2012-10-07

October 06-07, EPSAYA public union organized 2 days training courses within the project of “Leadership school for young people from regions” for the 20 youth participants from the 11 different regions of the Azerbaijan Republic – Absheron, Agdam, Baku, Beylagan, Bilasuvar, Ganja, Lankaran, Masalli, Sumgayit, Shaki and Yevlakh in AB Qala Hotel, Lankaran city. It should be noted that though there were 40 applicants, but only 10 women and 10 men youth participants were elected for the training courses. Besides the staff there were two local trainers – Mr. Samir Akhundov and Mr. Ilkin Muradov from Lankaran in the training courses. During the training courses the staff and the participants discussed a lot of themes related to leadership skills – “Community, citizen activism, our rights and duties, the civil society institutions, formal, non formal and non-formal education concepts, opportunities of non-formal education, personal and professional development of the youth, general information about CV, the design of a professional resume, letter of motivation, job and ways to get information about jobs, job search skills, effective ways to find a successful job, interviews and the secrets of a successful interview, presentation on Power Point and design of the modern presentations, secrets of the successful presentation, preparation of the success stories, democracy, the concepts of state and society, human rights and freedoms, gender and gender equality, tolerance and stereotype, leadership and management, types of leadership, community leadership and communities, role and place of the leaders in the society, volunteer, the values ​​and benefits of volunteerism and International Voluntary Institutions, communication”. During the training courses the staff used different role-playing games, interactive group works, debates, simulations, focus group discussions and presentations and more other training methods including watching to the different social videos related to the topics throughout the entire session. In the end of the training courses the participants and the staff gave their views on the project and thanked to the donor – the Youth Foundation under the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Azerbaijan Republic for realizing such kind of project for the youth from the regions.