INTRODUCTION

" STEP4" is an Erasmus+ Training Course with the scope of prοviding youth workers and educators for tailoring methods and strategies to support the talents and competencies development of young people and the Organisations working with youth.  The project aims to design and consider sustainable, alternative and digital methodologies and approaches to adapt to the European job market and develop the entrepreneurial and employment competences of our young people through upgraded employability strategies.

STEP4 is about:

• Entrepreneurial learning
• Career development
• Green and environmental
• Digitalisation and hybrid education

OBJECTIVES

1. Empower youth workers fan of competences in the employability sector for supporting their Organisations and young people in developing adequate skills, attitudes and behaviours for the current job market.
2. Connect employability learning with digital elements and knowledge in order to be on track with the future of different European employment sectors.
3. Analyse and design models of enterprises that can support youth Organisations and young people to qualitatively build working opportunities.
4. Support younger generations in the transition from studies to the job market in the actual European scenario and Carve into the concepts of sustainable and digital/hybrid jobs of the future.
5. Collaborate with the relevant local, regional and European stakeholders to grow a better employability scenario for youth work activities aimed at harnessing efforts of both professionals and young individuals.
6. Boost employability through a set of high-quality methods and tools that can be adapted to diverse backgrounds and working environments in Europe and beyond.
7. Provide youth workers with professional training opportunities through the values of Erasmus + and the European Youth Strategy.

OUR ORGANISATION

Europejska Fundacja Rozwoju Człowieka is a non-profit Organisation, based in Łódź, Poland. We provide European and global opportunities for youth workers, young people and citizens based on holistic approaches and innovative non-formal education and design European mobility opportunities and different activities. As well, we do operate as researchers in the educational sector in collaboration with local and regional stakeholders.

CONTACT for the COURSE

Email us with further queries at eurofrc@gmail.com.

Welcome to the Hybrid Phase of the Body Liberation Seminar! Embark on a transformative journey through three enriching modules, beginning with "Why Body Liberation Matters." Dive deep into the foundations of body liberation in "Building the Foundations," before navigating the intricate landscape of intersectional body politics in our final module. This online experience is designed to acquaint you with the subject matter, empowering you to explore diverse perspectives before delving deeper in person. Join us and embrace the liberation of your body and mind!

This course will provide you with the basic English you need to take part of an international exchange. 

Improv e English is a strategic partnership project funded by Erasmus+ program.
The project aims to develop the innovative methodology for English teaching as foreign language based on improvisation theatre and to share it on the online platform.
The project is developed by three NGOs from Poland, Greece and Romania. During the project adults educators from those organisations are going to meet and develop their competences during 3 training courses which will take place in Poland, Romania and Greece. Adult educators are going to develop the tools for English teaching based on improvisation theatre and ICT tools. The video guides would be published after each training courses on the website.

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Welcome to Be the Change – an online course consisting of 9 modules prepared within the international project Be The Change, offering knowledge and ready-to-use exercises for youth workers who would like to introduce the topic of social entrepreneurship to young people in an inspiring, interactive, and comprehensive way.

The course was developed as part of a KA2 partnership project,“Be the Change”, aimed to create educational resources for young people and inspire them to engage in social entrepreneurship. The project is implemented by Zarika Association, Bulgaria, Zavod Aspira, Slovenia, and ICAD Foundation, Poland, and is supported and co-funded by the European Union.

Target audience:

• Youth workers.

• Youth educators.

• High-school teachers.
  

• Primary school teachers. 

• Mentors for young people.
  

• NGO representatives.
  

• Trainers and facilitators.
  

• People who want to explore social entrepreneurship.

Features:

• Practical, ready-to-use exercises.
  

• Inspiring advice by successful social entrepreneurs.
  

• Pedagogical advice for youth workers.
  

• Theoretical input.
  

• Reflection and evaluation insights.
  

• Comprehensive reading materials.
  

• Sustainability strategies.

