International Activity

Youth Exchange "Reasonable Intake. Try and Share" in the frames of the Youth in Action programme.

The themes of the project are reasonable intake, recycling, environmental challenges, building the sustainable environment. As our theme is reasonable intake, there is one main aim: to inspire thinking of what the reasonable intake means to me .

The objectives were:
· Critically explore the meaning of reasonable intake and how it can be translated into the preservation of the environment, support local businesses, active citizenship.
· Promote and facilitate the active approach to building sustainable environment.
· Explore sustainable potential of a concrete location, critically assess it and suggest improvement.
· Build up creative and communication skills, support intercultural exchange.

During the project activity were used various methods, their main part are the methods of non-formal learning: presentations, team-building, "fields" works, interview, "local reality" etc

Youth exchange was organised in Estonia, Tammispea küla from the October, 2 till the October 7 (6 days).

This project has been carried out with the support of the European Community program Youth in Action.

"From Experience to Self-Evaluation" is a training course in which were involve participants from Estonia, Germany, Russia, Belarus including 1 trainer and 1 trainer's assistant from Estonia and 1 expert from Germany. The themes of the TC are youth unemployment, self- assessment of the developing competences, recognition of the non-formal learning.

The problem: lack of competitiveness of young people without experience in the labor market.

Adjusted problem: Young people are receiving a huge store of skills in youth organizations are not able to evaluate it and transform to developing competence. Result: do not know what I can - the employer does not know too - a job not taking me.

Background: Not bringing to an employer their competence, blocked the process of recognizing non-formal education in society, as well as recognition by the employer.

To train youth workers on supporting personal and professional development of young people though self-evaluation process.

To understand difficulties of SA for young people, role of youth worker in the process of SA and career planning.

To learn, to create or/and find methods of SA for different target groups. To test proposed methods.

To assess own role in organization. What, why and how I will use outcomes of the TC in my usual work.

„Influence of the moral values on formation of tolerant thinking” – is multiculturial Youth Exchange in which involved 28 people from Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Czech Republic.

The themes of the project are formation and development of moral values in a multicultural society, formation and development of tolerant thinking, understanding and respect of feelings and opinions of others, influence of the moral values on formation and development of tolerant thinking.

The objectives of the exchange are to define words “my moral values”, to know how define people of different age, nationalities, trades words “moral values”, formation and development of emotional and strong-willed sphere of the person: initiative, tolerance, responsibility, activity, civilisation, peaceful disposition, kindness, understanding, positive thinking. To work with various ways of the report of the information: a photo, video, article, interview, interrogation, instalation, multimedia technologies, during preparation and project realisation to allow an occasion to a maximum people which we will meet to reflect about moral values, to make a photo- video- MESSAGE and to interest people in its viewing. The organization and carrying out of exhibition Positive Thinking, formation of knowledge and ability for a life in a multicultural society (acquaintance with national cultures, national traditions).

This project has been carried out with the support of the European Community program Youth in Action.

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