During this study visit you will to get to know the Finnish youth sector and youth participation work in Finland, especially in the municipal field and locally. The study visit will take place from the 12th to the 16th of December in Helsinki, Finland.
Aims & objectives
Participants
The Study visit seeks to involve and invite various actors and stakeholders of youth work, youth participation and the inclusion sector from practice, policy and research from all over Europe.
Accessibility and sustainability
The venue where we organise the event is accessible for wheelchairs. We will also consider your special needs so that you can fully participate in the training. If you need a support person, accessible room and transport or supporting tools, we will try to arrange them for you. If you are selected to attend this Study visit please tell us your needs already beforehand so that we can be ready. We will also send a questionnaire about special needs and dietary restrictions to all those selected.
Find more information and how to apply here. The application deadline is 25 September.
Are you a municipality officer (or their partner) who wants to improve your youth policies, structures, and projects engaging young people in municipal decision-making?
Then apply for a webinar from Democracy Reloading this autumn! There are webinars on 28 September, 26 October and 30 November 2022.
The webinars will
Find more info and how to apply here.
The second Project Lab of Europe Goes Local focuses on rural youth work. This training will take place in Chalkidiki (Greece) from the 14th to the 17th of November 2022. The participants will also join a preparatory webinar and an online meet and greet session in October. If you’re interested in a general Project Lab about local youth work, you can apply for the Project Lab in Bonn.
The Europe Goes Local Project Labs are international training and networking events. They bring officials and practitioners in youth work together to strengthen the usage and exploitation of the possibilities offered by the Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps programmes for youth work at municipal level.
Specifically, the Project Labs aim to:
Find more information about this project lab on rural youth work here, and apply until the 20th of September here.
You can also still apply for the Project Lab in Bonn until the 5th of September. This project lab doesn’t have a specific theme.
This Project Lab in Bonn (Germany) is an international training and networking event to strengthen the usage and exploitation of the possibilities offered by the ERASMUS+ and the European Solidarity Corps programmes for youth work at municipal level. The event will go on from the 19th to the 21st of October 2022.
The Project Lab aims to …
Apply until 5 September 2022 here.
If you’re interested in rural youth work, you can apply for the Project Lab about rural youth work in Chalkidiki until the 10th of September. You can find more information here.
In the framework of the Europe Goes Local project, the German and Hellenic National Agencies of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes are looking for trainers who will be part of a team that will implement the Europe Goes Local (EGL) project labs in 2022. The application deadline is the 25th of July
Two project labs are foreseen in 2022.
The first project lab has a general focus and will take place in in Bonn (Germany) from 19-21 October 2022 (including arrival and departure).
The second project lab is focussed on municipalities and local organizations from rural areas. It will take place from 14-17 November 2022 in Halkidiki (Greece).
Both project labs will have around 30-40 participants from the programme countries and neighbouring partner countries of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes.
There will also be a joint preparatory webinar for the participants of both events during the week of 3-9 October.
Essential skills and experience:
Advantage:
All costs of travel, board and lodging incurred in relation to the meetings and events will be covered by the organisers. Expert fee (gross): €320/working day.
The number of working days depends on whether the trainer facilitates only one or both project labs.
Find more detailed information and how to apply here.
You can also find the call for participants here.
The Latvian National Agency organises a study visit “Youth Workers’ well-being” from August 17 to 19 2022 in Latvia. This target audience are youth specialists, youth workers, youth policy makers, NGO representatives,… involved in youth work.
Youth work is constantly developing and being assigned new roles and functions, such as building civil society, improving social inclusion, preventing health risks, etc. With this continual evolution, the focus and aim of youth work is to ensure quality systems and frameworks that guarantees its improvement and shows its impact and value. The concept of quality youth work, however, can’t only focus on the development of standards, indicators, methods and manuals. So supporting development of quality to create lasting impact on the lives of young people includes the quality of well-being and wellness of youth workers themselves.
“Youth workers’ jobs are challenging and dynamic”
Agnese Karklina, Project Coordinator at the Latvian National Agency
Youth workers are facing multiple challenges, such as burnout, municipal employee turnout, and lack of support from employers. In addition to this, they’ve carried the weight of a global health crisis. And recently, there has been the destructive consequences of a war nearby, which all of these bring the urgent necessity to light to address all issues around the emotional and mental well-being of youth workers.
The Agency for International Programs for Youth in Latvia is organising a study visit within Europe Goes Local to bring awareness to and spotlight the importance of the psycho-emotional well-being of youth workers.
We talked to Agnese Karklina, Project Coordinator at the Latvian National Agency. She told us about the significance of this study visit and why the well-being of youth workers is an essential precondition for developing quality youth work.
