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Balkan Identity of Youth
Balkan Identity of Youth
Start date: Feb 10, 2016,
End date: Oct 9, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
“Balkan Identity of Youth-BI-YOU” project addresses the lost of interests towards learning in general and lack of information on cultural identity of young peoplefrom rural areas and provides a creative and innovative as well as practical learning mobility opportunity for young people and their leaders; during the11 days of exchange they discover the Balkan world, it’s history and present. Romania, Croatia, Greece and Bulgaria will aim to improve 33 youth participants from rural areas’s knowledge on Balkan history, traditions and customs, their active involvement promoting their own traditions and customs using intercultural dialogue between generations .the project will enhance European citizenship and social cohesion for 400 villagers from the host rural community and from local communities of sending organizations.The 33 young people and leaders, the target group of BI-YOU; the young come from rural and urban areas, age 15-20, poor life conditions, low-average learning achievements, unemployed families or working abroad and have no experience in international teams. They are involved in all the steps of the projects, signing learning agreements and bearing activities’running process, they’ll learn in a challenging environment using non-formal education methods and tools - Compass and ICL games,World Café ,Living Library, Workshops, Drama games, innovative materials and web instruments to empower participants to be more active and effient on organizational level in initiating and implementing youth activities. The efficiency and quality of the methodology and their active participation and sharing will have a strong positive impact upon them making them be more involved in the future in supporting the cultural dialogue, act as European citizens and promoters of respect for diversity. The project results are the new improved and developed comeptences of the participants and their organizations, the impression the activities will have upon local suporters, citizens and media, the materials disseminated in other educational and social contexts to be used for raising cultural awarness of people : ” Balkan Forum Theater Festival”and “ Reading Culture-Reading Life” videos, a prezi of the Balkan symbols and cultural heritage and a poster of the „Post-it calendar action ”of dissemination. BI-YOU has all the necessary “ingredients” to be successfully in reaching the objectives as well as in accomplishing the foreseen impact.