SALTO Participation and Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI) and SALTO Inclusion and Diversity Resource Centre (SALTO ID) are hosting an online panel on Digital Rights on 7 March 2023 at 13:00 CET.

With digital rights being a crucial topic, especially for young people who spend a significant amount of time online, this panel will discuss the latest academic research on the subject and the importance of digital transformation to ensure the rights of young people online.

Digital Rights: Ensuring Human Rights Online

Digital rights are essentially human rights, but in a digital space. Each individual should have access to fundamental human rights such as the right to freedom of expression, privacy, and protection from discrimination, even when interacting online. The panel will focus on these topics, and the importance of these rights in opening up online communities, education, and work opportunities.

Who Can Participate?

This panel is ideal for:

• youth workers;
• trainers;
• educators interested in digital transformation;
• everyone interested in this topic;

The panel discussion will be live on Facebook and YouTube, making it easily accessible for everyone. In conclusion, the online panel hosted by SALTO PI and SALTO ID on March 7, 2023, is a crucial forum for discussing digital transformation and its role in safeguarding the rights of young people online. Don’t miss this opportunity, join the event!

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ID Talks, in collaboration with the Mental Health in Youth Work project, announces 2023 as the “Year of Mental Health” with two editions: “Understanding Mental Health” in the spring and “Discovering Mental Health Practices” in the autumn.

The ID Talks series consists of five individual online workshops, each lasting up to 90 minutes, featuring inspiring guest speakers and thought-provoking discussions. ID Talks focuses on mental health to promote inclusion & well-being for young people.

Let’s take a closer look at ID Talks now!

The Spring 2023 Edition

Mental health and wellbeing are at the core of European Youth Goals and the EU Youth Strategy, but a growing number of young people are expressing concern over the prevalence of mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression. The ‘Mental Health in Youth Work’ project, in partnership with SALTO Inclusion & Diversity Resources Centre, aims to raise awareness and develop mental health literacy and competences in youth workers.

ID Talks Spring 2023 offers 5 online workshops on youth mental health & well-being to improve understanding of the connection with quality youth work.

ID Talks will take place every other Wednesday at 1 PM CET from February 15 through April 12. The schedule is as follows

• 15 February: “Mental Health Explained” with guest speaker Maria Agorastou, Greece
• 1 March: “Climate-Change Anxiety” with guest speaker Anna Pribil, Austria
• 15 March: “Social-Media Addiction” with guest speaker Katja Mankinen, Sosped Fondation, Finland
• 29 March: “Supporting Young People’s Wellbeing” with guest speaker Ana Perović, Serbia
• 12 April: “Youth-Workers Wellbeing” with guest speaker Natalja Gudakovska, Latvia

Each workshop will begin with input from a guest speaker, followed by a discussion, Q&A session, and the opportunity for participants to share their own experiences. Check the Facebook event for more details.

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Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has become a big part of our lives. Panel sessions on Participatory and Inclusive Digital Transformation bring together experts from the European youth field, policy making, research and private sector to discuss what digital transformation in this context means, what kind of competencies are necessary to adapt, what are the opportunities and challenges, how to be a leader instead of a follower, how to connect with young people in this changing reality.

Panel Sessions

The series includes 6 panel sessions (1,5h per session):

1. Understanding Digital Transformation, 27 September 2022, 13:00 CEST
2. Digital Inclusion and Participation, 8 November 2022 13:00 CET
3. Digital Sustainability, 29 November 2022 13:00 CET
4. Accessibility and Infrastructure, 31 January 2023 13:00 CET
5. Ethics & Digital rights, 07 March 2023 13:00 CET
6. Emerging technologies and innovation, 28 March 2023, 13:00 CEST

All panels will be on Facebook live + YouTube live.

Next Panel Session on Digital Inclusion & Participation

For the next session “Digital Inclusion and Participation” on November 8, 4 experts in the field of inclusion and digital participation (Jasmin Rukolainen, Adina Serban, Thomas Schallhart and Panu Räsänen) will delve into the latest academic research on the topic of how participatory and inclusive digital transformation can be achieved. They will touch on topics like accessibility, creating safer spaces and gaming and VR as tools for youth participation.

Digital inclusion is about people, particularly those that are disadvantaged and underrepresented, having access to, as well as the skills to use, online tools.

