TC; Doit!
PLACE AND DATE:20-29 April, 2018, Ignalina, Lithuania
PARTICIPANTS:34 young people.
WHO:18+
COUNTRY: Partner countries will be from UK, Lithuania, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, France and Croatia.
LANGUAGE: The working language will be English.
SUMMARY OF PROJECT
'"DO IT" is a training course under Erasmus+ Programme, that will be held in Vidukle, Lithuania, and it will include 32 participants (training team included), coming from 9 different European countries, namely:.UK, Lithuania, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, France and Croatia.
It is set with the aim of strengthening youth workers and exchanging experiences related to their effort to help young people in overcoming socio-economic issues since their position enables them to spread new gained knowledge and skills to the larger number of youngsters. This project will be a meeting point for youth workers from civil society organizations which support and encourage active participation of youth who are economically and socially disadvantaged. The goal is to introduce youth workers with new skills and knowledge which can be used as a tool in their further work with youngsters who are dealing with unemployment. Although target group are youth workers it will indirectly include young people influenced by the problems of unemployment, low standard of living, low income and other social and economic issues.
The applied activities will consist of non-formal learning methods, such as: creative workshops, field work, exchange of experiences, presentations, name games, ice-breakers, team building exercises, individual and group activities, discussions, debates, workshop on the Erasmus+ Program and workshops on project development.
We want to give our participants opportunity to get new skills and knowledge and to increase their ability to create projects which are tackling and solving the common community problems. With our project we will also support and stimulate mobility and mutual cooperation among European youth workers and stimulate youngster’s awareness of active role in European society as well as in their local communities. Participants will be able to exploit these results by using new skills and knowledges and by doing that they will influence their ogrganizations and, as well, their local communities.
Long term benefits of our project will be the platform created of new contacts and networks, and the possibility given to our participants to create new projects under Erasmus+ framework.
ACTIVITIES AND METHODS
In order to fulfil the objectives of the project, we created specific methodology based on expertise knowledge. In this project is about key action 1- the training. Project will have 3 phases: the preparation phases the implementation of the main activities and phase of expanding the results and evaluation.
Every day of the project realization, we are going to use non-formal educational methods in order to transit the knowledge of active listening of all the participants during the project. The activities will consist dynamic and creative workshops, which have aim to raise the awareness and share knowledge. The activities will be mainly for youth workers and methods will be based on non-formal education.
Since the project is about also the empowerment of intellectual capacities, through educational process, the methodology matches the objectives of the project and activities itself. The activities of the project are complexed so it starts from the basics general and very specific, meaning that we are starting with the basics and the terms that are introduction to the individual points of all the elements mentioned above.
The project will implement the following activities:- Workshops with interactive methods
- Role-playing – Discussions- Intercultural evening- Presentation of their organizations,
- Evaluation- Team-building activities,- Excursion
- Getting to know the local community
- Daily reflection groups
PARTNERS
The project will host 34participants from the following 9 organisations.
TRAVEL COSTS
According to new Erasmus Plus rules, the reimbursement of travel costs will be calculated used a specific program called Distance Calculator:
Country ofOrigin / Country ofDestination / Distance Band / No. of
Participants / Travel Grant per
Participant
UK / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
Italy / Lithuania / 2000 - 2999 km / 4 / 360.00
Lithuania / Lithuania / 0 - 9 km / 4 / 0.00
Croatia / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
France / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
Slovakia / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
Slovenia / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
Poland / Lithuania / 500 - 1999 km / 4 / 275.00
Turkey / Lithuania / 2000 - 2999 km / 4 / 360.00
After sending their tickets and boarding cards, participants will receive the reimbursement of their travel costs. Travel (flights, other means of transport) expenses are compensated (up to 100%), based on the actual expenses incurred and the distance from your location of residence to the location of the project (Ignalina, Lithuania). These distances must be calculated using the distance calculator supported by the European Commission. We don’t send money to each participant. We send only money to sender organization and sender organization will pay to participants. You must have both tickets and invoices.You cannot receive reimbursement if you lose your boarding passes. You mustdeliver it to us.
After project, you must go your home maximum in two days. The team leaders must send all team boarding passes, original tickets, original invoices to us by post. After your posts reach us, we invest your money to your organisation’ bank account in 45 days.
Accommodationand food: 100% funded by the EU.
Please note any extra days you wish to stay will be your own responsibility and food etc.You can come toLithuania max. 2 days extra before project and leave max 2 days extra after project.
Visa costs will be covered by participants.
DON’T ASK TO LEAVE PROJECT ONE DAY EARLY TO CATCH YOUR FLIGHT OR BUS. PLEASE BUY YOUR TICKETS ACCORDING TO PROJECT’S DATE.
Tiki Inn (Social Hotel & Tours Ignalina)
Pašakarvio g. 2, Palūšės k., Ignalina 30202, Litauen
+370 652 72444
Note: Organisers will not provide any accommodation for additional stay in Lithuania. If participants plan to arrive 2 days earlier or depart 2 days later they are kindly requested to inform us and we will be glad to offer assistance with booking a hotel.
