{"id":47745,"date":"2025-07-30T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/?p=47745"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:05:04","slug":"appetiser-an-introduction-to-international-youth-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/?p=47745","title":{"rendered":"APPETISER &#8211; An introduction to international youth work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Training Course<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10-14 November 2025 | Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p><strong>Target group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appetiser aims at youth leaders and youth workers working actively at the local level willing to take their activities international.<br>Appetiser is mainly addressed to newcomers, who do not have yet international youth work experience. participants should come from an organisation that it is preferred, but not necessary, 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Participants should have some experience in developing youth activities in local\/national level;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participants should not have participated in other network trainings and\/or in multiple international youth activities;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participants should be motivated and consider to broaden their organisation\u2018s activities into international context;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participants have to be able to communicate in English and be at least 18 years old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aims and objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<br>explanations and knowledge aside it is about giving a space for participants to<br>explore the advantage of \u2018internationality\u2019 themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appetiser is designed to achieve the following objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To familiarise participants with non-formal and intercultural learning and\u00a0have a concrete example of how this can be done.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To enjoy their first intercultural youth project experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To enable participants to share their local youth activities and related\u00a0experience, within an international youth work context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To explore possibilities of support available for international youth activities\u00a0offered by the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps\u00a0Programmes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To analyse examples of good quality youth projects supported by the\u00a0Erasmus+ Youth and the European Solidarity Corps Programmes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To better understand how to benefit from the international youth work\u00a0context in participants&#8217; local practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Former participants testimonies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former participants have left appreciative quotes about their learning experience and course impact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe course was very beneficial for me. I feel I am more ready than ever to apply for youth programme projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy knowledge and skills have deepened because of the well-structured, section-by-section concept of the course. My attitudes have changed slightly because I have a deeper understanding of things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available downloads: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salto-youth.net\/tools\/european-training-calendar\/download\/salto%5Ctrainingcalendar%5Cmodel%5CDownload-10281\/Program.pdf\">Program.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salto-youth.net\/tools\/european-training-calendar\/training\/appetiser-an-introduction-to-international-youth-work.13764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SALTO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training Course 10-14 November 2025 | Italy Appetiser is a training course which aims to bring together youth workers\/ leaders,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1358,1653,286],"class_list":["post-47745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evropa","tag-appetiser","tag-international","tag-youth-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Agenzia-Italiana-per-la-Gioventu.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47746,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745\/revisions\/47746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mladibl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}