The Seminar Let’s get online The Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers
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Project with 2 mobilities by Youth Support Centre
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The Seminar Let’s get online
The Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers
Participating countries:
| Poland | Serbia | Malta |
| Italy | Greece | Croatia |
| Romania | Portugal | Lithuania |
| Czech Republic | Turkey | North Macedonia |
Project activities
The project consists of two mobilities of youth workers:
1. The seminar Let’s get online
Location: Jagniatkow, Poland Date: 07.09-12.09.2019 Duration: 5 working days + 1 travel day
- The Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers Location: Stara Krasnica, Poland Date: 13.01-20.01.2020 Duration: 7 working days + 1 travel day
Project idea
u The main aim of the project is to provide youth workers and organisations with knowledge, skills and materials in order to improve quality of their work, upgrade online visibility, develop their online communication and make them more active online to reach their target groups better.
Objectives of the project:
- to provide knowledge, practices to youth workers how to analyse and strategically create communication of organisations on the Internet;
- – to educate and provide direct examples to youth workers about online threats that effect partner organisations and their target groups;
- – to enhance participants ICT skills and competences and raise awareness about importance of new media use;
- to improve youth workers knowledge and skills in using digital tools, programmes and channels;
- – to foster international cooperation of partner organisations and to develop follow-up activities on local level;
Project activities
The project consists of two mobilities of youth workers:
1. The seminar Let’s get online
Location: Jagniatkow, Poland Date: 07.09-12.09.2019 Duration: 5 working days + 1 travel day
- The Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers Location: Stara Krasnica, Poland Date: 13.01-20.01.2020 Duration: 7 working days + 1 travel day
Project activities
The project consists of two mobilities of youth workers:
1. The seminar Let’s get online
Location: Jagniatkow, Poland Date: 07.09-12.09.2019 Duration: 5 working days + 1 travel day
- The Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers Location: Stara Krasnica, Poland Date: 13.01-20.01.2020 Duration: 7 working days + 1 travel day
Participants
Each project partner selects 2 participants.
In total there will be 24 participants, 3 trainers from Poland and Serbia, a project coordinator from hosting organisation, a support staff person from North Macedonia and Poland.
Participants’ profile:
youth trainers, youth leaders, members, employees, co-workers and volunteers actively involved in life of partner organisations actively involved in social and civic life of youth on local, national and European level.
Participants selected for the project should be 21 + and should be able to effectively communicate and work in English.
Deadlines
15/06/2019 – 15/07/2019 selection of participants
15/07/2019 – final list of selected participants
15/07/2019 – 15/08/2019 – preparatory meetings for participants, booking
tickets, contact with participants regarding personal details
15/08/2019 deadline for buying the tickets for the Seminar
07/09/2019 – 12/09/2019 – Implementation of the Seminar Let’s get online
14/09/2019 – 14/11/2019: promotion and dissemination of first activity’s results – more intensive visibility activities (publishing articles, impressions, social media post); participants will organise together with partners inside meetings for co-workers, youth they work with and other local stakeholders to share results
14/11/2019 – 14/12/2019 – midterm evaluation
Deadlines
14/10/2019 – 14/12/2019 – project administration for the 2nd mobility
till 14/11/2019: deadline for booking tickets for the Training Course
13/01/2020 – 20/01/2020 – implementation of the Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers
21/01/2020 – 21/02/2020: promotion and dissemination of second activity’s results – more intensive visibility activities (publishing articles, impressions, social media post); planning and implementation of local follow-up activities
21/02/2020-21/03/2020 – summing up the project, all results, follow-ups, final project evaluation with participants, partners, trainers and project team, disseminating project final results, planning of future cooperation
31/03/2020: official closing
Hosting organisation
u Youth Support Centre is an non-profit, non-governmental organisation established by youth workers, young people and professionals, motivated to work with non-formal education in addressing the issues that concern our local community, Poland and Europe in general.
Youth Support Centre was founded on 29th of April 2015 and is composed of people who are active in civil sector and youth work for many years.
Youth Support Centre has been established by young people and youth workers, involved in their local community life and life of their Universities. The main goal of YSC on local level is to involve as many as possible young people into the social life of their communities and to encourage them in that way to take active participation in society.
