The Quality Label for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering certifies that an organisation is able to carry out high quality solidarity activities in compliance with the principles, objectives and requirements of the action ‘European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps’. Obtaining this Quality Label is a precondition for participation in the action Humanitarian Aid Volunteering under the European Solidarity Corps.

More information about the call and the action is available here. The call is currently open in the Funding & tender opportunities portal.

Info Day for Organisations | Quality Label for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering

This event aims at providing organisations information and practical guidance to apply for the call ESC-HUMAID-2022-QUAL-LABEL, as well as to interact with potential partners and European Commission/EACEA colleagues.

The session will take place online (in Microsoft Teams) and will be recorded. The registration link to participate to the event and the agenda can be found on the following event webpage.

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If you are looking for training within the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme, European Solidarity Corps, training activities in the field of youth and non-formal education, and more, S.A.L.T.O. provides online courses for free.

The European Training Calendar

The main focus of the European Training Calendar are the Erasmus+: Youth in Action and European Solidarity Corps programmes.

All training activities in the Calendar are European or international, in the not-for-profit sector and directed to youth workers wishing:

• to develop their competences to further work with and for young people,
• to share experiences, and
• to make contacts for common future projects.

Besides, the calendar also provides calls for projects in which youth workers will meet other target groups such as youth policy makers, adult learning organisers, among others, in order to learn from each other.

Upcoming Trainings

At the time of writing, there are 74 available online trainings on the European Training Calendar. Let’s have a look to some of them.

1. Youth Work 2.0 – The aim of this training course is to equip youth workers with basic competences needed to facilitate the learning process of groups with the addition of gamification elements | 12-19 May | Application deadline: 7 April 

2. GOT NEXT*: Youth workers next in line to make change (seminar) – During this seminar young change makers get the chance to slow down together in order to meet the urgent challenges of their youth work by looking at the personal, interpersonal and systemic level | 29 May – 3 June | Application deadline: 8 April

3. BRIDGES TO SOLIDARITY– The training course is an opportunity for youth workers to reflect on their role in creating solidarity within the communities and will enable them to self assess and develop further their competences of process facilitation in strengthening communities | 8-14 May | Application deadline: 10 April

4. Emotions in Motion – an embodied training course on emotional intelligence– Do you work with young people? Would you like to develop your emotional skills and learn new methods? Do you feel the need to spend some time in a safe space to reflect on your challenges, share your insights and learn from others’ practices? | 14-22 May | Application deadline: 10 April

5. BODY Positive – Training course for educators and youth workers about facilitation of body positivity activities and creating a facilitation approach that is inclusive and body positive | 1-10 May | Application deadline: 11 April

6. BE ENTERPRISING – fostering entrepreneurial attitude in youngsters– “Be Enterprising” is a 6 days long training course in Croatia focused on fostering entrepreneurial skills while working with young people | 24-29 April | Application deadline: 11 April 

Find other courses, trainings and seminars of your choice.

For specific questions about a training call, please write to the contact you find in the call itself.

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EUROTUREC: Training of Multipliers | 13-19th May 2022, Genoa (Italy)

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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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Given the new Erasmus+ & European Solidarity Corps program for 2021-2027, which will offer Youth mobility, Volunteering, Traineeships, Jobs, Local Solidarity Projects, youth organisations are starting preparing their projects and searching for partners, on the perspective of the future deadlines (we have talked about rumours on the first potential Erasmus+ deadline here).

The power of international networking has shown itself especially during the time of the pandemic. According to that, ProActive Group Georgia has launched an interactive networking online event to serve the partnership-building activity. The addressees of such event are NGOs, ESC Coordinators, Mentors, youth workers dealing with ESC and youth volunteering activities.

The Online Event

The Online event welcomes all the partners from programme countries, that have the Quality Label for hosting and /or sending volunteers, to join in.

The purpose of the online event is either:

• get to know each other and find like-minded partner organisations;
• receive hands-on advice to improve ESC projects and activities, volunteer recruitment and mentorship.

