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Outdoors work for YOU(TH)
Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Active Outdoor Youth Training aims are to improve the quality of youth work and youth work methodologies for youth workers which are working with unemployed youngsters and promote outdoor activities, fostering young people’s healthy lifestyles, and bringing young people closer to nature. The TC is built in a seven-day programme of activities for youth workers and youth leaders from the Poland, Finland, Latvia, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine. The project involves 30 participants and 6 staff members. Participants will have a chance to reflect on the changing lifestyles of young people and the beneficial effects of using outdoor methods, promoting sports activities, bringing young people closer to nature and the countryside, empowering youth workers with knowledge of practical skills in how to organize new approaches/ methodologies in working with their target groups, sharing of experiences between youth workers how they work with unemployed youngsters, sharing of methodologies how they tackle the problems of unemployed young people. This will be done to foster young people’s physical and mental wellbeing, promoting environmental protection activities and bringing young people from different backgrounds together. The project aims at promoting the inclusion of youngsters with fewer opportunities and those from culturally diverse backgrounds. The project venue – Svaneti region of Georgia – is of particular importance to the project aims and objectives. It a UNESCO-listed area, the highest permanently inhabited area in Europe and a place where man and nature have always been close.
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