Succesful projects
We have already hosted 4 succesful Training Courses:
- Youth Support Youth 2016, Stara Kraśnica, Poland
- Youth Employability Stimulators of Tomorrow 2017, Szklarska Poręba, Poland
- Youth Employability Leaders of Tomorrow 2018, Wrocław, Poland
- Youth Activator in Harmony 2019, Jagniątków, Poland
Seminar
Training Course
Agreement
Participants should be aware of all the obligations towards the project circle.
It is obligatory to participate in both mobilities: in the Seminar and the Training Course.
Participants will receive travel costs reimbursement by bank transfer within 2 weeks after each mobility. After the first mobility we will keep 30/20 euro fee, as a declaration from the participant that will be reimbursed after participation in the second mobility together with travel costs within 2 weeks after the second mobility. Participants covers the bank transfer fee ( 1.5 eur for EU citizens and 6 eur for non EU citizens).
Participants should be ready to work in international environment.
Participants has to respect all the rules given by hosting organisation before and during the mobilities.
Participants agree to collect their personal data for project administration, and to be caught in video recordings, and/or photographs, taken/recorded during the project.
Before you apply
Make sure you know all details about the project
You agree on given deadlines and rules
You agree to send us copy of signed declaration for participating in both mobilities
Participants
who will not participate in the second activity will not be reimbursed of 30/20
euro fee, participants who will not attend more than 20 % of project workshops
and do not obey rules will not be fully reimbursed.
Youth Trainers for the Seminar Lets get online
The Seminar will be facilitated by:
Michal Marcinkiewicz works with local schools, other organisations, groups of young people and elders. He is a youth trainer with many years of experience and used to work also for Fundacja Krzyżowa dla Porozumienia Europejskiego and is member of Lower Silesian Youth Counsil, has experience and skills in evaluation of project, learning process and project cycle. He is an entrepreneur and has professional background in marketing communication (Working on University of Wroclaw as lecturer) and he was project manager marketing sector in an international corporation.
Agnieszka Janik has experience in coordinating and facilitating interntional projects for youth and youthworkers. She is active in non- formal education as youth trainer more than 10 years, used to work also for Fundacja Krzyżowa dla Porozumienia Europejskiego and is member of Lower Silesian Youth Counsil, has experience and skills in evaluation of project, learning process and project cycle.
Youth Trainers
for the Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers
The Training Course will be facilitated by:
Michal Marcinkiewicz
u Vojislav Vujic –
Certified trainer of National Democratic Institute (NDI), member of the Pool of trainers of National Youth Council of Serbia. Involved in
international non-formal education projects since 2010. Experienced in decision
making process and youth policy development on local level as member of
Belgrade City Parliament, 2008-2012.
Thematic focus on communication, online communication, campaigning, European
citizenship and inclusion. Vojislav was
working as trainer for different youth NGOs in Europe, was involved in projects
and activities of Salto-SEE regarding Western
Balkans – EU youth policies and CoE Study sessions designed by National youth councils of
East and South-east Europe.
Accomodation & Food
Everyone will be accomodated in cozy rooms/apartaments with private bathrooms.
There are several lobbies for common use. Workshops will be held in a specious working room.
There will be served during the day: breakfast Swedish bufet, lunch (soup and warm dish) and dinner (warm dish and cold snacks) plus 2 coffee breaks (coffee, tea, water, snacks). Food will be prepared in the local restaurants based on Polish traditions, so if you need any special things, bring them with yourself.
Each participant will receive a questionnaire regarding diet, allergies etc.
If you participate together with your partner, let us know (rooms availability).
The Seminar will be hosted in Villa Jagniatkow, Jagniatkow (2.5 h hour from Wroclaw)
The Training Course will be hosted in Gosciniec pod Grusza, Stara Krasnica (1.5 h from Wroclaw)
Venue of the Seminar Let’s get online
07-12.09.2019, Jagniatkow, Poland
The Willa Jagniatkow is located in the village Jagniątków ,
the neighbourhood of Jelenia Góra – beautifull city in Lower Silesia region
There is huge green space, gardens, swimming pool, sauna to chill out.
Free time: visit the Castle Chojnik http://www.chojnik.pl/ and relax in the evening in Cieplice Termal Baths https://www.termycieplickie.pl/en.
Venue of the Training Course Rising Digital Youth Workers 13-20.01.2020, Stara Krasnica, Poland https://www.gosciniecpodgrusza.pl/
The Guesthouse Gosciniec pod Grusza is located in the small village Stara Krasnica, near Zlotoryja city, the land of extinct volcanoes. Surrounded by hills and beautiful nature. On January usually covered with snow.
