Call for Participants: 5th Global Education and Youth Training Course for Youth Multipliers, Deadline: 14 August 2016

Call for Participants: 5th Global Education and Youth Training Course for Youth Multipliers, 

Deadline: 14 August 2016

Are you a young key multiplier playing an active role in a youth organisation, willing to gain skills to promote and disseminate principles of Global Development Education (GDE) to other young people?  Do you want to develop competences to facilitate peer-learning processes with other young people based on the practice of GDE?  If you answered yes to the previous questions or are just curious about the subject, apply for the 5th Global Education and Youth Training Course for youth multipliers, taking place in Mollina, Spain, from 18 to 25 September 2016.

Applicants are invited for the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe together with the partners of the Network of Universities on Youth and Global Citizenship is organising the 5th Global Education and Youth Training Course for youth multipliers, in the framework of the 17th University on Youth and Development and will gather around 20 participants from all over the world.

The training course aims to empower representatives of youth organisations to further support the practice of GDE based on the North-South Centre Global Education methodology, as well as to provide youth multipliers with a series of competences and tools to promote the principles of GDE to other young people.

Aims

The training course has two main aims:

• To empower young people to further support the practice of GDE based on NSC GE methodology; as well as,
• To provide youth multipliers with a series of competences and tools to promote and disseminate principles of GDE to other young people.

Objectives

The specific objectives of the course are:

• To understand the skills, values and knowledge behind the concept of GDE;
• To strengthen, revitalise and underline global interdependence by promoting the post-2015 agenda and contributing to processes of democratic consolidation through support of youth civil societyorganisations;
• To facilitate the development of specific training and facilitation competences and transfer of knowledge in educational methodologies for the development of multilateral youth activities that promote peaceful and inclusive societies;
• To contribute to a database/network of young trainers/multipliers on GDE that will support inclusive and equitable quality education;
• To contribute to the NSC GE Online Resource Centre facilitating the sharing and dissemination of tools and practices to strengthen GDE.

Eligibility Criteria

Concerning participants and their profile:

• should be a key multiplier playing an active role within a youth organisation/platform or institution, and plan to continue this work in the near future;
• have background knowledge in terms of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and youth related issues;
• diverse social and geographical background (including disadvantaged and minority groups);
• aged between 18 and 30;
• have already some qualification or experience in terms of the Universities and/or international youth work and project work;
• be committed to attend the full duration of the course and be supported by one youth organisation/platform or institution;
• be able to work and communicate in English.

How to Apply

Interested Applicants should send their application forms at the address given on the website

For more information, please visit Call for Participation.