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Summer Camp 2016 - European Youth for Peace: Creat..
Summer Camp 2016 - European Youth for Peace: Creating a United Tomorrow
Start date: Jan 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
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FINISHED
CAMPUS15 is a non-profit organization run on a voluntary basis. It works towards peaceful and lasting conflict resolution. Since 1998 it has been building bridges of confidence and trust: young people with different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds are given time and opportunity to get to know each other. First, Campus15 organizes a three-week Summer Camp in Germany. This is followed the next year by a Reunion in a partner country. As a third step, after the Summer Camp and the Reunion, CAMPUS15 encourages and helps the participants to organize their own follow-up meeting. In 2016 the 12th Summer Camp will get started. CAMPUS15 primarily focusses on young people from West Balkan countries. Only with a European perspective young people living in that region will be confident that they can coexist peacefully in the future. On the other hand young people from Central Europe recognize how important the European Integration was in securing peace and still is.The Summer Camp 2016 will bring together 40 young people (boys and girls in the age of 15 – 16 years) and 9 youth counsellors from three program countries (Poland, Croatia, Germany) and four neighboring partner countries from the West Balkan area (Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Serbia). The partners will publish the call to apply for the project. This way youth from all parts of a partner country have the chance to take part. Venue for the project from 1 – 21 August 2016 is the Youth Hostel in the town of Bad Honnef, in the area of the “Siebengebirge”. The title for the project reads: “Summer Camp 2016 – European Youth for Peace: Creating a United Tomorrow”. Its overall objective is to enable and strengthen young people to engage for tolerance and integration and to participate actively in the further construction of civic societies in their home countries and in Europe. Future cooperation within border crossing common youth work may so be effected.The methods to do all this are: group work, creative actions, simulations, intercultural games, outdoor and confidence building activities, movie nights, sports, discussions and talks with representatives of political organizations, simply trial and error ways of learning, self-organized project groups. All this will primarily be done thru peer-to-peer education. Regular meetings within so called element groups, small groups which are composed of boys and girls from all countries involved, will be conducted almost every day. In those meetings the participants are offered the chance to reflect and talk about on the daily events, be helped with personal problems, seek advice and come up with proposals.Overall the value of confidence building youth work for adolescences should be noticed and how this element will help to shape the framework of a cooperative youth council for the Balkan countries.