First Bonn

Shortly about stay in Bonn. After 12 hours of travelling (in which I've spent about 2,5 h waiting for trains in Pila, Poznan and Berlin) I arrived to Bonn. I was picked up from the train station by Serhan, who was there for a training course until 31st of October. On the way to the youth center we've met Erzsi - course director of EM 4 in Cardiff :) After check in and unpacking my clothes we went to the pub in the building - to welcome friends and get to knew new people. It was an evaluation seminar of all 6 European Modules 2006 and also for trainers working on - so called - networking trainings of National Agencies of YOUTH Programme (Tic-Tac, SOHO, BiTriMulti, ToM, ToT), so there were about 60 trainers from whole Europe. It was a very good opportunity to meet trainers and also people working for NAs, Partnership and SALTO. It was a good time with interesting and funny people. And also during the first evening Serhan also was developing his network :) We also finished a programme for our next project application.
During the first day there was two parts: Youth in Action Programme (in which Serhan could still participate before going back to Turkey) and YouthPass. It was quite interesting, even if this YouthPass means quite much more work for organizers and trainers, as well as for participants. In my opinion to do it properly it should be one day more in each training... Who will pay for that? And at the evening we had 'Bye Bye YOUHT, welcome Youth in Action Party', which was very nice. Especially Twilight Zone - misterious place, where each of us has a lot of fun... Outcomes - photos should be send by Udo soon to us.
Second day was first for evaluations in teams of each Module. Then also discussions about choosen outstanding questions or good practices related with European Modules in groups of interests. After lunch there was a general input and discussion about European Citizenship and working groups on choosen issues.
Third day was about the future development and improvments of next generations of European Modules. Changes seems to be quite big, but many of them are not agreed finally still, so it's better not to write about it now. There was a lot of disucssions and a bit of confusion. Let's see what will be a final curriculum made by the curriculum development group. Final decission should be made in December.

During this seminar Voki (trainer with whom I've worked in Cardiff) proposed me to co-lead with her a seminar about youth projects in municipalities, which will be held in Macedonia, between 19th and 25th of November. It's very soon (they had problems with trainer), but it seems that I'll get tickets - organizers are working to pay them now. It's good that they will do it now, because it'll be about 2000 PLN, what is more than 500 Euro.

I was in Bonn since 30th October until 2nd November until 4:16 PM. And at this hour I started my travel to Berlin...