MAKE IT YOUR MILLENNIUM

International Training course Make it your-Millennium is about the Millennium Goals that will end in 2015. These Goals are not well known among youth and there are still many efforts to be taken around the world to achieve them. The idea for this project comes from the opinion that when we want to achieve the Millennium Goals, we have to involve everyone in the process. Mostly organizations and governments work with the Goals, but also young people can do something about it. And it is also important to learn how you can work individually on the Goals in your own community and not only how to collect money to put in projects in third world countries. This 7 working days International Training course "Make it your-Millennium" to be held in Costesti aims at to bring youth more close to what the Millennium Goals are, what kind of policy several countries have on the Goals and why, promote the dialogue between youth and local policymakers about policy on the Millennium Goals, let youth take action in their own life to work on the Millennium Goals and to create a tool kit aiming to inspire people to generate new ideas, recognize the importance of communication and education as powerful tools to implement change.The project also aims at teaching the youth how they can do their part in their own city and country and creating awareness of the importance of the Millennium Goals among the youth. European citizenship will be promoted for the youth gets to know each othere "s culture and discover similarities and differences. Also the youth will participate in the society, organise their own YiA projects, promote support of YiA programme and speak to citizens and local governments. 32 young participants from the EU and EECA region are deliberately chosen to come from countries with multicultural communities. ADVIT Moldova will act as host and sending organization in this project. oe Tools and methods: Methodology of the training course follows the main principals of non-formal education and training in Europe .Main approaches that will be followed during the course are experiential learning, intercultural learning, active participation, debates, Overall, variety of methods will be used during the training course: MDGs activities (practical exercises, team work, etc.), role play games, work in mixed groups, theoretical inputs and plenary presentations, tasks containing experiential learning elements, working in international groups on project development, action planning. Training theory and practice will be combined. After each practical session there will be a group reflection planned to share experiences and to discuss how to imply the technique in our work with youth. The programme is shaped that way so that the participants will take part both in informative and creative workshops, where they will have time and space to learn, express their ideas, think critically and generate their own approaches and methods. Before the young people start the project they will be asked to do a preparation assignment, so that they will be involved from the very beginning. During the stay in Costesti the participants will discuss what kind of assignment they want to complete after the project (the assignment has to meet with some criteria).