Multi-culti leader project

International volunteer projects — workcamps and youth exchanges, have central place in the activities of many youth and voluntary service organizations. Each project needs a campleader, or coordinator, or teamer, or groupleader. Names could be many, functions may vary — still, leader is one of the keys to success of the international volunteer project. With the proposed training we aim to prepare leaders in international atmosphere, discuss different aspects of international volunteer projects — on example of workcamp and youth exchange — and their preparation, international cooperation between partners, leadership, solving conflicts and other issues related to leading a project and international group. The special focus of the training will be intercultural learning in the group, how to organize it beyond traditional international evening. Together we'll brainstorm to develop some ideas for activities and methods on intercultural learning in workcamps and youth exchanges. Participants will also learn about online info resource for leaders — campleader wiki, which will be completed with new materials from the training. The training course is organized by IVS-UK and SVIT-Ukraine in partnership with Service Civil International with financial support of Youth in Action programme, UK National Agency British Council. Participants: The training is targeted at activists of SCI branches, youth and voluntary organizations, who will be leading international volunteer workcamps or youth exchanges during the summer 2013, who already have experience of participating to a workcamp or youth exchange. We are looking forward for participants from Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, UK, Armenia, Italy, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Russia, Belarus and Romania. The program will include the following topics: Ø Why international aspect of youth and volunteer projects, Ø Responsibilities of different sides involved in a workcamp/youth exchange Ø Leadership and group-dynamics, decision-making in the group Ø Intercultural communication and learning, how to organize intercultural learning beyond tradigional international evening Ø Practical arrangements Ø Self-organization of the group, delegating responsibilities Ø Contact and activities with local community in international workcamp/youth exchange Ø Conflicts and emergency situations, how to prevent and solve Ø Workshops on peace issues, environmental sustainability or other potential study part topics, organized by the participants