​The following is an article written by Clifford Galea; one of the participants who attended the Erasmus+ training course titled "Combating the Differences". During the project the participants learned about Capoeira and wanted to share their experience with our members and readers.

Capoeira and Our Experience

Together with Darine, Liliana and Mariano, I was chosen to participate in an Erasmus international project held in Kaunas in Lithuania between the 22nd of September till the 30th of this year 2019.

We didn’t know each other so well. But we clicked as from day one. We knew that it was gonna be a capoeira training course in order to combat the differences between us; hence capoeira is used in many countries now as it has become a tool which unites people, no matter their religion, colour or race.

I must admit i never tried it before and i can say the same for all the rest of the group members. Upon arrival, we met with other international participants and luckily enough, all seemed to be quiet nice and warm hearted. This was confirmed throughout the whole week and can re confirm it today, as we still kept contact through a Facebook group where we talk daily.

This project highlighted the fact that nowadays, there are numerous challenges that European societies are facing. One of the more severe ones is the marginalization of young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds; can it be due to different cultures and mentalities or also due to religious beliefs. Youngsters with behavior disorders and
dysfunctional backgrounds are often insecure and self-doubting, face discrimination, negative stereotypes, and increased social barriers. Not only that, myself i took the opportunity to talk about my past of drug addiction which to many people can be a taboo and also an undebatable subject. But through my explanation and also by being myself, i
really felt loved and totally accepted as after all this is life; everyone can have his pitfalls but everyone can rise up again and be a good person. After all, talking about addiction; it’s not something you choose to do as many people believe; it is a disease. So this project also served to share our knowledge and to pass on our experiences from life.

One of the ways to help them feel more confident is actually capoeira. Capoeira is an afro-Brazilian martial art that incorporates game, music, and dance. It has previously been used as a therapeutic activity that proved to be a huge success in empowering troubled people and bringing community members closer together. There were times when capoeira was prohibited in some countries but fortunately enough, it became legal later on. One reason for this was, because powerful people didn’t want to see people being so happy and united together. This shows that capoeira can really affect people positively.

To tackle this social exclusion problem, youth organizations from Hungary, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Turkey, Malta, and Lithuania have united for the project "Combating The Differences". The project’s aimed to give youth workers, the training necessary to be able to lead capoeira therapy sessions or at least to speak about in our home country groups that capoeria exists and it can be so beneficial...thus giving hope to others that there are ways and means how to really combat the differences.

The main objectives of this project were: - to promote capoeira as an inclusive and therapeutic activity, to give youth workers the appropriate knowledge about capoeira and also some practice, its philosophy, physical and musical sides of capoeira. We also had to come up with capoeira games in which everyone can participate and we did these games with school children.

Through this project, we, the participants increased our social awareness, skills, and multilingualism as of course, everyone shares his basic words in different languages even through daily organised cultural nights by all the participants from different countries including Malta. We are very happy that we participated in this erasmus project thanks also to the local non- profit organisation MUYA; we think we learnt a lot; we grew more mature, we acquired new knowledge and experience and this, we would like to share with others.

Attached are instructions about Capoeira, explaining how you can carry out your own inclusive capoeira session.

In September, Klub študentov Kranj hosted an international youth exchange “Let’s G.R.O.W. (Gardening, Reflection, Outdoors, Wellbeing).” The project was a collaboration of 5 countries: Slovenia, Denmark, Malta, Spain and Great Britain. The exchange took place between 13th and 21st September 2019 in the village of Kovk and in Kranj, and included 34 young people, aged 18-28.

The main theme of the project was the influence of nature, sports, meditation, healthy nutrition and crafts on mental and physical health. The participants bonded over planning and the execution of the activities.  During the Exchange participants created a Booklet with tips and that lead to better health and wellbeing: http://www.ksk.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Little-Booklet-of-Wellbeing-Lets-G.R.O.W..pdf

