Dear Friends,
Dear Colleagues,
Dear Members,
We are delighted to announce the ISCA Youth seminar on “Open Source Youth Networking” in February 2007.
Please find the information enclosed. Of course you are very very welcome to forward this Call to your friends, members and mailing lists.
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>> Open Source Youth Networking
12-18 February 2007, Oeiras - Portugal
Open Source Networking as a chance for social change and community building
How to build-up an open source network and empower, qualify and motivate young volunteers using their individual skills, competences, experiences and potentials.
Context
The idea of "Open Source Youth Networking" is simple and effective.
It is all about global to local youth initiatives; it's about sharing,
it's about building and living a community.
The individual experiences young volunteers make, the knowledge and social competences they gain out of their engagements, the ideas and opinions they develop trough it, these benefits of social involvement are of a unique worth for modern society.
Bring these experiences together, bring young volunteers together, pooling competences, bringing knowledge from national and international level together enables a dialog, which is profitable and valuable for all participants and can open new perspectives for a future oriented development of the voluntary culture.
The "Open Source Youth Networking" seminar aims at establishing a network with and through young volunteers. The network would be based on one side on the permanent exchange of ideas and the transfer of knowledge on the web, and on the other side the network should be based on real-life actions and cooperation between the network members.
The objectives of this 6-day training course are community-building, communication, knowledge-transfer methods and the set up of a project group for the first half of 2007 including the participants of this training.
The participants are required to join the development process afterwards and work proactively on the further development of Open Source Youth Network idea.
Objectives of the seminar
The ISCA seminar on Open Source Youth Networking gives young people the opportunity to meet in an international environment and to:
* Explore how networking and knowledge-sharing can open new possibilities for volunteering
* Understand the function and the background of social networks
* Implement techniques and methodology of project work and development
* Enable young multipliers to create and organize local and global communities
* Develop knowledge, attitudes and skills to play an active role in the wider community;
* Work in groups, taking on different roles such as leader or organiser, taking responsibility for carrying through a task with others, facing up to challenges and taking decisions democratically;
* Develop a value for sensitivity towards individual differences;
* Work on concrete follow-up activities from local to international level and multiplying.
Profile of participants
Young people involved in voluntary work at local, regional, national NGOs and Sport for All organisations. Young people not active in a formal NGO structure, but working in the field of international youth work.
Participant's age should be between 17-27.
Applications can come from all YOUTH programme countries, priority will be given to applications with high motivation to contribute to the project work following the seminar.
Participants are asked to carefully fill-in the attached application form.
Please note that the deadline for applications is:
10th December 2006
Applications coming in after this date cannot be accepted.
If you have any questions, comments or critic please do not hesitate to contact me.
We are looking forward for your application!
Greetings from the ISCA Office
Tobias Martens
European Volunteer
ISCA
International Sport and Culture Association
Tietgensgade 65 DK-1704 Copenhagen V Denmark
Tel: +45 33 29 80 26
Fax: +45 33 29 80 28
Mobile: +45 22 11 45 28
e-m@il: tm@isca-web.org
