Youth

BETTER INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COOPERATION!

Training course on Essentials of International Youth Activities

The Youth Department of the Council of Europe works to continuously strengthen the opportunities for young people, in particular youth leaders and multipliers active in youth civil society organisations, to organise international youth co-operation activities based on the Council of Europe values and standards.
This is based on partnerships with youth organisations holding study sessions in the European Youth Centres and running activities with the financial support of the European Youth Foundation (EYF). 

Part of this response is the training course on Essentials of international youth activities, responding to the needs of international youth organisations and networks, partners of the youth sector, to ensure that their volunteers, members and staff responsible for organising international youth activities are equipped with the needed knowledge, skills and attitudes to implement quality activities.

The course will increase the capacities of international youth organisations and networks to carry out quality intercultural youth activities with a multiplying effect for their members.

 Objectives

The training course objectives are:

• To increase participants’ organisational skills in relation to preparing, implementing and evaluating international youth activities;
• To increase participants’ competences to apply non-formal education and intercultural learning approaches in their international youth activities;
• To develop participants’ understanding and agency in connecting their organisation’s work and activities to the Council of Europe priorities, tools and standards;
• To create a space for youth organisations and networks to make valuable contributions to the programme of the European Youth Centres and of the European Youth Foundation, through constructive dialogue.

  Programme

The programme of the course is based on the principles and approaches of non-formal learning and intercultural learning, building from the experiences and practices of the participants. Its content and methodology are designed to make participants reflect and discuss about essentials of international youth activities carried out with the Youth Department and exemplified in the Manual for Facilitators.

  Participants

The course will bring together some 35 participants from a similar number of youth organisations.