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You can still register for three youth work camp groups until May 28! Tartu Youth Work Camp is looking for young people aged 15-19 to spend the youth work camp summer! There are vacancies in three out-of-town camps, two of which are in June-July (Jõeääre and Viru maasikas) and one in July-August (Piirikivi). You can register for the youth work camp through the Spoku environment at https://linnaportaal.tartu.ee/malev_nt/ylevaade?toetus=1707. To log in, a young person or parent can use an ID card, Smart-ID, Mobile-ID, or by using various bank links for this purpose. More information can be found at https://tntk.tartu.ee/tartu-noorte-toomalev/registreerimine/! Experiences, new acquaintances, and a pleasant summer await you! 

Welcome, friends!😊From today until Sunday (May 15-21), Tartu youth aged 13 to 19 have the opportunity to register for the Tartu Youth Work Camp. The camp consists of two main components: work during the day and leisure, including participation in after-work and weekend activities. During the day, the group works (4-6 hours per day, depending on age), and after work, there will be activities led by the organizers. Participation in all activities is mandatory. The salary is 4.30 euros/hour gross or depends on, for example, how many strawberries are picked. Specifically for Ukrainians, there are two groups:💙💛• Tartu Youth Work Centre 2 - for ages 13-14.…

  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 given her a lot – various work experiences, many new acquaintances, a tan, and while picking strawberries, she also got to eat her fill of them. "I have learned to communicate better," says Roosi. The development of social skills is a very important part of the camp, fostered through working together in a group and participating in joint activities.

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 both the Tallinn Student Youth Work Camp and the Tartu Youth Work Camp to Kärstna Manor, where three productive and fun days were spent from April 26-28, holding discussions on camp-related topics and performing maintenance work in the manor park. With the combined efforts of the core groups of the three student youth work camps, new balance trails were built in Kärstna Manor Park, and the underlying landscape of the park was cleared of brush and...

The Tartu Youth Work Center is celebrating its fifth birthday on May 1st! In celebration of its 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 Center. The contest runs from April 25th to May 1st. All submitted entries will be posted on the Tartu Youth Work Center's Facebook page, from which a jury will select the best meme. The winner will be announced on May 2nd, also on the TNTK Facebook page. Prizes for the winners. Please send memes to helene.toomeoks@tartu.ee. 

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. Through several discussions and group works, good practices from their respective countries were shared, and under the guidance of trainer Vanda, participants learned how to create a training program based on various special needs. Additionally, members of the Élménakadémia Egyesület organization, who use experience-based pedagogy methods in their work, shared their good experiences. The organization's primary focus is mainly on the Roma community living in Hungary, but they also...

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, and familiarized ourselves with local youth work activities there. It was especially great to hear presentations from active local youth about what youth work has given and taught them. An interesting observation was also that local youth work activities are primarily aimed at young people aged 15+ and there is a lot of work with adult (18+) youth.…

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 across our youth centers, the city, or even across counties! As usual, activities are voluntary and free! However, for certain events, prior registration or parental consent is required. On Monday, all centers are open, and youth initiatives take place in each center. On Tuesday, AHHAA takes place…

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. The tools used are the 3D graphics program Blender for creating augmented reality content and Mobi Lab's augmented reality solution Reality Maker for building the augmented reality experience in a physical location. After the training, the augmented reality experience created with Reality Maker can also be explored by all other interested parties. All necessary tools for learning are available in the workshops, and no prior experience is required. Breaks...