Youth photo games
Start date: Mar 1, 2012,
Training Course "Youth photo games" from 1st to 9th June 2012 is about promotion of voluntarism using creative photography as a method for social inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities.Venue: Sremski Karlovci, SerbiaThe type of project: Training Course, Sub - Action 3.1The theme is promotion of voluntarism values and inclusion of excluded youth groups through photography.Target group on our training course are people actively involved in work with social excluded youth with psychological problems – caused by stress (youth workers, youth leaders, volunteers, NGO activists, school teachers, social workers).Objectives:- to increase awareness of the value and importance of volunteering as a form of active engagement and as a tool to develop and improve competence for personal, social and professional development.- to promote voluntarism values and inclusion as a most significant value working with youth with fewer opportunities – youth with health psychological problems.- to encourage excluded young people with fewer opportunities to play an active role in local community.Duration: five months in total.Training Course lasts: 9 days excluding travel days.The countries involved: Serbia, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.The Number of participants: 30The implemented activities: art activities and learning sessions.The applied methods: non-formal way of learning through experience of artistic methods working on creative photography. Using creative photography expression, participants will multiply products acquired from our TC in their every day work for youth. Methods includes: games, ice-breakers, team building exercises, individual and group activities, work on practical examples in a small groups, workshops for making photography, creating photography, photo sessions, video and working in contact with the nature.