Background of the project
The MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) are ambitiously set to be met by 2015 in order to reduce
poverty in the world and to increase the quality of life around the globe.
MDG incorporate issues of: education, women rights, poverty, health, environment, children rights,
global partnership and reflect strongly the global interdependencies that are in the world and how the
globalization process leads to social injustice towards actions are required.
The approach of the training will be focused on developing specific skills for “awareness making”
and for multipliers in the field and it will make use of the richness of experiential learning and nonformal
education in general.
The main goal of the project is to increase the level of awareness in the area of
sustainable development among young Europeans.
More specific objectives are:
- To increase the knowledge level of young people in topics like: global interdependencies (from
cultural, economical and political approach), MDG-s, social and global justice, intercultural
education, climate change, consumerism and sustainable lifestyle;
- To create pro-active attitudes towards global issues;
- To encourage participation and involvement of young people in social processes;
- To develop sense of common responsibility for the future of their local communities from a
global perspective;
- To develop practical skills in intercultural education and “awareness making” in their own
communities;
- To stimulate the participants to act as global education multipliers in their own organization
and communities
Training course
During the training course the participants will go through a non-formal educational process that will
include topics such as: global interdependencies (from cultural, economical and political approach),
MDG-s, social and global justice, climate change, consumerism and sustainable lifestyle, educational
and methodological tools, “take action”.
The training will have a high level of practical approach, based on experiential learning and it will aim
at empowering the participants of using these methods in their own realities.
Target group
The target audience are youth workers (aged 18 and above) that are interested in the global topics
(having some previous experience is welcomed, but not necessary) and need more knowledge and
deeper understanding of these topics as well as tools for dealing with these issues in their work, life
and communities.
The participants includes from the following countries are invited to apply: Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania,
Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.
Dynamics of the training course
The training has three integrated learning phases:
1. Introductory phase (preparation for the course) through distance e-learning, starting from October
15th till the beginning of the residential
2. Residential training course, from November 18th to November 27th in Fruška gora, Serbia
3. Follow-up phase through distance e-learning, starting from November 28th to December 31st.
Implementing organisation
The Youth Dialogue Programme (YDP) has emerged from the initiative of young people from Serbia
and Kosovo at the beginning of 2005, with the aim of reviving the interrupted cooperation between
young Serbs and Albanians after the conflicts in 1999. The Youth Dialogue Programme is strongly
dedicated to working on human rights and social justice. Its particular focus is empowerment of
young people, especially the ones coming from marginalised and vulnerable groups. Most of the
organisation’s activities have been implemented on local and regional level, with the young people in
Serbia and Kosovo and later on in the Middle East. Throughout the work, we have realized that in
these issues, the more global attitude is needed and it is important to emphasise the global perspective
and global interdependencies in order to truly empower a young person. The reasoning behind was to
develop a sense of common responsibility for the future of young people’s local communities from a
global perspective. Therefore, this training course is one step forward in this process that will allow
YDP to take its experience and passion to the next level and add the global perspective to its
grassroots work.
Costs
This project is funded by the Youth in Action Programme. According to its rules, all costs of
board and logging will be covered by the organisers. In addition, the Youth Dialogue Programme is
going to reimburse 70% of the participants’ travel costs, upon the receipt of all original tickets and
invoices.
If you are interested in taking part in “You are Part of this World, be Part of its
Future” training course, please fill in the application form and return it completed not
later than September 15th, 2010 to milanovicv@ydprogramme.org!
