🌲 Outdoor Hard Skills Training 🌍

📍 Location: Galyatető, Hungary 🇭🇺
🗓 Dates: 14-22 March 2025
💡 Focus: Outdoor experiential education, low rope courses, group-building, and a short overnight expedition in the woods.

🔍 What to Expect
This 7-day training course combines hands-on experiences and practical skills to enhance your expertise in outdoor education. You’ll explore low rope elements, group-building activities, and wilderness overnight expeditions, gaining tools to work with youth, including highly vulnerable groups.

Program Objectives:

  • 🧗 Master low rope elements: Learn to use them as educational tools.
  • 🌲 Expedition skills: Overnight in the woods to understand its value in youth work.
  • 🩺 Wilderness First Aid & Risk Management: Increase your awareness and safety skills.
  • 🎢 Experience high rope activities: Participate in high rope challenges (note: not focused on building high ropes).
  • 🌟 Self-awareness: Strengthen your understanding through outdoor experiential activities.

By the end of this course, you’ll have practical tools, technical skills, and deeper self-awareness to integrate outdoor experiential education into your youth work programs.

🎯 Who Should Apply?
Open to:

  • Youth workers, trainers, educators, and professionals working with youth.
  • Diverse roles such as instructors, facilitators, teachers, psychologists, and coaches.
  • Participants aged 18+ from Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Croatia 🇭🇷, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Denmark 🇩🇰, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Greece 🇬🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Italy 🇮🇹, Latvia 🇱🇻, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Poland 🇵🇱, Portugal 🇵🇹, Romania 🇷🇴, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Spain 🇪🇸, Sweden 🇸🇪, Türkiye 🇹🇷.

🔑 Key Traits:

  • Motivation to enhance outdoor education skills.
  • Interest in working with young people and experiential methods.
  • Ability to communicate in English.

📋 Logistics

  • 🛏 Accommodation & Meals: Fully covered by Erasmus+ (3 meals/day).
  • 🎟 Participation Fee: €30 (can be waived for limited financial situations; email hello@elmenyakademia.hu).
  • 🚍 Travel Costs Reimbursement: Based on EU distance calculator:
    • 10-99 km: €28 (€56 green travel)
    • 100-499 km: €211 (€285 green travel)
    • 500-1999 km: €309 (€417 green travel)
    • 2000-2999 km: €395 (€535 green travel)

📩 Apply Now!
👉 Application Form
📅 Deadline: 14 January 2025
📅 Selection Date: 31 January 2025

💬 Questions?
📧 Email: hello@elmenyakademia.hu
📞 Phone: +36 30 462 4119

🧭 Organized by: Academy of Experience / Élményakadémia KHE

🌟 Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to boost your outdoor education skills while connecting with like-minded professionals!