Alongside inclusion, digital participation is vital, giving people the knowledge, technology and online spaces to fully participate in the digital world, whether that be education, civic life or democracy.

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Do you need a guide to create your international mobility project, while coordinating on its writing together with your partners?

S.A.L.T.O. Youth provides the QualityMobility.app, a tool to use on your mobiles to create your own project and apply for funding, with 16 easy questions and tons of resources.

QualityMobility.app

The QualityMobility.app is a mobile application developed by JINT/SALTO with the goal of serving associations and organisers as a guide to write European mobility projects.

Within the app you can write a project in collaboration with partners, assess its quality following the EPLM principles for learning mobility, and download it in view of a funding application.

The App features insights by project organisers with experience in the field, as well as a dynamic library where you can add ever-changing tips, references, and resources. The application is multilingual and accessible from any device (PC, smartphone, tablet).

How to create a project on QualityMobility.app

Here are a few step to follow:

1. Click on “Create Q!” in QualityMobility.app, give a name to your Q! and specify what kind of project it is (exchange, volunteering, seminar…);
2. Invite your partner organisations on Q! and write your mobility project with them by answering 16 simple questions;
3. If you run out of ideas click on the light bulb icon and access over 200 useful resources for your project (tips, checklists, videos…);

You can also rate the quality of your project:

1. Click on “Rate Q!” in QualityMobility.app and think about any mobility project you’ve organised in the past;
2. Rate the project according to the 20 Quality Principles for Learning Mobility;
3. Click “submit” to see the results and get helpful resources to make your next mobility projects flawless;
4. Send your partners to rate the same project and compare your ratings on “Q! Evaluations.”

Access the MobilityQuality.app.

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The application deadline is August 25th, 2021.

The Quality Bonus Conference

The Quality Bonus conference wants to boost and support stakeholders of education and training of youth workers, and to contribute to the development of quality youth work in Europe and beyond. The conference will focus on systems and new opportunities for youth workers education and training by exploring topics related to the European Training Strategy (ETS), taking into account other strategic developments connected to it.

The conference will see inputs, debates, peer-learning moments, workshops and meetings in national and/or thematic groups.

It will take place on 1-3 March 2022 in Berlin, with 120 participants. 

Call for Facilitators

The facilitators and trainers should have the following characteristics:

• Considerable experience with and understanding of the field of European/International youth work and, in particular, education and training of youth workers;
• Experience in facilitating large-scale and international events;
• Experience in working with a diversity of stakeholders, especially at the European level and including trainers, youth workers, educators, National Agencies;
• Good knowledge of the European Training Strategy;
• For the digital facilitator: experience with digital tools that can be used to support the dynamic and learning process in such an event;
• One of the two facilitators is expected to take on a more coordinating role (similar to a project manager): experience with such role is necessary.
• Able to work in English (the language of the event);
• Knowledge of the Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps programmes (context and overall content);
• Good understanding of youth policy developments is a plus.

Working Conditions and Terms

Each facilitator will receive a fee for a minimum of 9 days*320 Euro. Travel costs and accommodation will be covered.

The event foresees at least two (in principle face-to-face) preparatory meetings: one in October 2021 and the other one in January 2022, plus an earlier arrival before the event itself.

How to Apply

To apply for the position it is necessary to fill out the online form. The deadline for application is August 25th 2021. You will get information about the selection by 5th September 2021.

See more details about the job offer.

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The training course, “YOCOMO – an ETS learning experience for youth workers: a systemic approach to competence development”, runs from 18th to 22nd October 2021. It aims at developing experience, while working with the ETS competence model for youth workers.

The training course tries to answer the following questions: “What are the systemic skills needed for youth workers? What is the value of looking at competence development from that perspective?“.

About the Training Course for Youth Work

This course will invite participants to look at the role of the whole system of interconnected players in their field (for example their organisation, young people, parents, schools, local community, etc.) on the development of their competences as youth workers.

What makes this training course stand out is the systemic approach to competence development in youth work. It represents also a great opportunity to meet other colleagues and share, exchange, support and evolve.

YOCOMO 3 intends to create a space for youth workers to reflect and exchange on their practice using the ETS competence model for youth workers.

