Applications have opened for the Tartu Youth work camp!
From today until Sunday, May 15-21, all 13-19-year-old young people in Tartu can apply for the Tartu Youth Work camp. This year's camp groups offer various jobs and schedules to suit every taste. Young people can work in kindergartens, libraries, strawberry fields, or even as food couriers. For more information about this year's groups, see here: https://tntk.tartu.ee/tartu-noorte-toomalev/ruhmad/. According to Roosi, a member of the Core group, the camp has provided [...]
Youth from three cities met at the spring youth work camp
The spring youth work camp, held for the first time last year, continued this year. The spring youth work camp brings together the core group of the camp, young people interested in the camp, group leaders, and camp organizers. Together, they carry out maintenance work and spend time playing camp games and holding discussions on camp-related topics to continue the camp tradition. This year, the spring youth work camp took place differently. Good friends from the Viljandi rural municipality's student youth work camp invited Tallinn's [...]
Give us memes! TNTK birthday meme contest!
The Tartu Youth Work Centre is celebrating its fifth birthday on May 1st! In connection with the birthday, we invite all former and current young people, employees, cooperation partners, and other friends to participate in a meme contest to collect the most humorous moments from the history of the Tartu Youth Work Centre. The contest runs from April 25th to May 1st. All submitted works will be posted on the Tartu Youth Work Centre's Facebook page, from which the jury will select […]
Third training meeting of the Erasmus+ project 'Inclusion is On' in Budapest
From April 13-15, the third training meeting of the Erasmus+ project “Inclusion is On” took place in Budapest, Hungary, attended by Margit, director of Tartu Youth Work Center, and Helene, development manager. In addition to project partners from Finland, Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, local students also participated in the training. The main theme of the project is adapting leisure opportunities to be more accessible for all young people, and this time, the focus was specifically on civic engagement. […]
Project „Diggiloo” training-meeting in Amstelveen
From April 20-22, the second training meeting of the Erasmus+ project “Diggiloo – Digital Cultural Production from Youth to Youth” took place in Amstelveen, with Margit, Liisa, and Eeva participating as representatives of the Tartu Youth Work Center. Topics covered in the training included the future of augmented and virtual reality, technical tools for digital production, and digital tools in youth work. In addition, we visited the Amstelveen city government and youth-focused institutions P60 and Future Face […]
Spring break with Tartu Youth Work Center April 24-28, 2023!
Spring has arrived, and the end of April is already on the horizon, which for schoolchildren clearly means one thing – SPRING BREAK! It has become a tradition for the Tartu Youth Work Center to offer something fun and out of the ordinary for young people on this occasion, and this time is no exception! We celebrate spring break from April 24th to 28th, i.e., Monday to Friday (centers are closed on weekends). Activities take place every day […]
FREE TRAINING FOR YOUTH: Street Art + Augmented Reality = Your Reality?!
Last autumn, a 500 m2 mural was completed under Tartu's Sõprus Bridge, a collaboration between young people from Tartu and Tampere. Now, the Finnish Institute offers young people in Tartu the opportunity to experiment with how a physical street art piece can find new expressions in the world of augmented reality. To this end, we are organizing a free training consisting of four workshops for young people up to 19 years old. As a result of the course, one or more virtual artworks will be created, with the street art piece serving as the starting point. [...]
Manga drawing course is open for participants!
In cooperation with the Tartu Youth Work Center, Tartu Folk High School is organizing a free course for young people aged 12-19, starting April 14th, titled “Manga Drawing. Japanese Comic Art”*. The course is designed to support the integration of Estonian and Ukrainian youth. The course will take place in two groups. Each group has 12 spots (six for Estonian and six for Ukrainian youth). Dates: April 14th - June 16th (Fridays) Group I at 2:00 PM-3:30 PM Group II at 3:45 PM-5:15 PM. The course takes place at Anne Youth Center […]
ESTEEM – YOUTH WORK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLE
ESTEEM – Youth Work is Responsible for the Well-being of Young People is an innovative 24-month Erasmus+ cooperation partnership project implemented by five organizations in Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, and Spain. The ESTEEM project focuses on the well-being of young people and measures that can be developed and offered to young people in youth work to improve and strengthen their well-being. As there is no single definition of well-being, we have studied existing and […]
New interest clubs with open participation are starting!
Spring is here and life awakens. New beginnings are also taking place at the Tartu Youth Work Center, where new club activities have started. At the Lille youth center for the older target group, a culture club has awakened from its winter slumber, taking place every Wednesday from 4 PM to 5:30 PM. Culture is all around us, and it is up to us to give it meaning. The idea of the culture club is primarily to develop it together with the young people themselves […].