Further information on the project can be found here 

Name: “Radical Escape”
Dates: 11 to 20 March 2020
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 3 participants
Age: 18+
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Participation fee host organisation- €30.
Host Organisation: Be International
Countries Participating: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Spain, Malta, Slovenia, Latvia,Italy
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
Radical Escape is a training course that aims to enable youth workers to strengthen preventative measures against radicalisation of young people though the use of educational concepts based on escape games.
For last few years, we have been exploring innovations in youth work through the use of game based learning mechanisms. This training follows two main lines:
· Exploring process of radicalization in connection to enabling factors such as social exclusion, media manipulation or marginalization.
· Developing and testing 3 portable educational escape rooms connected to these topics.
More specifically, the training aims to:
· Foster mutual understanding of the process of radicalization, reasons and preventive measures,
· discover the topic of escape game methodology as an educational approach in youth work,
· to equip participants with tools for developing educational escape games,
· experiment with applying innovative methodology to the topic of radicalization, create 3 educational escape games and test them with the local community,
· to empower youth workers/leaders to use escape games while working with hard to reach youth;
· to create a scenario booklet on escape games on processes triggering radicalization.
The training course is designed for youth workers, youth leaders, educators, trainers, teachers, NGO volunteers and members. We are looking for people involved in youthwork or in the education field on a weekly basis. Participants do not need any previous experience with escape games and game-based learning. We expect participants to have motivation to learn about game-based learning and be willing to create escape games for young people.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 20th December 2019

Name: “Lingua Franca”
Dates: APV – 9 November, Youth Exchange – July 2020
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 1 participant for the APV who would also need to attend the Youth Exchange in July 2020 as a group leader
Age: 18+
Location: Aljustel, Portugal
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Buinho Creative Hub
Countries Participating: Portugal, Poland, Greece, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
Lingua Franca is a project that brings together maker-spaces and UNESCO youth clubs with the purpose of providing high quality educational contents to disadvantaged young people while promoting the Erasmus and UNESCO goals of inter-religious dialogue, tolerance and safeguard of human rights.
Some of the planned activities for the Youth Exchange include:
- learn how to use 3D printing and 3D modelling to enable their concepts and creations to become real;
- learn electronics and build your own scientific equipment to run experiments;
- learn the fundamentals in biohacking, microbiology and biotechnology
- participate in playful, fun, and exciting workshops which involve making art with bacteria’s and other microorganisms, and with the project’s bio artist special guest resident;
- opportunity to work with other young people from different nationalities in exciting and engaging projects, and present the final results in a public exhibition;
- learn about the local costumes and rich traditions of the mining town Aljustrel, Messejana, and overall Alentejo’s southern region;
- opportunity to visit the “Military Road” project in Lisbon’s and Sao Luis Cultivamos Cultura, two amazing projects related either with migrations/postcolonialism and bioart/biotechnology;
- an opportunity also to make new friends and bring home unique shared experiences and stories.

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 18th of October 2019.

Name: “Let Youth Take Control”
Dates: 17 to 22 November 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 2 participants
Age: 18+
Location: Naunhof, Germany
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: KINDERVEREINIGUNG Leipzig e.V.
Countries Participating: Poland, Malta, Portugal, Finland, Greece, Spain, Poland, France.
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association


Project Description:
During the training we want to discuss and find out, how participative youth work looks like in the different European countries and regional contexts. How can we strengthen or introduce participative youth work in our regions? What could we improve and how?

Since 2017 KINDERVEREINIGUNG Leipzig e.V. coordinates the project wir weit weg in which pupils that do not strive for higher education, develop international youth exchanges supported by so called “coaches international” (young adults, mainly university students). The results and experiences were mostly positive. During these years we have been confronted with various questions and expectations from schools, social workers in the schools, apprenticing companies, partners and funding organisations that result from the participatory approaches in the field of youth work and non-formal education.

Together with eight partner organisations from different European countries who are active in the field of youth work, we want to discuss these questions and expectations as well as exchange experiences, methods and examples of good-practice within participatory youth work. Additionally we aim to strengthen the contacts with our partner organisations and develop future cooperation and projects during the training.
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Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 4th October 2019.

Call for Participants: "Humanity on the Road"
Name: “Humanity on the Road”
Dates: Youth Exchange 2 – 21.09.2019 – 28.09.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Youth Exchange
Participants needed: Youth Exchange 2 – 4 participants
Age: 18 – 24 (for participants), leader may be older
Location: Kraków, Poland
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per exchange). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation Fee: 10 EUR.
Host Organisation: Stowarzyszenie Europe4Youth
Countries Participating: Poland, Germany, Malta, Italy and Portugal
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association (MUYA)


Project Description:
People were migrating since the beginning of humanity. Looking for better conditions for life, escaping climate change, or invasions. With the establishment of the state system, migrations are a part of states` interests or national interests. Scepticism and fear of persons with different origins can be a self-defence mechanism, but also can be evoked and manipulated. In both ways what is needed is understanding fostered by a life-like experience, which will be provided using LARP (life action role play) methodology. This Project aims to analyse the European history in terms of types of migration, stepping into the role of a migrant in order to create a personal connection and rise empathy and developing the innovative learning agenda for the topic of migration, based on outdoor activities and simulation games.

