Spolocenstvo pre oblastny rozvoj El Erasmus+Project description: Project "Own your Culture" will bring together 30 young people, 6 group leaders and 2 facilitators for 8 days in Snina, Slovakia. Young people will come from 6 different countries that are diverse in their cultures and have different experience and realities regarding the theme of the project. Main impulse for the project is the fact that young people living in this fast world are losing their relationship towards crafts and traditions. They are oat disappearing from the awareness of youth and we are concerned that they will disappear totally as we, young people, are not as manually skilled as our parents or grandparents and we tend to overlook the traditions. Because of different factors such as: ~ Loss of national identity while becoming part of EU or globalization, - High divorce rate, where the main transferrer of traditions — family, is losing its value, ~ Loss of interest of youth about traditions and crafts, we eciced that as youth we need to take initiative and prove the importance of preserving traditions and crafts. Countries: Wa Bulgaria HON Romania Spain Lithuania Haw Slovakia TurkeyObjectives: - Increase awareness of youth about crafts and traditions - Put emphasis on importance of traditions and their preservance - Nee people will gain different craft and manual skills - Development of creativity of youth - Increase cultural sensitivity and tolerance - Highlight the specific nature and importance of traditional and folk culture as integral part of cultural heritage and live culture - Intercultural learning - Support active citizenship of youth in rural areas - Support international cooperations and building of future partnerships - Inform participants about opportunities that Erasmus + program offers - Identify competencies that can be gained/developed and their certification by Youthpass Profile of participants: - 6 participants re country - 1 leader + 5 participants - 18-30 years old (leader without age limit) - interested in the theme of the project - preferably from rural areas - able to express themselves in English (as it will be the working language) - ability to participate on full duration of the exchangeYouth OTTO chee Information about organizer: Organisation STEP — Society for territorial progress was established in 2010 with aim of supporting our region Upper Zemplin, by developing young people living in it. We are active in the most eastern part of Slovakia, which is unfortunately known for high unemployment rate and outflow of young people, what causes rapid ageing of society. It is a poor region, where young people cannot find many opportunities for their development — and this is exactly the core for our activities as an organisation. We are passionate volunteers in age 18-29 years and we do really care about our community. As students, graduates or employed people we come back home regularly and organize activities by which we want to enable young people to have more active life, to care (not only) about their social and life environment, but also about international topics and such to help them to grow both personally and professionally. Our main themes of work are youth (unemployment, empowerment, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion and intercultural learning. We do use mainly non-formal methods, combining with features of formal and outdoor education — learning by experience. More info at www.societystep.eu Spolocenstvo pre oblastny rozvo)Preparation: - CRAFTS AND TRADITIONS IN MY COUNTRY: Prepare a max. 20 minutes presentation about 3 most important traditions in your culture - method is up to you. Please mention how does youth in your country perceive traditions and if they follow them or not. One of the traditions you will have to showcase in front of other participants. EXPOSITION: Bring with you some traditional handmade products that you will show and explain to other participants. Later there will be a visit to local museum where we will show and explain these products to invited students, The products will stay there as exposition for external guests untill the end of exchange when we return them to you. Do not worry, they will be completely safe there and you WILL get them back :) ORIENTATION GAME During this activity we will be outside so please, take some warm clothes and appropriate shoes that you will feel comfortable in. Also bring some umbrella just in case. WORKSHOP - TEACH ME HOW TO DANCE: Learn one of your traditional dances that you will show to others and teach them how to dance it, CULTURAL EVENING Every evening during the project there will be intercultural night, where every country will represent they culture. Please, do not forget to bring some traditional music, food, drinks and presentation or videos about your country.Dates & venue: Arrival day: 1st of April 2016 Activities start: 2nd of April 2016 Activities end: 7th of April 2016 Departure day: 8th of April 2016 Project will be realized in the green area of Sninské Rybniky (Snina pounds) in Snina town neighbourhood. We will be accommodated in hotel Vihorlat resort situated right in the recreation area of Sninské rybniky. During the whole period of project we will be the only feople accommodated there so we will have the whole hotel for us. Behind the hotel there is a playground where which we can use for the outdoor activities, There are possibilities of hiking in the nature during free time. Participants will stay in 2 and 3 -bed rooms. They will be divided according to gender and in mixed nationalities. There is a toilet and shower in every room. Participants will be provided 3 meals per day according to their dietary needs, if any. You can find additional information and pictures of the hotel on this link: hitp://www.vihorlatresort.skReimbursement: We will reimburse 100% of participants travel costs from your home town to the project venue, within the valid budget sums. (The sums for travel costs are calculated according the official rules for Erasmus-+ feed where considering the distance. All limits can be calculated according the distance calculator. Note: Travel expenses exceeding the stated costs limit will be reimbursed only till the amount of the limit, the excess will by paid by participant himself/herself, 1706 - Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey [Ik 2706 - Spain Reimbursement of travel costs will only be done upon presentation of all (including return) original tickets, receipts/invoices and boarding passes and later sending of the return documents and boarding passes, You must use public transport (bus, metro, tram) — taxi will not be reimbursed! Please keep the boarding passes from your airport check-in as wel imbursement will be done in EURO, regardless of the currency indicated on your ticket and receipt, You must come from the country that you applied for our project. (For example, if you participate from Germany, you must come from Germany)Additional information: INSURANCE: According to the ERASMUS + Program, it is highly recommended to have the EU health card. In order to obtain it, please consult your country entity. On the other hand, all the participants must have a travel insurance for the whole period of project activities; travel insurance costs are not reimbursable by the Program, YOUTHPASS: Every Pree is individually entitled to receive a Youthpass Certificate, which confirms participation and validates the non-formal learning (NFL) experience of Training course project. Validating the learning experiences of participants is important in itself and the document can be of benefit in terms of the educational or employment future of the participant. Through Youthpass the European Commission ensures the Training course activity is recognized as a non-formal learning experience. For more information on Youthpass you may wish to visit https://www.youthpass.eu/en/youthpass/.re Cubbure Contact information: Lucia Marinicova Project manager & Facilitator info@societystep.eu +421 902 305 310 Kristina Zimovcakova Project coordinator projects@societystep.eu +421915064497 bd Dominik Valiga Project facilitator projects@societystep.eu + 421948038282 Katka Michalenkova Project coordinator projects@societystep.eu +421907542628 Ee