EUtopia?

Aims & objectives

To supply youth leaders and workers with an insight on complexity of current changes in Europe, identify the actors of change and to equip the participants with tools for empowering youth to use change as an opportunity.

1.To develop a common view on the changing Europe
2.To identify the reasons and the possible effects of these changes
3.To locate the young people within the context of change – how are they influenced and how do they influence the changes
4.To allow time and opportunity to discover aspects of diversity and uniformity ideas in societies, learn to identify them and be critical about them
5.To come up with and learn new strategies for utilizing change and diversity for the benefits of young people
6.To give an opportunity for networking

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Project managers, youth leaders, youth workers from 8 different countries; Latvia, Lithuania, France, Italy, Austria, Albania, Serbia, Portugal.

Training methods used & main activities

Seminars, study-visits, field-visits, workshops, energizers, reflection groups, simulations.

Outcomes of the activity

The outcomes were great; in the beginning of planning for this TC we expected it to be a single event. What we discovered was that so much more can be achieved from the “topia” perspective. The EUtopia? TC wasn’t the end, more like a start for something new. Report from the TC is available from the Latvian NA, more “topia” reports is expected in a near future. Just like the UNIQUE network we are now planning to launch a EUtopia network, some of the participants of the TC from the Balkans are in the pipelines for their Balkantopia.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

One out of two trainers together with the organizer from the Latvian NA

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.