Training Course in Georgia. Intercultural learning and understanding in youth work. Travel and have fun :)

Training Course: Game, SET, Matching – Sport as an Educational Tool

Dates: 17-21 November 2014

Venue: Georgia

Eligible are 30 participants coming from: EASTERN EUROPE AND CAUCASUS, MEDITERRANEAN PARTNER COUNTRIES , YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES

Application deadline: 15th September 2014

Training Course will be aimed at fostering using Sports as an educational tool for intercultural learning and understanding in youth work. The activity will gather 30 youth workers from Programme, South Mediterranean, EaP countries and Russia.

Sports are part of both intangible heritage and daily life, and they are a symbol of thecultural diversity, richness of our societies. Sharing, experiencing, reflecting in sports coming from all countries represented, included the local one, as a tool for empowering inter-cultural understanding, and used in several projects in among the different phases of the training. They are also efficient means to convey values of solidarity, diversity, inclusiveness and cultural awareness. Moreover, sports reflect on different cultural expressions, and create a bridge between regional cultures for a better mutual comprehension and dialogue.

Aim: To foster using sports as an educational tool

Objectives:
- To discover and test diverse educational practices
- To reflect and analyses about the transferability of the different educational tools
- To contribute to a future publication
- To introduce Erasmus+ and EuroMed Youth IV
- To explore different cultures through sports
- To provide opportunities for future projects’ ideas development in frame of Erasmus+

Profile of participants:
- Youth workers and youth leaders using sports and willing to use sports as an educational tool
- Motivation towards sports and inter-cultural environments
The training will gather 12 participants from Erasmus+ Programme Countries, 9 from SouthMediterranean countries and 9 from Eastern partnership Countries and Russia.

Working language: English

Duration: 5 working days

- The board and lodging during the training course for all participants will be provided by organisers,
- Travel costs of participants from Russia, Eastern Partnership and South Mediterranean countries will be covered by organisers,
- Travel costs of participants from Programme Countries will be paid by relevant National Agency on its own principles.
Please contact your NA/SALTO to learn more about the financial details, and how to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
- Local transport and insurance costs have to be covered by the participants. Please bring the documents to confirm this contribution.

Organizer:

SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre

Co-organizers:

SALTO EuroMed Resource Centre

French National Agency of Erasmus+

Polish National Agency of Erasmus+