European Youth Information Day will be celebrated across Europe on Tuesday 17th April for the fifth year running. ERYICA (European Youth Information & Counselling Agency) will be working together with youth information workers across Europe to promote their organisations, services and their work with young people through a variety of activities. As a member of …
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TheSprout ran a two-day online journalism course at this year’s Summer Learning Festival.  The young people learnt the basics of online journalism, wrote some stories and made an animation about littering!  TheSprout team also attended Cardiff Big Weekend, giving out theSprout masks and talking to young people about how to get involved. TheSprout is offering …
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Ebbw Vale Institute, the oldest institute in Wales, hosted the Renewable Energy for Community Assets and Enterprises Conference on Monday 4 July. The seminar focused on learning from and sharing practical knowledge and skills with development trusts and other social and community enterprises from Scotland on the potential of ‘natural assets‘, particularly in the form …
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The CLIC PSE lessons is now available on the ProMo-Cymru website under the resources section. There are in total ten lesson plans: five for Key Stage 3 and five for Key Stage 4.  These detailed lessons plans comply with the All Wales PSE Framework and use the CLIC website as a tool to explore topics within …
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Staff from ProMo and CLIC (particularly its Cardiff site theSprout) have been attending the Cardiff Bloggers Meetups and Social Media Surgeries since they were started in March 2010 by Hannah Waldram of Guardian Cardiff and Ed Walker of yourCardiff. But when Ed and Hannah recently announced they were leaving Cardiff for the bright lights of …
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ProMo-Cymru has developed a social media training programme to support organisations in understanding and using this new media.  This can be a full or half day training workshop, according to your organisation’s needs and requirements. If you want to find out more, contact Rachel Burton, Training and Accreditation Officer, at rachel@cliconline.co.uk

On Friday 10 June, CLIC National Editor Ryan Heeger delivered a workshop at the Participation Cymru residential network event in Llandrindod Wells. Entitled ‘Multimedia Tools’, the workshop looked at the benefits of using CLIC to engage with young people, and the participation element of the websites. Youth workers from Wrexham, Caerphilly, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot …
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