2012 – International Training Course “Facing Europe 2020: Key Competences for Youth Workers in Non-formal Education” in Weimar, Germany, 11.-20. December 2012

From 11th – 20th of December 2013 CULTURE GOES EUROPE- Soziokulturelle Initiative Erfurt e.V. (CGE Erfurt e.V.) in cooperation with its international project partners implemented a training for multipliers in the Hedwig-Pfeiffer House in Weimar, Germany.

The project “Facing Europe 2020: Key Competences for Youth Workers in Non-formal Education” was aimed to support the development of competences of youth workers in non-formal education for increasing the quality of youth projects on a larger scale, enabling them to develop and to run certain local activities in order to translate the learning outcomes of the TC into practice on local level. The activities were based on principles & practice of non-formal learning include. various activities as exercises, simulations, which are creating situations for deeper personal reflection, followed by debriefing, work in small mixed groups, individual work, inputs, presentations & discussion of results, free time activities & intercultural activities. Attending the TC helped the participants – in relation to their personal development as well as the implementation of own local activities in cooperation with their sending organisations and local communities – to increase understanding of what is non-formal education in the context of youth work, to build capacities for developing & implementing youth projects, to explore possible links between youth work, non-formal education and employability/employment of youth people, to share and discuss experiences and to develop partnerships for future action in this field. The intercultural challenge that implies in here, participants from EU27 programme countries contributed in many ways to the individual learning process of each participant. Based on our experiences made within the last seven years of local and international youth work the TC offered a platform where all participants learned in an atmosphere of mutual understanding exchanging their knowledge and experiences in the field of international youth work. Last but not least the training was intended to get connected and to find synergy-effects between us and new projects under the umbrella of Youth in Action.

The project will continue in spring and autumn 2013, so long-term cooperation can be developed between the partner organisations and CGE Erfurt e.V.

Young people, volunteers as well as skilled youth workers (youth leaders, youth social workers and project leaders) from over 10 European nations participated in the training. In detail the following organisations were involved in the project:

• CULTURE GOES EUROPE (CGE) – Soziokulturelle Initiative Erfurt e.V. – Germany
• International Initiatives for Cooperation – Bulgaria
• Youth Academy of Ida-Viru (Ida-Viru Noorteakadeemia) – Estonia
• Institute International Social et Culturel Européen – France
• Centre des Sureaux – France
• YOUTHNET HELLAS – Greece
• Compass Európai Ifjúsági Közösségért Egyesület – Hungary
• Associazione InformaGiovani – Italy
• CEMEA del Mezzogiorno – Italy
• Gulbenes novada dome (Gulbene Municipality Council) – Latvia
• BALTIC REGIONAL FUND – Latvia
• Information center “Youth on the way to Europe” – Lithuania
• Associação para a Formação e Desenvolvimento do Montijo (CMM) – Portugal
• Dínamo – Associação de Dinamização Sócio-Cultural – Portugal
• TEAM FOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION – Romania
• Asociatia Together Romania – Romania
• ESTRA foundation n.o. – Slovak Republic
• Društvo mladinski ceh – Slovenia
• LIBERTAS INTERNATIONAL – Spain
• ASOCIACIÓN SER JOVEN – Spain
• New International Company of Live Arts – UK

You may request the contacts of these partners (office@cge-erfurt.org). Here you can find the programme and further project information. The application forms are available soon here.

Furthermore an open facebook group was opened for all interested persons:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/377621152305459/

The project will be implemented in the frame of the Youth in Action program of the European Commission: