Information regarding Training Course:
Projects Re-Developing Youth Work
2-8 February 2010 Skopje, Macedonia
Dear friends and partners,
In this letter you will find all necessary information about the Training Course: “Projects ReDeveloping Youth Work” including goals, program elements, hosting organization, some practical
information and application conditions & procedure. We invite you to read it all so that you are well
informed before you come in Macedonia.
Project Description
The project will gather 24 participants from 12 European countries.
“Projects Re-developing youth work” will contain the following learning processes:
 Local youth work contexts with emphasis on the ways we identify and learn about the needs
of the young people as our main focus in our work
 workshops about learning to learn within local youth work – including the European
Portfolio of Youth Workers
 workshops about international partnerships and sharing of the different context challenges
and realities of the youth work in Europe
 Activities related to project management with emphasis of the self-directed learning
The six-day Training Course will be organized from 1-7th February in Skopje. The methodology
will mainly focus on practical work experiences, containing a lot of reflection in the past activities of
the participants, discussions about the key competences youth work should provide to young people
and how to develop projects with better quality that will face the learning challenges youth workers
encounter today in Europe.
The project will end with peer-mentorship part that aims to continue the sharing among the
youth workers after the training has finished.
The objectives are:
 To make the participant- youth workers aware of the learning processes and make it
applicable in their daily work. This will be done through sessions introducing the Kolb circle of
learning and self-reflection about the learning process both personal and related to the youth work
the participants are doing.
 To open discussions and sharing about the youth work contexts in Europe, explore the
different realities and identify areas of further improvement by sharing experiences and ideas. This
should eventually lead to re-developing youth work as such and allowing the participant-youth
workers to get out of the box and enlarge the frame of youth work they are doing.
 To promote self-reflection and self-directed learning in Youth work in Europe in both the
individual and group learning done in local youth work.
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 to motivate participants to apply the acquired knowledge in developing new and innovative
local youth work projects and activities
 to support the youth initiatives by presenting the Youth in Action Programme opportunities
 to strengthen the collaboration between the youth from the member and non-member
countries from EU
Profile of the Participants:
be aged between 18 and 35;
be actively involved in a youth organization/network or be an active youth worker;
be able to work in English;
be committed to attend the full duration of the course and be supported by a youth
organization;
 willing to share the new knowledge with the members of his/her organization once he/she
gets back;
 motivated to contribute to the training course and willing to undertake future activities using
gained tools
 Coming from one of the following countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Macedonia, Serbia,
Montenegro, Albania, Germany, Italy, Greece, Latvia, France, and Spain.
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Short Review of the Methodology:
Regarding the methodology one of the models we will use links youth work made up of different
relationships. As with all models or maps, it does not tell: rather it can be seen as a useful entry point
for reflection by youth leaders/workers as part of an internal and external dialogue about their
competences. The starting point for open discussion and sharing the previous experience will start
with this. This model will look on at the relationship between youth leaders/workers, youth work
and young people.
The second tool, that will be shown in triangle for the discussion will be the relations between
youth work, youth policy and youth research. These links will be shared among the participants
aiming to explore the possibilities of how to include them in our local grassroots projects. In this
ways we will explore the concepts in which we define the objectives of our grassroots projects, and
learn more how to make these objectives better which will make our local youth work better.
One competence which becomes increasingly important as we go forward into the 21st Century
is that of “knowing how to live together” – defined by UNESCO as being one of the four pillars of
learning. We will focus on how to link this idea with the local youth work in one of the sessions
aiming to look at the own youth work of the participants, and answer the following questions:
 What should youth leaders/workers know?
 What should youth leaders/workers be able to do?
 What emotional and personal competence should youth leaders/workers have?
 What should youth leaders/workers have in their backpack?
There will be an open space session that is made on the principle “Be prepared to be surprised!
