Improv | Drama | Animation | Story-Telling

a project for youth workers, youth leaders, trainers, mentors and policy makers

The aim of this project is to bring together professionals from different European and Mediterranean countries to explore and develop new tools, which they will then use with their groups of young people.

Performing arts are an ideal tool to reach young people, but on the other hand, many youth workers lack such skills.

The training course will be mostly hands-on and participant-centred, with a great emphasis on the practical aspects of youth work.

This project is open to youth workers, youth leaders, trainers and other professionals from all the 28 EU Member States, Non EU Programme countries and Southern Mediterranean countries.

This course will give the necessary tools to the trainees to enable them to facilitate workshops and activities with young people.

… the project that transforms performing arts into tools for youth work

The idea of organising this training course was conceived by two friends, Mouna, a teacher by profession, from Lebanon, and Charlo, a PR professional, and a youth leader, trainer and public speaker, from Malta.

Despite living some 2,000 km apart, we discovered that we have several common interests: our love for performing arts, a passion to work with adolescents, and our enthusiasm to share our skills with and learn from other like-minded people. We exchanged views on how youth workers, youth leaders and other stakeholders could use such interests in their work with youngsters. This tête-à-tête went on through long online chats until, what had started as another interesting conversation, developed into a fully-fledged and concrete training idea which we decided to pursue.

However, as time went by, the idea of organising a one-off training course has evolved into a 24-month long project. This training course is the first of a three-phase project. During the second phase, the trainees will be expected to organise an event with their youngsters, using the skills and competencies acquired during the training course. The last phase will bring together the course participants for a conference (the host country will be announced in due course) where they will share their experiences and good practices. During the same conference we will launch the EuroMed IDeAS Trainers’ Platform, a pool of trained individuals who can be recruited as trainers in national and international training events.

You too can be part of this project. How? Go through the website to learn more about our IDeAS. Then send us your feedback, comments or suggestions via the online form or by email on . We will then review them and incorporate them in the project. This way you will be contributing to the design and development of IDeAS, the project that transforms performing arts into tools for youth work.

If you would like to participate or to receive further updates about this training course, kindly fill in and submit the online form to express your interest in the project. Note that submitting this form does not guarantee enrolment. It is only your expression of interest in this project.

The actual participation application form will be published on this website in due course. So bookmark our website and visit us again to make sure you do not miss this opportunity.

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… the project that transforms performing arts into tools for youth work