Youth Worker Exchange Candriai, Italy - Emotional intelligence in youth work: new generation skills
Would you like to know more about emotional Intelligence and how it helps to make the lives of youth workers better?Join us from the 27/06 to the 03/07/2025 in the heart of Northern Italy for the Youth Worker Exchange!
The exchange will take place from the 27th June until the 3rd of July 2025 (the 27th and the 3rd being travel days).
What is a youth worker exchange?
Youth worker exchanges are part of the European Erasmus+ programme which offers opportunities to organize projects for the mobility of young people and youth workers. For youth workers, organizations can take part in opportunities to support the professional development, capacity building, network of youth workers and thereby the development of quality youth work at local, regional, national, European and international level, through non-formal and informal learning experiences in mobility. More specifically, mobility projects for youth workers aim to:
- Provide non-formal and informal learning opportunities for educational and professional development of youth workers;
- Build a community of youth workers that can support the quality of projects and activities for young people in EU programmes and beyond;
- Develop local youth work practices and contribute to capacity building for quality youth work of the participants and their organisation, having a clear impact on the participating youth workers' regular work with young people.
What is the project about?
The main topic is Emotional Intelligence and how it helps to make the lives of youth workers better and youth work a better place. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability of a person to identify and recognize one's own and others’ emotions, it allows using emotional information to guide one’s behaviour and adapt to different environments. EI
boosts the ability of listening and mediating – that is crucial when working with young people. We want to talk about emotions, learn about emotions and most importantly, practice non-violent communication - best ever practical tool of emotional intelligence!
Below you can find the plan of the whole project:
day 1 - arrivals
day 2 - getting to know each other,networking and first steps towards ei
day 3 - EI: a little bit of theory and a lot of practice and fun
day 4 - non-violent communication in daily life and in youth work
day 5 - diving deeper into ourselves: zen youth workers in the making
day 6 - future projects, evaluation and visiting Trento
day 7 - departures
A total of 24 youth workers can take part in this exchange, with each partner sending up to 3 participants.
Who can participate?
The project targets youth workers from all over the EU who work closely with young people, such as youth organizations, youth center workers, infodesk, etc... To take part in the project you must be involved in a youth organization activities and you must belong to an organization involved in such activities as an employee or volunteer. A total of 24 youth workers can take part in this exchange, with each partner sending up to 3 participants.
Board and lodging are provided by our organization during the whole youth worker exchange. The house is located in Candriai di Monte Bondone, a mountain “suburb” of Trento. There are double and triple rooms with bathrooms. The house is a self-managed house with a nice equipped kitchen, a common room and big shared bedrooms. We will have
an organized lunch and will cook together our meals for dinner in a community environment.
Please note that the area is remote and surrounded by nature, the best place to be during summer heat! You will have some free time to check Trento city, but as the transport connections are limited it won’t be possible daily. Please bring with you everything you might need for the week, pretending there is no way to do shopping for
necessities at all!
To apply you have to fulfill this Application Form
The deadline to apply is 09/04/2025.
If you would like to have any other further information regarding the youth worker exchange, here are our contacts:
- Associazione InCo - Interculturalità & Comunicazione via Scipio Sighele, 3 38122 Trento-Italy
- +39 0461 1822775
- e-mail: info@incoweb.org