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by 8th September 2019.

Name: “LEAD : Leadership Exploration and Development”
Dates: 25 August – 2 September 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 3 participants
Age: 18-25
Location: Dingli, Malta
Costs: Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €25.
Host Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association
Countries Participating: Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Kosovo, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, Latvia, Czech Republic

Project Description:
The participants should be interested in raising his/her level of competences as a leader, facilitator and ultimately group leader at youth exchanges, being ready to share own experiences, being motivated to experiment and contribute to the physical outcomes and transfer gained knowledge in the organisation. Additionally she/he should have at least intermediate level of English, be in the age above 18 and hold a residency in the country participating in the project.

The ideal participant for the training course is envisioned as a member of the organisation or it’s close local partner institution (youth centre, school, social centre) being a certified youth worker or a passionate youth leader who works on a frequent basis with young people. Ideally the profile of young people that he/she works with are minors, at-risk youth (young people from low-income families/ dysfunctional families, young migrants/ minority representatives/ refugees, school drop-outs).
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Come and join MUYA on a local level! 

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 12th August 2019.

Call for participants for Training Course
Name: “Combating the Differences”
Dates: 22 – 30 September 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 4 participants
Age: 20+
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €360. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Active Youth
Countries Participating: Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Turkey
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
There are numerous challenges that European societies are facing. One of the more severe ones is the marginalization of young people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Youngsters with behavior disorders and dysfunctional backgrounds are often insecure and self-doubting, face discrimination, negative stereotypes, and increased social barriers. One of the ways to help them feel more confident is through capoeira. Capoeira is an afro-Brazilian martial art that incorporates game, music, and dance. It has previously been used as a therapeutic activity that proved to be a huge success in empowering troubled people and bringing community members closer together. To tackle this social exclusion problem, youth organizations from Hungary, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Turkey, Malta, and Lithuania have united for the project "Combating The Differences". The project’s aim is to give youth workers the training necessary to be able to lead capoeira therapy sessions. To address the key issue of the project mentioned above (the social exclusion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds), the following objectives have been set: - Promote capoeira as an inclusive and therapeutic activity; - Give youth workers appropriate knowledge about capoeira, its philosophy, physical and musical sides of capoeira; - Come up with capoeira games in which everyone can participate; - Create the means for sharing competencies and tools of capoeira therapy among youth workers in different countries; - The project also aims to help the participants increase their social awareness, skills, and multilingualism
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here.

WName: Creativity UK 5 - Democracy Through Creativity
Dates: 11th – 21st August 2019
Type: Youth Exchange: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility)
Participants needed: 6 
Age: 15-19
Location: Essex, UK
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10, Participation fee UK - £20

​Host Organisation: Love Life Generation
Countries Participating: Slovakia, Greece, Portugal, Malta, Romania, Hungary, Italy and Latvia.
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
CreativityUK is a Youth Exchange hosted by LoveLife Generation. It brings together 63 young people from 9 countries. Participants will spend the 10 days exploring the ideas and concepts of Democracy, through creative workshops. These include; Photography, Dance, Drama, Fashion, Music & for the first time ever Creativity TV! Outside of their workshops, the participants will be able to share, enjoy, and learn about different cultures, identities, and what it means to be a modern European citizen.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by Wednesday 10th July.

Name: “Leadership Through Humanitarian Values”
Dates: 26th July to 4th August 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 4 participants 
Age: 18+
Location: Balatonszárszó, Hungary 
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €360. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. 
Host Organisation: Hungarian Red Cross and Red Cross Youth 
Countries Participating: Hungary, Poland, Italy, Latvia, Spain and Malta
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association
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Project Description:
Leadership through Humanitarian Values is an Erasmus+ training programme, where youth workers will be able to broaden their non-formal methods with psychological perspectives and share their best practices so as to reach our common goal: creating a more inclusive society.
The objectives of the training course are: learning about humanitarian values, improve communication, understanding crisis, intercultural cooperation, sharing of European values and deepen self-awareness.
Applicants must have experience with youngsters, have interest in multicultural cooperation and are dedicated to self-improvement and self-knowledge.

