Innovative and creative methods for educational youth work on the topics of human rights, racism, social inclusion and promotion of volunteering
Call for participants
April 15-22, 2011
Kharkov, Ukraine
Every year in different projects SCI is organizing all over the world, hundreds of international volunteer projects are happening – with volunteer work, international participants living together as a family, learning something, debating, discussing, exchanging…This creates special learning environment and context, especially for work with such topics as human rights, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, combating racism and xenophobia in intercultural, context. And this is what the proposed training is dedicated to. The training is organized by SVIT-Ukraine and SCI International Secretariat, with financial support of Council of Europe, European Youth Foundation.
The program will be built around experiences of participants of educational work with international and intercultural youth groups. Participants will share experiences and cases on the topics of the project – human rights, combating racism and xenophobia, social inclusion and promotion of volunteering, which will be used as foundation to discuss and further develop educational methods and tools on these topics.
Program will include: creativity and innovation in youth work, technical skills as facilitation, introduction and debriefing, group dynamics in training, developing program of non-formal educational activity, tools and methods – using and adapting them in creative way, creating safe learning environment, international communication and specifics of working with international youth groups. Non-formal educational activity in a nutshell: before, during, after.
The methodology of the training will be build on non-formal and informal methods, so that trainers will not lecture the participants, but the participants themselves will develop thematic content of the training. Special attention will be paid to practical aspect, participants will get opportunity to apply skills in practice by facilitating sessions and group work during the training, then later analyze and discuss during debriefing and get feedback from trainers and other participants.
Participants profile: active volunteers, leaders of workcamps and international youth exchanges, volunteers with experience of organizing educational sessions, workshops and discussions with international and intercultural component. Interested to experiment and design new methods, have possibility and plan to act as multipliers after the training.
Working language is English.
Financial conditions:
All costs concerning meals and accommodation as well as the program and materials will be fully covered for the whole duration of the training. Travel costs will be reimbursed 70%. The participation fee for CIS and SEE participants is 30 Euros, for EU countries and Switzerland – 65 Euro.
Application procedure
- Deadline for applications is March 24th, 2011. However, applications will be considered on first served basis (who applies earlier, will be approved earlier)
- A completed application form with any other relevant information shall be sent by email to: avi@avimd.org
- All candidates will be informed by email about the decision
- For any questions do not hesitate to contact the us at avi@avimd.org
Looking forward to welcome you in Ukraine!