Dear friends,
Code-X International, The Netherlands, and Nomades Youth Association, Spain, are looking for partners for a training project on:

EVS as a Tool for Combating Youth Unemployment
Facilitating youth self-awareness and the transfer of experiences into skills

This project will be submitted for funding via Youth in Action 4.3 for the February 1st, 2010 deadline. We will apply to run this project both in The Netherlands (June) and in Spain (September). You can apply to either project.

Project Background
More and more young people struggle to get a job. The percentage of unemployed youth is steadily
increasing, especially during this time of economic crisis. Youth in Action has made it a priority to tackle this issue in 2010. One way is by providing young people with the opportunity to gain work experience by joining an EVS project. Not only do the youth gain work experience, but they also learn to live independently in a different culture.

From experiences and research we know that many volunteers struggle with transferring their international experiences into competences and skills they can describe in a meaningful way for their future careers. This training will provide youth workers with the tools to support volunteers in this process and to stimulate their self-awareness before, during and after the EVS project.

The main goals of the project are to:
•	Train youth workers on skills and methods to increase self-awareness of EVS volunteers and to facilitate the transfer of self-awareness into marketable competencies, thus improving the youth’s chances in the job market,
•	Share knowledge of National and European job markets, skill discovery methods, learning cycle methods, reflection methods, interview techniques, CV writing techniques and more,
•	Improve the use of the Youth Pass and methods to make it more useful and youth-friendly develop a toolkit with strategies and methods employed during the week to spread throughout each partner’s network,
•	Maximize the use of EVS experience in the fight against youth unemployment!
Activity dates:
Netherlands: June 26th – July 2nd, 2010 (excluding travel days)
OR
Spain: September 4th – 10th, 2010 (excluding travel days)

We are searching for:
•	Partners in EU countries
•	Participants should have some experience with implementing EVS projects or/and supporting EVS volunteers and be able to work in English.
Costs involved:
We are applying for funding through the European Union Youth in Action Programme. You will have to pay for your own travel health insurance and 30% of your travel costs.

Apply:
To participate, please complete the attached Part III and send a signed document by post before January 28th, 2010. We expect to have more interested people than spaces, so those who include their motivation (for example a letter explaining why they would like to participate) are more likely to be selected. Please indicate if you have a preference as to participating in the training in The Netherlands (June) or Spain (September), or are available for either.

Postal Address:
Code-X International – Attention Jens
Postbus 101
4100 AC Culemborg
The Netherlands

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