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Data: 14/06/2016
NR.: 185
DATA: 14/06/2016
TITOLO PROGETTO: Expedition Designing Adventure in Urban Environment
RICHIESTA PROVENIENTE DA: Jhon Magkilat (Germania)
TIPOLOGIA: Training Course
ARGOMENTO: You work as a youth worker in urban environment? Youngsters complain that there is nothing to do there? You want to use digital technologies and develop their adventure skills in the middle of nowhere? Then come to 'Expedition'!
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Activity date: 24th -30rd of September 2016
Venue place, venue country: Europäische Jugendbildungs- und Jugendbegegnungsstätte Weimar, Germany
Summary: You work as a youth worker in urban environment? Youngsters complain that there is nothing to do there? You want to use digital technologies and develop their adventure skills in the middle of nowhere? Then come to 'Expedition'!
Target group: Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders
For participants from: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey.
Group size: 27 participants
Details:
This training course is the second part of the project "Expedition - Adapting Environment to Create Experiential Learning Programs in European Youth Work". The first part of the project was also a training course which focus was on rural environment that took place from 14 - 22.05.2016 in Daugirdiškes, Lithuania. You can read about the course and impressions here (http://www.nectarus.lt/en/english-expeditions-learning-on-the-move/). Furthermore, contrary to the first activity, this second activity focuses on how to make use of urban environment for adventure learning programmes that involve the use of digital technologies. Such programmes create opportunities to develop exploration skills and motivate young people to connect to their surrounding environment and be physically active. After accomplishing this training course you will have ideas and methods, how to use seems deprived urban environment for learning in a cool way.
Participants profile
The training course will offer opportunities for 27 youth leaders, youth workers and trainers to develop their personal and professional competences. The participants are expected to be:
• Working directly with young people from inclusion groups in the deprived urban environments;
• Interested to learn new methodologies and practice them with their target groups;
• Willing to invest into their personal and professional development;
• At least 21 years old.
Note: The participants of the previous activity are welcome to take part, but new applicants who have relevant experience and who could potentially contribute content wise to this training course are highly encouraged to apply.
Aims and objectives
The general aim of this training is to empower participants to design learning programs tailored to the needs and interests of young people by making the use of urban environment they work in. After this training course participants will be able to create adventurous learning opportunities, through which young people would gain various transversal skills; will become more motivated to participate in the matters of community and become physically active.
Specific objectives of this training course:
• To empower youth workers to design learning programs tailored to the needs and interests of young people using urban environment they work in.
• To provide opportunities for youth workers to test various approaches, methods and technological tools to be used for ‘Expeditions’ in urban environments.
• To create a learning group environment for peer coaching and coaching from the trainers as support for youth workers to apply their learning to practice during the follow up phase.
• To put into practice use of methods to assess and reflect youth work practices and competences using European recognition tools (Youthpass and Open Badges).
• To collect innovative youth work methods which can be applied with inclusion youth groups living in the deprived urban environments.
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