The Youth Organization ALTER ECO - Communicating through Media, Bucharest is looking for participants from youth Romanian

organizations to take part in a Training Course "Informing Youth" that will take place in Struga, Macedonia from 15th to 22nd of

January 2008.

The Training course is organized by Macedonian Youth Press and will count with participants from 11 countries (Romania, Poland, Italy,Greece, Bosnia Herzegovina, Turkey, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro).

PARTICIPANTS PROFILE

We are looking for 4 participants between 22-30 years old that are part of a Youth Romanian organization with experience, in youth work, Youth in Action Program and that has a special interest or has beeninvolved in projects related to informing youth by using different media tools.

If you re interested in taking part on this TC send us your CV and a short description of your organization activities (in English) until 25th of November to info@brain-storming.info - specify in the subject TC Macedonia.

NOTE: JUST SELECTED PARTICIPANTS WILL BE CONTACTED.

TC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Information is very valuable resource not only for the organizations but also for the beneficiaries of the programs. Nowadays many organizations face the lack of proper mechanisms for finding and disseminating useful information among its members, volunteers and the community.

The TC aims to promote:

• Cooperation and dissemination of information among different organizations at national and European level

• Development of informational structures inside organization such as youth medias

The project seeks to analyze the importance of the information, development of informative structure and youth media at local,

national and European level.

The different workshops will allow participants to learn from each other experiences and to work in developing concrete media

instruments (web, newspapers, radio…) for disseminating information.

The TC will provide participants with the required knowledge about youth information that will allows them to create in cooperation a web page aimed to inform young people from all over Europe about different youth related topics. The participants will be responsible of creating the contents and updating the site.

The trainers will share their knowledge regarding structures such as Euro-desk, European Youth Press, Youth Portal, SALTO RC and etc.

TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION COST

Participant'' s accommodation and food costs for the week are provided by the TC organizers (100%). Travel costs (bus or train) will be covered 70% under the framework of the Youth in Action Program (the travel cost will be reimbursed to participants by Macedonian Youth Press organizations during the TC).

For more info, you can contact us at info@brain-storming.info

Talia Delgado

Program coordinator

ALTER ECO – Communicating through Media

Ramnicu Valcea 30, Sector 3 - Bucharest

E-mail: info@brain-storming .info

www.brain-storming.info; www.epyd.eu; www.altereco.ro