There may be parts of the functions which sound a little strange, or unusual to you. They may not be
part of your direct experience NOW. However this method will allow great experience and prepare
the youth workers for further activities and situations
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Hosting Organization
The Centre for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) is a non-governmental, non-profit youth
organization that works on regional level in Macedonia. It was formed in May 2006 by active youth
leaders and youth workers from Kumanovo. The mission of the Centre for Intercultural Dialogue is
to promote and support intercultural understanding and cooperation, peace and solidarity through
active youth participation in the society, and especially through volunteer involvement on local and
international level
What is the CID doing?
 Offering to young people various type of information about volunteer possibilities, training
opportunities, as well as other relevant information
 Offer non-formal education for young people and youth workers as well as for other
organizations
 Promote voluntarism and active involvement in international projects such as exchanges,
trainings, art/sport projects and especially work camps and long term volunteering
 Dedicated to promote interethnic and intercultural cooperation in Macedonia thus organizing
regularly multiethnic extra curricular activities to bridge the cultural divide in North East
Macedonia
 Supporting youth active participation especially by creating local youth councils, youth
cooperation bodies and contributing to policy documents regarding young people
 Organizing leisure activities for young people- festivals, exhibitions, visits aiming to raise
awareness about the value of cultural differences and to facilitate understanding and acceptance of
diversity
CID is an EVS hosting and sending organization. Apart from the active involvement in the
Youth in Action programme CID is organized several local projects in the framework of the
European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in cooperation with OSCE mission to Skopje.
CID is a member of SAVA working group of SCI, UNITED against racism, ENOA and applied
to be a member of YEU international for Macedonia.
In 2009 Center for Intercultural Dialogue has implemented Training of Trainers with Accent on
Facilitation of Intercultural Dialogue among participants, and also Training of Trainers for Personal
Development: Space for Creativity and Innovation.
CID’s motivation to implement this project is mainly linked with our local youth work and the
need to improve the competences of the local youth workers. Also we believe that by composing an
international well experiences team of trainers and inviting participant-youth workers we will be
able to reach the objectives of our project and create a comfortable working environment for the
participants sharing.
Programme:
In this training u will be able to experience what it is to work out of you full potential while
being in tune with life. You will realize this through:
 Learning to work out of your own values and vision and take this as a basis for creating your
own projects.
 Being aware of your concepts and working beyond them
 Working with cultural differences
 Goal setting
 Actively listening and asking questions
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Travel cost and reimbursement:
70% of travel costs will be reimbursed only for the cheapest way of transport. The travel cost
will be reimbursed, after submitting all original tickets and receipts.
100% visa costs will be reimbursed. We will reimburse visa and insurance cost based on the
requests made in the application. We ask the participants that need assistance for visa to
Macedonia, to write the Embassy’s address and contacts, so that we can provide them the
required documents for issuing the visa.
Only participants who attend the full programme of the training will be reimbursed.
All participants will be reimbursed on spot providing that all original tickets, invoices and
receipts are presented. The participants will be committed to send the original tickets and boarding
passes upon return to their home.
Payment will be made at the end of the course.
The participants should use the cheapest way of transport (Bus, Train, Plane-economic class).
The travel costs PER PERSON are mentioned below.
COUNTRY
100% AMOUNT
1.UKRAINE
400€
2.BELARUS
400€
3.MACEDONIA
10€
4.SERBIA
25€
5.MONTENEGRO
100€
6.ALBANIA
30€
7.GERMANY
350€
8.ITALY
350€
9.GREECE
30€
10.LATVIA
350€
11.SPAIN
350€
12.FRANCE
300€
We advise to check plane tickets not only to Skopje (FYRO Macedonia), but also to Sofia
(Bulgaria) and Thessaloniki (Greece).
Language
The official working language of the Training Course will be English.
NO TRANSLATION SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE.
Application procedure:
The completed application form should:
 be e-mailed to: cid.training@yahoo.com BY 15TH JANUARY 2010
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Arrival and departure date:
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Arrival date on 2st February till 15.00h
Start of the program 2st February 2010 at 18.00
End of the program 8th February 2010 13.00
Departure day 8th February 2010 after 13.00
In total there are 6 working days.
For any further info, please contact:
cid.training@yahoo.com
Contact Person:
Ivana Petrushevska
E-mail:ikikum@yahoo.com
Mob. + 389 71 606 346
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