The Youth Action Plan

The Youth Action Plan in EU External Action (2022-2027) is a new policy framework that promotes the engagement of young people as strategic partners, supporting their empowerment and participation to contribute to sustainable development, equality and peace.

The Youth Action Plan in EU External Action is guided by three pillars of action that will help shape the EU’s partnership with young people in partner countries:

1. partnership to engage: increasing young people’s voices in policy and decision-making;
2. partnership to empower: fighting inequalities and providing young people with the skills and tools they need to thrive;
3. partnership to connect: fostering opportunities for young people to network and exchange with their peers worldwide.

The Youth Action Plan is part of the EU institutions efforts to mark the European Year of Youth 2022 and its international dimension, shining a light on the important role of young people in building a better future – greener, more inclusive and digital.

Online Conference on Youth Participation

The Conference on Youth Participation will be informing about the new policy for promoting youth participation and empowerment in EU External Action.

When: Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00 CET – Wednesday 18 January 2023, 15:30 CET
Where: either online or in Brussels 
Languages: English, French, Spanish

The conference will:

• Present the Youth Action Plan in EU External Action: its purpose and principles, and the involvement of young people in its design.
• Explain the different pillars for action Engage – Empower – Connect, with lines of actions and main initiatives.
• Present some concrete initiatives of youth engagement:
  • The Youth Sounding Board for EU International Partnerships.
  • Youth advisory structures in EU Delegations, the example of the Youth Sounding Board in Nigeria.
  • Western Balkans Youth Lab Project, an example of how to provide opportunities for youth to participate in policy-making in their countries.

Register to the online conference, or attend the event on site.

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GloRe Technical Training

The GloRe Technical Training is the first step to get an active account in the GloRe certification system. The training will provide newcomers with the competences to use the GloRe certification platform with their volunteers and to provide a clear understanding of rights, duties and opportunities related to the use of the certification system and to the membership in The GloRe Network. 

According to that, this training addresses staff members whose organisations deal with European Solidarity Corps, international or local volunteers and willing to improve their learning awareness and to provide the volunteers with a Soft Skill Certificate off GloRe. 

Overall Information

The Technical Training’s working language is English.
The event is hosted on Zoom on Tuesday 14th April 2022.

Upon participation, it is necessary to complete an e-learning module which requires 40-60 minutes to be done properly.

To apply for the Technical Training fill out the form by 8th April 2022. There is a total of 20 places available and the selection will happen on a first-come, first-served basis.

Technical Training Schedule

The Project – What Is GloRe

The GloRe Network is an umbrella organisation established in Milan, Italy in 2017. The network is active worldwide in 20 countries and has the main goal of fostering – at GLObal level – the REcognition of volunteering and non-formal learning, hence the name. GloRe is an open network of non-profit organisations, indeed any non-profit organisation working with young volunteers, either locally or internationally, can join in as long as it respects the quality standards for the volunteer’s support, the proper use of the certification platform and with active participation in the network.
The organisation oversees the membership and training process, monitors the proper use of the platform and promotes it. 

The Certification Platform

It is a certification platform that allows both international and local volunteers to receive a certificate with recognition of the soft skills they acquired while volunteering.

The latest version of the platform, launched in March 2021, enables users to get a certificate either in English, Turkish, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. Volunteers have the possibility to go through 26 e-learning modules that help them in assessing their level in each soft-skill (the ones certified by the platform) and in creating a short dossier about their learning. At the end of the process the host organisation will validate the certificate, taking responsibility for approving the information on it. The platform is complementary to other certifications as Youthpass and is meant to provide volunteers with a flexible and reliable certificate, while investing a few hours on it. The certificate is recognised internationally by the members of The GloRe Network international community and by several educational and public institutions.

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See the promotional video.

Fourth European Education Summit

The Fourth European Education Summit wants to look to the future of education and training in the European Union (EU). Participant will try to answer the following questions:

• How can the education sector improve to the benefit of all?
• How can it be made more inclusive and fair – from early childhood education and care to higher education and adult learning?
• How can the well-being of teachers and pupils improve?
• How can smart investment lead to high-quality education and training?
• What can be done to progress the green and digital transformations of the sector?

With that in mind, participants will find the best practices and discuss ideas over Education and Training in the European Union.

The Event

The summit structures into two sessions:

Morning Session: 

9.30-10.20 Opening statements
10.20-10.30 Break
10.30-11 Keynote speeches
11-12.30 Presentations
12.30-13 Break

Afternoon Session:

How To Join

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Training for Youth Organisations on Digital Transformation

The Training Course “Digital transformation for youth organisations’ intends to introduce youth organisations to the digital age and to train them to acquire their own digital footprint, which will have multiplier benefits in the impact of the Programme.

