help partners, participants and trainers/experts to use it efficiently.
PARTICIPANTS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
Familiarise yourself with the platform with support of Platform Manager beforehand
Join the platform 10 days before the residential training
Participate actively in the activities on the platform and communication with the others (peers, trainers, project team)
Use the platform for planning and reporting their follow up practical activities
FOLLOW UP PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Aim of the follow up activities is to further raise capacity of the youth workers in larger scale, and provide them with the space and opportunity to put their competences gained during training courses in practice and apply them in their working environment, with young people and peers from their community and on European level. Each participant of Mobility Activities will have the responsibility, supported by their sending organisations and project coordinator to prepare and implement the practical activity according to the topic of the training they attended and the requirements of each practical activity type listed below. The project foresees the budget for these activities. Note that these costs must be justified with bills and invoices.
PARTICIPANTS’ RESPONSIBILITIES
Participants will be responsible to make need analysis, prepare content, organize practical and financial arrangements and implement their activities. They incorporate the visibility and promotion of their work and the project itself. The participants will need to document the process and, with help of their sending organisation, dully report it content-wise and budget-wise.
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“Ready to Take Off” – Training for Youth Workers on Sustainable Global Mobility M.O.V.E.
Activity 1, 12.-19. September 2021, Nuremberg, Germany
The Project International peace and volunteer work is rooted in face-to-face exchange of people from different regions and backgrounds. Regular trainings, seminars and volunteer camps, where youth workers and young people can exchange experiences and ideas, form the basis of this. The need for personal exchange comes along with a greater need for travel and transportation. Currently, many of the travel distances are covered by air plane. This contributes massively to the climate crisis and to increasing social inequality. Besides, the restrictions imposed by COVID19 have forced us to take a more urgent look at alternative forms of mobility. Among all the challenges, this also offers an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned regarding mobility in international peace work during the pandemic. Project M.O.V.E. makes mobility a peace issue and considers the acute need to raise awareness and to promote critical reflection of current mobility choices in international volunteer projects and peace activities. Its main objectives are: – to enhance the knowledge, skills and competences of youth workers on the main topics, – to equip them with tools to make their activities ecologically and socially more sustainable, – and to create ideas and follow-up plans for innovative climate-friendly projects. The project consists of four parts. This call for applications comprises the first two parts (Activity 1), the “Ready to Take Off” Training on Sustainable Global Mobility in Nuremberg from 12 -19 September 2021, and the “On the MOVE” Implementation Period.
Training During the training, participants from peace/volunteering organisations from 17 countries will get together to learn about the intersection of mobility, climate justice and peace work, and to create, share and spread tools and ideas for activism, education and structural change regarding the topic. After the training, from September/October 2021 till February/March 2022, participants implement workshop ideas ‘On the MOVE’. They gather content and feedback for a toolkit on sustainable mobility and localise the topics discussed at the seminar – including running local or online workshops on travel guidelines. This process will be guided by the team of trainers. Activity 2 of the project comprises the “Landing and Spreading” Seminar, which will take place in February/March 2022 in Vienna/Austria, and a Follow-up Period to finalise the project outputs and start implementing new project ideas. There will be a separate registration for Activity 2. Participants of Activity 1 will be accepted for the seminar with priority. All activities will be held in English language.
The Venue The training will take place in the youth house “Otto-Felix-Kanitz-Haus” in Nuremberg, Germany, well connected to public transport and close to a river.
Aims
Understand the link between (global) mobility, climate justice and international peace work
Empower and train active volunteers, camp coordinators and seminar facilitators to advocate for sustainable means of transportation and implement local actions with their sending organisation
Enhance networking capabilities, create and share tools and ideas for local activism and campaigning
Initiate structural change regarding mobility within SCI and partners
Topics
Local and global impacts of global mobility on resources, climate change and social justice
Structures behind global mobility (acceleration, economic growth, global inequalities)
Economic and political approaches to a sustainable global mobility and their critique
Personal involvement in global mobility
Peace work, mobility and its climate impacts
Approaches to a more climate-friendly peace work, lessons learnt from the pandemic
Ideas/inspirations for local workshops
Outcomes – Inspiration for Mobility Toolkit – contents: NFE methods about global mobility, climate justice and peace, background knowledge to develop guidelines for sustainable projects, example for sustainable approaches in peace and youth work
– Concept and kick-off for research and On the MOVE Implementation Period.
Methods We’re going to use a broad variety of non-formal education methods, such as world cafe, snowball discussions, research, silent exhibition, simulation games, theatre, visual harvesting, arts, energisers, role games, teambuilding games and more. There will also be projects visits to local initiatives.
Participants’ Profile Everyone who comes to this seminar should…
ideally be an active member and be involved in the process and decision structures of their sending organisation;
have experience in international peace work;
allow time and ideas for both the training and the implementation phase;
ideally be willing to attend also (not mandatory, but recommended) and participate actively in the production of the outputs;
be committed to abstain from flying and travel to the events via overland route instead;
bring ideas for workshops;
have sufficient English language skills (spoken and written);
be committed to spreading their new skills and competences to their sending branches/organisation, e.g. via a workshop or a camp coordinator training. Please note that there will be opportunities to visit Nuremberg, but that this is not a “getting to know the city” project. On some days the training also foresees evening sessions.
Financial Conditions of Participation
Essential costs of the programme (including vegan food, accommodation, local transportation and training) will be covered by SCI-D. The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Reimbursement of international travel costs will be 100% up to the maximum amounts indicated in the rules of the Erasmus+ programme after the receipt of original documents (maximum travel reimbursement amounts: 10-99 km = 20 Euro, 100-499 km = 180 Euro, 500- 1999 km = 275 Euro, 2000-2999 km = 360 Euro).
Placement fees are charged according to the regulations of the national sending organisation.
Covid19 Regulation Please be advised that due to the pandemic and related measures, there may be changes. We ask you not to book your trip before we have informed you that the training will take place at the planned location. We will let you know about this about four weeks before the training starts. For the protection of all participants on site, we will ask you to bring your own supply of FFP2 masks and a certificate of a negative Covid19 rapid test result no older than 48 hours (no exceptions). If the current situation in September forces us to do so, we will postpone this training and will inform you immediately. Upon confirmation, you are responsible to ensure that your trip complies with the latest recommendations of the health authorities regarding the spread of Covid19. For Germany, the regulations of the Ministry of Health apply.
Application & Deadline Please send your application for the Ready to Take off Training and On the MOVE Implementation Period via this application form by 05. September 2021. After we accept your application, you will receive a detailed Infosheet. Any questions? Don’t hesitate to write to Britta Lang-Azizi at britta.lang-azizi@sci-d.de We are looking forward to your application 🙂 The Coordinating Team
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