Summary of the Project

The INVEP 2.0 project (INternational Volunteer in Educational Projects) is a long-term project that consists of different stages. The first step starts with the INVEP 2.0 training course that will gather together young people from Turkey, Spain, Jordan, Palestine, Italy and Greece to learn how to act as trainers for fostering and promoting volunteering in educational projects with children and youth. During 7 seven days the participants will be Introduced in the techniques and methodologies to be a trainer of young people and get to understand the importance of educating children and young people early in transforming and changing the values ​​of the social system . Because being a volunteer with children and young people requires specific skills and training in order to fulfill the volunteer's expectation and the needs of the children and the young people. After the training, the participants will run at the local places two training courses for young people of their communities so that the participants become volunteers in educational projects already running in their local communities. At the end of the experience, some of them will meet together in a youth exchange in Greece where they will work and share their experiences by means of producing an art piece for Children with the topic of domestic violence. The project is the second stage of a previous one that was already tested during 2012-2013.