What is Youth Exchange ?
Youth exchanges bring together groups of young people from two or more countries, providing them with an opportunity to discuss and confront various themes while learning about each others' countries and cultures; they help you learn new skills and improve your CV. Groups of young people can organise a youth exchange with other young people from one or more EU country lasting five to 21 days. Young people from different countries meet and live together to jointly carry out a work programme designed and prepared by them before the exchange. This could be a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations and outdoor activities. They allow young people to develop competences; discover new cultures, habits and life-styles through peer-learning; and strengthen values like solidarity, democracy and friendship.
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What is waiting for you there?
- Team building activities
- Ice breaking games
- Workshops managed by the participants (there’s no a trainer, it’s peer learning) about ICT competences and languages
- Intercultural evenings
- Cineforum
HOW ABOUT "SPEAK-UP" ?
"Speak UP" will involve five youth organizations from five European countries (Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain and France), who work in rural or disadvantaged urban areas realizing activities to support active citizenship of young people. The project “Speak up” aims to foster and promote social inclusion of youths living in rural or disadvantaged areas. It will bring together 30 youngsters selected among this target group by five European youth organizations (5 participants and 1 group leader per country) with the aim of equipping the participants with direct and transversal skills in order they become more competitive on the labour market.
The main event will be the youth exchange that will take place in Reggio Emilia, close to Bologna, in January 2017. During those 12 days the activities will be run using non formal methods, a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations, outdoor activities, etc.
In the first part of the youth exchange the main method will be the “time bank”, a pattern of reciprocal services exchange that uses units of time as currency: the participants will share their skills and competences on ICT and foreign languages. This helps youngsters to enhance their skills and exchange them among peers, fostering active participation and learning from each other.
Then, according to the knowledge they have acquired, they will create several tools to teach/learn ICT and foreign languages through non formal methods.
The impact on the participants will be deep, both in the short and in the long term since they’ll gain transversal skills (such as deeper self-confidence, attitude to the intercultural dialogue and active citizenship), as well as some specific skills useful into the labor market (such as ICT and foreign languages).
Additionally other stakeholders could acquire and benefit from the project results by attending the final event, where the participants will share the tools created with other youths, teachers, youth workers, representative from public bodies.
It will not only the young people taking part in the project and the locals, profiting a great deal from the project, but also the entire local and international community. Through the dissemination events, the project and its results (in particular the non formal tools) will be spread into the partners' communities thus attaining an international impact. The results will be spread even in partners' channels reaching mostly other youths that could be taught foreign languages and ICT in an amusing way.
Based on our experience, to foster active participation, the meals will be prepared by the participants themselves and they will be in charge of cleaning as well. Accommodation, food, activities, local transports are fully covered by the project. The travel costs will be reimbursed up to 170euro per participant, as soon as all the receipts will be sent. No other amount of money will be asked or given to the partners. All the participants will be insured by the applicant organization.
The main event will be the youth exchange that will take place in Reggio Emilia, close to Bologna, in January 2017. During those 12 days the activities will be run using non formal methods, a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations, outdoor activities, etc.
In the first part of the youth exchange the main method will be the “time bank”, a pattern of reciprocal services exchange that uses units of time as currency: the participants will share their skills and competences on ICT and foreign languages. This helps youngsters to enhance their skills and exchange them among peers, fostering active participation and learning from each other.
Then, according to the knowledge they have acquired, they will create several tools to teach/learn ICT and foreign languages through non formal methods.
The impact on the participants will be deep, both in the short and in the long term since they’ll gain transversal skills (such as deeper self-confidence, attitude to the intercultural dialogue and active citizenship), as well as some specific skills useful into the labor market (such as ICT and foreign languages).
Additionally other stakeholders could acquire and benefit from the project results by attending the final event, where the participants will share the tools created with other youths, teachers, youth workers, representative from public bodies.
It will not only the young people taking part in the project and the locals, profiting a great deal from the project, but also the entire local and international community. Through the dissemination events, the project and its results (in particular the non formal tools) will be spread into the partners' communities thus attaining an international impact. The results will be spread even in partners' channels reaching mostly other youths that could be taught foreign languages and ICT in an amusing way.
Based on our experience, to foster active participation, the meals will be prepared by the participants themselves and they will be in charge of cleaning as well. Accommodation, food, activities, local transports are fully covered by the project. The travel costs will be reimbursed up to 170euro per participant, as soon as all the receipts will be sent. No other amount of money will be asked or given to the partners. All the participants will be insured by the applicant organization.
Who is organizing?YouNet promotes, designs and carries out: learning mobility and european active citizenship activities at a local, regional, national and international level; medium and long term volunteering and learning projects; cultural exchanges; informative, scholastic and professional orienting; cultural, social, sport, recreational and editorial activities; seminar and formative training aimed to organisations, social workers and citizens; formative, promotional and informative initiative related to specific themes linked to the above mentioned topics.
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