Do you want to engage in current social issues, develop your capacity and get new friends from the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe? Then you have come to the right place. Welcome to NSU´s educational seminars, training, youth exchanges, study visits and campaigns!
NSU is an NGYO actively present in the civil society. NSU is politically neutral but by its activities it offers framework for young people to increase their society engagement. We do this by annual programmes including:
- awareness raising activities where young people learn about a topic and then multiply their learning locally where the activity is held and/or online, and
- competence building activities for young people and youth workers to develop knowledge, skills and attitude needed for society engagement, inclusive NGYO management, facilitation by non-formal methods and personal growth.
By this activity format NSU increases youth engagement and active participation, as well as fosters development of competences. NSU´s multiplying events (fairs, public dissemination events) often require cross sectoral cooperation with institutions, municipalities and companies, which increase these stakeholders´ participation in the youth field.
As support for the main activity forms, we have annually a preparation meeting and an dissemination/evaluation meeting to ensure good quality educational activities run by international teams, and documentation of learning outcomes for continuous improvement. In 2019 we additionally put emphasis on youth work quality development and strengthening of youth NGYO leadership.
NSU´s member organisations has priority regarding the places at its activities, but in many activities are also external youth and youth workers welcome.
Thank you member organisations and funders for your support that make NSU´s activities reality!
Under the first days in January a group of youth workers (staff and volunteers) will get deeper insight in the 2020 theme, health, and prepare the activities for the upcoming year. The participants are already selected as these are the persons who have been involved in developing the work programme 2020.
3-6 January 2020 in Helsinki, Finland
Kick off 2020
This course is built on the ELF course held in 2019 in Denmark, but is more extensively about non-formal learning. This course is for youth workers (employees and volunteers).
Participation in the course is available for representatives of the organisations who signed up at grant application stage. The application deadline participants has passed (15th of November) and the places are filled.
8-16 Februari 2020 in Vsetice, Czech Republic
Engage Learn Facilitate (ELF2)
Description: Small scale and intense workshop where 8-9 persons produce mudules for the digital course Dynamo in the format of short movies, podcasts, texts and graphical material. The modules will be based both on information NSU has gathered during the recent years and on knowledge the group have or find by studies.
Participant profile: Youth preliminary in the age 20-29 who are good at for ex. at making movies/podcasts, write/edit text, do graphic design, edit photos, do drawing or painting.
Download the INVITATION!
Download the APPLICATION! Deadline for applications is the 7th of February.
14-18 April 2020, in Gjógv, Faroe Islands
Dynamo Workshop 1
Theme: Young people´s sexual health (from social and mental health perspective)
Description: Course to strengthen youth workers´ capacity to support young people´s sexual health
The objectives are that the participants:
1. map obstacles hindering young people from having a healthy view on sex and sexuality,
2. exchange good praxis and develop tools for how to support young people towards better sexual
health, and
3. design and prepare local sexual health information & discussion sessions for young people in the
partner countries.
Participant profile : Youth workers/leaders (staff and volunteers mainly in the age 20-35. The participants come both from the Nordic countries and eastern Europe.
The call will be published in January 2020.
4 programme days in May 2020 in Lund, Sweden
Sexess
Theme: Development of youth work
Description: Small scale and intense workshop where 8-9 persons produce mudules for the digital course Dynamo in the format of short movies, podcasts, texts and graphical material. The modules will be based both on information NSU has gathered during the recent years and on knowledge the group have or find by studies.
Participant profile: Youth preliminary in the age 20-29 who are good at for ex. at making movies/podcasts, write/edit text, drawing or painting.
Financial conditions: NSU covers accommodation and food, as well as reimburse travel costs up to set limits.
Application: The call will be published in mid February 2020
4 days in June 2020 in northern Norway
Dynamo Workshop 2
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