Projecto Paparazzi of Youth Projects - detalhes:

Charnwood Racial Equality Council in partnership with Charnwood Arts are looking to apply for 1 April for a TC (Action 3.1) in media aiming to give youth workers knowledge about different kind of media and to explore effective ways to work with them in order to promote one's activities.

The following objectives have been set in order to reach the aim :
- To develop the skills of youth leaders to promote and disseminate the results of youth projects and concerns via media.
- To strengthen awareness and understanding among young leaders from different countries on significant role of media
- To discuss issues on media coverage related to youth NGOs and “Youth in Action” programme
- To improve knowledge of the participants how to work with and utilize mass media in broad cast, press and new media through practical training
- To share information and exchange best practices among participants, how to promote NGOs and “Youth in Action” programme
- To equip participates with the different types of communication tools; introduce them to the diverse types of media and its specific requirements (how journalists work and what they need)
- To develop the ability of youth workers to interact with media at local, national and international levels and strengthen the cooperation among them.
- To create media policy and strategy for youth organisations
- To explore new ideas and actions for youth organisations to utilise and approach media

The dates are not fixed yet, but it will be most likely in October (beginning 6-12).

Os interessados em participar neste projecto deverão contactar-nos para: agorabracarense@gmail.com

Projecto Hooray Eating Again! - detalhes:

Hooray Eating Again!
Action – 1.1 / YOUTH Exchange
06th – 14th October, 2008
Manisa, TURKIYE
(to be applied for the deadline April 1st, 2008)

About the seminar:
Our project has been prepared to discover the differences between the tastes of different countries’ cuisines. And also this project will bring together young people and realise a dialogue between European Cultures with the food course. During this seminar we will also realize the food productions of youngsters coming from different parts of Europe. As a result we will exhibit the foods in the social locals to the catering services. At the beginning of the seminar, we would like to arrange theoric part of the seminar on natural/organic ingredients. We clearly want to
emphasize the importance of using healthy agricultural products. Scientific support will be requested from the city university.

Objectives:
· The foods prepared during the project will be gathered in a recipe book.
· At the end of the project the web-site and vcd will be prepared and an instant communication between the participants will be enabled.
· To encourage the usage of natural and organic ingredients for a healthy life.
· To enable to be recognised different cuisines.
· To realize the dialogue between the European Cultures with the food course.
· To provide the participants with the knowledge of the YOUTH Program
· To start new partnerships / friendships.

Aims:
· One of our aims is to discover new trimmings, by tasting.
· To discover the differences between the tastes of different countries cuisines.
· To use natural and organic ingredients widely.
· With the help of our food course , all participants are going to get different recipes.By means of this they are
going to improve their food culture.
· To reach a lot of people with web-site,vcd and recipe books.
· To introduce the organic agriculture in our district…
· To introduce our traditional cuisine to the participant countries and to learn their traditional cuisine.
· To reveal new tastes and menu.

Venue Places:
The project will take in Manisa,Turkey between 06th-14th of October, 2008.The workshops and activities will be held in the same building(Teachers’ House) where the participants will stay during the seminar.The program will include visits to historically and culturally important places in Manisa and Izmir (Bergama, Sardes, Niobe). The participants will also have free time to explore the city by themselves.

Activities:
All the activities will be held in English. We will mainly;
· Arrange informal educational methods, like games, presantions, simulations, icebreaks, energisers.
· Organize intercultural evenings and national presantations of the partner countries.
· Form on-going steaming groups in which participants will be able to evaluate the program daily.
· Arrange a competition between the participant countries about their traditional food.
· Arrange an activitiy where the participant countries will cook their traditional food with traditional methods.
· The products that are produced will be revealed in the public places to the public (Teachers’ House)
· To arrange a workshop about natural and organic ingredients with the university teachers from the city university.
· To visit the fields where organic agriculture are performed.
· Visit some historical places.

· Farewell Party.