As a facilitator, trainer or youth worker that works with interculturally mixed groups of young people you know that it is difficult to address this topic. Indeed, talking about war and peace is a challenge. 

This course aims at preparing and supporting you facing this challenge. The activities and reflections guide you through a process of self-clarification and introduces tools to work with young people locally or in transnational events. 

How to facilitate learning in times of war and crisis? 

To answer this, the course is focusing on three areas: 

• • • Me as a facilitator, trainer and youth worker (the personal level): This is all about how you can prepare yourself and create a safe space for yourself and the people you work with.
    • Me and others (the interpersonal level): This is about you, the young people you work with and the question of how to facilitate the learning process of individuals and groups in the context of war and crises.
    • Me and community (the local level): This is about you, your community and small actions that can be implemented by and in your community.
    • Additionally, this course has a toolbox with various approaches and tools on how to facilitate learning in times of war and crisis as well as a list of additional resources.

The context of this online course

This online course has its origins in the transnational seminar “How to talk about war? - Working with young people in times of war crisis”, which took part 11-16 of July 2022 in Toruń, Poland. The seminar offered a space to reflect on how to talk with young people about the war, its consequences and how it affects our lives. And it inspired participants to take small actions and be impactful in their work as facilitators, trainers or youth workers.  This online course also includes content from another residential event in Poland: “Social Inclusion of Young Refugees”, a training course from 27 till 30 September 2022 in Gdańsk. 

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Course authors: Michael Kimmig and Marta Brzezińska-Hubert

Course provider: SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus

Course duration: self-paced (approx. 3-4 hours / module)

Course language: English

Target group: facilitators, trainers, youth workers

Requirements: none

Learning recognition: HOP Certificate

Last update: 27. November  2022

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Through a series of comprehensive chapters, participants will gain an understanding of digital entrepreneurship, develop key competencies and skills, explore the digital market, learn how to turn their dreams into actionable plans, create effective business strategies, launch their ventures, and discover channels for continuous improvement.

Participants learn many tools, activities, and methods when participating in a residential training course Tools for Youth Exchanges. This course also supports in developing knowledge and understanding of how to use tools for learning in an effective and quality way.

This course online space is restricted to participants who attended the Tools for Youth Exchanges residential course. Search the SALTO Training Calendar for the next available course to apply for and participate in.

The training organisers gathered and offers tools, activities and content to participants who attended this training course.

The course provides systematic information and guidance on the main steps of starting an entrepreneurial endeavor in the four selected sectors (social, green, digital, and cultural). You can expect to learn the basics of entrepreneurship and its four different sub-categories. 2020 marked the beginning of unprecedented health, economic, social, and cultural crises caused by the spread of COVID-19 throughout Europe and the whole world. 

The situation that has arisen placed new challenges in the socio-economic and cultural sectors. The economic recession has put unemployment rates high. The consequences of the lockdowns across Europe have created gaps in the education and training of young people and placed significant obstacles to their entry into the labor market. However, the creative minds of young people and entrepreneurs have found ways to cope with the current situation and create positive value out of it.

General Aim

Improve the capacities of youth workers/organisations in the area of digital competences, stimulating debate about digitalisation paradoxes, and increase the quality of engagement practices of youth work in the fields of employability and entrepreneurship.

Specific objectives of the training course

• Train participants on the digital competencies required to increase the youth work’s impact.

• Empower youth workers to be innovative in supporting young people’s engagement in learning opportunities in employability and entrepreneurship skills.

• Improve the approach in the youth field in addressing the generations’ gaps and the update of the new young generation in using digital tools in life and work.

• Introduce relevant resources used in Y@W, such as Entrecomp and DigiComp, and how to be utilized.

Methodology

The methodology adopted is based on the non-formal learning approach (i.e. training sessions, group working, collective learning, group and panel discussions, field visit, and inputs from experts) and will offer space to closely engage participants in sharing their practices, tools, experiences, and relevant resources through Open Space Technology. The activity is also an opportunity to explore how the youth work can be effective in the digital era through visiting practices in the field in Greece and guest speakers.

