ERASMUS+, Key Action 1: training course
Venue: Maceira (Fornos de Algodres), Portugal
Dates: 19—27 July 2022
National team size: 4 participants
Please read the info-pack
Hosting organisation: APSCDFA (Associacao de Promoca Social, Cultural i Desportiva de Fornos del Algodres)
Project description:
“A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.”
The Training Course “I Write, I Become: Developing Competences Through Creative Writing” is a project aimed at presenting creative writing as a means for developing the eight key competences for lifelong learning. Specifically, the project is designed to
achieve the following objectives:
- to improve the key competences of youth workers through non-formal learning activities based on creative writing;
- to equip youth workers with practical knowledge and methods for developing the key competences of young people through creative writing workshops;
- to provide space for developing new methods for improving the key competences of young people through joint work of the participating youth workers;
- to improve the capacities of youth organizations through providing them with new youth work methods for delivering ctivities for personal development of the young people in their communities.
Participants’ profile:
I WRITE, I BECOME targets youth workers older than 18 (the preferred, but not strict upper age limit is 35) who
- have the need and interest for improving their key competences
- have the need and interest for learning new methods for improving the key competences of young people
using creative writing - have the enthusiasm to transfer the knowledge gained in this project to the youth work of their organization and to other colleagues
