The Youth for Development Training Course aims at exploring and widening the development capabilities of active young people who are in a position to act as multipliers so as to contribute to sustainable development for their communities. Orientated on the change that youth CAN bring about in their immediate surroundings, the training course will provide participants with the tools and know-how needed not solely to ameliorate their immediate surroundings, but also on the global stage in general. By building and developing these capabilities, the activity will seek better empowerment of the local youth in order to empower whole communities. Active communication, exchange of experience, responsibility and role of every single individual are the thoughts to be realized and established during this training course.

The programme is based on a philosophy of participation, democracy and intercultural exchange in order to promote the building and strengthening of an open and democratic global society. The training course will address a total of 25 youth participants from the EU, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Taking into account that the Youth for Development Training Course aims at empowering active young people in their own communities, preference will be given to young people having less opportunities and those working within their own local communities. In this respect, fully acknowledging the fact that our members in the Caucasus as well as in Eastern Europe are often subject to mobility problems, they will be invited to our Training Course as participants.

This Youth for Development Training Course is being held with the financial support from the Youth Programme of the European Commission which will permit the participants to be partially reimbursed for their travel expenses.