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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In the context of the pandemic, it is not just learning modalities, that changed drastically due to lockdown. It is the role itself of schools and teachers which faced a real challenge. With lockdowns all over Europe, vocational education and training (VET) schools had to convert physical classrooms and work-based learning spaces into digital learning environments overnight. In this context, the virtual class became a place for the community. With that, other issues arise. For example, keeping the attention, boost the motivation and good spirit of students.

Vocational Education and Training

The Erasmus+ Programme delivered almost €3 billion to VET over the period 2014-2020. Every year, around 130,000 VET learners and 20,000 VET staff benefit from Erasmus+ mobility opportunities. In addition, almost 500 projects each year are financed under the Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships.

Vocational education and training responds to the needs of the economy, but also provides learners with skills important for personal development and active citizenship. It can boost enterprise performance, competitiveness, research and innovation and is a central aspect of successful employment and social policy.

There can be initial or continuing VET.

Initial VET (I-VET)

Is usually carried out at upper secondary level before students begin working life. It takes place either in a school-based environment (mainly in the classroom) or in a work-based setting, such as training centres and companies. This varies from country to country, depending on national education and training systems, and economic structures.

Continuing VET (C-VET)

Takes place after initial education and training, or after beginning working life. It aims to upgrade knowledge, help citizens to acquire new skills, retrain and further their personal and professional development. It is largely work-based with the majority of learning taking place in a workplace.

Goals of EU member states

Among the deliverables set by European Institutions and Member States, there is:

• strengthen key competences in Vocational Education and Training curricula and provide more effective opportunities to acquire or develop those skills;
• introduce systematic approaches to, and opportunities for, initial and continuous professional development for VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school- and work-based settings;
• enhance access to Vocational Education and Training and qualifications for all through more flexible and permeable systems.

A Webinar on VET

On January 28th 2021, 10-11AM (CET), a Webinar on VET in times of pandemics will take place. The webinar focuses on local experiences, aiming at finding ways to prevent early school leaving during the pandemic.

Register for the webinar and join the discussion! A useful toolkit of know-how will be released too.

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