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What: The Youth Exchange Project "Rural Cultures 2007"
Who: Young poeple from Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Italy, Spain and Luxembourg
When: 30 August - 7 September 2007
Where: Spain
Deadline to apply: 3 August 2007
Please find here: Call for Application, Programme of the activity and Application form
Youth Exchange project “Intercultural Tolerance Growing Through Outdoor Methodology“ placed in Lithuania from 10th -24th of July 2006 hosted by Vilnius Scout Center.
To know each others culture, loose stereotypes, broaden youth outlook, encourage familiarizing with theirselve and their culture by observing differences bettween traditions, behaviour, lifestyle, world-view, religion were the main aims of the exchange.
While doing exercises outdoor everybody has equal opportunities to show their skills, reveal various features. In this exchange, participants gain experience, which they could use in their countries working with youngsters.
This exchange brought together representatives coming from different organisations/institutions working with young people from Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia.
The Youth Exchange project: “We Can Change to Better” was implemented in partnership with youth organisations from Georgia, Italy, Latvia and Moldova in Kobuleti. The project was successful in achieving its aims and in terms of its outcomes. The initial aim of the project was to promote the tolerance and social inclusion among young people through empowering them with necessary skills in overcoming various forms of discrimination.
The project was focused on rising European citizenship awareness of diverse youth groups, on development role of young people in changing the life to the better and on building self-confidence of disadvantaged groups to become better citizens.
The intercultural learning was envisaged in all activities during the project. We see this element as one of the most important tool for the success of the project. In this regard, the greatest contribution was made by the country presentations and group presentations which gave an unique possibility to the participant to learn about each other’s culture, old and modern history, heritage, as well as about all things which make their culture unique in the world, would it be Moldovian wedding dance (enjoyed by everyone during the whole project), Latvian delicious cuisine and energetic folk dance, aroma of Italian coffee and spirit of Italian football or taste of Georgian wine encouraging more open intercultural sharing after the official agenda of the day. All these things, feelings, knowledge, information with lots of others will always remind us the lesson which all participants learnt and observed during the exchange: the only way towards tolerance lies through the intercultural understanding.
More detailed information about the project can be obtained from the final report to be published and available at the office of the Union “Century 21”.
The training course "Volunteer's School" took place in Funen, Denmark on 6-13 November, 2005. It was organized with support of the European Commission YOUTH programme.
The project was aimed at motivating youngsters with different cultural backgrounds in mutual understanding, training them in organizational and management skills in order to develop and implement projects in non-formal education and about work in intercultural teams. The project focused as well on integration youngsters with fewer opportunities in international network.
During the training program the participants worked in different groups in order are trained in development of partnerships and YOUTH projects based on good practices from partner organisations. Information about the Youth program was included in the training program.
Mutual understanding and tolerance in between the partner groups was really achieved during the implementation process.
The participants came from France, Ukraine, Georgia, Denmark and Romania.
The Youth Exchange Project "Singing European Union Citizen" took place in Poland from 14-21 September, 2005. The project objective was to increase the feeling of affiliation among young people through learning about and understanding what it means to be a citizen, getting familiar with the meaning of unity and with our role in it. We tried to get know the perfect image of multicultural community based on tolerance and respect towards individuality.
We believe that music is universal language of young people. Our life is influenced by different communities that we belong to. Being a member of some communities is our independence choice. Moreover, we have belonged to some communities since we were born. Everybody is a world citizen, a citizen of their native country, a member of a human family.
The participating countries were: Ukraine, Latvia, Italy, Armenia, Georgia and Poland.
The exchange project "Water and Youth" was organized with support from the European Commission YOUTH programme on 23-30 August 2005 in Armenia. The project aimed to share the experiences, develop knowledge and skills on environment, water and sustainable development issues. The theme of the exchange was water resource. The sub-themes of the exchange project include: water situation in different European countries; water protection and sustainability; water-health impact and assessment; challenges and solutions for healthy drinking water supplies; water quality management, operation, and etc. The visits were organized to some of the companies, agencies dealing with water issues, outstanding local specialists and local ecological NGO members.
The participating countries were: Greece, Holland, Georgia and Armenia.
The training course “Religious Youth Promoting Dialogue: A Way to Respecting Equality and Diversity” was organised within the 
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On 9 November, 2005 was organized the campaign dedicated to the celebration of the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism.
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