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 2nd June 2019.

Name: “CreativItaly - Migration & Solidarity”
Dates: 21st to 30th June 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 5 participants 
Age: 16 to 18
Location: Claviere, Italy 
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. 
Host Organisation: Madiba SCS
Countries Participating: Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Sweden, UK and Italy
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association


Project Description:
Creativity projects are miniatures of a world we all want to live in. A world where difference is a driving force, equality is a must, mistakes are means for change and development and creativity is being. Creativity projects have been taking place since several times since 2004. More than 1000 young people have participated coming from more than 25 different countries and multiple cultural backgrounds. The next Youth Exchange aims to serve its objectives and priorities, among others, cultural diversity and understanding, social inclusion and European active citizenship. "Creativity" is a platform for young people to express themselves using artistic means in a variety of topics of primary interest to them. It is a gathering of bodies, minds and souls and not an accumulation of numbers. Creativity Youth Exchanges has already happened not only in Greece but in Spain, in U.K., in Serbia and now is finally time to make it happen in Italy!

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 25th May 2019.

Name: “Wings of Youth Work”
Dates: 19-24 May 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 2
Age: 18+
Location: Trbovlje, Slovenia 

Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. 
Host Organisation: Mladinski center Trbovlje
Countries Participating: Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Malta, Greece, Denmark, Norway
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The project is meant for youth workers and/or youth leaders and volunteers who are in daily contact with youth and which would like to develop their knowledge, experience and competences. The project focuses on two elements: (1) training for future youth workers and (2) monitoring, evaluating and recognizing learning effects. Through this training, youth workers will be more competent to work with present and future generations. The main aim of this project is to research, develop, test and upgrade systems of monitoring learning effects and to develop a system to train future youth workers and leaders.

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 11th May 2019.

Name: “Createamity”
Dates: 15 -23 May 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 3
Age: 18+
Location: Vihi Kula, Estonia 

Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €360. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Participation fee host organistion: €30
Host Organisation: Shokkin Group
Countries Participating: Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Malta, Sweden, Greece and Romania
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association


Project Description:
When looking at employability skills desired in the current job market, we see the importance of effective communication, teamwork, creative thinking and problem-solving is increasing. However, this set of skills is hardly trained in the traditional school scene. Soft skills require a challenging environment that gives an opportunity to assess oneself and own behaviour and they are developed through real life work and often through gaming techniques and methods. Quest games are one of these methods, involving a team of people working together to fulfil challenging mental, logical, at times physical tasks together under a specific time limit. With this training course we would like to discover connection of quest games with soft skills development. The training aims to provide youth workers & youth leader with tools, frameworks and space to create and playtest educational portable quest rooms and outdoor quests that foster soft skill development in young people. The training course is designed for youth leaders, youth workers, trainer, teachers, educators, NGO volunteers, game enthusiasts. Ideally participants are involved in youth work or education of young people daily/weekly.


Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by Saturday 13th April 2019.

Name: Make it Rural
Dates: 23rd April - 1st May 2019
Type: Erasmus+ Youth Exchange
Participants Needed: 4  (Unemployed)
Age: 20-29
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of 360eur .Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10 
Host Organisation: Active Youth - Many Paths, One Goal
Sending Organisation: MUYA - Malta UNESCO Youth Association
Participating Countries: Lithuania, Malta, Austria, Portugal, Italy and Turkey

Project Description:
 Marginalized youth living in European rural areas have a problem getting good jobs & continued education to get ahead in life and contribute to society. They’re facing unemployment & they don't know how to get out of their situation. Starting a business in rural areas would be a great solution for them. This project aims to raise awareness about entrepreneurship in rural areas, provide youth with the skills on how to identify the business opportunities that exist in rural areas & develop new ideas.

Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 24th March 2019 

15Call for Training Course 
Name: Visual Dreamers
Dates: 13th and 20th April 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course
Participants needed: 3 participants
Age: 18+
Location: Scanzano Jonico, Italy
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Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Participation fee Italy - €40
Host Organisation: Shokkin Group 
Countries Participating: Italy, Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Malta and Germany.
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The aim of the project is to improve youth workers'/youth leaders' ability to elicit and support social innovation ideas together with young people through applying visual thinking and visual facilitation techniques, which result in more engaging and attractive project concepts. The training program will cover introduction to social innovation, the role of youth in the process of generating innovative ideas, the use of visual tools to shape and promote social innovation projects. This training course is designed for youth workers, youth leaders and educators who work directly with young people on a frequent basis.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 15th of March 2019

30all for Training Course
Name: Humanities Hand 
Dates: 8th and 14th April 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course
Participants needed: 3 participants
Age: 18+
Location: London, UK
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Participation fee UK - €50
Host Organisation: Love Life Generation 
Countries Participating: Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, Latvia, UK, Hungary
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The training course, aims to create an inspirational learning space for exchange of experience and good practice. Its main aim is to support youth workers to find tools, to improve skills and to gain more knowledge to support refugees and migrants to create safe environments in which children and young people can live, grow, play and learn.
 