Participants profiles:
Application for programme countries is available.4 participants and a leader per organization will attend to our project. Age profile of participants will be 15-25.

Financial Details:
The programme will cover all the accommodation and food costs during the programme, %70 percent of the travel costs and visa costs.

Os interessados em participar neste projecto deverão contactar-nos para: agorabracarense@gmail.com

Projecto Smart Blond - detalhes:

Do you think that all homosexuals love pink color, boys do not cry and blond girl are stupid? Join our training course!

Details about the training course:

Title: „ Smart Blond“
Action: 4.3
Dates: Start of training course July 26th to August 2nd 2008 (July 26th is the day of arrival and August 2nd is the day of departure)
Place: Close to Strakonice, Czech Republic
Target group of participants: workers with youth, professionals who meet any kind of differences at work or daily live, people who are interested in this topic

Participants: max 30 participants aged: 18 – 99.

Summary of the project
The PREVENT association is providing social services in the whole South Czech region. The main focus in all projects is on drug prevention, but the methods, which we use, are very different as we are trying to cover all levels of the prevention field. We are active in the primary prevention. We run an experiential courses for school children and students, educative projects for pedagogues and workers with youth and training courses for peer activist. The second part of our programmes is providing social services for current drug users. We provide exchange programmes for them as well as services for ex-users.

Because of our work , we have a rich experience with prejudices and stereotypes. We can meet this kind of attitudes in our work every day. We discovered the way how to identify this kind of thinking and how to prevent it. We would like to share our experience.

Main Topic: Prejudices and Stereotypes
· How to work with expectation on the other nations.
· How to deal with the attitude against a new member states of EU.
· How to identify soon prejudices of social worker, teachers and others against differences (subkulures of disabled, homosexual, inhabitants of development and borders area etc. )
· The part of Youth exchange programmes in prevention of xenofoby between Youth inside the EU.

Main Aim:
Main aim of this training course is to identify the way how we percieve differences between people through experiential learning and outdoor education. We want to prevent creation of negative stereotypes and prejudices against different subcultures and nations. Participants of our training course will be educated in specific methods of identifying prejudices to use these methods and improve their work with youth. We will focus on the experiences of participants during the course and on the other hand on transmission of these experiences to theirs clients.

Methods:
This topic will be examined through real experiences of participants, outdoor activities, discussion, worshops and their feedback. Our team consist of lectors of experiencial education and learning. During this course participants will meet some members of particular subcultures which often face stigmatization and negative prejudical attitude. We will be cooperate with local comunity as well. To conclude and evaluate our cours we wil organise final exhibition with local band, international buffet and further activities conducted by participants.

Activities:
· Experiential learning and outdoor activities
· Self reflexion activities
· Group dynamic activities
· Relaxation activities
· Workshops
· Workgroups for discussion the problem
· Workshop of performance with local people
· Presentation of dishes and tradicions
· Meeting with the local authorities

Impact on participants:
Participants will be able to identify sareotypes against their potencial clients and on the other hand they will be able guide their clients to recognize and eliminate prejudices against different subcultures. Participants gain on this course specific techniques and methods how to deal with prejudices and stereotypes to improve their work with clients. Particapants will share their experiences from particular countries and organization and they will enter into a partnership between each other.

Impact on participating organization:
Thanks to taking part in this course organization gain new useful contact with similiar organization in different country. Participation on this projekt organization also support employers well-beeing and prevent burnout. Thanks to the projekt participants gain specific education technique which help improve their work.

Impact on local community:
Our project will help to make local public and young people aquintance with YOUTH program. It will help to break stereotypes a prejudice of local people gainst foreiners and participants against local public as well.

Financial Condition:
70% of international travel costs are covered by the Youth Program funds.This amount will be reimbursed, presenting original bill and original travel tickets and boarding passes.
Accommodation and diet during the course will be fully covered by hosting organisation.
Visa cost is 100% covered.

Os interessados em participar neste projecto deverão contactar-nos para: agorabracarense@gmail.com