If you are a youth worker or educator looking for insipartion for digital youth work practices, tools and platforms - join this gallery walk through more than 40 various tools aiming at 12 different digital youth work themes and start your digital youth work practice today.

This course is free, open and accessible at any time - go through it at your own pace. 

YDA is created within #EUInfluencers project that gives an active role to young people from Sweden, Croatia, Serbia, Italy and Portugal in being the influencers of the European project towards their peers, by increasing their understanding of the EU, development of critical thinking and combating fake news. We believe that young people are the key to reaching their peers, through peer-to-peer communication and non-formal education. The project aims to create an international network of young influencers who are well informed and critical about the European Union, can re-think, re-shape it, and have the capacity to pass this ability to encourage their peers by, giving them a platform where they can feel empowered to create change.

YDA consists of eight modules with the following structure:

- Module 1 European Union introduction - understanding how the European Union works and what it does for us in our daily lives. In particular, two questions are addressed: “What do we know about the European Union?” and “What does the European Union do for us?”

- Module 2 Intro to fake news - glossary of terms: fake news, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, manipulation, etc

- Module 3 Exploring online tools for combating fake news and fact-checking

- Module 4 Critical thinking: tools to encourage and develop critical thinking among young people. Critical analysis of EU and rebuilding trust in the EU from a youth perspective

- Module 5 Peer education: how to lead a team of peers, facilitate discussions and workshops by young people for young people, how to create group dynamics, empathy and connection between participants

- Module 6: Inclusion and outreach: how to reach excluded groups of young people/young people with fewer opportunities through local projects

- Module 7: Use of social media in the context of local projects and campaigns: how to communicate attractively and dynamically with young people using social media

- Module 8: MAGI - “Mini Action, Great Impact” - how to organise a small but effective campaign activity that requires minimal preparation and almost zero materials.

This project is implemented during 2022-2024 by DYPALL Network in cooperation with Elios (Italy), Centar E8 (Serbia), LAG Zagorje-Sutla (Croatia) and African Empowerment Center (Sweden) co-funded by the European Youth Together programme of the European Union.

Dear learners,

We are happy to welcome you to the Basic mindfulness e-course You(th) in the moment!

This e-course was created in 2022 by an international team of youth workers, trainers and mindfulness instructors from Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and Ukraine within Erasmus+ Strategic partnership project ‘(YOU)th in the moment’.

This e-course is designed for specialists working with young people in youth centers, NGOs, schools, hobby schools, camps, and on all other different occasions.

Course authors: Vira Gruzova, Julia Dem, Ieva Ugne Ulianskaite, Kateryna Popkova, Karolina Mazetyte, Olga Samoilenko, Victor Shiryaev, Viktoriia Yablonska

Course manager: Julia Dem 
Course provider: NGO VitaTiim (Estonia), NGO Positive Youth (Sweden), Mindspot Centre (Ukraine)

Course duration: 

6 mindful skills to train

20 formal meditative practices to experience 

2 Non-formal practices to invite to your daily life

3 modules to listen and learn

20 hours to practice

9 mindful exercises to do with your youth community

You choose your time to complete the course

For fruitful learning you may need:

• laptop or smartphone with a good Internet connection
• quiet space with your favorite cushion and blanket for practices
• something to write down notes and personal reflections

Your future learning journey consists of three modules. We invite you to explore the e-course in your own timetable and sequence. For example, It’s OK to go from 1 to 3 modules and It’s OK to read some parts of 1st module and jump to some skills of the 2nd module, practice for a week, and later try other parts of 1 and 2, and 3 modules

and It’s OK to go to the 3rd module, explore it and find out, what parts you’ll see next.

and We expect you finally to go through ALL the modules in order to finish the e-course.