The main objectives of the training course are:

• Empowering youth organisations and their representatives (who have basic or limited technological training) to be digital;
• Enabling the autonomy of Youth organisations while saving resources, as they will not have to outsource technical tasks and outputs to external experts;
• Facilitating access of youth organisations in rural areas to decentralized technical and technological education services;
• Establishing a cooperation network and exchange of good practices;
• Strengthening the pillars of empowerment, engagement and connection of the new Youth policy of the EU;
• Contributing to the digital action plan of the EU commission, via a thorough and affordable training program.

Eligibility Criteria

The ideal stakeholders of the training on digital transformation are:

• youth organisations’ leaders and representatives;
• youth workers;
• Trainers, Educators and learning facilitators;
• Young people interested in new technologies who have the possibility of disseminating their knowledge to a range of target audiences;
• EU youth institutions.

How To Apply

The training course is open up to 30 participants from Erasmus Plus programme countries and Partner Countries.

The working language is English. No participation fee is applicable.

To register, apply through S.A.L.T.O. Youth.

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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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Since the UK left the European Union, there have been many changes in the way UK and European youngsters can benefit from the EU Programmes. The UK has indeed left the Erasmus+ Programme, and as a consequence, the European Solidarity Corps too. The CILL is running a series of events on the future of international projects and youth mobility, following the UK’s withdrawal from the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes, consequence of Brexit.

It is the third event taking place on March 4th. And the main topics will be:

• Youth and youth worker mobility
• Volunteering
• Vocational projects
• eTwinning

The Webinar

The webinar sees four different working groups discussing separately on the topic of their choice. Each group will have a full hour for discussion, with an appointed facilitator and rapporteur.

International Projects and Youth Mobility after BREXIT are being dramatically impacted. The objective will be to agree a list of ideas and action points in relation to each theme: what practical action can we variously take, what function and structure should our network have, and how can we attract more support?

How To Register

To register it is necessary to select previously the topic of your interest, as you will then join into the related working group. You can choose only one topic from the four ones above.

This is an online event, then to register go to the website.

The schedule

The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 4th 2021 at 5pm (CET). The schedule will be as follow:

• 4pm Welcome and opening remarks
• 4.10pm Working (breakout) groups
• 5.10pm Report back from groups
• 5.20pm Open discussion and comments from CILL team
• 5.40pm Conclusions, next steps and short survey
• 5.45pm End

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unesco SAYS:

Member States share a collective responsibility for addressing the residual trauma, maintaining effective remembrance policies, caring for historic sites, and promoting education, documentation and research, seven decades after the genocide. his responsibility entails educating about the causes, consequences and dynamics of such crimes so as to strengthen the resilience of young people against ideologies of hatred. As genocide and atrocity crimes keep occurring across several regions, and as we are witnessing a global rise of anti-Semitism and hateful discourses, this has never been so relevant.

The Tool for Remembrance

A useful tool to address the culture of peace inside your organisation could be the “Remembrance for Peace” toolkit. It provides an overview over different approaches, non-formal education methods and practical examples for youth workers to work with young people on remembrance and reconciliation. And it is the outcome of SCI Germany‘s work, available on S.A.L.T.O. website. SCI believes that a culture of peace can only happen through a culture of remembrance, of critically looking back at injustices of the past and never repeating them again.

The tool “Remembrance for Peace” aims to provide innovative and interesting approaches to remembrance when working with young people. It therefore addresses youth workers all over Europe and beyond.

The tool goes through the following contents:

• Ways of approaching Remembrance with young people;
• Examples for Remembrance;
• Non-Formal Education Methods for Remembrance;
• Tips for Non-Formal Education.

This toolkit gives you inspiration for remembrance work with young people. It introduces approaches, methods and practical examples of how to do remembrance. The tool focuses especially on volunteering and non-formal education, but also on online
remembrance and gives valuable examples of know-how.

You can download the Toolkit here. It is freely available and in English.

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The conference takes place online on Facebook Live. The date is Wednesday 9th December 2020 at 3 pm (UTC+01 time) and lasts till 5 pm.

The initiative Introduction Day of “Step into solidarity” is part of the broader KA2-strategic partnership project “Living Solidarity Alliance”. The aim of the project is creating learning opportunities for youthworkers. Moreover it follows the purpose of designing together the intellectual outcomes in the form of researches, along with videos, podcast-series and guidebooks. The conference focuses especially on how to implement the Solidarity focus in the local Youthwork.

The schedule of the conference is:

1. Introduction:

• Getting to know each other
• Short Preview over the project and its main objective
• how to get involved

2. Map of Expertise:

• Presenting different dimensions of solidarity: youth policy, disability, refugees, rural areas
• share the different directions of possible solidarity actions
• meet in small groups the best practices and listing the areas of interest, finding common dimensions

3. Space for Developing Partnerships

• present and discuss different possibilities for NGOs/experts/individuals to contribute and join the project

4. Final discussion and Conclusions & next steps

Several organisations have already confirmed their participation. Among them Associazione Joint, that is hosting online the Annual General Meeting of the informal network right before the online conference.

To register go to the online form and for any question contact living.solidarity.alliance@gmail.com.

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