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Balkan Myth Busters
Start date: Mar 15, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Balkan Myth Busters (BmB) is 22 months long project in which 9 organization from Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Germany will be involved. These organization have been cooperationg for years, within SCI (Service Civil International), namely SAVA working group, which is in charge for voluntary exchange in the Balkans. This project will be dealing with sensitive and complex topics, such as nationalism and identity, but through creative and innovative activites. We will be using mythology to discover common and different aspects of individual and collective identities of youth living in the never peaceful Western Balkans. By combining old SCI tools for working with youth and creating new creative methodology, we will learn how to deal with these topics and try to implement them directly in 2 youth exchanges. 25 youth workers will gather for 10 days in Tavankut (Serbia) to learn, share, challenge and explore identity, nationalism and identity issues, as well as creative and inclusive ways to approach them in youth work. Research on nationalism and identity will be conducted by all partners and their results will be used in planing of all activiries. 30 youngsters from Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Greece will meet for 10 days on youth exchanges. First YE, which will take place in Trstenik (south of Serbia) will be dealing with deconstruction of national myths and identity. The second YE, taking place in Prizren (Kosovo) will be linked to results of first one, and participants will create new myths from future, from peaceful European community which is open for all. Finally, 5-day long evaluation seminar will take place in Prizren, and 15 youth workers who took part in previous activities will evaluate, discuss, strategicly plan future activities and dissemination of results (pdf toolkit, broshure with new mythologies, postcards, interractive web-page etc.).
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