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Programme 2: Training and capacity building of young people and youth organisations

Activity 2: Global Youth Training Course

Date and place: 30 September – 7 October 2007, Mollina, Spain

Context and organisation: At the “Europe, Youth and Globalisation” event (organised by the Council of Europe in 2004), the participating young people and youth organisations concluded that young people world wide face challenges and opportunities as a result of the process of globalisation in four main areas: poverty and exclusion; rights and access; diversity and living together; political participation and governance.

Young people, who constitute the majority of the world’s population, are an important force and partner in the field of global Interdependence. It follows, therefore, that youth organisations are social actors who should be recognised as having a role to play in development and who are capable of carrying out projects and programmes in the field of development co-operation. Direct co-operation and exchange of ideas between young people in the North and South is a key instrument of intercultural understanding and global interdependence.

Partners: European Youth Forum, Youth for Exchange and Understanding and other regional Platforms.

Target groups: 35 participants and trainers coming from youth organisations from different regions

Objectives: (i) To strengthen the understanding of participants in relation to the complex process of globalisation; (ii) to discuss the role, possibilities and limits of global youth work as a response to globalisation; (iii) to reflect on the challenges identified during the course and ways for participants and their organisations to address them.

Expected results: (i) Strengthening the capacity of trainers and multipliers in youth organisations with the necessary skills; (ii) reinforcement of the network of youth trainers, leaders and organisations with and interest in developing co-operation and actively committed to the strengthening of global civil society.