The aim of this project is to allow all pupils to enjoy their Right to play and their Right to quality Education, and this aim will be achieved following a well-defined strategy,within the 12 months of the proposed program:

WP1 Project Management and Coordination: 

• To map the schools in the consortium’s countries where pupils with VI attend together with sighted ones, aiming at least at 300 schools. 

• To recruit (following certain criteria) 30 young volunteers, from all consortium members for the needs of the project. 

• To launch a “Healthy body, sound mind” initiative for schools aiming for Sports for All awareness with the use of innovative pilot Educational Package. 

• To produce & donate, 300 mini blind balls for pupils. Youthorama designed & patented the only mini blind football that exists around the world and will be distributed for free to pupils in need and their schools in order for pupils to enjoy their Right to play and have access to Quality Education

• To train, in terms of knowledge, skills & attitude for becoming competent, at least 100 teachers, young mentors, young volunteers, professors & students of Physical Education and parents, among others, through these new pilot educational tools who will in turn act as multipliers at national & international level.

• To identify 10 good practices on the development of inclusive sport activities. Good practices will be identified from cases where positive attitudes have been succeeded, especially those referred to the cooperative learning and inclusion of pupils with disabilities, no matter their religious/ nationality/ gender/ refugee status etc. Good Practices will be identified via pilot evaluation research following the interventions in the schools.

• To raise inclusion of pupils with VI in their school’s community and to measure the change as it will be depicted via the 600 on-line evaluation forms.  

• To allow the 300 participants in the 3 Dissemination Community Events to embrace empathy by putting themselves in the sports shoes of pupils with VI and look through the diversity glasses.

Target group: 

30 General Schools in all consortium countries with mixed pupils, blind and sighted ones, aiming for Inclusion; Families of the pupils with VI and sighted ones.

The involved participants of the project are: 

• mixed pupils 5-18 years old, blind and sighted ones in General Schools

• young refugees and unaccompanied minors with visual impairment

• Families of pupils with VI & sighted ones

• University students of PE, youth volunteers in NFE, PE teachers in schools.

Needs of the target group:

Personal development, inclusion and empathy, are the three main needs of the target groups that will be addressed by the project. 

Personal development for pupils with visual impairment: The harsh reality for pupils with visual impairment is that in certain cases like physical education hours or during break, the lack of inclusive tools, forces students to be excluded. The program shall provide a sustainable solution for the personal development of these pupils. 

Inclusion for pupils with visual impairment and the sighted ones.  The program will allow all pupils to enjoy the fundamental human right to play together and receive better quality and more inclusive education. 

Empathy for the sighted pupils.  By putting themselves in the shoes of the visual impairment pupils, which is part of the experiential approach included in the WP1, sighed pupils will get the best possible opportunities to develop empathy. 

Overall, the project meets the need to build a more inclusive society, using patented mini blind football for pupils as a tool, promoting opportunities for societal engagement both on a local and European level and hence it addresses directly the objectives set out in the Call document (social inclusion).

Are you looking for inspiration and new ways to reach out to young people? Look no further. This course will take you step-by-step into a journey through creativity, innovation and lots of fun

Objectives

What can I expect from this MOOC?

Learning Outcomes

1. Have a clear understanding of how innovation can transform your approach as a youth worker, enhance the effectiveness of your work, and create new opportunities for/with young people.

2. Understand a range of principles, strategies, and best practices for promoting innovation within youth organisations, including fostering a culture of creativity, encouraging collaboration, and spotting new trends in youth work.

3. Experience a range of practical and actionable innovation tools tailored explicitly for the youth field. Using these tools effectively to engage and empower young people, facilitate problem-solving, and drive positive change in your community.

4. Develop your ability to think creatively and approach challenges from new angles, using techniques to generate innovative ideas, overcome obstacles, and navigate complex issues commonly faced by youth workers and youth organisations.

