On our training course we will develop new knowledge and skills for participants who work with unemployed youth. Participants will use web and open source platforms for increasing their inclusion in social life and economic market in their local communities.

Who we are:

The host organization is CSO Education Center Novi Sad from Novi Sad, Serbia.

Education Center Novi Sad was founded as a non-governmental and non-profit organization.

The main objectives and tasks of the association are:

• Non-formal education in the field of civic activism

• Empowering citizens for the active participation and promoting of civil society

• Developing a practice of respect for human rights and sustainability

• Protecting the environment

• Promoting art and culture

More info: http://nec.rs/

Trainers:

Nebojsa Nick Djeric – experienced Salto trainer http://trainers.salto-youth.net/NebojsaDjeric/

Second trainer will be selected after we publish call for trainers.

About the Project

The main goal of our training course “Raising youth e-mployability” is to improve and increase knowledge, learning methods and experiences of participants, which they can use in everyday work with unemployed young people (young people with economical obstacles), including them in active local community life.

Idea

It is foreseen that participants will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for using web and open source platforms and other e-techniques. That will be used in their further work with their beneficiaries (young people with economical obstacles). Participants will exchange their earlier experiences and they will get a new ones. Each one of them is going to be given a chance to express himself or herself and to participate in making final product of our activities which will be presented on the last day of training course.

Also they will create ability to improve their visibility and to became more competent on job market. In this way, it is envisaged that unemployed young people will get more opportunities for finding and starting a new career.

The outcome of this training course is planned to be:

1. Website, on which is gonna be showed all activities from our Training course. Training and educative materials from our training course will be available for free download on this website. This website will be created by participants themselves (using method of learning by doing).

1. Second product of our training course is gonna be tutorial video which is gonna be recorded during our training course. In that video we will show basic steps of making a new website, by using open source tools. In this way young people would be empowered with new knowledge and skills which can help them for finding and starting a new career.

This material (video tutorial) will be available to each visitor on our website.

1. Every participant in this project is gonna get his/hers own website on which they can promote their ambitions, affinities, personal life goals, hobbies, activities, etc.

Target group on our training course: youth workers, youth leaders, NGO activists, school teachers, social workers and all people actively involved in work with unemployed young people (young people with economical obstacles).

Some of activities on our training course:

• presentation of Youth in Action Program and informing unemployed youth about new possibilities,

• presentation of non-formal education and informal way of learning,

• ice-breakers, team building exercises, individual and group activities,

• work on practical examples in a small groups, discussions, debates, presentations,

• introduction to web development through history,

• introduction to open source tools and free web platforms,

• making our website, without complications, additional programs and previous e-knowledge,

• simple and automatic creating of web presentation,

• choosing design and structure of our website,

• fast and easy approach to internet presentation,

• changing content of website directly on website (“online” – in web space),

• project proposal witting and applying for new deadline

Objectives!

• to promote Youth in Action Program as a tool for social inclusion of unemployed youth

• to foster and improve youth citizen’s active participation for democracy of Europe

• to raise awareness of participants about European Year of Citizens

• to encourage excluded young people with economical obstacles to play an important role in their local communities using acquired new knowledge and skills on our TC to promote awareness-raising of youth active citizens

• to encourage participants to use web as a worldwide-globe market and for building up modern Europe

• to encourage participants to use open source platforms as a possible tool for self-employment

• to offer learning methods of non formal education to participants for improving inclusion of excluded groups of youth – young people with economical obstacles

• to contribute unemployed young people own development of capabilities and skills in finding job using web and open source platforms and other e-techniques

• to make network of organizations that are working with youth with economical obstacles

General information!

Working language:

English – all participants must be able to communicate using English language.

Period of realization:

From 21^st to 28^th September 2013 Novi Sad – Serbia

Location:

Novi Sad – Serbia

http://www.novisad.rs/eng

Partners:

All interested Program countries and Neighboring Partner countries.

Funding:

100% for accommodation and food will be covered and 70% of travel cost will be reimbursed after receiving original receipts.

If you are interested to become partner organization in our project please send to us:

Filled, Signed, Stamped and Scanned partnership agreement from attachment, by e–mail on:

buric.youthinaction@gmail.com

Please: As we are applying on 1^st February deadline, be as fast as possible in sending to us needed documents and do not forget to send us approximately your travel costs from your home town to Novi Sad – Serbia and back

Deadline for receiving partnership agreements is 25^th of January 2013.

Do not hesitate to address any of your questions contacting:

Irena Vilotic – project manager

E-mail: buric.youthinaction@gmail.com

Mobile: + 381 65 3101 639

Website: www.nec.rs