The Training Course is running from December 6th to 16th 2021. The organizer is the Turkish National Agency.

TOSCA – Online Training for Youth Organisations

The online training activity aims to support and build up the capacities of organizations that actively participate in volunteering actions of the European Solidarity Corps, in order to ensure quality and impact in the respective projects.

The aim is to ensure quality and impact in their respective European Solidarity Corps projects.

General Objectives

The Training Course has the following goals to reach:

• Foster understanding, awareness and commitment to core quality criteria of the European Solidarity Corps;
• Build up competences on how to design and implement European Solidarity Corps projects with a view to quality;
• Ensure clarity and support on how the programme works formally: opportunities, guidelines, structures, priorities, rules, and procedures;
• Give space to participants and their organisations to express burning issues and needs and offer support where possible;
• Foster a supportive community of organisations involved in the European Solidarity Corps.

General Information

The Online Training course for youth organisations will bring together participants into individual and group work. The work is organised over two weeks, including the training tasks. Those ones will be accessible on the moodle platform HOP.

The training’s sessions will be 6 in total, of which 4 mandatory and 2 optional, and they will be held on the ZOOM platform.

Being an online training, there is no reimbursement nor participation fees.

Dates, Timing and Participants

The sessions will be from 10:00 to 13:30 CET on December 6th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 15th and 16th.

The applicants must ensure to:

• be involved in the Volunteering Actions in European Solidarity Corps Programme;
• be part of organisations/institutions holding a Quality Label for Volunteering;
• have a crucial role in and commitment to o  providing conditions for high quality activities;
• ensure a positive impact of Volunteering Activities within their community;
• create learning opportunities within the organisation and for volunteers.

The ideal participants would be then youth workers, youth project managers, and volunteering mentors.

The training is open up to 25 participants from Erasmus Plus participating countries and Partner countries.

To apply for the online training course for youth organisations go to the official page.

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The Consortium

The organisation coordinating the DO-IT project is Ecepaa (European Center for Economic and Policy Analysis and Affairs). It is specialized in the development of European Union projects in the fields of social inclusion, education, youth and migrant. 

Associazione Joint is a youth association based in Italy, the work of which mainly focuses on providing learning opportunities to young people through international experiences, such as European Solidarity Corps, International volunteering, Work Camps, local and international Training Courses, Youth Exchanges and Capacity Building Projects.

AMECE (Association Maison d’Enfant pour la Culture et l’Education – Italy) is based in Turin. Its activities aim to understand and address the needs of children, teenagers and young adults with migrant backgrounds, most of them originally from north African countries. 

Fundacion Red Incola is a Foundation composed by nine religious entities. Its mission is to support the immigrant population in risky situations of exclusion, in the promotion and defense of their rights so that they can have a dignified life.  

The 2nd Vocation High School of Katerini is a school in Greece that serves around 600 students, aged 16 – 19, with 80 teachers and comprises four different sectors (Informatics, Healthcare & Welfare, Agriculture/Food Technology/Nutrition and Business/Economics). 

The Project

Complying with the general Erasmus Plus policy and the Call for Proposals in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the overall objective of the DO-IT project is to develop an innovative practice in the digital framework, while committing to a greater social inclusion of students with a migrant background by tackling the early-school-leaving phenomenon. On such a perspective, giving a transnational dimension to the project means to allow a deeper understanding and examination of the digital education sector, strong of a comparative analysis.

Moving forward, the specific objectives of the project are:

• Identify, develop and disseminate good practices and innovative digital tools to provide teachers and trainers with skills that make them able to address the needs of youth with a migrant background, arised as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic;
• Promote the recognition of digital competences and soft-skills acquired with youth with a migrant background while participating in informal activities;
• Increase the capacity of 50 teachers and trainers on digital competences by providing them with a training on the 5 competences framed in the “Digital Competence Framework 2.0”;
• Increase the capacity of 50 teachers and trainers to recognise the digital competences and soft-skills acquired by youth with a migrant background during informal experiences. 

The background

Given the above, the DO-IT project takes its origin from a general consideration over the consequences of Covid-19 towards the most disadvantaged young people (with a migrant background) in the education sector. 

In fact the lockdown restrictions over Europe, made compulsory by governments, have had different effects, depending on the family income. This establishes huge issues with respect to how to ensure access, equity and inclusion in the learning environment. 

From this perspective, and a consequence, while the indirect beneficiaries of the DO-IT project outputs are young people with a migrant background, the direct ones are the members of the organizations participating in the project itself, i.e. teachers, trainers, researchers, youth workers and associations of migrants and their children.

DO-IT implementation

The DO-IT project is expected to reach several results. The partners, bringing together their expertise in the field of reference, will be creating 5 questionnaires to deliver to 5 different categories of stakeholders:

• Youth workers;
• Trainers;
• Teachers;
• Researchers;
• Migrant associations members.

In addition to that, the consortium will be working on building 5 additional questionnaires for in-depth interviews. After collecting the data, the final result will be a digital publication over several topics, such as school dropout, lack of digital skills to cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the good and best practices to address in order to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic on the education and learning of young people with a migrant background. 

DO-IT therefore represents an innovative way to address the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on education, with a focus on the needs of youth with a migrant background and the wide range of professionals working with them.

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Trainings on European Solidarity Corps

The following three trainings take place on presence.

TOSCA – Training and support for organisations active in the volunteering actions

TOSCA is a training course taking place in October 11-15th 2021 in Warszawa, Poland. The training activity aims to support and build up the capacities of organizations that actively participate in volunteering actions of the European Solidarity Corps, in order to ensure quality and impact in the respective projects.

There is no participation fee, as the training course is financed by the participating NAs of the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The working language is English and the organizer is the Polish National Agency. The course provides the coverage of accommodation, food and travel costs.

The application deadline is September 6th, 2021. The applicants (maximum 25) must come from an Erasmus+ participating country, or a Partner country.

The application is online.

Community Impact in Practice

Conference: “On track 5 – Different youth work approaches for different NEET situations”

On Track 5 is a seminar taking place in December 7-11th, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. This cross-sectoral conference will address the NEET issues and showcase good practices, with the emphasize on partnership building and cooperation between youth work and other sectors (formal education, employment, social & business sector…).

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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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