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Start date: Jun 20, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Youth international exchange project is directed towards the youth initiative promoting the development of meaningful leisure activities for remote rural areas of Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania. Meaningful leisure activities according to the needs of young people's interests and needs are important steps to reduce the formation of different addiction among young people and to prevent unwanted public youth deviant behavior, which encourages youth boredom and inactivity. Project aims to: 1. With initiative and self-esteem-enhancing activities for young people in rural areas to reduce social exclusion and promote the empowerment of free time organizing and active spending. 2. With variety of creative and practical activities allow the young people to aware their skills, abilities and acquirements that can serve as a motivator for independent youth leisure time activities planing and organization. The Tasks: 1. With non-formal education methods to develop young people's awareness of the opportunities to realize their own initiatives and gain new skills and abilities in a meaningful free time spending. 2. Gather youth initiatives, experiences and suggestions for productive leisure activities in rural areas. The project will involve 30 young people and their leaders from Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria Young people aged from 13 to 17 years. The main criteria by which participants were selected: 1) young people living and studying in remote rural areas, 2) the lack of opportunities for young people to meaningfully spend their leisure time in accordance with their needs and interests, 3) young people have no or have little experience of participation in projects and activities of the organization - inactive youth. The project activities are directed towards a variety of ways - presentations, discussions, workshops, experience trip, meetings, performances and exhibition - show young people as being aware of what is available to them - the resources and capabilities - to be able to contribute their quality of life in a meaningful spending free time. In project are mainly used a variety of non-formal education methods. The main project's intended result is a youth self-confidence and initiative promoting, learning and a variety of useful knowledge and skills, promoting international cooperation and cultural differences in cognition, the ability of young people to realize their promotion initiatives related to meaningful leisure time spending, improvement of language skills and ability to work in a group. Long-term benefits provided by the project are: 1) active young people with international project experience, which is an important resource for the local community to improve the quality of life for meaningfully in planning their leisure time and other important activities, 2) international cooperation between partners, and among young people, which serves as the basis for the development of new initiatives.
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