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 30th March 2019

Name: Update to transnational
Dates: 1-8 March 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course
Participants needed: 1 participant
Age: 18+
Location: El Padul, Granada

Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 . Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Somos la Otra
Countries Participating: Spain, Germany, Macedonia, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Greece, Italy, Latvia
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
Transnational youth initiatives allow youth themselves to implement actions of their interest and that address specific topics. Youth initiatives are unique opportunities, however further training is required in this area. This training course aims at empowering people to explore the possibilities of establishing an international association and preparing projects for transnational youth initiatives.
This activity is open for youth leaders, project managers and voluntary and professional youth workers.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 17th February 2019

Name: “Wings of Youth Work”
Dates: (Training ) 3.3.19 to 9.3.19 (Seminar) 20.5.19 to 24.5.19
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 2 participants 
Age: 18+
Location: Trbovlje, Slovenia

Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per activity). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
​Host Organisation: Mladinski center Trbovlje
Countries Participating: Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Malta, Greece, Denmark, Norway 
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The project is meant for youth workers and/or youth leaders and volunteers who are in daily contact with youth and which would like to develop their knowledge, experience and competences. The project focuses on two elements: (1) training for future youth workers and (2) monitoring, evaluating and recognizing learning effects. Through this training, youth workers will be more competent to work with present and future generations. The main aim of this project is to research, develop, test and upgrade systems of monitoring learning effects and to develop a system to train future youth workers and leaders.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 7th February

​Name: Update to transnational
Dates: 21-28 February 2019 and 1-8 March 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course
Participants needed: 2 + 2 participants
Age: 18+
Location: El Padul, Granada
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Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per activity). Food and accommodation 100%
free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Somos la Otra
Countries Participating: Spain, Germany, Macedonia, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Greece, Italy, Latvia
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
Transnational youth initiatives allow youth themselves to implement actions of their interest and that
address specific topics. Youth initiatives are unique opportunities, however further training is
required in this area. This training course aims at empowering people to explore the possibilities of
establishing an international association and preparing projects for transnational youth initiatives.
This activity is open for youth leaders, project managers and voluntary and professional youth
workers.
Applicants can choose to participate either in the February OR the March session.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 13th January 2019

 Name: “Humanity on the Road”
Dates:
Preparation Meeting – 25.01.2019 – 28.01.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Youth Exchange 1 – 24.05.2019 – 31.05.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Youth Exchange 2 – 21.09.2019 – 28.09.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Youth Exchange


​Participant needed:
The participant we are currently urgently looking for must be able to attend the preparation meeting and the two youth exchanges.
Age: 18 – 24
Location: Kraków, Poland


Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per exchange). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation Fee: 10 EUR.
Host Organisation: Stowarzyszenie Europe4Youth
Countries Participating: Poland, Germany, Malta, Italy and Portugal
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association (MUYA)

Project Description:
People were migrating since the beginning of humanity. Looking for better conditions for life, escaping climate change, or invasions. With the establishment of the state system, migrations are a part of states` interests or national interests. Scepticism and fear of persons with different origins can be a self-defence mechanism, but also can be evoked and manipulated. In both ways what is needed is understanding fostered by a life-like experience, which will be provided using LARP (life action role play) methodology. This Project aims to analyse the European history in terms of types of migration, stepping into the role of a migrant in order to create a personal connection and rise empathy and developing the innovative learning agenda for the topic of migration, based on outdoor activities and simulation games.


Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by Friday, 4th January, 2019. 

