Social Media 4 Social Ch@nge will be an intensive 8-days training course for youth workers,youth project managers and volunteers that will introduce them to the contexts, forms and tools of social media. Main aim of this course is to equip learners with the knowledge, critical thinking ability, and practical skills they need to improve the effectiveness of their work and meet the personal, professional, and civic challenges posed by social media. Proposed program includes a mix of hands-on, practical tuition together with theory, case studies and strategy tips. Participants will discover the possible pitfalls of using social media, learn appropriate netiquette, and look at examples of how to best construct and spread their messages to get results. With help of practical group and individual exercises blogging, microblogging, document, image and video sharing applications, social networks and social bookmarking will be explored. Participants will become familiar with a range of online communication tools, analyze their uses and implications, explore how can social media help non-governmental organizations to increase active participation and citizenship of young people, to foster inclusion, to achieve organizational goals and promote their causes. Training course will be hosted in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina and gather 35 participants and experts from Bosnia, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Macedonia.  We are looking for 3 motivated youngsters: available places left: 3 – Participation fee for each project is 30% of the travel costs, plus the annual membership fee 2013 (30€). For any questions, you can contact us by email at part3tdm2000@gmail.com.