As a participant, you will go through:

• The ETS competence model for youth workers – its content, origins and intentions.
• How to zoom out and see your youth work context as a living system?
• Which is your role and function in your youth work system?
• What does it mean to approach the competence development from a systemic point of view?
• Which is the potential of the ETS competence model in your youth work context?
• How to do a systemic self-assessment and plan your development as a youth worker?

How To Participate

The application deadline is August 25th, 2021. Register to the training course, then following the selection process, the training team will contact the selected participants with specific information and tasks regarding the further development of the programme, which includes online learning as well.

There is no participation fee as this training course for youth workers gets the funds of the National Agencies of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

Accommodation and food

The German National Agency will organise the accommodation and cover the costs for accommodation and food.

Travel Expenses

Participants will get a reimbursement for travel expenses.

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The HOP is a community that brings together learners, authors and facilitators of online courses and National Agencies of both European youth programmes as well as the SALTO Resource Centres to work together on rising the quality in youth projects.

The HOP fosters online learning in Erasmus+ Youth in Action and European Solidarity Corps programmes. It offers growing number of online courses targeting different aspects of European youth work.

HOP Erasmus Online Learning Tool

The platform makes available many resources and tools to use for your convenience on online learning about Erasmus Plus. Starting from the online platform itself, it displays resources and information about:

• Youthpass;
• Challenges to face in rural and marginalized areas;
• Intercultural competence and how to improve it;
• Training for mentors;
• Solidarity in Balkan region;
• Youth work in the Euro-med area;
• Digital youth work.

The above topics are part of specific online courses to join anytime and learn at your own pace.

Other Resources

A part from the online platform, HOP is also an up-to-date Facebook page that shares useful contents with frequency. There they publish interesting materials and information about online learning, in line with the needs of youth workers.

Moreover, on HOP is available a space for KA2 and KA3 consortiums that include online courses and need a space offer to hold them.

The HOP Library is whilst a resource tool to find information about European youth work.

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The online training runs online from 19th July to 5th August 2021 and goes under the initiative of Haus am Maiberg.

The Online Training on International Youth Work

The online training aims at providing with a comprehensive insights into how to organise and implement impactful and deliberate international youth projects.

The training will cover up the following topics:

• introduction into the planning, organization and implementation of international youth projects;
• issues around funding;
• programme development;
• project management.

The principles and methods of non-formal education will be at the centre of the general approach. Indeed, participants will be encouraged to attain a self-critical attitude towards their exchange practice and be sensitized for concepts around diversity and interculturality.

See the full program below:

Application

The training course happens online on the Zoom platform. The working language is English. Ideally, the target of it are Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, and Youth coaches.

The deadline for application is July 11th 2021.
To apply is necessary to fill out a form.

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Along with the knowledge of the Programme, the organisations working in the field of youth and active in delivering youth projects, may be interested in trainings for their own staff members. On S.A.L.T.O. Youth it is plenty of offers, most of them free of charge, to train youth workers and staff about different topics. The organisation training should always be a priority.

We have selected the latest and most interesting offers about organisation training.

Recognition of competences acquired in the non-formal sector

Conference – Symposium – Forum
8 December 2021 – 9 December 2022 | Abbaye Neumünster, Luxembourg

The aim of the conference is to:

• Know more about policies and practices giving non-formal learning the appropriate value
• Exchange on methods and tools facilitating recognition
• Exchange best practices between countries
• To build a bridge between the formal and the non-formal sector and between employers and youngsters with fewer opportunities by enhancing the mutual understanding on opportunities and obstacles in each of them

Deadline to apply: October 1st 2021. Join in!

Innovations in Trainings

Training Course
6-13 July 2021 | Struga, Republic of North Macedonia

The project goals and objectives will be accomplished by two consequential connected activities:

• Training course “Innovations in Training” (06 – 13 July 2021) – Struga, North Macedonia.
• Dissemination through pilot training and workshops in regional communities (August 2021) – Europe.

By this we want to envision & encourage many educators in Europe to contribute in restructuring the education system with experiential methods of learning.

Deadline to apply: June 18th 2021. Join in!

Bouncing Back: An Interactive Workshop on Resilience

E-learning
16 June 2021 | Germany

A free and interactive workshop, “Bouncing Back”, to talk about the meaning of resilience, its link to mental health, and tools and tips to build resilience in everyday life.

Deadline to apply: June 14th 2021. Join the workshop!

