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European Citizens for Global Responsibility – introduction to global education in youth work

2020-3-PL01-KA105-0948882020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|IT|LT|HR|RO|EL|MK|PT|CZ · Grant: €23,190
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The project was designed to help partner roganisations to find the connection between “local” and global”, at the same time providing practical competences to people engaged into activities of our organisations. The project objectives were: - to deepen understanding of situation of young people in Europe and understand the global context of it – it was achieved by preparation of participants in their organisations before coming to the training course, presentations and discussions during, researching the global context, and understanding it by using the tools of global education in practice, - to learn versatile and engaging methodology of non-formal education – by discovering resources and learning by doing (as the training was run using non-formal education methodology, mostly global-education), - to learn about global connections and aspects of our everyday actions and decisions – by learning how our everyday choices regarding food, clothing, entertainment, etc. affect the world and lives of people living in other countries and continents (especially social and environmental aspects), - learn and exchange good practices in youth work with other youth workers and organisation – through exchange during workshops (especially during workshops lead by participants) and in our free time, - to practice newly acquired methods in safe and friendly environment – during workshops participants could test their newly acquired competences in a friendly environment, and get feedback from other participants and, facilitators, and project’s team, - understand our responsibilities as youth workers in civic education of young European and global citizens – through better understanding of our societies and communities, learning examples of good practices, and discussing visions of change we want to see and be part of, - to learn about the new Erasmus+ programme and its potential for supporting non-formal education – the training provided space to discover and discuss changes in the renewed Erasmus+ programme, its potential for our organisations and influence on youth in Europe in general.

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