14-22/05/2016 - Training Course "Expedition - Designing Adventure in Rural Environment" (Lithuania)

This training course is about how to make use of rural environment for adventure learning programmes that involve the use of technologies, training the adventure and orientation skills and motivate young people to connect to their physical environment, be physically active and develop their transversal skills. After accomplishing this training course you will have ideas and methods, how to use deprived rural environment for learning in a cool way.

This training course will be followed by the 2nd training course in Weimar, Germany, 'Expedition - Designing Adventure in Urban Environments' 24.09- 30.09.2016.

Participants profile:
The training course will offer opportunities for 27 youth leaders, youth workers and trainers to develop their personal and professional competences. The participants are expected to be:
- Working directly with young people from inclusion groups in the deprived rural or urban environments;
- Interested to learn new methodologies and practice them with their target groups;
- Willing to invest into their personal and professional development;
- At least 21 years old.

Aims and objectives:
- The general aim of this training is to empower participants to design learning programs tailored to the needs and interests of young people by making the use of rural environment they work in.

After this training course participants will be able to create adventurous learning opportunities, through which young people would gain various transversal skills; will become more motivated to participate in the matters of community and become physically active.

Specific objectives of this training course:
- To offer learning opportunities participants to practice various approaches, methods and technological tools as elements for adventure learning programmes in deprived rural environments;
- To create opportunities for participants to learn to analyse own environment for creating tailored learning challenges for young people and community;
- To create a learning support group for peer‐coaching and support from the trainers for testing their ideas in youth work practice;
- To reflect and assess youth work practices and competences using European recognition tools (Youthpass, Youth Work Portfolio and Open Badges);
- To collect and disseminate innovative youth work methods which can be applied with inclusion youth groups living in the deprived rural environments.

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