The pilot-project, built around an 8-days Training Course on capacity building for youth non-governmental organizations to develop and implement projects and activities on preventing water pollution is an international cooperation project, which is being implemented between July and December 2011. It has been initiated by he Black Sea - Caspian Sea International Fund, financed by EC "Youth in Acti
on" Programme through Romanian National Agency, and involves other 8 youth NGO's from 8 European countries: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Aiming at increasing the capacity of members and activists within youth NGO's from the Black Sea region, this pilot-project intends to facilitate the exchange of experience and good practice concerning preventive activities for water pollution between 27 youngsters, as well as to improve their knowledge about water issues and water quality in the Black Sea basin while assuring a friendly, multicultural and motivating environment. The Training Course to be held in Romania on the heavenly beautiful Island of Gura Portitei on the Black Sea shore between 5 and 14 September, 2011, will be based on experiential learning and non-formal education. The participants will have the opportunity to observe the effects of water pollution in the field during outdoor activities in the Danube Delta and the polluted regions of the Black Sea shore. The sessions of the training will facilitate an interactive process of learning, focused on the participants, using case studies, brainstorming, storyboards, debates, creative workshops, and intercultural games and activities. By the end of this stage of the "Side by Side for the Black Sea" project we are expecting to have 27 trained and motivated youngsters with an improved sense of European citizenship, ready to use their enthusiasm, capacity and multicultural approach in their activity as members of the Civil Society to "challenge the challenges" of global environmental issues.
