Partner organization from Azerbaijan: “Common Sense” Youth Organization

Participants per country: 2 participants + accompanying persons

Erasmus+ TC – 20-27 May, 2025

Deadline – January 16, 2025, 23:59 (Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by email)

Transport cost for Azerbaijan – 395 Euro (this cost is considered to be spent for economical and environmental tickets. It is not for personal use!)

NOTE: 100% of the accommodation, food and transportation during the project will be covered with the support of Erasmus+. 

How to apply: Please read all information before completing the application.  

The project:

Youth work plays a pivotal role in fostering inclusion, serving as a powerful catalyst for social cohesion and personal development among young people from diverse backgrounds. This transformative process must first permeate youth work itself, prompting a reflective reassessment of the status quo to ensure that the practice of inclusion begins within the very fabric of youth work organisations and methodologies.

Within this perspective, the ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers becomes instrumental. Rather than superficially addressing the whole ETS competence model, the partnership identified the competence area of “Communicating meaningfully” as the entry point for triggering the needed deep and transversal reflection on inclusion.

Specific Objectives:

  • To enhance Youth Worker Competences: Equipping youth workers with advanced skills, attitudes, and knowledge in “Communicating Meaningfully”, ensuring they can engage effectively with young people and their diverse needs. This includes active listening, empathy, dealing with emotions, and leveraging a variety of communication tools, including digital platforms, to reach out to and include all young people.
  • To Promote Inclusivity through Communication: Creating an inclusive environment where youth workers, irrespective of their abilities or educational levels, feel valued and heard. This involves developing methodologies and communication strategies that acknowledge and respect the unique identities and experiences of all participants.
  • To Empower through Participation: providing a participatory approach for youth workers to encourage young people to express their feelings, emotions, and opinions, contributing to a collective effort to address and challenge societal disparities and biases.
  • To Address and Counteract Marginalisation: Utilise the project as a platform to highlight and mitigate the challenges faced by individuals with diverse abilities and lower educational attainment, aiming to improve their access to opportunities and societal participation.
  • To Build Solidarity and Challenge Divisive Mindsets: Encourage a culture of solidarity among youth and among practitioners, challenging the ‘them and us’ mindset. This includes critical reflection on information sources and promoting a unified approach to diversity and inclusion.

Participants profile

  • Over 20 years old;
  • Some background experience in youth work;
  • Interested in working with youngsters and eager to develop activities with mix abilities groups;
  • Able to transfer, later on, the learning acquired in their organisations;
  • We strongly support the participation of those with diverse abilities (disabilities).

Venue and accommodation

Training will be held in the “Blue Whale Education Centre” in the small and cosy town of Tauchen, in the heart of Austria. (The address is: Tauchen 125; 7521 Mönichkirchen. Austria) The Blue Whale Education Centre is a very young education centre that has however a lot to offer. It is located in a picturesque village 5 minutes’ walk away from the main station of Tauchen.

Accommodation includes double rooms with their own bathrooms. Bed linen is provided, but towels are not. 

Reimbursement

These travel expenses include only public transport; taxis will be not accepted. Travelling by car will be allowed upon request and agreement with the coordinating organisation. Before buying your tickets check it with us; for reimbursement, you may travel up to 6 days before or after. You can also arrive 3 days before and 3 days after the training. For reimbursement, however, you cannot travel more than 6 days early or later. If you have doubts, please contact us for clarification. Arriving later than the 1st or leaving earlier than the 8th is not allowed and travel costs will be not reimbursed.

For the reimbursement is mandatory to send us all proof of payments of bus, train and/or flights. Also, will be mandatory to provided original boarding passes (screenshots are not allowed) and/or bus and train tickets, paper or digital. Full participation in all the activities is mandatory in order to have the reimbursement of the travel expenses.

The reimbursement will be done after participants filling the participants’ report.

This training course has a participation fee of 40€ per person, to be paid in cash upon arrival. This amount cannot be reduced from the travel reimbursement.