"Mobilizing Europe" - "Employment", "Knowledge", "Culture"
Start date: Jun 17, 2014,
End date: Oct 16, 2014
PROJECT
FINISHED
The tri-lateral youth exchange (DE-UK-PL) is a follow-up of a youth exchange that took place in Northern Ireland in 2013, but additionally with a 3rd partner from Poland and will take place in Germany this year. As indicated by the title "Mobilizing Europe" there is the aim to bring young people from different cultural backgrounds and social dispositions together in order to support the growing of European awareness among them.
There will be 10 young people from each country, most of them living in rural areas; about 60% of them have lower opportunities through social and economical difficulties.
Regarding the thematical work this will mainly be related to the history of the German division, including a visit to the memorial of the victims of STASI (communist secret service) and the Berlin wall memorial as well as the Bundestag (German parliament). In workshops the young people will deal with the issues of prejudices, elections to the European Parliament and Human Ringhts. A highlight of the programme will be socalled home-visits, i.e. when German participants invite their colleagues for a visit to their families.
All this youth exchange is planned with a high grade of active participation of participants. They will be actively involved in the facilitation of most of the activities, while the hosting (German) group will have a special role and responsibility. In the beginning of the youth exchange there will be a contract among participants and group leaders, which includes rules of behaviour, envisioned learning results and desires of the participants. Additionally each of the groups will prepare a presentation by their own choice and present it to the plenary.
We expect that participants will learn to assess themselves, to take up responsibility for themselves and for others as well as to behave in a multicultural setting. A further aim is to improve the cooperation within a team. All participants will improve their language skills as well as their general educational background, and by this raise their understanding of society. They will get to understand dimensions and opportunities regarding education, training and job market, which will allow them to make use of the right of labour mobility.
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