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Training
for Human Rights Education |
The training seminar of the 2011-2012 training
course for trainers in human rights education is
being held at the European Youth Centre in Budapest
from 7 to 14 February.
The training course aims to develop the competences
of trainers in non-formal education in their role as
trainers or multipliers for human rights education
with young people and contributes to mainstreaming
human rights education in youth work
The course has started with on-line learning in
October. Thirty-eight participants are expected to
attend the course whose methodology and content are
based on Compass, the manual for human rights
education with young people (www.coe.int/compass).
Draft programme -
List of participants. |
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YOUTH
PEACE AMBASSADORS
Group C |
The Youth Peace Ambassadors project
invited its third group of participants
(group C) in
the European Youth Centre Strasbourg. Youth
Peace Ambassadors is a one and a half year project
gathering youth leaders from conflict affected
communities, aiming at supporting the role of young
people in peacebuilding.
Group C
consists of 27 young people from 20 different
countries; they attended from 22nd to 28th
January their first residential seminar. It will be
followed by e-learning modules until September, when
the second residential seminar will take place in
Budapest. In November 2012, the three Youth Peace
Ambassadors groups will present the peacebuilding
projects they have undertaken in their communities
in a joint conference. For more information visit:
www.coe.int/youthpeace |
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ROMA YOUTH- TERNE ROMENGIRI
NEW! Roma Youth Conference Video |
[16/01/2012]
NEW! Roma Youth Conference video:
http://vimeo.com/35086231
An evaluation and follow-up meeting was held in
Strasbourg on 9-10 December, co-organised by the
Team of the Special Representative of the Secretary
General on Roma Issues and the Youth Department. The
meeting will prepare the Roma Youth Action Plan for
2012 and 2013.
Guidelines for Roma Youth Action plan
ENGLISH -
ROMANI
Voicing the aspirations and projects of Roma youth
in the Council of Europe - Dejpe krlo/glaso e
aspiracijenge thaj projektonge katar e terne Roma
ande Europako Konsilo
(more...)
[19/10/2011]
Vademecum
The 10 Common Basic Principles on Roma Inclusion |
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The
Council of Europe
QUALITY LABEL FOR YOUTH CENTRES |
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Promoting Council of Europe values, youth policy
and youth work standards in Europe
The Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth
Centres is an opportunity for youth centres with a
structured relationship to a public authority to benefit
from the Council of Europe's approach to youth work and
youth policy
Read the brochure on Quality label... |
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Forum 21 - Policy No 17 & Research No 7 |
Forum 21 issue No 17 (Policy) and No 7 (Research)
are now available on
line
Forum
21
publishes two journals
twice a year:
European Journal on Child and Youth Policy and
European Journal on Child and Youth Research
read on line... |
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Recognition of youth work |
The
Symposium on Recognition of Youth Work and of
non-formal learning/education in the youth field
took place 2011 at the
European Youth Centre in Strasbourg.
It was co-organised by the partnership between
the European Commission and the Council of Europe
in the youth field, by JUGEND für Europa –
the German National Agency for the Youth in Action
programme, and by the SALTO Training and
Cooperation Resource Centre, in cooperation with
the European Youth Forum
Read the Statement of the Symposium... |
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PUBLICATIONS
of THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT |
Manual for facilitators
in non-formal
education >>
order on line
Youth policy in
Albania
order on line
Youth employment
and the future of work (Volume 2) >>
order on line
all other youth publications...
List of publications [pdf] |
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Call for
Applications
TC in Serbia |
The Council of Europe Youth Department in
partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sport of
Serbia organises a traning course on youth
participation and youth policy for social inclusion
in Serbia.
The course aims to further develop the competences
of 25 trainers and youth workers, coming from Serbia
and the neighbouring area, in order to contribute
to the development of the quality of youth work in
Serbia, based on the quality standards developed
by the Council of Europe.
The course will combine residential seminar in Stara
Planina, 5-11 March 2012, a project phase supported
through distance learning and mentoring of
participants.
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 15 February 2012
Further information &
Application form [word] |
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PORTFOLIO FOR YOUTH LEADERS AND YOUTH WORKERS
How to get a free copy! |
The European Portfolio for youth leaders and
youth workers is an initiative of the Council of
Europe in cooperation with experts and partners such
as the European Commission and the European Youth
Forum.
It provides youth leaders and youth workers in
Europe, volunteers or professionals, with a tool
which can help them identify, assess and describe
their competencies based on European quality
standards.
If you'd like to receive a FREE COPY by post, please
send you post address to
youthportfolio@coe.int. Please mention
"PORTFOLIO ORDER" in the subject line, to avoid your
email being deleted by antispamming systems!
If you don't know the Portfolio yet,
have a look at the presentation...
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Call for
applications
EU-CoE youth partnership |
The EU-CoE youth partnership is pleased to announce
the call for applications for the seminar
“Empowerment of youth organisations and youth-led
civil society initiatives in the South-Mediterranean
framework”, it organises in
cooperation with the League of Arab States,
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, Maltese
Youth Agency (Aġenzija Żgħażagħ), Euromed Youth
Platform from 22-24 March 2012 in Malta.
This seminar will focus on the role and status
of youth organisations/youth movements and the young
people they work with as crucial actors in the
development and consolidation of inclusive,
participatory and pluralistic democracies based
on human rights and the rule of law.
Furthermore, this seminar will give opportunity for
a joint analysis on the impact of youth
(organisations) on the Arab revolutions and
vice versa, their role within the resulting
transition process.
Deadline: 13 February 2012
Further information... |
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The European Drug Prevention Prize
Call for applications to the Prize 2012 |
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The
European Drug Prevention Prize is awarded every two
years to three drug prevention projects that
fully involve young people, either in the
development and implementation of activities, the
decision-making, the project management and/or the
evaluation.
The deadline for submission is: 30 March 2012
I WOULD LIKE TO APPLY... |
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ENTER! Youth Meeting |
The Enter! Youth Meeting is an international
three-day meeting which gathered some 180 young people,
youth workers, youth researchers, policy makers and
representatives of the project partners with the aim
to provide them with the opportunity and the space
to voice their opinions, and share their experiences
about access to social rights in Europe as a
contribution to the development of youth policies in
the Council of Europe
(read more...) VIDEOS OF THE MEETING
ONLINE!! |
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Why do not change prejudices into experiences? |
The European Youth Centre Budapest hosted a Study
Session ‘Why do not change prejudices into
experiences’ organised by ‘Loesje International’
in cooperation with ‘Loesje Armenia’.
Between 22 and 26 November 30 young people from 22
European countries explored the relation between
stereotypes and prejudice and developed idea’s
on how to work with young people in helping them to
overcome their stereotypes and learn to live in
diverse and multicultural societies and to respect
human rights.
The organisers used creative tools developed
by the organisation Loesje, such as poster creative
writing. Some of the inspiring examples of the
posters developed during the week can be found here.
Poster 1 /
Poster 2 /
Poster 3 /
Poster 4 |
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a LIVING LIBRARY of
REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS |
On the occasion of the anniversary of the World
Refugee Day and the 60th anniversary of the
1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, the PACE
Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population and
the Directorate of Youth and Sport organised in
co-operation with the United Nations High
Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) a Living Library.
the Living Library of Refugees & Asylum Seekers
REPORT >>
http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Communication/LivingLibrary/default.asp
More on the Living Library >>
http://eycb.coe.int/compass
[Photo © UNHCR] |
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