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Don't get stuck, stack the cup
Don't get stuck, stack the cup
Start date: May 1, 2015,
End date: Feb 29, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Natura Hungarica Public Foundation('2001) works for the protection of environment and promotion of sustainable behaviour patterns. We the volunteers of the foundation participate in youth work. We run projects focused on the youth, aged 13-19, to give the support to become mentally and physically healthy adults, representing their interests. The Foundation supports sport activities and tools, like sport stacking, which also serves as creative educational tool, especially by children with disabilities and fewer opportunities.
We also organise gratis life-skill trainings and training for school groups how to react on cyber bullying, and other harassment.
In line with these, the goal of our project is to give the children, participating at Youth Exchange, possibility and support to become globally thinking, locally active and effectively communicating citizens.
On first 3 days participants explored their own persona, participating in a basic life-skill training. We promote the development of the young personality based on long proven theories, implementing non-formal learning scenarios, creating spectacular actions using an innovative sport and educational tool. Here they face their needs and competences, strength and weakness. This experience contributes to the achievement of their mental health, help them to decide properly, and find their role.
In the second part of the week, participants learned basic management skills to be able to plan and realise and evaluate a project, and manage their resources.
Good communication skills are vital. We showed positive verbal and non-verbal communication patterns to succeed in their private life, at school and later at work.
They also accomplished their own mini-project to represent their Erasmus mini-group and Smart Stacks Programme to a spontaneous audience on the main square in Szeged (Hungary)
To achieve above mentioned goals we used in the first line sport cups. Speed Stacks Hungary representatives invented a new, more complex way to use sport cups. It is called Smart Stacks Programme. Different learnt and new skills (i.e. oral tasks, physical exercises) are to be done, while placing the cups in different formations, specific sequences to assist learnt skills to become applied skills with sensor-motor learning and improvement of seriality.
During the week the participants also contributed to the development of Smart Programme as creative educational and recreational tool, and found the way to implement this tool and therapy in the education of persons with learning and social difficulties.
We enhanced the usage of other creative methods (music, poem, photography) to express their creativity and feelings.
48 participants have represented 6 organisation from 5 countries. 10 participants with fewer opportunities were in the team.
The main impacts of the project were:
Participants met persons from different social and cultural background and realised their strength and competence, so they have learnt to appreciate and tolerate each another, and demolish prejudices.
Their willingness and ability to communicate and cooperate has been improved.
They have learnt a lot of words in different languages.
We have laid the basis and eagerness in the participants to establish new projects, and comply with new challenges.
And last, but not least we had fun and adventure with young people with similar interests.
The Smart Stacks Programme, an innovative education tool has been presented to at least 48 teachers, trainers and interested pupils from 5 countries. Smart Stack Programme got feedback, new ideas on how to exploit and make use of it.
The new creative learning method has been introduced and implemented in various schools and other institutions in the participating countries since our Youth Exchange.