Study Visit in Denmark

A 3-day study visit for 21 youth leaders, youth workers and youth municipality officers to explore practices of youth participation in rural areas by visiting examples of good practice being implemented in rural and geographically isolated areas. This study visit is the first implementation phase of the project “Youth Participation in Rural Areas”, which will involve 21 participants comprising youth leaders, youth workers and youth municipality officers.

The visit to Egedal (Denmark) will allow further capacitation of municipality officers, youth workers and a member of a youth council or other participation mechanisms within the municipality, to work together and implement specific projects of youth participation in rural areas.

Objectives

The specific objectives of this study visit are:

•  To explore, experience and understand the specific challenges to youth participation in rural and geographically remote areas.
• To visit examples of good practice and based upon interaction with the project organisations, filter out elements to transfer to own reality
• To think of innovative ways of youth participation in rural areas (new technologies, long-distance tools, etc.).
• To offer possibilities for long-term partnership building among organisations active in the field of youth participation in rural areas, for future projects.

This study visit envisions to allow the participants to:

• Explore, experience and understand the specific challenges to youth participation in rural and geographically remote areas.
• Visit examples of good practices and based upon interaction with the project organisations, filtering out elements to transfer to one’s reality.
• Think of innovative youth participation models in rural areas (new technologies, long-distance tools, etc.).
• Offer possibilities for partnership building among organisations active in the field of youth participation in rural areas, for future projects within the frame of E+ Programme.
• Experience Danish culture and Portuguese culture through the involvement of their local communities.

Eligibility

This study visit is mostly targeting youth leaders, youth workers and youth municipality officers. Moreover, the participants must:

• Be able to work in English;
• Be willing to contribute with their experience to the training course;
• Be coming from Denmark, Portugal, Macedonia, Italy and Latvia; no other counties can be accepted at this stage);
• Be able to attend the whole duration of the training;
• Have relevant experience in the topic of youth participation at local level
• Highly motivated towards learning about decision-making processes in youth work.

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Deadline: 16th July 2017