"Media Sapiens - Fundraising Through Media" offers youth workers the opportunity to share good practices from your projects together with other participants and to approach the fundraising and communication from a practical point of view. It will bring together experienced beneficiaries, newcomers and professionals to learn from practical exercises, to understand the overall communication process within the project cycle and to develop competences, as well as to learn new fundraising tools in a creative and open setting. The international training offers participants the opportunity to share good practices from their projects and to approach this field from a practical point of view. The Training Course “Media Sapiens - Fundraising Through Media" is the 7 day international training course with participation of 12 partner organisations (group of 36 people) from Programme and Neighbouring Partner Countries, which is planned to take place in Pärnu, Estonia during August 2014 and will be organised by the Estonian NGO Life Zone with support of 11 other partner organisations. The idea for the development of this TC came about during a brainstorming sessions amongst youth leaders within our network in which we were thinking about what areas were lacking and should be focused on in the youth work field at the moment. i.e which fields needed more awareness and lacked knowledge of good practices. Life Zone did a research on the topic and decided to organise fundraising topic training course for organisations from rural areas. TC aims are to raise experienced youth leaders and organisation managers' awareness about providing youth workers/leaders with competencies and new ideas on social media software and different media tools usage for additional fundraising for their groups and organisations to reach larger impact in their societies, especially outreaching young people from rural or deprived urban areas. "Media Sapiens - Fundraising Through Media" offers youth workers the opportunity to share good practices from your projects together with other participants and to approach the fundraising and communication from a practical point of view too. The objectives of the Media Sapiens TC are: • to explore various tools, ways, creative techniques useful for fundraising ; • to help participants design communication and dissemination activities relevant to their projects, target groups, scope of activities; • to develop competences, skills necessary to implement PR, communication and fundraising campaigns efficiently; • to share good practices; • to provide opportunities, space and frames for participants to experiment on possible relevant tools and methods during the training; • to share new and innovative approaches, concepts and activities; • to give emphasis to the development of practical aspects. This TC is also focused on raising awareness of the value and importance of volunteering as a form of active engagement and as a tool to develop or improve competences for personal, social and professional development. The training is a result of stable and long-lasting partnership among partners and merging several successful media related training programmes into one choosing the most successful methods and tools. The training course is based on intercultural learning, learning-by-doing, active participation, experimental learning and workshops, good partnership, networking, long-distance cooperation and evaluation. The TC is contributing to develop knowledge and skills, criticism and tools to be active in a way of feeling and understanding how much in Europe we are on the different stages, but that it is also necessary that we begin to act as a single entity. Our project is also an exercise in intercultural dialogue and cooperation since the group in itself is multi-national.