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Intercultural Bridges for United Europe
Start date: Aug 15, 2013,

The youth exchange "Intercultural Bridges For United Europe" took place in Tsaghkadzor,Armenia from 22-28 October 2013. It involved 31 participants from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Poland,Croatia,Bulgaria . The project was hosted by “Youth for Exchange and Cooperation. The main aim of the youth exchange was to create space for intercultural dialogue and to give the participants fromdifferent countries the opportunity to share common values and learn about other cultures .During the week of the exchange we had different activities such as: games, group works, discussion about Europeanvlaues, about active participation, Forum Theatre addressing issues of discrimination. All the activities were designed so as to develop in participants the sense of confidence and to encourage them to be active citizens and to take active role in the life of their community. By means of this workshops participants were able to express their understanding of tolerance, diversity and united Europe. Methodology consisted of : workshops, games, simulation games, discussions. The workshops were based on the principal of rotation, so that all participants could participate in all of them by changing their group each day and in the end they will come up with final presentation. All these are elements of Non-formal Education focus on voluntary learning and active participation. We had an excursion to the city, during which participants get to know about the cultureand history of the hosting country .During the international evenings participants had chance to present their own country , culture and traditions and get to know other cultures at the same time.

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