HOW TO REACH IGNALINA
You can fly to Vilnius, Kaunas or Riga. The easiest way will be to take bus from Vilnius to Ignalina.
WHAT TO BRING
Since there is going to be an international evening, we will ask you to bring something traditional, famous or delicious from home - that you would like to represent your country with, and share with the others, it can be any kinds of food, drink...
BE READY FOR APRIL WEATHER IN LITHUANIA
ACCOMODATION
Tiki Inn (Social Hotel & Tours Ignalina)
Pašakarvio g. 2, Palūšės k., Ignalina 30202, Litauen
+370 652 72444
There are going to be 2-4- 6-8 persons per apart. We can’t arrange special room for couples. COUPLES ARE NOT WELCOME TO THIS PROJECT.
IF YOU ARE ALWAYS LATE AND DON’T PARTICIPATE TO PROJECT, YOU WILL BE SEND TO HOME.
We give a list of items included in your suit/room and a photo of your suit/room and ask to confirm the list. If you give any damage to the room or to the items, you have to pay for the expenses.
HEALTH INSURANCE
Health insurance is not provided and will not be reimbursed by the organisers. All participants are strongly advised to purchase private travel insurance, as costs of private health care in Lithuania are quite high if you don’t have.
PREPARATION
The organizers will not provide the participants with any kind of insurance! Therefore, we strongly recommend every participant to acquire travel insurance at their own expense for the whole duration of the course. Also, please have a valid EU healthcare insurance card (if applicable).
Each of the participating countries should;
Bring all your travel documents as presented above. Print out all your documents even if they are online. We don’t have printing opportunities.
Prepare a presentation about the sending organization (initiatives they have previously participated in, non-formal learning methods used, etc.). We want to get to know each other, to find out how people work with youth in other countries, and maybe to cooperate in the future.
Prepare a presentation on diversity in their country.
Find interesting videos / games / exercises / educational activities on diversity.
Prepare energisers that could be done in the morning.
Prepare for your country’s cultural evening. Please, try to be fun and creative for this! :) No one likes regular .ppt presentations! Any kind of activities are welcome (e.g. video presentations, dances, songs, games, quizzes, posters, flyers etc.). Don’t forget to bring your national drinks, dishes or snacks to share with others. Also, please prepare a mini (and, of course, fun) language course for the others. We count on you to make these evenings as interactive and fun as possible.
check the weather forecast before arrival and bring adequate clothes. Please also bring clothing and shoes that can be used for strenuous activities (such as dancing).
Bring good spirit, joy and happiness!!!
Wherever possible, take your laptops, digital cameras, smart phones and tablets – we will be doing some multimedia work that requires mobile equipment!
BASIC RULES
All the participants will be expected to be present and active in all the activities, unless being ill. Unauthorized absence from the activities and workshops won’t be tolerated.
Stress, nerves and bad mood is prohibited everywhere. Bring your best mood and big smile with you and keep it through the exchange! Prepare for fun! Those who fail to do that will be expelled from the exchange.
OUR PARTNERS MUST PROVIDE;
-Full Police checks for participants and staff who are working with organisation and those who are participating youth exchange.
-Partner Organisations’ Policies relating to Child Protection, Data Protection and Health and Safety.
-If you have participants under the 18 years old, participants must provide “Parental Consent form”.
Participants Task: You must care for the schedule time, be kind, respect, be positive, destroy the borders, have maximum fun, be cheerful and try to be part of solution. To see a problem and to criticize something is so easy. So do the difficult one and tolerate people.
Please don’t forget that: we are not going to give the meaning of life. We are not going to educate you. We are not your guides or teachers. We just try to destroy the borders between countries. We just share our experiences with you. Please trust our friendship and experiences about projects. If you are negative, believe us: nothing will be better. Nobody can be racist, respectful, negative, dirty, rebel, thief etc. in our project. So, be kind, have fun, share your experiences and miss us when you go home.
Team Leaders: You must collect and manage your team, share their problems with us kindly, and try to be part of solutions. Because good leaders can change everything positively or negatively. If somebody doesn’t join the program without permission, you should find and learn her/his problem. Share this problem with organisator to solve it. Sometimes, some participants can be sick. Of course, he cannot join the program then. But we should know this. Any organisators can’t call participants all time. This is a program and nobody can let other participants wait delayed participants.
When you go home, you must collect all your team’s boarding passes and send us only by you. We don’t want that everybody sends them by himself. Just imagine that: if 40 participants send everything one by one, how can we cope with it? It is the same for solving problems. So, you should help us while managing project and solving problems.
Group leaders from each country will be responsibility to implement the whole daily programme.
Partnership: All countries are equal in project. We are partners. So, while arranging something, we do this altogether.
SEE YOU ALL IN LITHUANIA