THE VALE COURSE 2025
The Value-driven Advanced LEadership (VALE) Course 2025 will be a training course for 25 young leaders in the nonprofit sector to focus on developing their leadership skills.
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The course is made possible with support from Erasmus+ and Youth For Understanding Norway.
The Idea
Advanced leadership training -
By Youth for Youth
The VALE Course 2025 is a transformative six-week leadership programme designed for 25 young international leaders in the non-profit sector. This unique journey features two immersive in-person modules – Module 1 in the serene landscapes of France and Module 2 in the vibrant settings of Estonia – taking place in early 2025, with a pivotal one-month long virtual component connecting these experiences.
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We aim to bring our participants with us on a profound learning journey to better understand and develop their leadership skills, to help them become more aware, skilled, and value-driven leaders ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.
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We’re breaking the mould of traditional leadership training by focusing on immersive, impactful learning. This course is designed to challenge you, pushing you out of your comfort zone to not only refine your leadership skills but also to gain a profound understanding of the values that drive you. Ultimately, we seek to empower you to lead with a larger confidence and purpose, both in your volunteer work and in shaping the broader world around you.
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Ready to level up your leadership? Apply now and begin your journey!
The Activities
And we're back! This time, The VALE 2025 will be two leadership retreat modules in Estonia and France.
Confirmation of participation
We will let all selected participants know of their selection by October and aim to have financial matters settled by December 2024.
Preparatory tasks
We will engage participants with mandatory preparatory tasks in the months leading up to the first module to reflect on ideas of leadership and values to kickstart the process.
The first in-person module
Wednesday–Sunday (4 days)
19–23 February 2025
We will meet in France for an intensive and immersive leadership experience that will challenge participants to re-examine the way they see themselves and the world.
Experimential module
To reinforce learnings, it's time to experiment: try out newly acquired skills at studies, work, and volunteering commitments.
The second in-person module
Monday–Saturday (5 days)
24–29 March 2025
We will meet in Estonia to continue our journey together, having gained valuable insights while experimenting.
The follow-up period
Becoming a part of the alumni network and following up on individual action plans for continuous learning.
The Participants
25 young people ready to level up their leadership skills
The target group of The VALE is young volunteer leaders representing a youth organisation. The course strives to have a diverse applicant pool and to have a balanced group of participants in terms of gender, background, and experience.
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Please read the call for participants for more information, including detailed information about the financial matters.
The Team
By young people,
for young people
In addition to being experienced youth workers and leaders in their own right, all trainers (aged 26-32) will be experienced NFE (non-formal education) trainers and facilitators:
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Elisabeth Markert (DE)
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Riikka Pasanen (FI)
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Konstantin Pelz (DE)
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Louisa Richter (DE)
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Ieva Silickaite (LT)
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Erik Sundberg (SE)
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Talk to us at: contact (at) thevale.eu
The Funder
The VALE Course 2025 is financially supported by
Erasmus+. Thank you, European Union!
