Intercultural training to prepare for the summer camps

From the 16th to 20th of May 2012, a total of 36 participants from 14 countries gathered at the Youth Education Centre in Hattingen to participate in the training programme “Train the trainer – How to lead an international workcamp„. In international groups they prepared for their ewoca³-camps in the summer of 2012, guided and supported by experienced trainers. ewoca³ is a support programme targeting youth work organisations in Northrhine-Westphalia, created by the Association for Education and Exchange (IBB e.v.) in Dortmund and funded by the Federal State of Nortrhine-Westphalia

“Kick off” in Hattingen – Partnerorganisations started to plan their workcamps

There we go! With a lot of power almost 50 youthworkers from 14 countries started to work in Hattingen from the 18th to the 22nd of February. The congress was the first meeting of the 36 youth facilities which will work together for the next 3 years to realise European workcamps. Adam Serdal had the longest journey to get to the meeting: the city of Mardin — in a partnership with Falken Hagen — can be found in the south-east of Turkey, close to the border to Syria..

Minister president Hannelore Kraft takes over patronage

Hannelore Kraft, minister president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, takes over the patronage for the reissue of the support programme ewoca³. “Peo-ple from nearly all nations of the world live in our country in the heart of Europe. Around four million women and men have a migration background. Thus, it fits that the support programme ewoca3 has been brought on its way by North Rhine-Westphalia and sets the course in international youth work„, is stated in the greeting. And: “We do not need less, we need more Europe.„ The

The Association for International Education and Exchange (IBB) starts a reissue with 12 project partnerships

ewoca³ — the support programme for youth facilities from North Rhine-Westphalia — is starting the next phase in 2012 with 12 project partners from ten cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. The programme enables adolescents meetings with adolescents of the same age from Europe. Every project partnership offers young people the pos-sibility to work together with other young Europeans on a project in three following years in three different countries.

Young people from three countries work together hand in hand on a non-profit project

For the new project phase youth facilities from communal, churchly and free funding bodies were chosen. In trilateral partnerships the participating institutions realise three international youth meetings in the coming three years on the topic “Education for Sustainable Development„. Every single one of the twelve partnerships will be re-alising a camp, in which the adolescents plan and carry out a non-profit project autonomously. The support programme enables 36 youth meetings in 14 different countries.

ewoca³ — The supporting programme

ewoca³ is a project of the registered association IBB, promoted by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Mercator foundation. The programme is more than just a line of funding for international youth meetings. In addition to the camps the project contains a substantial supporting programme, which gives further education to experts of youth work on an international level. The kick-off event of the programme was the project planing congress from the 19th until the 22nd of February 2012 in Hattingen. You can download further information on the congress Information_congress_english.

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