Partner Call for a Project: Think Like Nature

Location: UK, Romania and Spain

Dates: May 2017, August 2017, October 2017

Call for partners: 8 organisations, preferably related to environmental projects, from all countries, except UK, Romania and Spain

Number of participants: 24 in total, 3 participants from each organisation

Organizer: Abroadship.org

Application process:

  • fill this Partnership Form and send to hello@abroadship.org before the deadline 17 August 2016
  • we will inform you on the selection date: 24 August 2016
  • selected partners will be requested to send by email signed and stamped Mandate

Inquiries about this project: Justinas: hello@abroadship.org

Think Like Nature

Download project call description:

Think Like Nature – Partner Call – abroadship.org

Click to access ThinkLikeNature-Call-for-partners-Abroadship.org_.pdf

Trainings:

·      7 days in May 2017 for „Emotional Intelligence with Forest School” in United Kingdom

·      12 days in August 2017 for „Sustainability with Permaculture” in Romania

·      7 days in October 2017 for „Lifestyle with Alternative Sustainable Communities” in Spain

Participants, trainers and team: for each training 24 participants from 8 NGOs + 2-3 trainers + 2 local team members. For every training there will be a new selection of the participants and new set of trainers and team members.

Participants contribution: €30 per participant

Place of trainings: United Kingdom, Romania, Spain

Target group: We want to gather youth educators and workers, project leaders, facilitators, trainers, NGO representatives, teachers, volunteers, staff members and other multipliers, who are already involved in non-formal youth education, environmental and community project and in social work, who want to learn “forest school”, “permaculture” and “think like nature” methods, and also new ways how to approach youth and motivate them to be active in their community and contribute to the community.

What to expect: The ultimate goal of this project is to deconstruct and reconstruct together with participants (youth leaders and youth workers), partners and other involved parties (communities and guest speakers) the elements of “Think Like Nature”, offering a fundamentally strong and applicable framework, which is based on innovative non-formal education, nature- and community- inclusive methods that youth leaders and youth workers could use in their work and daily life.

Partners and participants should expect project to be practical, based on real problems and needs, and offer competences and skills that are applicable in participant’s work with youth and personal and community life.

A research* of 24 children from 7 different Forest Schools in UK over 8 months period shows improvements in the children’s confidence, motivation and concentration, language, communication and physical skills.

One of the primary objective of the project is to explore the concepts and methodologies of “Think Like Nature”, “Emotional Intelligence with Forest School”, “Sustainability with Permaculture”, “Lifestyle with Alternative Sustainable Communities”, and find out together methods, actions and events, which can boost youth’s self-awareness,  self-esteem, self-development and consequently community development with the help of the nature.

Partners: We are searching for pro-active partners, who connected to environmental projects and preferably participated in the projects related to “Forest School”, “Permaculture” or “Alternative Communities”. We would like to have long term partnership, which would outgrow the current project to other projects. As a result, we would like to see active dissemination of the results.

Project managers:  

·      Eva Dumitrescu (Romania) evadumitrescu12@gmail.com

·      Andria Sonet (Spain) adriasonet@gmail.com

·      Justinas Brikys (UK) at hello@abroadship.org.

How to Apply

Organisations apply by following steps:

  • fill this Partnership Form and send to hello@abroadship.org before the deadline 17 August 2016
  • we will inform you on the selection date: 24 August 2016
  • selected partners will be requested to send by email signed and stamped Mandate