Between 24th - 30th September in European Meeting Centre in Nasutow an international Training Course "Activate Youth" took place. It was the first meeting realized within multimeasure project "Towards active participation".
Activate Youth training course was organized in order to gather youth workers from partner countries such as: Italy, Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Poland and gain some new knowledge about activating young people in their work.
The main goal of the training course was to discuss the issue of passive participation of young people, discuss new methods of activating youth and share with other youth workers experience and good practices. The training course is the result of common needs of youth workers, who had noticed in their countries common problems (inactive young people).
The project lasted 6 days, during which 16 participants (youth workers) took part in several workshops led by trainers from Italy and Latvia. During the TC 3 main methods of how to encourage young people to become active will be introduced: activating by peers education, theatre and media.
All activities took place between 24th and 30th September in European Meeting Centre in Nasutow.
Project is co-funded by the programme "Youth in Action"