The online event will take place on March 2nd 2021 on the Zoom platform, and hosted by ProActive Group Georgia. To register and participate is necessary to fill in this questionnaire. The registration process can then be finalised on S.A.L.T.O. website at this page. The application deadline is February 25th 2021. The working language will be English.

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This is why the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) launched a survey to better understand the realities with which the youth organizations have to deal with during this time. 

The Joint Council on Youth is interested in hearing from people working or volunteering in youth organisations, initiatives, and networks across Europe on the effects of the current COVID-19 across youth work and youth activities.

Your answers will help to better understand the situation across the Council of Europe’s member states in order to provide appropriate support to youth organisations and constructive guidance to government bodies working on youth-related issues, on behalf of the Youth Department.

All information is confidential and will not be published other than in an aggregated and anonymised form.

Contribute and help us understand what you are going through by filling the QUESTIONNAIRE.

The questionnaires can be submitted until the 1st of August 11:59 CET.

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The ministers of Education coming from the EU member States started following a draft document written on 16 April by the “Youth” group, that transmitted it to the permanent representation in the Council.

The youth organisations as relevant stakeholders

On the basis of the European Youth Strategy 2019/2027, the paper aims at providing a series of measures to resettle the difficult work situation awaiting the youngsters of nowadays. Young people shall be free to develop their working, social and personal skills and the European Union is asked to provide them with all the available tools to accomplish this goal.

It addresses to the youth sector’s stakeholders: member states, the European Commission and, this time, there’s space also for youth organisations (see p. 10 of the document). What does it recommend? Member states shall adopt concrete measures to promote formal and non formal education, deepen the development of the key competences recognized at European level, further explore ways of cooperation and youth entrepreneurship possibilities (in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme and European Solidarity Corps too) and, overall, a special attention to steer national politics towards a better inclusion of youngsters into the work market.

The European Commission shall go on with the analysis of tools as the Youthpass and Europass, as well as guide national institutes to help young people exploit the possibilities offered by the EU in order to get into the work market. It will also provide information and results coming from the follow-up of studies based on qualitative and quantitavie researches in the field.

Finally, it is of great importance the fact that the Counil addresses also to youth organisations. They’re asked to sensibilize young people in relation of their rights and responsibilities; keeping their methodologies and their programmes updated, in order to comply with the work market needs; keep on to strive with the inclusion of youngsters with fewer opportunities in their programmes; making contacts with the national work market stakeholders, in regular dialogues that can provide the right guarantees for young people.

The Council recommended the youth workers (speaking for NGOs, youth associations and organisations) to implement always new programmes and encourage the young people to do an European mobility, also in light of the new European programmes such as Erasmus+ and European Solidarity corps (link). These in fact give to youngsters the possibility to do not only a study period aborad, but also to do an internship, a training course, a volunteering.

The issues to tackle

The paper gives an overview of the working situation in Europe. It focuses on the factors that are shaping a change with regards to this context.

• The demographical issue: the population is ageing and the work market is losing labour that needs to be quickly subsituted, in order to keep up with the needs of an assistance system that is going to become particularly demanding;
• The progress of technology: the process of digitalization, that the EU is fostering in the first place, is going to bring about a reshaping of the work market needs. It is causing a rapid obsoloescence both of tools and jobs, creating at the same time new possibilities for digital natives – as the European young people are;
• The mismatch between high qualified workers needed and the number (still to low) of graduated people coming from European universities;
• The climate change and the challenges that are to be tackled;
• The ageing population that reconnects with the first point;
• Finally, the development of a global economy, that’s reshaping the relationships between employers and employees.

The measures to implement

The European Council has proposed the following measures, included in the press release:

• adaptable and responsive education and training systems;
• the promotion of lifelong learning;
• smooth school-to-work and work-to-work transitions;
• equal access to quality jobs for all young people in the future.

L'articolo Youth policies: new EU Council conclusions proviene da Youth Networks.