The training course “Participation out of office” is a 5 full days training course, where participants will experience an intense learning process that will develop their competences to better understand the concept of youth participation and use it in their work with young people, while gaining new tools and methods for working together with public authorities.

Specific objectives:

– To give strong impression of knowledge, what participation means and different kind of youth active participation.

– To prepare participants for creating and implementing their own Key Action 3 project.

– To increase the importance of the Structured Dialogue as a tool for youth participation.

The TC offers to obtain international learning experience for youth workers, youth leaders and representants of municipalities responsible for youth policy/youth field and allows them to develop their competencies in the introduction and applying of new methods and forms of active participation of young people at local, national and international levels within the Structured dialogue projects of the programme Erasmus+ Youth in action. At the same time they will improve the quality in planning, implementing and evaluating a project under KA3 (support to Policy Reform) within Erasmus+ Youth in Action programme.

Participants will have an opportunity to evaluate how can a national and international project of Structured dialogue contribute to solving their local issues.

The training course is aimed for participants who:

– are youth workers, youth leaders, representants of municipalities responsible for youth policy/youth field; representatives of youth parliaments, youth councils, unsuccessful KA3 applicants;

– who want to develop international youth participation project;

– are able to communicate and work in English;

– are over 18 years old.