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Nordic Youth Meeting 7 - Take Your Challenges for Democracy !
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“Nordic Youth Meeting 7 – Take Your Challenges for Democracy!!!” is a Youth Exchange under the KA1 Mobility Project of Young People and Youth Workers of Erasmus+ programme. 36 youngsters between 13-17 years old from 6 EU and non-EU countries, namely Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Armenia will get together for 8 days in August 2015. The venue of the project is a resort city of Tsakhagdzor, Armenia. Nordic Youth Meeting has a history of six years. During those six years the same participating organizations have been cooperating to contribute to the peaceful and prosperous future of their countries. Thus, six youth exchanges have been implemented on different topics that are of paramount importance for the society and especially for the upcoming generation. Successful cooperation and the gained outcomes inspire the partners to launch new initiatives in order to spread the European values and approaches via widening both targets and topics range. 2015 will be a new step, a new approach towards another crucial topic - DEMOCRACY. The overall objectives of the project are as follows: • To raise awareness of the youngsters on the topics of democracy, communication, peace, intercultural dialogue, conflict resolution, etc., • To motivate the youngsters be an active and a real member of their societies, • To provide the youngsters with the essential information and knowledge shared by the leading experts of the field, • To give the floor to the youngsters to share personal ideas and personal approaches, to present country specific examples. The planned activities include workshops on the essential aspects of democracy, namely human rights, conflict management, intercultural learning, active citizenship, tolerance and democratic society. To make the learning process more complete a series of meetings among participants and leading experts in different fields will be conducted on the topics of "The role of youth in democratic processes in Armenia" and "Armenia as a member of European youth family". In order to ensure effective, interactive and interesting environment non-formal methods will be used. The warm and dynamic atmosphere during entire period of activities will be assured by Name games, Ice breakers, Team building activities and Energizers. To reach the desired intercultural awareness of participants cultural days and sightseeing will be organized. The general result and expected impact will be enhancement of the participants' sense of democracy, tolerance, as well as expansion of their outlook and intercultural communication skills, enrichment of the knowledge of civil society and active citizenship. All the above mentioned will promote the youngsters' self-estimation, self-confidence which will affect their future personal and professional life and development. The expected impact on the participating organizations will be widening of their cooperation scope, getting new experience, information on the new topic, enhancement of the working skills in the new unknown international environment.
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