Training Course: Formal meets Non-Formal: upgraded

Location: Lithuania

Dates: 7-13 May 2017

Number of participants: 32

Participating countries: Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania

Organizer: NGO “Youth EPICenter”

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Deadline to apply: 20th March 2017

Inquiries about this training course: Justina, E-Mail: youth.epicenter@gmail.com

Costs:  This project is financed by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

Accommodation and food during the training course will be covered by the organizers.

Travel expences up to the indicated limit will be reimbursed:
Lithuania – 0 euro
Latvia – 70 euro
Estonia – 150 euro
Poland – 150 euro

Romania – 330 euro
Italy – 310 euro
Croatia – 350 euro
Reimbursement will be done according to the real costs and provided travel documents. Travel reimbursement will be done via bank transfer after all the original travel documents will be presented to the organizers.

There is no participation fee.

 

Formal meets Non-Formal: upgraded

The aim of the TC is to assist formal and non-formal education practitioners in working with human rights education issues through providing tools and methodologies.

 

General Description

The TC runs on the idea that the educators from formal and non-formal education settings should be working together towards solving present day challenges as intolerance, racism, youth radicalization, lack of civic participation, aiming to help young person to grow.

Aim of the TC is to assist formal and non-formal education practitioners in working with human rights education issues through providing tools and methodologies.

 

Objectives:

1. Introduce human rights based approach to be used in shaping formal and non-formal educational activities;
2. Develop understanding of non-formal education methodological principles;

3. Improve understanding of human rights and it’s values;
4. Encourage participants to use non-formal education methods and tools in the formal education setting and invite non-formal educators to contribute to implementation of formal curriculum;
5. Improve participants’ competencies to plan, run and evaluate human rights education workshops;
6. Develop understanding of importance of reflection in educational activities and provide participants with the competence of guiding reflection process of youngsters: designing reflection questions and running the process;
7. Improve participants’ competencies to adjust, adapt and create new methods based on non-formal education methodology;
8. Create civic education workshops and/or lessons, which could be used by educators in formal and non-formal education settings;
9.Create space for future Erasmus+ projects development and ensuring the quality of the projects through developing common understanding of Youth project quality criteria: non-formal education.
All the activities will be based on non-formal education principles and will include interactive presentations, simulations, self reflection, group work, creative tasks, reflection, theatre, etc.

Participants’ background:

– Directly working with young people – teachers, youth workers, youth leaders, cultural workers and educators;
– Having no or little experience learning on international level;
– Willing to include topics of human rights into their daily work;
– Willing to use non-formal education in their daily work and to cooperate tightly with NGOs;
– Able to participate in whole duration of the learning process;
– Committed to disseminate project results in at local (city, municipality) and institutional level (school, organization);

– Able to understand and express themselves in English;
– at least 18 years old;
– Searching for new educational methodologies, educational philosophies to be used in daily educational work;
– Searching for new tools and ways how to work with youth;
– Searching for new ideas how to work in schools during after school educational / social hours;
– In search for ideas and tools how to address current issues in Europe;
– Searching for partners with whom it would be possible to cooperate.