Agnese: “Youth workers’ jobs are challenging and dynamic. It takes a lot of energy and resources to work directly with young people; by creating individual plans, consultations, mentoring, creating group activities, trying to find funding for everything, writing projects, and implementing new services. Sometimes youth workers forget about themselves in this process, or they put their needs on the last place. At the same time balancing the workload and private life raises questions: Am I being appreciated in my work? Is anyone thanking me? Am I being paid enough? Is it worth it?”
Agnese: “Youth workers’ health and emotional well-being directly affects productivity and motivation at work. Having good emotional health for youth workers is a fundamental aspect of fostering resilience, self-awareness, and overall contentment. And it goes together with the capability to be more productive in their work hours, staying motivated, raising their problem-solving skills and helping to be more solution-oriented.”
For who: youth specialists, youth workers, youth policy makers, NGO representatives, etc. involved in youth work
When: 17 – 19 August 2022 in Latvia
Arrival: expected on 16 August 2022
Departure: 20 August 2022
Application Deadline: 26 June 2022
Where to apply: http://trainings.salto-youth.net/10298
Furthermore, you can find more information about the Latvian National Agency on their website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, or TikTok.
SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus made beautiful videos of their EGL municipalities. We’ve bundled all the videos of SALTO EEC for you here. You can click on “subtitles” on YouTube to watch the video with English subtitles.
Let’s start with the municipalities in Moldova!
The first video is about Cahul, which is a city and municipality in southern Moldova. The city is the administrative center of Cahul Distract.
The next municipality is Sipoteni, a commune in Călărași District.
SALTO EEC also made three videos about their EGL municipalities in Georgia: Chokhatauri and Zugdidi.
Chokhatauri is a town in Georgia’s Guria region, 310 km west to the capital of Tbilisi. It is an administrative center of Chokhatauri Municipality, which comprises the town itself and its adjoining 60 villages.
Zugdidi is a city in the western Georgian historical province of Samegrelo (Mingrelia). The city is located 318 kilometres west of Tbilisi, 30 km from the Black Sea coast and 30 km from the Egrisi Range.
The first video of Zugdidi is about their culture center.
And then we also have the video about the library in Zugdidi.
We posted one video a week on our social media, and this concludes our weekly videos. You can also watch all of them on the YouTube channel of SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre !
Weren’t you able to join us to our conference Romania? No worries, you can rewatch our livestreams from the 4th EGL event on our YouTube playlist!
The first day of the conference was the 17th of May 2022. You can re-watch the opening words online. There was also akeynote about “EGL as a platform for cooperation and the launch of the platform” by Koen Lambert and Marc Boes.
Barbara Bulc talked on the second day about “youth-friendly ecosystems”. Later in the day we were joined online by Guy Redig, who talked about “local youth work policies in Europe”.
On the last day we had a panel about “youth work in the spotlight: youth workers’ perspectives meet public authorities and youth policies”. The guests of the panel were: Mariya Gabriel (European Commissioner for Youth), Izabella Kacsó-Doboly (Youth Affairs Secretary of State in the Ministry for Youth in Romania), Ilaria Zocco (Project Manager, Associazione Culturale IL VERGANTE in Italy), Apostolos Tzitzikostas (President of the European Committee of the Regions), Emil Boc (Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Ricardo Rio (Mayor of Braga, Portugal), and Victor Cătălin Toma (Asociaţia pentru Dezvoltare Activă ADA Bacău, Romania).
During the conference you could watch the livestreams on the Facebook pages of Europe Goes Local, Corpul European de Solidaritate, and Erasmus+ Romania.
Activating Citizens: Municipalities Making Use of the European Solidarity Corps will go on from 21-22 June 2022. It will be two half-day sessions from 9:30 to 15:00. The deadline to apply is 22 May 2022.
The seminar will:
During this training course you will:
There will be 30participants from Europe and the partner regions (Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership Countries, and South-Mediterranean countries). The Bulgarian National Agency for Erasmus+ and ESC, European Solidarity Corps Resource Centre, and Europe Goes Local are hosting this training course.
More info and apply here.
Join us at Europe Goes Local Webinar – Introduction to Participatory Action Research in Youth Work. The webinar will take place on Thursday, 28th of April 2022, via Zoom from 10h CET to 13h CET.
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a way to invite local communities to learn about their own needs and aspirations. Youth workers and local youth supporters can use it to involve young people and other stakeholders in reflection, collaboration, and social change processes.
It will include interactive activities, a presentation by an expert and practitioner of PAR, small group reflections, and plenary discussions.
In this Webinar, you will:
Apply by the 24th of April here.