Agenzia Internazionale Per I Giovani is organising a training course with the aim of improving the impact of Non Formal Education (NFE), principles and methods in creating empowerment opportunities for young people as real actors of the society (from local to Europe).

As listed in the announcement the training course objectives are:

• To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (NFE) by experimenting different kind of non-formal educational methods.
• To analyze the role and reception of NFE in our different countries within a common Europe.
• To discover and debate the European strategy of NFE.
• To change the existing and growing consuming approaches towards young people in the non-formal education field.
• To explore meanings, roles and complementary of different educational dimensions(formal, non-formal, informal).
• To reconsider daily youth work practices.
• To understand the principles of NFE within the Erasmus+ program and how this can be used as an effective toolbox.

It has been planned that the training course is not limited to the five days (6-11 February 2024) the participants spend together but starts before the actual encounter. Participants should therefore be well aware that they will be actively involved from the very beginning.

Thus, pre-training immersion is to start around 6 weeks before the training. Participants will receive weekly news through the “NFE News” which invites reflection on pedagogical issues and collect information / documentation. Also a closed private Facebook group will be created to promote interactions between participants before the training course starts.

During the training course the participants will focus on the following:

• Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation game, exercises…).
• Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process…
• Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with young people.
• Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
• Developing: the building capacity of the participants, by including them in the decision process of the project designing (participants will decide some sessions they feel they need to have) but also in the implementation of the program (“Power to the People – the People who are you” moments).

Application deadline is November 28th 2023 and the date of selection is December 6th 2023. 

In order to apply, please follow the link.