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.

Training Course, Viljandi, Estonia 8/12/2009/-12/12/2009
Contact Improvisation- Dance or Communication skill?

At the beginning of December, in little and friendly town Viljandi took place training cource Contact Improvisation – Dance or Communicat funded by the EU Youth in Action Programme. The most important notice in methodology of the project – the right name of TC is Laboratory. We took responsibility for new and non famous methods and discovered it with all project team. During preparation stage we tried to find in internet other examples of the using CI practice in youth work. All requests gave us only one link on our community in live journal. When we started to invite participants and trainers to our project, a lot of them were surprised to see such an unusual name of training course. Trainers of CI were surprised too, they thought, that it is very daring idea, because for the CI trainers it is lifestyle, and it was difficult to them to understood, how it is possible use principals of CI somewhere else. „I did a lot of projects in CI, i have a big expirience in that, but always did it with people, who are interested with that. I am realy want to take a part in this training course and believe in this idea“ – said Andzela Doniy, who are the greatest master of contact improvisation from Russia. Contact Improvisation – dance or communication skills is the Training course for youth workers and CI trainers and dancers. The CI trainers were doing workshops for youth workers. All together the participants discovered the practical aspects of using principles of CI in youth work. During this project we had a very dynamical rhythm. Every day participants had 3 – 5 ours trainings on contact improvisation. Of cause it was difficult at the beginning, first days all body was ill and we had bruises on elbows and knees. To realize at first, why we need this contact improvisation participants were difficult to everybody, because at first we have to get used and understand how we can use it for ourselves. Step by step, after discussions, after trainings, youth worker trainers gave us ways to consider, where and how we can use principals of CI in our work. We started to analyze our lifestyle, how CI can help in simple life to us, and more and more started to be very close to each other. In our group each participant felt himself very comfortable; we began to understand that after first CI trainings. „Contact improvisation very much pull us together and made us like a good collective” – said Nadja Skepko, participant from Russia. During 1st and 2nd days the participants were involved in intensive CI trainings (objectives – theoretical impute in CI history; learning CI techniques; social and personal development of the participants; understanding concepts of CI; though the CI trainings developing communication skills, partnership; understanding the values of the CI trainings for developing and formation tolerance and open mind). In the 3rd day of the training course we did break and paid more attention to non-formal communication and intercultural dialog. During the last 2 project`s days we spent much time for team work and self analyze. There was period of the outcomes and understanding personal and group experience, exchanging of experience, planning the disseminations and evaluation (objectives – social and personal development of the participants, CI in youth work like process of non-formal learning, adaptation exercises and principles for use in youth work). The topic and process of the training course showed that principles of CI 1st of all very useful for education and development of the youth leaders and workers. Some exercises are possible to practice with youngsters, but more values CI can give for youth workers.

„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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