4-9 June 2023 | Sofia, Bulgaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Appetiser is a training course which aims to bring together youth workers\/ leaders, who work with young people in different parts of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Target group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Appetiser aims at youth leaders and youth workers working actively at the local Aims and objectives<\/strong> Appetiser is designed to achieve the following objectives:
and\/or national level willing to take their activities international.
Appetiser is mainly addressed to newcomers, who do not have yet international
youth work experience. It is preferred, but not necessary, that participants
should come from an organisation that is newcomer to European mobility
programmes. It can also be possible that an organisation, which is already
implementing international activities, can send a representative who does not
have yet international youth work experience. Thus, important criteria for
participation to this training course are:
\u25cf Participants should have some experience in developing youth activities in
local\/national level;
\u25cf Participants should not have participated in other network trainings and\/or
in multiple international youth activities;
\u25cf Participants should be motivated and consider to broaden their
organisation\u2018s activities into international context;
\u25cf Participants have to be able to communicate in English and be at least 18
years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To give a strong positive first experience of international youth work and motivate
participants to use the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity
Corps\/Volunteering Programmes.
This aim summarises the entire idea of the training \u2013 to give a feeling of what it
means to work with young people in an international setting. Leaving all
explanations and knowledge aside it is about giving a space for participants to
explore the advantage of \u2018internationality\u2019 themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf To familiarise participants with non-formal and intercultural learning and
have a concrete example of how this can be done.
\u25cf To enjoy their first intercultural youth project experience.
\u25cf To enable participants to share their local youth activities and related
experience, within an international youth work context.
\u25cf To explore possibilities of support available for international youth activities
offered by the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps
Programmes.
\u25cf To analyse examples of good quality youth projects supported by the
Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps Programmes.
\u25cf To better understand how to benefit from the international youth work
context in participants’ local practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n