Conference fee + hotel two nights + full board 200 Conference

Conference fee + lunch + coffee break two days 100

Funding: COURAGE
Our conference is a dissemination activity supported by the new Erasmus+ Creating Opportunities and Understanding
program. The target groups are youth and community workers, school foR Avoiding and preventinG Exclusion
leaders and teachers, trainers, and coaches, working with young people.
Participants from the EU programme countries can use KA1 funding.
Conference PIC number: 947682629 PIC number: 947682629

www.encourage.eu
Contact your National Agency (NA) for more information.
16/04 - 17/04 - 2018
Important: Ennis, Ireland
You must register your organisation on the European Commission Authenication
Service (ECAS) and you need a PIC code before applying for Erasmus+ funding.
Find a step-by-step guide to register your organisation on ECAS and PIC:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/register.html

Signing up to:

Majbritt Svensson
Project Coordinator Courage is a three year programme of research and
majbritt.svensson@albertslund.dk development integrating educational, youth, sports
and other leisure activities. The project consists of five
Brian McManus
partners from Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Lithuania
Clare Youth Centre
bmcmanus@clareyouthservice.org and Norway. It addresses the exclusion of young
people from social, educational, cultural and economic
opportunities associated with full citizenship as a
serious issue in Europe.
COURAGE Objectives From the program

Our ultimate goal is to improve the life chances across the whole European Meet Arsenal in Community
area of the projects ultimate beneficiaries - young people at risk from: Project partners presenting their case studies
social disengagement; educational exclusion and under-attainment; MOTan awareness raising organization working
becoming long-term NEETs (Not in Education, Training or Employment); for and with young people
experiencing lasting disadvantage in labour markets; being unable to exer-
cise their full rights as EU citizens.
The immediate target groups for our findings and products are youth and
Conference Venue
community workers, school leaders and teachers, trainers, and coaches, wor-
king with young people in varying
West County Hotel is just a 15-minute walk from Ennis city center. It offers
degrees of co-operation with related
modern rooms with free Wi-Fi,
agencies and with varying and often
West County Health and Leisure Club features a sauna, swimmming pool,
inadequate resources for training and
fitness center, team room, beauty salon, games room and large whirlpool.
support. Our ultimate beneficiaries are
The spacious rooms at the West County is elegantly decorated with satel-
the many hundreds and thousands of
lite TV and facilities for making tea and coffee.
young people whose life-chances will
Bunratty Castle can be reached in 15 minutes by car, and Ailwee Caves are
benefit during and after the lifetime of
a 40-minute drive away. The beautiful scenery of the Burren is 30 minutes'
the project from our target groups
drive from the hotel, and the famous Cliffs of Moher 40-minute drive
enhanced knowledge and competence.
away.
http://treacyswestcounty.com/

Conference objectives

To inform about the findings and expeiences from the COURAGE

project
To exchange experiences in how to prevent social disengagement;
educational exclusion and to encourage to after-compulsory-education.
To explore, develop and evaluate best practice from a number of
European teachers, trainers, principals and policy makers
Encourage and motivate conference participants to include the
European and international dimension in their future projects and
actions plans for their local activities
Demonstrating and sharing the best practice between COURAGE
partners and the conference participants