Training for Nature #2

CALL FOR PARTNERS

DNS Teacher Training College from Denmark & A.R.T. Fusion Association from Romania have the pleasure to invite you to be our partners in the “Training for Nature #2” project within the ERASMUS+ (KA1) – the 26th of April 2017 deadline.

Context

The world nowadays is facing very dramatic challenges caused by global warming, desertification and acid rain or atmospheric pollution which took the shape of an environmental crisis affecting the earth balance and having consequences as spread of tropical diseases, malnutrition, relocation and reunification of refugees and immigrant families, housing and food challenges, disaster relief and changes to employment patterns. It is wide spread and accepted the belief that this crisis is established in environmental degradation that is brought on by the typical courses of action of industrialisation and disaster, whether natural or caused by human activities that harm the environment supporting us. Unsustainable models of advancement, unequal power relations and unequal dissemination and use of resources, key to the current worldwide socio-economic system of neo-liberalism, worsen structural disparities and influence most poor and low-income individuals (Besthorn, 2013, Dominelli, L., 2014).

The new realities of the environmental crisis that affects our planet in so various ways brings social work and youth work in front of this major challenge of extending its core values and traditional ecological models in order to more adequately answer to these realities.

About the Training for Nature #2 project

The "Training for Nature #2" project aims to increase the capacity of youth-related organisations in Europe to become more sustainable and environmentally oriented in their work.
The training course offers to the participants a holistic understanding of the unity and interdependence of human society and the natural environment. At the same time, we will offer a series of tools to participants that will enable them to trigger learning processes within young people in relation with the action they can take to protect the environment and build a sustainable community.

Specific objectives:
-To provide tools and methods to 24 youth workers from countries in Europe to enable young people engage in more sustainable and environmentally friendly activities in their daily life.
-To create environmentally friendly attitudes among 24 youth workers in order to help young people commit to a sustainable lifestyle and make environmentally friendly changes in their daily behaviour.
-To stimulate the participants to act as “environment agents” in their own organisation and regions.
-To create a networking framework that would enhance the organisational and professional development of the partner organisations towards interventions focused on environment and sustainable development.

Period: 14-21 October 2017
Place: 6990 Ulfborg, Vestjylland, Denmark

Participants
Youth workers, youth leaders and other practitioners in the youth field, from active NGOs who:
-have a strong interest in the themes of the project;
-have developed activities in the area of environmental protection or sustainable development;
-have a high multiplying potential;
-have motivation to learn and improve;
-are willing to act as environmental education multipliers.

Number of participants: 24 youth workers, youth leaders or other practitioners in the youth field (three per country)

100% of the food and accommodation expenses are covered by the ERASMUS+ programme and participants will be reimbursed the travel costs according to travel distances upon presentation of travel documents.

If you want to be our partners please send us the completed attached documents (mandate and partner application) to Piotr Działak at climate@tvind.dk, no later than on the 20th of April 2017.

Thank you!

Piotr Działak, DNS Teacher Training College, Denmark
Roxana, A.R.T. Fusion Association, Romania
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