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SolidAction: Guiding Youth Toward Solidarity projects
Training Course
14-21 March 2025 | Kysak, Slovak Republic
SolidAction: Guiding Youth Toward Solidarity projects
Phase 1: 14th March - 21st March
Phase 2: 15th June - 22nd June
Kysak, Slovakia
This training course empowers youth workers and coaches engaged in the European Solidarity Corps to mentor and support young people in designing, writing, and implementing their own solidarity projects. Participants will develop key skills in project development and supporting dialogue, fostering social impact among youth. The training course bridges the gap between ideas and action, equipping participants to guide young people in making their visions a reality.
Objectives for Phase 1:
Capacity Building for Youth Workers
- Understand Solidarity Projects - Provide participants with a thorough understanding of the European Solidarity Corps program, highlighting how solidarity projects empower young people and contribute to community development.
- Develop a Coaching Approach - Introduce and practice coaching-based techniques to enable youth workers to effectively guide and support young people in their initiatives.
- Enhance Facilitation and Communication Skills - Strengthen participants’ abilities to lead group processes, foster collaboration, and inspire proactive engagement among young people.
- Create Action Plans for Implementation - Equip participants with the tools and guidance needed to design individual or team action plans for initiating solidarity projects in their local contexts.
Middle Phase (between Phase 1 and Phase 2):
- Practical Application - Participants apply coaching and facilitation techniques in their communities by working directly with young people to initiate, design, and begin implementing solidarity projects.
Objectives for Phase 2: Reflection and Advancement
- Evaluate and Reflect on Practical Experiences - Create a space for participants to share their experiences, successes, and challenges from the middle phase, fostering peer learning and insight.
- Enhance Problem-Solving and Adaptation - Conduct workshops to address common challenges in solidarity projects and adapt strategies to overcome them effectively.
- Deepen the Coaching Approach - Introduce beginners coaching-based methodologies to further empower young people and enhance the effectiveness of their initiatives.
- Plan for Sustainability and Scaling - Support participants in designing strategies for sustaining the impact of their solidarity projects and scaling them to create broader community benefits.
Participant profile
This activity is designed for youth work and education practitioners: active youth workers, trainers, NGO workers, young leaders, volunteers working with youth, or teachers. Participants have to be over 18 years old and able to follow the training course and work in English.
Please, apply only if you have the opportunity to organize a workshop or activity during the middle phase with the young people you work with. This practical application is a key part of the training course.
For more info, please, check the attached infopack!
Deadline to send application form: 30th January 2025
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Applications are closed
The application deadline was 30 January 2025.
Date of selection: 10 February 2025
Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/13020
This Training Course is
for 26 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers, teachers, educatiors, coordinators
Working language(s):
English
EduEra (Youth NGO)
We aim to educate and inform people about educational opportunities, build and develop their competencies and support their active participation and initiative through many various projects in Slovakia and abroad. The main activity of EduEra is to find a common way for formal, and non-formal education and the business sector. Our activities are mainly focused on cross-sectoral collaboration between schools, municipalities, and NGOs.
In 2018 EduEra was awarded by Slovak National Agency as “The best NGO” in the field of non-formal education supported by EÚ thanks to our ESC solidarity projects focusing on youth from rural areas in Slovakia. Also, our training course "TRAINBOW" funded by Erasmus+ was selected as a “Good practice example of 2018” representing Slovakia and the work of EduEra in the European Parlament during the European Youth Week in Brussels 2019.
EduEra is the EURODESK multiplicator since 2017 and the Slovak information center in the east part of Slovakia for youth.
EduEra also closely collaborates with many secondary schools, and high schools in Slovakia, Comenius University, the Pedagogic department in Slovakia, and Youth councils in Slovakia, and because of our expertise in non-formal education and volunteering management EduEra is closely networking with other NGOs in Slovakia and abroad.
Our target groups are
a) young people, mostly from rural areas
b) teachers, school psychologists, youth workers, social workers
c) NGOs, small businesses
EduEra encourages the active participation of young people in the creation of new ideas and initiatives.
Contact for questions:
Petra Papiernikova
E-Mail:
Phone: +421907619302
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
Thanks to funding from the Erasmus+ program through the Slovak National Agency, all costs for food, accommodation, and course materials will be covered during the course.
Travel reimbursement
In line with Erasmus+ rules, the costs of your international travel will be covered up to the following amounts, based on the distance from your place of residence to the training venue (as verified by the Erasmus+ distance calculator).
Any costs exceeding these amounts must be covered by you.
Here is an overview of the distance bands and the corresponding reimbursement amounts for travel:
10 – 99 km: €28
100 – 499 km: €211
500 – 1,999 km: €309
2,000 – 2,999 km: €395
3,000 – 3,999 km: €580
We reimburse only public transport, 2nd class fares. Taxi is not refundable, as well as transport by private cars.