EUROSEA
Start date: Jun 18, 2014,
End date: Jan 17, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
EUROSEA was a project which main goal was to enhance sea scouting across Europe. We believe in scouting as a pedagogical tool to ensure the personal development of young people. This project wanted to realize more than just an encounter between European (sea) scouting federations and their youth workers. By building and sharing expertise around sea scouting between different European youth workers we hoped to emancipate their operations and give them the tools to continue to develop their national and local units.
EUROSEA was hosted by FOS Open Scouting: the active pluralistic and non-confessional scouting federation in Belgium. Scouting in Flanders has developed already a great deal and over the years FOS Open Scouting has developed a lot of knowledge and expertise around sea scouting. The content of the seminar was designed by the planning group; an informal group of 4 national sea scouting volunteers coming from different (sea) scouting federations: Belgium, Portugal, Slovakia and The Netherlands.
The seminar was spread over five days in which the main activity was the training of the participants. Topics that were addressed are: qualitative nautical training and activities, safety on the water and collaboration with local partners and sea scouting across Europe. Depending on the theme of the session the methodology differed from lectures followed by experience sharing to more interactive methods such as experiential learning. In the evenings team building, cultural and leisure activities were planned which improved the interpersonal relationships between all participants. As youth movement we strongly believe in the value of non-formal learning and therefore we used Youth pass as a tool to visualize and to validate learning outcomes acquired by the youth workers during their experiences at Eurosea.
In total up to 30 participants (including moderators), men and women between 18 and 70 years old (mostly young people) from more then 10 different European countries were present. The seminar was open to youth workers - staff members or volunteers - connected with sea scouting or guiding with support of their Association. Participants were expected to possess a grasp of English and to be capable of using electronic communication media (e.g., e-mail, Facebook).
The course and results of this seminar in combination with the visibility of this program was announced in several ways including a publication in the digital journal 'Euronaut' and an article in the scouting magazine 'Over&Weer'. The facebook page kept the general public up to date, regional sea scouting federations were able to post these reports on their own website and the local and regional press received a press release.
With this project we aimed to develop, enhance and expand the knowledge , skills and attitudes on sea scouting at various levels (local, national and international). We wished to strengthen both the individual youth worker as the scouting federations in their professional support and development of sea scouting. Doing so we expected an indirect impact on all young people across Europe that are benefiting from these sea scout activities.
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