This international training course aims at enabling youth workers to train their peers, colleagues and young people in their cities to become creators and organizers of educational walking tours which aim to explore the different realities of a place and to tell alternative stories about it. Educational walking tours are (mainly volunteers-based) organized guided walks through a […]
COVID 19-lessons learned International Youth work after the pandemic International seminar, 21-27 November 2021 in Madrid (Spain) About the Project Service Civil International and the partners of the project "COVID-19 - Lessons learned" are organizations that make international exchanges of volunteers and young people one of their main methods. In doing so, we aim to […]
Training activity 1: 21-29 November 2021, Diyarbakir, Turkey The training “Youth Without Borders” aims to train youth workers, youth leaders and activists to refelct upon positive (brain drain) and negative sides of migration and gain knowledge on how to deal with challenges resulting from migration as well as how to use opportunities in the society […]
Be your country?! Deconstructing culture in youth work and non-formal education International seminar, 3-9 December 2021 ONLINE Background of the seminar In youth and volunteering projects, we gather international groups of young people to foster mutual understanding and a culture of peace. Intercultural learning is our specialty! But we have the feeling that sometimes our […]
During our online pre-departure training you will learn more about our volunteer engagement, the workcamps and long-term work. Moreover, you will also get to know our values and goals. We deal with challenges in international workcamps or long-term assignments and will offer you various workshops on topics such as interculturality, conflict resolution, non-violent communication, group […]
Seminar: Landing and Spreading 6th to 13th March 2022, Mutters near Innsbruck, Austria Call for applications The project International peace and volunteer work is rooted in face-to-face exchange of people from different regions and backgrounds. Regular trainings, seminars and volunteer camps where youth workers and young people can exchange experiences and ideas, form the basis […]
18-27 th March 2022, Diyarbakir, Turkey Nowadays, we are worried about COVID-19 and its effects such as economic crisis, psychological damage, youth unemployment, questions and reconsideration about the solidarity between countries and the future of the EU etc. While some people believe this situation will be the end of the European Union, countries will be […]
Learning Lab(oratory): quality non-formal education in the digital world The idea With the Learning Lab(oratory) project, we aim to improve the quality of non-formal and informal learning aspects of volunteering activities in our organisations, in both physical and online formats. We are a partnership of 9 organisations: SCI Austria, CVS Bulgaria, SCI Belgium, SCI Germany, CID North Macedonia, SCI Poland, Para Onde? Portugal, VCV Serbia, Zavod Voluntariat […]
International training, 10-16 April 2022 in Rom (Italy) About the Project Let’s talk about gender! A few years ago, research about gender-based discrimination within SCI volunteering camps was published and it showed the many ways how gender oppression/ discrimination/ violence/ etc. exist within our projects. In many projects, we still face a sexist division of work, […]
A critical Look at Games in educational Work 16th to 23rd April 2022, Sonthofen, Germany The project Games and Energizers are very present in the activities of international Peace and Volunteering Organisations, like SCI and its partners. They are used in volunteer camps to bring the group together, and to work on contents during seminars […]
The Idea In SCI, we care about the high quality of our workcamps and other non-formal activities, and we share the need to monitor the results of our work, to know which approaches work and bring change to our audience. With the “Be the Change you want to see” project, we want to turn knowledge on the benefits of impact measurement into regular […]
SCI Italy is looking for 1 group leader for the youth exchange : The Living Library Week, which will take place from 4th to 13 th of May at La Città dell Utopia, a social laboratory in Rome. A group of young people from Italy, Catalonia, Greece, Hungary, and Austria will have the opportunity to […]
