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Data: 02/04/2015
Call for Trainers
Contact-making seminar "I disagree, therefore I participate"
SALTO EECA RC, SALTO Youth Participation RC, the Polish and Belgian(FR) NA’s is looking for 2 facilitators (one from EECA Region and one from Programme country)
Application deadline: 23/04/2015 00:00 CET
Description
Context
This contact making seminar’s starting point is the observation that when young people disagree with governments or political parties, they express their discontentment in different ways, taking many forms and degrees of participation. Either they reject established political parties by not voting at the regional, national or European elections or adopt a more extreme behavior by voting far-right or far-left parties. Note that nine far-right parties integrated the European Parliament at the last elections. Young people can also rise up in protest and disseminate political messages by using for example social media. The wave of demonstrations and violent protests that young people were engaged in Ukraine, prompted by their profound rejection of the political system, is a concrete example of what the outcome of young people’s disagreement could be.
Several times over the last 5 years, many European and global main squares have seen demonstrating thousands of people who came to raise their discontentment and concerns about the recent political or socio-economic changes. Indeed, some regions of the world, including the EECA region, have seen emerging internal and external political instability, inequality and a sense of indignation and injustice. By protesting apolitically against the established political system, citizens expressed their disarray. Among those citizens we find a large number of young people; most of them are well educated, polyglot, at the forefront of technologies but their socio-economic integration has never been so difficult.
In view of the recent political and social events in the EECA region, the SALTO-YOUTH EECA resource centre in collaboration with SALTO-YOUTH Participation would like to organize a contact-making seminar that aims to stimulate the reflection on the different channels of participation that young people use when they want to express their disagreement with a specific political, social or economic phenomenon…
Aim of the contact-making seminar
The first part of this contact-making seminar will provide a space to discuss and analyze the new forms of political participation in Europe with a focus on the EECA region and reflect about the role of youth workers and social workers in the participation processes of young people. A second part of the contact-making seminar will give to the participants the appropriate structure to develop new projects in the framework of the Erasmus +/Youth in Action programme with focus on political participation of young people
Objectives (to be defined by the team)
• Offer participations a platform to reflect and exchange about the new channels of political participation and their connection to traditional institutional participation in the EECA Region;
• Analyze the role of youth workers, social workers and young activists in the participation processes of young people;
• Share local, national and European examples of participation of young people and initiatives aiming to encourage participation;
• To foster future cooperation between participants with focus on political participation of young people
Target group
We will have 30 participants from Programme Countries, Eastern Partnership Countries and Russian Federation, with the following professional backgrounds: representatives of youth associations, organizations, NGO’s, young activists and people active in social networks, youth policy-makers, and leaders of political protest movements…
Working methods
The contact-making seminar will based on non-formal learning approaches encouraging the active involvement of participants, giving them space to take an active role, express themselves, share good examples of practice and initiative new sustainable partnerships.
Working language:
The working language of the project will be English
Date and hosting country
The contact-making seminar will be four-day long event that will take place in Kiev (Ukraine) from 18 November to 23 November 2015(including arrival and departure days). The prep-meeting will take place in Kiev (Ukraine) from 16 June to 19 June 2015.
Requested trainer profile
We are looking for two facilitators who:
• Are experienced in facilitating/moderating conferences, seminars, symposium or similar events;
• Have knowledge about and experience in working around the topics of youth participation and new forms of participation;
• Have knowledge about the political and social context in the EECA;
• Used to cooperate with stakeholders from different professional, political and cultural backgrounds;
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