Scholarship / Financial aid: Available

Date: 22 - 30 September 2009

Deadline: Registration Closed

Open to : All Interested Within the Euro-Med Context, Youth in Action Programme

Protecting the Mediterranean Environment “Youth Will Make the Difference!”

Island of Serifos (Northern Cyclades), 22 to 30 September 2009

Presentation

Activity type: Long Term Training Course

This TC is a long term training course project oriented based on 3 steps that will offer all participants learning by doing training, directly linked to the Greek Islands reality.

• 1st step: Training course on the island of Serifos (Northern Cyclades) 22nd to 30th September 2009
• 2nd step: Practical Phase (Run from the end of the T.C. until the evaluation in 2010): Coaching participants and their project.
• 3rd step: Evaluation - Greece, September 2010.

It is organised in cooperation with the Hellenic National Agency for the Youth in Action programme and Salto-Youth EuroMed.

Aims and Objectives

This long term training project aims to give for E.U. and Meda youth organizations a real chance to create reliable projects, by creating and offering tools and technical support (coaching) to the participants on the preparation and different phases of their projects.

It also aims to:

• Develop a structured dialogue with policy makers and stakeholders for a sustainable environmental.
• Learn about concrete contribution to global sustainable development, with a special focus on the Euro-Mediterranean area.
• Imagine, develop and implement real and concrete projects.
• Work, share and do with and for Local Population.

Implementation Step by Step

1st step: Training course on the island of Serifos (Northern Cyclades) 22nd to 30th September 2009

Why?

• To support the creation and development of new innovative and quality Environmental projects in Euromed.
• To continue with a Euro-Med strategy that reinforces the cooperation between E.U. and Meda countries in the frame of the youth field.
• To promote the idea of taking care of our environment all around Meda and E.U. countries by working on new partnership matching and new projects.
• To multiply the effects of the outcomes.
• To establish and develop networking between the participants.
• To develop a project where all actors will be direct beneficiaries of the outcomes achieved during the training.

2nd step: Practical Phase (Run from the end of the T.C. until the evaluation in 2010): Coaching participants and their project.

This will be a very important step in order to realize an intensive follow up of all projects and their evolution.

How?

• To support the participants on the preparation of the project application.
• By coaching during all the process until the itinerant evaluation.
• To maintain a continued dialogue among this step and the evaluation.
• To observe the process of the different projects.
• To ensure the quality of all of them.
• To actualize all the information relevant for the organizations and the participants.

3rd step: Evaluation - Greece, September 2010

What we propose here is to valuate and to pick up the fruits of all the processes established since the T.C. in 2009 until now.

How?

• By creating an itinerant evaluation of each project from island to island in the North Cyclades.
• Offering all the NGOs the chance to participate actively in the follow up of the different projects.
• Using the testimony of the different projects created and already realized.
• Exchanging and the different realities presented, and promoting the meeting with other volunteers.
• Analysing and making a compilation of the outcomes.

Venue Place and Dates

Target Group

The course is for youth workers and youth leaders who are:

• experienced in the Euro-Med YOUTH Programme and/or Youth in Action Programme
• open to share and enrich their knowledge and awareness regarding environmental issues
• Committed to co-operate during the preparation phase before the implementation of the training course according to the team of trainers' requests (writing articles, making researches, etc.)
• Supported by their organisations and have a concrete interest in implementing a Euro-Med project on environmental issues
• Able to communicate and work in English
• Committed to attend the LTT course for its full duration

Recruitment Procedures

Group size: 24 participants

1. Apply on line to the first phase

   You have to fill in the application on-line. Only the application forms submitted and correctly filled-in will be taken into account before 28 July 2009.

2. Selection

   Programme countries: pre-selection through sending National Agencies for the YiA programme
   Mediterranean Partner countries: Salto-Youth EuroMed with support of EuroMed Youth Units

3. Information from coordinator

   The coordinator of the training course will contact you when the selection will be done. You will be invited to connect to the e-learning community platform to be informed on practicalities and programme. You will have to manage your travel and your visa on your own.