Free time: we plan to have some winter activities on the hills
there is possibility for horse ridding as well.
Travel Info
Please find flights to Wrocław Copernicus Airport (WRO). http://airport.wroclaw.pl/
There are also good connections with bus/train from airports: Berlin Schonefeld, Krakow, Warsaw and Poznan to Wroclaw city center.
We will organise a Shuttle Bus from Wrocław City Center to the venue of the mobility.
The Schedule for the Shuttle bus:
07/09/2019 WROCLAW – JAGNIATKOW departure time: 16:00-17.00
12/09/2019 JAGNIATKOW – WROCLAW departure time 8:00-9.00
Please check your travel options to land in Wroclaww before 15.00 o’clock and departure later than 11 o’clock.
Before buying the tickets you need to send travel info to the project coordinator of hosting organisation
(Kamila Fąferek) and get the approval first.
Travel costs
Limits for travel costs reimbursement per person for one mobility:
| Poland | 20 € |
| Serbia | 275 € |
| Malta | 275 € |
| Italy | 275 € |
| Greece | 275 € |
| Croatia | 275 € |
| Romania | 275 € |
| Portugal | 360 € |
| Lithuania | 275 € |
| Czech Republic | 20 € |
| Turkey | 275 € + 25€ VISA costs |
| North Macedonia | 275 € |
VISA costs : purchasing the VISA, tickets for the city transport from home to the embassy (all bills in originals should be provided to us).
Reimbursement
In order to receive reimbursement you need to provide hosting organisation with:
bills, booking e-mail confirmations, original tickets or pdf, invoices and boarding passes (if you have online tickets and boarding passes – pdf is fine, if you do not have – we need all originals). Bring them for the activity!
Reimbursement will be done in EUR within 2 weeks after the activity by bank transfer to one bank account per country (on yours or on your sending NGO’s).
Reimbursement will be transfered only if all participants provide all needed documents.
Participant is eligible to travel up to 3 days before or after the activity days.
Participant cannot travel with first class. Only in certain cases is possible to use taxi or travel by car but please contact the project coordinator first.
As mentioned before, we will keep 30 euro (from Czechs and Polish – 20 euro) participation fee that will be reimbursed together with travel costs after the second activity. It is secure measure so we can be sure all participants will take part in both activities.
In
certain cases (health problems, family problems, personal problems) participant
will receive the fee back after finding replacement and sharing with new
participant all details from the first activity.
How to apply?
Once you take this beautiful decision to become part of something big, you need to agree on given rules and be ready to completely open yourself for new!
Please fill in the form so we can get to know you a little bit before.
Please print out, fill, sign and scan to us (contact.ysc@gmail.com) the
What to take?
We will provide you with fresh towels J bed linen, hair dryer. So you only need:
Original of declaration
EHIC CARD – European Health Insurance Card
Personal cosmetics and medicines
Sport shoes (we will walk on the mountain)
Flip slops for shower and swimming pool
u Swimming suit, if you want to enjoy swimming pool and hot springs in Therms
Comfortable sport clothes for workshops (to feel comfortable)
If you have any tiny instruments/games to play and enjoy during evenings
If you have traditional dress-outs/costiumes/ parts of uniforms/T-shirts etc. For intercultural evening
Intercultural evening and NGO Fair
During intercultural evening we will not be able to use kitchen so plan to prepare something we can try when cold.
If possible, please bring then traditional ingredients, snacks, sweets.
During that evening it will be fine to taste light % drinks from your country if you want, you are free to bring some national wine/beer/liquer you would like to present.
Please think about interesting way to bring closer your country culture, tradiotions and
customs (maybe some history and interesting facts) to the others.
If you have any proposal how to run the international eveninig and you would like to facilitate it, please do, would be amazing!
Regarding NGO Fair – it is time to promote your sending organisation, so if possible bring
some materials about it
Photo and video agreement
We assume you are aware that these kind of projects are not only for direct participants itself but should be avaible to the bigger audience and all interested target groups, youth workers and NGOs.
That is why we will take a lot of pictures of you and record videos with you during workshops.
All mentioned will be posted on FB event, website of the project and
Youtube channel.
Of course we will record only parts of the activity and also in some moments of privacy we will not record at all.
We will take care of your comfort zone and feelings so anytime you mind
being recorded, please let us know.
Contact Person
Let us know if you have any questionsJ
Project coordinator
Kamila Fąferek
President of Youth Support Centre contact.ysc@gmail.com