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Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 1, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project was designed due to growing social problems in post-industrial region of Zasavje of which youth unemployment is one of the most concerning. Training course for youth workers and leaders aims at contributing to skills of youth workers for guidance, understanding and encouraging creative potential of youth that can be developed into entrepreneurship. The objectives of the project tend to develop competences of youth leaders to motivate youth, encourage active civic participation, entrepreneurship, understanding of creative industries and their connection to labour market, developing digital skills and understanding the role of ICT technologies in modern world, creating new media content, practical learning in the area of audio-visual art and photography, researching possibilities for personal, collective and professional sustainable development, developing skills in communicating in foreign language, international networking, exchange of good practise and developing responsibility towards local community. Final measurable aim of activities is the exhibition of the results of creative workshops, photographic and audiovisual documentation of empty industrial spaces in Zasavje and the process of the activity itself. 5 European organizations from Protugal, Great Britain, Germany and Poland that work in the field of creativity, non-formal education and youth work will participate in the training course and will send 18 individual participants all together. Additional 15 participants will join from local community as mentors or youth workers. The profile of participants includes youth workers that work with youth with less opportunities (low economic standard, unemployment). Participants included are themselves active creators in different fields and are prone to share their skills and knowledges. Activities of the training course will be divided in theoretical and practical workshops. The latter includes practical workshops in the area of film making, multimedia production, creative writing, photography and street art. Participants will be encouraged to operate with the theme of postindustrial regions, unemployment and positive output to community. All results will be introduced to local community in the final event that will be also used for dissemination of project results. Methodology consists of the principles of informal education, which is learning to learn and practical learning. Participants will be encouraged to active contribute to the content of the training course. Expected results are professional development of youth workers and transfer of knowledge in their local communities, development of local communities and a surplus value to functioning of the participant

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