Mental Health and Well-being in Volunteering Projects

Training Course
25 June 2021 | Online, Czech Republic

The objectives of the online training are:

• Get some knowledge and understanding of the topic of mental health 
• Learn how to work with the topic of mental health of volunteers in different stages of the project cycle (e.g. what to ask during the first interview with volunteers)
• Empower the participants in solving challenging or emergency situations throughout the project cycle.

Deadline to apply: June 7th 2021. Apply here!

ESC: How to quality label?

Training Course for organisations
18-22 July 2021 | Faenza, Italy

The goal of this project is to have more European organizations working with ESC volunteering, proposing quality projects thanks to shared knowledge and new synergies and partnerships.

Deadline to apply: June 18th 2021. Join now!

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1st-24th June 2021

The network of SALTO-Youth Resource Centres is developing a series of six online information sessions to present and discuss the network ́s work topics and strategies in connection to the 2021-2027 generation of the European youth programmes.

They are looking for a Facilitator and a Digital Facilitator to assist the Facilitator (whose call for happens through a separate advertising) with technical support. The work refers to the 6 online information sessions running from June 1st to June 26th.

Online Information Sessions

The Facilitator will:

• highlight the relevant elements of the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps programmes
• present the mandate, work topics and strategies of the resource centres in connection to the
  programmes
• bring SALTO Resource Centres closer to the people we work for & with.

The Digital Facilitator will help out with technical support during the series, that aim to:

• highlight the relevant elements of the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps programmes;
• present the mandate, work topics and strategies of the resource centres in connection to the programmes;
• bring SALTO Resource Centres closer to the people we work for & with.

Each session lasts 1.5 to 2 hours. Following the full schedule of the events.

Schedule

Although the focus of each session will be on a particular working topic of a specific Resource Centre, complementing and connecting elements across the sessions (such as in visual elements, session design and flow) will be sought.

Even though the sessions will be mainly informative, interactive elements should be incorporated in the design (such as collecting feedback of the participants, Q&A, immediate reactions and comments on the topic, etc.).

Tasks of the Facilitator

The specific tasks of the facilitator will be to:

• Develop the concept and the content of the information sessions together with the team(s) (composed of representatives of the Resource Centres)*;
• Implement the session;
• Evaluate the sessions and write the report.

Tasks of the Digital Facilitator

The specific tasks of the digital facilitator will be to:

• Participate in the relevant preparation meetings with the team (composed of the facilitator and the representatives of the Resource Centres)*;
• Supporting the preparation team by suggesting fitting digital tools for the session;
• Management of the online platform for the event and other digital tools as relevant;
• Management of social media live streaming (via Facebook);
• Recording and editing the sessions, including adding intro & outro slides, logos and presenter information (name & role) to the video recordings;
• Contribution to reporting (i.e. digital harvesting of chat history and digital tools).

The initial preparation work may include meetings with the representatives of all the centres. After reaching general agreements on the main ideas, elements and format of the series, a specific preparation work for each seminar will be done with the individual Resource Centres working on the specific topic. The preparation meetings will take place in May and June 2021.

Facilitator Profile

• Knowledge and experience in designing international activities, according to non-formal
• learning principles;
• Experience in facilitating groups and discussions online, and the ability to develop engaging
• online formats;
• Knowledge of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes;
• Knowledge of the working topics of the Resource Centres and experience in working with the
• SALTO-Youth Resource Centres is an asset.

Digital Facilitator Profile

• Knowledge and experience in designing online activities, according to non-formal learning principles;
• Experience in facilitating groups online;
• Knowledge and experience with digital tools;
• Knowledge of the working topics of the Resource Centres and experience in working with the SALTO-Youth Resource Centres is an asset.

Working Conditions

The facilitators will be contracted for 320€/working days for 7 working days.
The facilitator will be working with a digital facilitator and a graphic recorder during the events. The digital facilitator will be working with a content-related facilitator and digital recorder.

Application and Selection Process

Interested candidates* are invited to send their application (that includes: relevant experiences, – where relevant – link to their TOY, LinkedIn or other online profiles and other relevant documents and/or information) to eda@salto-youth.net with the subject line “SALTO sessions” by April 25, 2021.
You can contact Eda Bakır at eda@salto-youth.net for any questions regarding this call. The candidates will be informed of the selection results by April 30, 2021.

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