EMPOWERING LABOUR OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH

This project has been designed and developed to be addressed to Youth Worker and Leaders, Youth Activists and those active in youth organizations or dealing with youth matters. The participants will come from different backgrounds and areas of expertise, in order to favor a wider exchange of good practices, ideas and challenges, favoring at the same time values such as interculturalism, tolerance and respect, while developing skills such as teamwork in an intercultural group, critical and creative thinking and problem solving. Key assets for selection will be: - Motivation - Experience - Possibility to use the outcomes of the TC - Will to undertake in follow-up activities - Gender Balance (2 male and 1 female participant or 1 male and 2 female participants per country) - Minorities, economic difficulties, coming from rural Areas, or other disadvantaged backgrounds Keeping this in mind, each involved organization will have to take care about selecting three participants from their country, between the active youth leaders and youth workers that they have between their members, bearing in mind that in order to be eligible as a participant, it will be necessary to be over 18 years old and legally resident in the country in which the organization is registered. They will have to share the information about the project in as many means as possible, and each person willing to participate will have to compile an application form http://goo.gl/forms/HQJtrFXNjV in order to express their expectations, need, motivation, experience and wanted follow up in the field of the training course. Based on their applications, the sending organization will have to choose the ones that they consider the best candidates, also taking into account how much relevant the impact of their participation might be for their NGO and for the local community once they come back. Eventually, they might ask for the opinion of the coordinating organization, which will anyway check the selected profiles before giving the final confirmation for their participation in order to ensure that they match with the foreseen program and its objectives. The participants will be coming from various age groups, depending on the workers and leaders active within the sending organizations singularly. We believe that the main target group will be between 20 and 35 years old, guaranteeing a mix of freshness, experience, creativity and knowledge. We wish to involve, for this activity, participants who are only over 18 years old, to ensure a minimum level of experience within the project and to minimize legal issues with parents bound with their participation. However, we might make exceptions on condition of extremely motivated situations (experience regardless the young age; motivation; involvement in the organization; fewer opportunities background). The gender balance will be a fundamental aspect to be taken care about throughout the whole project. We wish to guarantee equal opportunities on gender terms for our training course, therefore we will support the sending organizations in the selection of their participants, so that in the end we’ll have a group formed equally by men and women.