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Debates for YOU-th

2019-1-NL02-KA105-0023542019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: NL|LT|ES|EE|PL|LV|RO · Grant: €20,725
Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The idea of this YE came from Tallinna Mänedzeride Kool or "Tallinn School of Management" (http://www.tarassov.ee/) existing already 35 years (founded in 1984). One of the aims of it is to promote "Management Duelings" and organize local and international trainings and championships on debates and business negotiations. Such activities took place in many countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Germany, England, USA, etc. Unfortunately, their activities are not based on grants and sometimes participation fee is quite high. Members of partner organisations with whom we designed this YE had opportunity to take a part in events by "Tallinn School of Management". And now, with existing skills, knowledge, methodology, schedule and the fact that the idea is connected with priorities of Erasmus+ programme, we announce the Youth Exchange "Debates for YOU-th". This project give opportunity for 35 youngsters from 7 different countries to ensure/increase the skills of leadership, try themselves at the place of negotiators, develop public speaking skills, and discover Erasmus+ Programme as an opportunity to develop personally and develop their local communities. Leadership, communication and public speaking skills are essential aspects of entrepreneurship and personal progress. The program aim is to find the importance of negotiations, interpersonal communication and leadership skills. Furthermore, it is very important to raise the general awareness of people about those skills, in order to realize the importance of being a good negotiator and why a leader should be credible. Learning how to become an effective public speaker is definitely the key difference between success and failure in your life at home, at work and in your own local community. Nowadays, public speaking is so important that it can be considered the deciding factor in many areas such as your career development, your business growth and even in the relationships you have with your friends and family. Debates, public speaking, communication and leadership skills increase one’s self-confidence, make them more comfortable around people, define everyday verbal and non-verbal communication skills, make a difference in their day-by-day life, and raise the performance of a better understanding between people, thus representing the basis of negotiation, mutual understanding and persuasion. Also, public speaking and leadership skills are the inevitable reflection of people's needs and challenges in modern life. It represents therefore a profound concept, with increasingly complex implications, driven by an increasingly complex and fast-changing world. Youth Exchange "Debates for YOU-th" will give opportunity to youngsters and to those who involved in the youth field to develop new skills and competences. They will gain awareness and coach themselves for leadership, understand and address audience needs and expectations surprises, learn how to use their natural talent, how to plan and write a speech, face their fears, challenge their weaknesses, improve their creativity, learn how to improvise, keep the audience attention with inspiring messages and learn how to say memorable and motivational outcomes. They will be given the opportunity to learn how to make their voices heard in any circumstances, something that represents a necessity for striving in nowadays society. Our recent experience is organising TEDx event (TEDxYouth@Nijmegen 2019 - Velocity of the future from 18th Jan 2019) gave us a strong believe that more and more people need to learn how to perform on public. And the speed with which the future comes to us is quite fast. We have to provide opportunity to follow it. For example, on our TEDx event fifteen young people across Europe spoke to the public about sustainability, social connectivity, and entrepreneurship in the City of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Youth Exchange "Debates for YOU-th" will give chance to perform for double of people. The objectives of the project are: - To support the development and improvement of basic and transversal skills of 35 young people; - To contribute to the social inclusion in 7 European countries from: Netherlands, Romania, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia by fostering young people’s employment, entrepreneurial and management skills; - To develop participants’ skills and competences in public speaking and leadership skills, which will increase their competitiveness on the labor market and their opportunities for employment; - To develop basic and important skills of public speaking and leadership, multilingualism in all fields of education and training, using innovation, pedagogical and non-formal education tools; - To promote Erasmus+ programme as an engine for great initiatives with visible results. We want to motivate participants of "Debates for YOU-th" to create productive ideas under objectives of Erasmus+ for projects submitted in the future.

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