5. Be able to adapt and apply innovative approaches to address specific challenges within your youth work context.

Target Group

Innovation Tools for Youth Workers and Youth Organizations was created for: 

Type of Course: Self-paced
Last update: 10 November 2023
Course author and manager: Anita Silva
Course provider: Edulabs Project, Team Mais (Portugal), ANEV - The Association of Non-Formal Education (Czech Republic), HUMAK – University for Applied Sciences (Finland), YouthWatch (Slovakia). 
Course language: English. Transcripts, handouts and video subtitles are available in Portuguese, Finnish, Slovak, and Czech (find all transcripts and translations in chapter 0.6)
Requirements: none

Certificate: A certificate will be issued automatically once you complete all activities (forums require a post written to be marked as completed)

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In the course you will find tips and learning materials on connecting myths, legends and folklore to the narrative of the game. You will find examples of puzzles and links to resources to design your game. The course features digital platforms to support your game and learning.

• Information and practical assignments to design an escape game outdoors with regards to learning goals and target groups of your organization
• Tips and learning materials on connecting myths, legends and folklore to the narrative of the game.
• Concrete puzzles and resources to design your game.
• Digital platforms to support your game and learning.

This is a course promoting Inclusion in sports in formal and non formal education, aiming to enhance the competences of Pupils, Teachers and Youth Workers on First Aid skills and Inclusion awareness.

What you will learn in this course:

This course helps you to support groups of volunteers in realizing their project and use this as an experiential learning process. So this is a practical guide for youth workers about how to work with disadvantaged youngsters to create their volunteer projects. 

You are going to learn about:

• how to approach Youth at Risk

• how to involve them in such volunteer projects

• how to work with them

• how to inspire, connect, empower, coach and mentor them in this process

About this course

In this course, you have a chance to learn about supporting disadvantaged youth who come from minority or socially disadvantaged background in the context of youth work. 

Municipality youth centres, youth organisations and youth councils based in rural areas are often facing many challenges when organising local or international youth projects, in order to support young people from their community, since they are lacking human resources and new fresh ideas.

The European Solidarity Programme is giving many potential opportunities to those organisations and youth workers to support their rural communities. ESC Programme aims to foster solidarity in European society, engaging young people and organisations in accessible and high-quality solidarity activities. It is a way for organisations to address societal challenges and to give young people the opportunity to learn and develop their potential. On the other hand, young people can bring fresh and inspiring ideas to your organisation.

Through this training course, we will explore all opportunities that the ESC Programme is bringing to organisations that work in rural communities. The online transnational NET Activity "Rural areas, challenges and solidarity”, organised by the Hellenic National Agency Erasmus+/ Youth & European Solidarity Corps, aims, through its 5 (five) sessions,  to enable participants to develop their knowledge upon the European Solidarity Corps Programme and discover its possibilities for their communities.

Hellenic National Agency of the Erasmus:+ and European Solidarity Corps Programmes organise this course for selected participants during 28 February - 14 March 2022. Contact for questions: Natassa Dedousi, NET Officer, netseminars@inedivim.gr

Aim: To enable participants to develop their knowledge of the European Solidarity Corps Programme and discover its possibilities for their rural communities.

Objectives:

• Enable attendees to better understand the European Solidarity Corps Programme and explore its possibilities and benefits in rural areas that exist through it.

• Disseminate the European Solidarity Corps Programme to areas in need, facing challenges

• Discover, collect and share good practices of solidarity actions in Europe and learn more about opportunities given through other programmes and initiatives.

• Support participants to express the challenges they face concerning their area, create an alliance to face them through solidarity and to exchange good practices for resolving them through the Programme

Participants’ profile: This course is for representatives of municipalities in rural areas, youth workers working or wishing to work in rural areas, members of youth councils and representatives of organisations that are active in such communities who are interested in getting engaged in the Programme.

Recognition of learning: Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate and will be introduced to the Badge system as a unique way for the recognition of mentors' competences towards their personal development.

Trainers’ team: The team of trainers, Nerijus Kriauciunas,  Olga Kyriakidou and Konstantinos Stergiou will support participants’ learning and training.