ESC Tampere training - the heart is all you need

Hello People 😃

Last week was quite a fruitful experience for the StepEurope team, as I got to go for an awesome training concerning European Solidarity Corps (ESC) projects in Tampere. The ESC is an initiative focused on creating opportunities for the Youth of Europe, giving them the chance to serve the community through volunteering or work in projects that aim to serve a European dimension and has the goal of making the atmosphere a better place.

This training in particular aimed to let the participants know more about the projects and actions that can be done by individuals and organizations, as well as public bodies in Europe, and all the elements that go into forming these actions (the support that the participants would get and how to gain that support, how to bring these projects to life, as well as finding partners, etc.).

What I loved about the training that it did not limit itself to being too academic rather than providing an active and friendly space for all of us participants to feel involved in the process of information collecting. It was an amazing opportunity to meet new people from different countries in Europe, such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which meant seeing the different organizations and public bodies they served and the possible partnerships that we as StepEurope could form in a future ESC cross-country project.

And now, after returning from this awesome training, I have with me the notes that would help us develop the project and the awesome memories I collected from this experience.

And we meet soon again in another blog post!

StepEurope´s intern Noora