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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On S.A.L.T.O. Youth is available a new online training on ESC, with the title “Act Locally, Think Globally: How To Build A Solidarity Project“. It will be online on April 13th-23rd 2021. The main aim of the course is to train and provide the participants with all required information about ESC. More specifically about Solidarity Projects, in order to be able to design and build quality Solidarity Projects.

Online Training

This activity will take place on HOP Online Learning Platform. More specifically, it will provide 6 sessions (units) about Solidarity Projects. The activity will go through 5 ZOOM meetings, 3 days of coaching and questions and 1 informal evening that will be done synchronously.

Objectives

The objectives of the online training are:

• providing an informed introduction to the ESC, focusing on Solidarity Projects and their capacity to enhance active local citizenship.
• offering an individual and group learning experience through a simulated process on setting up a Solidarity project.
• developing the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to organise a Solidarity Project. This is based on non-formal learning practice, principles, and the quality standards of the ESC programme.
• enabling participants to reflect on their learning and to familiarise themselves with Youthpass. The strategy on the recognition of non-formal learning in the youth field, its technical tool to produce Youthpass Certificates, and its application in Solidarity Projects.
• offering the opportunity to exchange ideas about the needs of each country.

This training online on European Solidarity Corps is for:

• youth workers
• coaches
• young people

from Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme countries.

Schedule

The deadline for application is April 7th 2021. The official language will be English. After the completion of the online training, the participants will receive a Youthpass.

Last not least, to apply for the online training, please visit the website and fill in the application form.

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Online Training

Among their activities, Asfar CIC has launched the online training “RESOLVE: Peace Camps” that will take place from March 29th to April 8th 2021. The “RESOLVE: Peace Camps” online training is a skills development & dialogue activity where young community change-makers and local peace-builders address the societies’ social intolerance throughout Europe.

It is for youth leaders a useful way to learn and put into practice their ability to represent themselves toward decision-makers, develop their conflict resolution skills, and ensuring young people are leading community unification as social action leaders and change-makers, with the reality of a new era.

Goals of the Online Training

The objectives the online training aim to reach are:

• Promote youth leaders’ views on key socio-economic-political issues in our world today;
• Youth leaders understand the role of their countries’ and the EU’s democratic processes;
• Youth leaders learn about Social Action, Civic Responsibility & Citizenship;
• Learn to support youth-led social action through the supported organisation of events;
• Inter-Youth and decision-makers debate for peace seminars and activities;
• Youth leaders engage with decision-makers to address social intolerance and community xenophobia;
• To analyse Social Action, civic responsibility and citizenship promotion in the work with youth;
• To receive inputs from youth worker on encouraging youth participation in the RESOLVE: Network – specifically in its governance, chairing of meetings and leading a peace network;
• Wider skills include: Leadership; Team Building; Communication; Social Awareness; as well as several wider EU Key Competencies.

The Schedule

The online training will take place from March 29th to April 8th 2021, for two weeks seeing 3 different meetings. Each meeting will last approximately 3 hours.

Requirements

Each participants has to attend all the meeting as during each sessions there will be workshops. It is necessary also to have a working camera and microphone.

The target group for this online training are young youth leaders, youth workers, team leaders etc, but will be open for everyone as it is an online event, everyone who is affected by conflict, or frustrated by decision-makers and interested in becoming a future leader. In particular, we welcome participants from more diverse backgrounds to participate.

The course is open to participants from the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Turkey, Spain, Hungary and Cyprus, but applications from other Erasmus+ Programme and Partner countries are also taken into consideration.

The course officiale language is English.

How to Apply

To apply for the online training, go to the link for application. The deadline to apply is March 23rd 2021.

More information are available on the project’s website.

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Since its launch, more than 10,000 participants have enrolled in this course.

The Online Course in E-Learning

The course is available online at any time, being an e-learning platform where the youth organisations have to register. It is therefore accessible either from a laptop or a mobile device. You can follow it at your own pace, without restrictions in terms of scheduling. The course aims for unlimited participation and provides interactive course materials such as videos, online forums, quizzes, reading lists and publication references. In addition to this, MOOC provides an opportunity for learners to create networks and build partnerships among participants.

The MOOC follows 6 thematic modules:

• 1st Module: Introduction to Erasmus+: Youth in Actio
• 2nd Module: Erasmus+ KA1 Youth Exchanges
• 3rd Module: Erasmus+ KA1 Mobility of youth Workers
• 4th Module: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic partnership
• 5th Module: Erasmus+ KA3 Structured Dialogue Projects
• 6th Module: Erasmus+ Youth in Action Application procedures

Each module comes into 7-9 sessions offering different interactive learning content online. Each content goes through revision and updating according to the occurring changes of the Erasmus+ Programme.

What to Expect and How to Register

The estimated course commitment is around 3-4 hours per week, for 5-6 weeks duration.

The target group of the MOOC course are project managers, youth workers, youth leaders, anybody with an interest in Erasmus+ funding opportunities for the youth field coming from Erasmus+ Programme and Partner countries.

To register, access the Canvas online platform.

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For this reason we present you a new tool, released through the S.A.L.T.O. platform, that focuses on digital media, creativity, social media, web design, online learning and critical thinking. It is also the result of an ESC project, the “#DigiMedia ESC volunteering Project”, carried out by Association TEAM4Excellence. This tool is in fact a Magazine that resulted after the implementation of the above-mentioned project.

All the activities were practical, result-oriented and created on the basis of an integrated approach to gain the best outcomes and reach the goals. Giving the successful completion of each activity, the participants were able to:

• prepare the learning materials for non-formal learning for different groups of youth;
• do weekly analysis for the volunteering activities;
• use ICT in youth work;
• create viral online campaigns relating to youth work;
• design learning materials for creative thinking development;
• illustrate the importance of young people participation in social activities;
• use creativity and joy while doing your tasks, thus adding more value to the cause;
• use intercultural and language skills for better communication and understanding others.

Whether your organisation is planning to submit a project proposal or just wants to implement an ESC volunteering project, it is useful to take in consideration the pros&cons and the How To of this tool, as it equips you with practical examples on how to carry out such activities, with the support of a gathered experience in the field. It includes workshops, webinars, contests and other activities organized during the project period.

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The quarantine imposed on many countries of Europe does not necessarily have to mean, that you have to resign from living and Erasmus+ experience.

Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange is a groundbreaking project for young people launched by the European Commission.

Through this project you can:

• become a trained facilitator in dialogue and debate, 
• learn how to develop your own virtual exchange program,
• engage in discussions in multicultural virtual spaces, 
• enroll in interactive online courses.

Several activities for young people, youth workers, and educators are available. This project helps to engage in meaningful intercultural experience online.

To become part of the virtual community visit THIS website.

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