Improve your competences as youth leader in intercultural environment

Training for youth leaders, youth workers, young people active in NGO's  - Call for participants
 
Associazione ICARUS with the support of Erasmus+ Programme organises the project  "Self-empowerment to support young people"  a leader training that intends to offer youth leaders and youth workers active in their own local realities but with few experiences in multicultural contexts or with intercultural groups, the skills and non formal tools useful for be active in the youth sector, and to enhance their own role as facilitators or as leader in non-formal contexts such as workcamps, youth exchanges, volunteering projects, etc.
 
The leader training will be held from 29/04/2022 to 07/05/2022 in FILAGA a small town in province on Palermo, Sicily, IT.
It will gather 36 participants among youth leaders and young facilitators at their 1st experience, and newbies in youth workers from IT, BE, EE, ES, FR, LV, MK, PL.  This project will involve also participants facing economical and geographical difficulties.
 
 
AIMS OF THE TRAINING COURSE

• To strengthening participants' personal and transversal skills useful for working in multicultural and international contexts, and for managing and conducting activities aimed at young people
• To deepen the role of youth leader, non formal education, and sharing good practices
• To improve cross-competencies of participants such as leadership, prevention management and resolution of problems and conflicts, teamwork skills, communication, etc.
• To enhance the role of youth leader, youth workers and NGOs as complementary actors for personal and professional growth of all young people, especially those in cultural and socioeconomic/educational disadvantaged conditions
• To share practices among partner organizations and improve the quality of youth work

 
Important. All participants' contributions will be collected in a toolkit to be used for prepare young people to lead intercultural and multicultural groups and support learning  by using non-formal education tools.
 
METHODOLOGY AND AGENDA
Activities will be based on non-formal methodologies, work in group, brainstorming, simulations, role-playing games, which will facilitate group dynamics, learning,  sharing good practices, and the development of new methods and educational approaches aimed at enhancing of skills to manage groups of young people and facilitate their learning process during non-formal activities and mobilities.
To check the draft of Agenda please click here

PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE
Young people aged between 22 and 30 years old, mainly young people at their first experience as youth leader, or as facilitator of intercultural groups/activities, or as newcomers in youth work and active in local context and within their sending organizations interested in acquiring new skills and strengthening competences in managing international groups or intercultural groups of young people coming from different  socio-economic and cultural background.

• Participants should be interested or already involved in dealing with intercultural learning, conducting activities addressed to young people, to coordinate groups, to work in multicultural context and interested in the use of NF education methodologies.

• Participants are expected to take active role during the Training Course and to implement an activity/game on a selected topic of their choice.
• Good knowledge of English for taking active role during the activities

ACCOMMODATION
Will be provided in a very basic hostel in Filaga and in the nearby town Prizzi, both in province of Palermo, Italy.

Board and lodging are provided by the host organisation with the support of Erasmus+

For all further information and application form, please check the INFOPACK AT THIS LINK
Deadline to apply is 18/04/2022 by filling this FORM

In case you would like to get in contact with us, please write an email to associazione.icarus@gmail.com