"Youth Empowerment for Local Participation"

Seminar
Porto-PT, 22-28 June 2008

Young Society Initiative representatives attended the seminar “Youth Empowerment for Local Participation” in Porto between 22^nd and 28^th June 2008. The seminar was organized by Porto Federation of Youth Associations, with the financial assistance of EU Youth in Action Program.

The seminar “Youth Empowerment for local participation” brought together youth leaders and youth workers from Europe, ready to share best practices and to work on joint projects on empower youth in general but specially to empower local/ international youth participation.

The 5 day-long seminar aimed to empower 18 local young actors with knowledge and skills. It was also a learning opportunity for youth leaders/youth policy makers and youth workers to exchange good practices and methodologies on local youth policies and youth empowerment.

"Sailors on the Citizenship"

International Training Course

Srebarna Gora-Wroclaw-PL, 3-11 February 2008

"Sailors on the Citizenship" is a training course that aims to support the professional development of young trainers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning (European) citizenship.

The idea of citizenship is discussed on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. The work was based on cases, examples and europe in practice.

The team worked on improving the 'sailors’ toolkit' on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond.