(Erasmus+) Youth in Action
“NFE working for you(th)”
01/08/2010 – 30/12/2010
This 6 days long training course “NFE working for you(th)” was dealing with the topics of Youth (un)employment and non-formal education. The project aimed at empowering and encouraging youth organisations to focus their efforts on the urgency of providing necessary competences to young people who were never employed and to become a space where those who recently lost employment can maintain their competences and use them in the civic life. The training course was organised in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia and gathered 24 participants from 7 organizations and groups from Croatia, Serbia, FYR Macedonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy and Turkey.
Some of the specific objectives were:
- To explore the possibilities of the Youth in Action program as a tool in the combat against unemployment;
- To encourage active citizenship and develop sense of entrepreneurship;
- To reflect and exchange opinions about the youth unemployment in different European countries;
- To identify the competences that can be obtained through European non- formal learning projects and their certification by the Youthpass;
- To encourage the creation of future projects in the Youth in Action frame with unemployed youngsters as a target group of promoters.
The training course followed the non-formal education approach. A combination of different creative and interactive methods was used by the training/facilitating team and designed upon the profile of participants. The course programme and contents were organised to allow for the maximum participation of the group using active and participatory methods.
The total grant for this project was: 18.044,00 EUR.