Name: “Humanity on the Road”
Dates:
Preparation Meeting – 25.01.2019 – 28.01.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Youth Exchange 1 – 24.05.2019 – 31.05.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Youth Exchange 2 – 21.09.2019 – 28.09.2019 (incl. 2 travel days)
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Youth Exchange
Participants needed:
Preparation Meeting – 1 leader + 1 participant 
Youth Exchange 1 – 1 leader + 5 participants 
Youth Exchange 2 – 1 leader + 5 participants
One leader plus one participant must attend the preparation meeting and the two youth exchanges. Remaining 4 participants need to attend both youth exchanges.
Age: 18 – 24 (for participants), leader may be older
Location: Kraków, Poland
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per exchange). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation Fee: 10 EUR.
Host Organisation: Stowarzyszenie Europe4Youth
Countries Participating: Poland, Germany, Malta, Italy and Portugal
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association (MUYA)
Project Description:
People were migrating since the beginning of humanity. Looking for better conditions for life, escaping climate change, or invasions. With the establishment of the state system, migrations are a part of states` interests or national interests. Skepticism and fear of persons with different origins can be a self-defense mechanism, but also can be evoked and manipulated. In both ways what is needed is understanding fostered by a life-like experience, which will be provided using LARP (life action role play) methodology. This Project aims to analyse the European history in terms of types of migration, stepping into the role of a migrant in order to create a personal connection and rise empathy and developing the innovative learning agenda for the topic of migration, based on outdoor activities and simulation games.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 15th December 2018.

Name: “Youth Exchange Leadership Skills”
Dates: 20-25 January 2019
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course 
Participants needed: 1 participant
Age: 18+
Location: Pragelato, Italy 
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per activity). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Madiba SCS
Countries Participating: Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Sweden, UK and Italy
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association
Project Description:
‘Youth Exchange Leadership Skills’ seeks to explore the factors that define quality in group leadership within Youth Exchanges before, during and after stages of a youth exchange project and develop participants’ competencies in realising such projects and leading groups to Youth Exchanges. The aim of the project is to create a long term, substantial educational experience for youth exchange group leaders towards the maximization of learning and minimization of risk for the young people they will be leading in the future, and through these, to increase the recognition of their role as learning facilitators/educators.
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 10th December 2018

​Name: “Youth Work’s Role in the Prevention of Youth Radicalisation”
Dates: 14-23 November 2018
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Training Course 
Participants needed: 1 participant
Age: 18+
Location: Gahrlstedt, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany
Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per activity). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10.
Host Organisation: Mostar Friedensprojekt e.V.ar
Countries Participating: Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, FYROM, Poland, Portugal, Kosovo, Serbia, Spain, Turkey
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The radicalization of young people is (again) on the rise throughout the spectrum - left, right or religious. Youth work plays an important role, as the radicalization of many young people could be successfully prevented, if youth worker could better differentiate motivations and mechanisms in the process of extremism. With this project we also want to give a valuable input on the current problems in many European countries when it comes to the successful integration of refugees as well as the further integration of second or third generation migrants. The project will directly bring the issues of migrants on the agenda, as these are the issues we will face when talking about right wing extremism and Islamism in a European perspective. We will equip the participants with competences that will help in the social dialogue that they need to get involved in when doing youth work. This project will support the cooperation between the partners on the chosen topics. This should help the participants, which will be youth workers, group leaders and other people working with youth to get a set of competences to prevent the radicalization of young people in their closest environment. As this is a training course the participants will acquire different new knowledge, skills and attitudes. The participants will broaden their knowledge about terrorism, roots and foundations for extremism, get to know different prevention attempts by youth work in Germany and also work on their own skill set to become a preventer in youth work.
 
Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 4th November 2018

​Name: “Wings of Youth Work”
Dates: (Training 1) 11.11.18 to 17.11.18 (Training 2) 3.3.19 to 9.3.19 (Seminar) 20.5.19 to 24.5.19
Participants are not required to attend the 3 sessions as each training is a unit of its own but connected to the main topic "youth work".
Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) 
Participants needed: 2 participants 
Age: 18+
Location: Trbovlje, Slovenia

Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275 (per activity). Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of 5 EUR for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Host Organisation: Mladinski center Trbovlje
Countries Participating: Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Malta, Greece, Denmark, Norway 
Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association

Project Description:
The project is meant for youth workers and/or youth leaders and volunteers who are in daily contact with youth and which would like to develop their knowledge, experience and competences. The project focuses on two elements: (1) training for future youth workers and (2) monitoring, evaluating and recognizing learning effects. Through this training, youth workers will be more competent to work with present and future generations. The main aim of this project is to research, develop, test and upgrade systems of monitoring learning effects and to develop a system to train future youth workers and leaders.


Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 30th October 2018