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Youth Experience exchange
Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our project will include young people with fewer opportunities in a variety of contexts. In Lewisham there are a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and many of the young people are disadvantaged economically or socially. The participants for norway are from sortland and have many obstacle around geographical location in terms of young people coming together. The groups will be selected by the youth councils /youthcitizens panels all the group have already a core working group that will be going on the exchange. The event will take place in Lewisham civic suite and the TNG a purpose built youth centre with main workshop hall breakout rooms. Young peoples main barrier to employment is either lack of skills,experience,or confidence The Jimmy Mizen foundation want to create an international opportunity to develop skills in areas of event management and then put them to the test in a real working environment. The UK Young people will buddy a young person from Norway and Sweden develop peer support by the host group The groups will get an overview of all the skills needed to put on an event and then divide into teams focusing on each specific part of the youth event. The activites will run over 5 days with 1 day either side for arrival and departure. We will have a non formal arrival activities, Ice Breakers name games getting to know you games followed by intro to the week what expected of the participants then we get the group to write a contract of behavior. Then we look at the weekly plan. We will then run communication game for the new participants and a non formal game around speaking in to groups workshop. then run inter cultural activities through the week looking at stereotyping but using media to fit in with the theme. This project participants will develop many valuable skills they may need in their future working lives. The other multiplying effect we are hoping to achieve is that our participants will use the skills gained during our training programme to encourage peer leadership in their own countries through contact with schools, youth groups and organisations. We will encourage those taking part in our training to use and share our training methods with others to address issues surrounding cultural diversity and other key issues across Europe. Each partner has had full input into the planned activities the UK trainer has worked in co-operation with both Alingsas and the Norwegians to develop the programme. Developing the young people's skills knowledge and confidence and building lasting reationships will develop new collaboration work in Erasmus +. This will enable them in the future, to manage and create new projects within the ‘Erasmus+ Programme’ .
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