The International Seminar 'Step in, Informal is Normal?' working sessions with pupils of the Obligatory Secondary Education Schools of Calvià, took place on 22nd October
The Town Hall's Youth Service, with the collaboration of the University Centre of Calvià (CUC), has been in charge of organising the International Seminar 'Step in, Informal is Normal?' activities which took place on 22nd and 24th October and which expected to make known the experience which mean the youth exchanges to the youths of the municipality and the social and civic entities and offer them the opportunity of knowing entities and projects of the participating countries.
The working sessions with pupils of the Obligatory Secondary Education Schools of Calvià took place on 22nd October. The project was explained to the participants and also an extract of the film “The Anholt Project” was presented. On behalf of the Town Hall attended the event, the Deputy Mayor for Social Cohesion, Nati Francés, and the Councillor Delegate for Youth, Israel Molina.
Step in, Informal is normal? is a seminar to work, jointly with different European youth entities and agents of the education field, the recognition of the informal learning as a personal competency of the youths. It took place in the Es Generador premises of Palmanova from 20th to 25th October and in which participated representatives of six different countries: Italy, Denmark, Portugal, Germany, Austria and Spain. From Mallorca participated as associated of the project: the UIB, the Centre d'Estudis de l'Esplai, and the Calvià Town Hall through the Youth Service with the collaboration of the Municipal Institute of Education and Libraries of Calvià (IMEB).
The seminar expected to analise the results of improvement of the competencies and the new learning reached within the informal learning carried out in the youth exchanges. It is about a seminar framed within the European programme Erasmus +.