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Opposites attracted - a intercultural film project
Opposites attracted - a intercultural film project
Start date: Jun 18, 2014,
End date: Oct 30, 2014
PROJECT
FINISHED
"Opposites Attracted - a intercultural film project" is a European youth project, which gathers Danish and Polish youth across international, cultural and language barriers to work with film in a European context.
Titled “Opposites Attracted” the focus of the films will be international meeting across boarders. For example the meeting between two educational systems, a new friendship, a holiday fling that evolves, a high-speed car chase through Europe and so on. The choice is the young participants’.
The participants will be 12 Danish and 13 Polish young people between the age of 13 and 19 years, who have an interest in film and society. For both project partners it is important that the project invites and is able to include young people with special needs/less resources. Therefore it is an official demand that a minimum of 25% of the participants is within these categories.
The project runs from 18th of April until 30th of October and is divided into three parts: preparation, implementation and follow up.
The preparation is two parallel courses in Denmark and Poland, which intend to prepare the young participants for the project and the upcoming youth exchange.
The implementation is an eight-day youth exchange in Mieroszow, Poland, where the project itself is executed. During these days there will be a variation of workshops and group work, where the aim is to produce 5 short films within the theme “Opposites Attracted”.
In the follow up the focus is evaluation and communication of the project results. The follow up will start when the project partners are gathered in Poland and hereafter continue separately in the two countries.
The main goal with the project is to secure that the participants develop and gain new competencies with the following categories: "Language and nonverbal communication", "Planning and logistics", "Digital knowledge", "Initiative and entrepreneurship" and "Social, intercultural and societal understanding". Furthermore the youth exchange will give the participants a greater sense of cohesion with other young Europeans and contribute to a more transnational culture in future decisions regarding studies, work and social life, and a wish to explore all of Europe and all the opportunities within.
Other goals of the project is connected to the themes of: "Filmproduction", "Participation of young people from both countries", "European experience for the participants", "European experience for the project workers", "European experiece for the project partners", "Participation of young people with special needs/less resources" and a line of dissemination activities. The dissemination activities of the project will center on showing the value European youth projects create for the young participants as well as for the project partners involved.
Project partners are Ung Egedal, Denmark and Plubliczne Gimnazjum in Kieślowskiego Krzysztofa, Poland.