Call for Participants – “Tackling Youth Goals Implementation”

The Austrian National Youth Council (Bundesjugendvertretung – BJV) is calling participants to apply to the second (of four) Learning, Training and Teaching Activity (LTTA) that is to happen within the ERASMUS+ project „How to Score a Youth Goal?“.

The 4-day training course „Tackling Youth Goals Implementation“ will be held in Vienna, Austria from 17th to 20th October 2023 (with the day of arrival on the 16th and the day of departure on the 21st October). 

Who is it for?

We are looking for motivated participants from international youth organisations from ERASMUS+ programme countries – persons who are working in larger networks of youth organisations and operate internationally (active volunteers, employees, board members, …) with a good level of English.

Context

The Youth Goals are the outcome of the Youth Dialogue process with over 50.000 young people. They represent views of young people from all over Europe and are part of the EU Youth Strategy.

The European Project “How to Score a Youth Goal”, lead by a consortium of four National Youth Councils (Austria, Croatia, Germany and Portugal), which coordinate and implement the European Youth Dialogue in their countries, aims to encourage the participation of young people by promoting the implementation of the European Youth Goals. In order to transfer knowledge into implementation, a training curricula was designed and will be tested directly on people from National Youth Councils, international non-governmental youth organisations, local and regional youth organisations, decision makers and policy makers.

Now it’s time to test this curricula and get feedback on it! The opinions and suggestions of the participants in the training courses (LTTAs) will be taken seriously into account when the time comes for revising, supplementing and finalising the training curricula in order to achieve a higher level of quality!

What is in for the participants?

The participants will:

• Have an opportunity to develop skills such as networking, collaboration and advocacy?
• Gain knowdledge on models and mechanisms of youth participation and the policy dialogue in the field of youth and non-formal learning.
• Get a chance to learn about the best practices on youth goal implementation in various EU countries.
• Gain different skills useful for Youth Goals implementation.
• Have an opportunity to spend four consecutive days in an international environment.
• Paid travel, accomodation and food – If you can, travel green! Public transport (train, bus), bicycle, carpooling – it’s up to you!
• Enjoy some free time in Vienna.

Objectives

International youth organisations play an important part when it comes to advocacy work about implementing the Youth Goals at the European level. Strengthening these organisations, the chances of their long-term engagement in the advocavy process will be much higher.

International youth organisations also have a wide network in which they operate and have access to a large number of youth organisations and can therefore disseminate the acquired knowledge.

The training course „Tackling Youth Goals Implementation“ focuses on the following objectives:

• To introduce and build awareness of the 11 Youth Goals and increase the understanding of the challenges faced by young people on the topics concerning „Rural Youth“, „Quality Employment“, „Quality Learning“ and „Participation“.
• To empower the advocacy skill of international youth organisations for implementing the Youth Goals.
• To exchange experiences and good practices on youth activities based on the implementation of Youth Goals, gain various perspectives and learn different skills useful for promoting the implementation of the Youth Goals on a European level.
• To strengthen capacities of international youth organisations across Europe.
• To gain knowledge on models and mechanisms of youth participation on a European level, analyse current youth participation realities and develop an understanding of the importance of and necessary conditions for meaningful youth participation.
• To explore how youth participation can enhance the Youth Goals and strengthen youth citizenship.