Grundtvig Workshop in Active Citizenship, Sicily

Deadline: 10 August, 2012
Open to: candidates interested in Active Citizenship coming from LLP Countries (EU members + EFTA + Croatia, Turkey)
Venue: Messina, Sicily – Italy from 28 september – 6 october 2012

Description

This workshop purpose is to reinforce each participant’s European dimension by promoting Citizen Journalism as a tool for Active Citizenship. Therefore participants will be given the chance to share the key features of European Active Citizenship and to promote it directly, together, by using Social Media. In Messina are to meet 20 Nationals/residents from Lifelong Learning Programme Countries as well as 5 Nationals/residents from Italy.

The workshop purpose is to reinforce each participant’s European dimension by promoting Citizen Journalism as a tool for Active Citizenship. Therefore participants will be given the chance to share the key features of European Active Citizenship and to promote it directly, together, by using Social Media. Most of the working sessions will provide interactive workshops and group works on Citizen Journalism, web site and blog management, and an incisive use of social media. In order to give a wide knowledge on these topics, also a professional perspective will be explored with study visits to local press agency, both traditional and on-line. Participants will improve simple but incisive skills in communication so to create and reinforce a social network, formal or informal, that involves European citizens. Key words of this workshop are: respect, comprehension, reciprocity but also creativeness and learning by doing. Participants are asked to play an active role during all the workshop activities,during the preparatory phase and some of the follow-up activities.

A certificate of attendance will be issued only to those who have fully attended all the workshop sessions and that have actively contributed to the workshop realization (e.g. by taking part to cultural trips). The same requirements are necessary if participants want to benefit form the ECDL Test opportunity.

Join the workshop, IF

1. …you are adult (+18) and national or permanently residing (or registred as refugee or asylum-seeker) in one of LLP Countries
2. …you can interact in English
3. …you have not taken part in a Grundtvig workshop in the last three years
4. …you are interested in Active Citizenship
5. …you are interested in European citizenship and European dimension
6. …you are interested in Media and Communication

The LLP Countries are consisted from the EU countries members, the EFTA countries + Turkey and Croatia. The Country participating under the preparatory measures phase, Macedonia is not eligible country for this event. You can check the LLP Countries HERE as well as you can see the National Agencies of each country.

Costs

Food, accommodation, travel, transportations, special needs and all the workshop activities, arranged by the organizer, are covered by the project grant according to the LLP Financial Rules.

Only for Italian Participants: national/residents from Italy are not eligible for funding so they have to give the workshop organizer a contribution to cover their costs which should be about 350-500 € ( hotel, food, transfers, cultural trips, insurance, …).

The workshop organizer will try, according to its budget, to cover most of these costs, but at this stage, the organizers cannot confirm the information.

Application

You can fill in your on-line application HERE. Deadline for applying – 10 August, 2012. Candidates will be selected by 15 August.

For more information please visit the official website.