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Call for Partners Life-Path 2011-2012

This is a call for partners for a Training Course organized under the youth in Action framework, actions 4.3 and 3.1.b.  The call is open to NGOs active in the field of youthwork and non-formal education from all eligible countries, except the countries where we already have partners: Romania, Macedonia, Italy, Portugal, Malta, United Kingdom. If your NGO is from these countries, you can still contact us to submit individual applications through our partners.
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: EU member states and South Eastern European States only.

   Brief project coordinates:
   Topic: Personal and Professional Development for Volunteers and YouthWorkers
   Duration: 9 days, excluding travel days, includes 2 weekends.
   Period: 5 periods in November 2011 – January 2012
   Location: Romania, Macedonia, Italy, Portugal, Malta, United Kingdom (you may be selected for a maximum of 2 of these locations)
   Target group: 3 participants from each NGO. Participants MUST be ACTIVE YOUTHWORKERS. This project is NOT open to travelers, groupies, hitchhikers, course hunters, non-members of the promoter’s NGO etc.
   Funding: all costs will be covered, except 30% of travel costs. Participants must be able to buy their own tickets and wait for the reimbursement.
   Application deadline: 15th of may 2011
   Apply to: express your interest at teolin.codreanu@gmail.com

   Selection: We will prefer NGOs who are active in the field of non-formal education/youthwork. We will prefer NGO’s who know about Youth In Action, EVS, Council of Europe etc, are able to make the difference between a youth exchange and a training course and can bring added value to the project.  The selection results will be announced on 25th of may 2011.

   Below find a project description


 LIFE-PATH

   The Life-Path™ project is a training course for youth workers from NGOs active in youth projects. The target group is formed of 15 youth workers from 5 NGOs from 5 countries. The course duration is 9 days excluding travel days. The project aims to improve the capacity of the partner organizations to motivate and better their volunteers through Personal and Professional Development. The Life Path training course is based on a new innovative non-formal education methodology for personal and professional development called The Equilitri Method™. The method has been developed in over 10 years of work, tested and piloted in Asia in 2010-2011 and it is now introduced in Europe. Equilitri™ is a Personal development method meant to help people organize their life, achieve balance, success and happiness, cross over difficulties and challenges.
  The projects will help the partner organizations by providing their youth workers with advanced human resources tools for personal development and key competencies in these four areas:
- improving the volunteers time management skills,
- developing leadership and followship skills,
- becoming aware of the importance of life mapping, deveoping the ability to set up goals, plan and implement 
- improving communication skills in an organisational environment.

This is a multiphase project. The preliminary phase was a Partnership Building Activity financed through Youth in Action in 2009. The first phase has already successfully concluded  with a pilot course in Viet-Nam and several component courses in India. There will be 5 training courses in the second phase, followed by a Training of Trainers (third phase) on the Equilitri method and a fourth wave of courses in Europe. The fifth phase would be to create an European Network to provide support and tools for further steps.   The Network would be named Alter-Edu, and two projects have already been completed towards this end (the Partnership Building Activity EuroPartners, in 2009, finalized successfully, and the Alter-Edu Project, in 2010-2011, in progress as we speak). Now we are focusing on the second phase.