Young people from 21 countries came together in faro to participate in the international training “Youth Takes the Floor”, which will debate, until Friday, the participation of young people in local governance. The initiative of the ECOS cooperative, organized in partnership with the Higher School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve, brings together 30 trainees from as many organizations, municipalities and entities that develop work in the youth field.
During the six days that the course lasts, participants will have the possibility to develop a series of skills, for the creation and promotion of spaces where young people can work together with local authorities in the elaboration of youth policies and local strategies, in favor of development of their communities.
«21 countries from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa will be represented at the event (Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Spain , Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Portugal),' revealed ECOS.
«Despite being a course with an international dimension, we did not want to stop favoring the Algarve region, allocating 2 scholarships to guarantee the participation of technicians from the Algarve's municipalities», added the Algarve cooperative.
ECOS said that this first international course, co-financed by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe, «had a participation that surprised the organizers, who received more than 300 applications for the 20 places initially planned for this course, which led to the organization to increase the number of vacancies to 30».
The international training also had a conference, on the theme "Engaging Youth for Sustainable Democracies", which took place this Monday and featured round tables on the theme of citizen participation in local governance and the sharing of good practices and training workshops in different themes.
Comments