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

Projecto Tic Tac Turkey

TicTac targets at voluntary and professional youth workers and youth leaders involved in international youth work.

Activity date
2008-04-02 - 2008-04-08

Activity type
Training course

Target group
Youth leaders, Youth workers

AIM AND OBJECTIVES
The overall aim of the TicTac TC is:
- to promote the development of quality Action 4.3 (Action 5 of the YOUTH programme) projects under the new Youth in Action programme in order to support the needs of the organisation and its international partners.
The specific objectives of the course are:
- to explore the aims of Action 4.3 (former Action 5) and its activities
- to find out how Action 4.3 activities match the needs and resources of the participating organisations
- to experience a quality Action 4.3 project by participating in the TicTac training
- to try out creating an Action 4.3 project in an international team
- to develop skills useful for running an Action 4.3 project
- to become inspired to do Action 4.3 projectsIn the training course the participants have the opportunity to meet and to get to know other organisations, but contact making is not directly a priority of the training course.

Programa do CMS - Join Our Game - Zakopane Mar 2008

Day 2 13.03

Thursday
Morning:
Opening ceremony – the mayor of the City.
Introduction to the team
Ice breaking and name games
Introduction of: Participants, program, hopes and fears.

Afternoon:
BLOCK I – Building of team
1. Major Types of Teams
2. Stages of Team Development
3. Guidelines for Designing Teams
4. Team – roles

Night:
Zakopane city by night.


Day 3 14.03

Friday
Morning:
Visiting Zakopane.
Hiking in the mountains. Ski lift to Gubalowka mountain. Visiting the shelter.

Afternoon:
BLOCK II – Management of NGO
1. Management in crisis situations
2. Basics of internal communication
3. Theories of leadership and types of leaders

Night:
International Party – all countries present their culture, traditions and…
Drinks


Day 4 15.03

Saturday
Morning:
Discussion about the possibilities of cooperation between different organizations.
Creating common project – Youth Exchange.

Afternoon:
BLOCK III – Founds raising
1. Basic guidelines for fundraising
2. Where is the money? Useful tips.
3. Pros and cons of typical fundraising sources

Night:
BLOCK IV - Evaluation
1. What is evaluation?
2. Key elements of evaluation
3. Basic types of evaluation

Farewell party.

Join Our Game - Pormenores do Projecto

Background information

Association Active Youth invites you for Contact Making Seminar
“Join our game“ that is planned to be held in Poland, 12-16 March 2008. The seminar brings a chance to gather people involved in youth work from different countries. The participants will learn more about the Youth in Action Programme and develop new projects within its frames. The seminar language will be English.

Aims of the seminar


­ to get to know each other & experience the international cooperation
­ to exchange experience and ideas of methods in youth work especially sport activities
­ to talk about the social inclusion in the context of cultural diversity
­ to learn about active citizenship and non-formal education
­ to present Youth in Action Programme and its possibilities for young people
­ to create ideas for future cooperation within the Youth in Action Programme


Participant’s profile

­ actively involved in the field of youth work
­ over 18
­ be prepared to present their own organisation to the other participants of the seminar
­ be highly motivated to actively participate in the whole seminar and to contribute to the development of the future projects

Mais info de Zakopane: http://www.zakopane.pl

Links importantes dos Programas para Jovens da U.E.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.htm
Direcção Geral de Educação e Cultura (estrutura da Comissão Europeia responsável pela implementação do Programa Juventude em Acção)

http://www.sejd.gov.pt/
Secretaria de Estado da Juventude e Desporto

http://juventude.gov.pt/portal/
Instituto Português da Juventude/ Portal da Juventude

http://www.euramis.org/youth/index.cfm?l_id=pt
Portal Europeu de Juventude

http://www.salto-youth.net/SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres (organização que apoia a implementação do Programa Juventude em Acção)

http://www.salto-youth.net/database/
Salto Youth - Base de dados de parceiros

http://www.eurodesk.org/edesk/Contact.do?go=ptsites.htm
Eurodesk - Portal de informação europeia para os jovens

http://www.euromedp.org/en/partners.asp
Plataforma Euromed - Base de dados de parcerias

http://www.britishcouncil.org/connectyouth-find-a-partner.htm
British Council - Base de dados de parcerias

http://www.youthforeurope.org/
Youth for Europe - Base de dados de parceiros

http://www.un.org/
Organização das Nações Unidas

http://www.coe.int/t/pt/com/about_coe/
Conselho da Europa

http://www.cnj.pt/
Conselho Nacional da Juventude

http://www.fnaj.pt/
Federação Nacional de Associações Juvenis

http://www.aneve.pt/
Serviço de Voluntariado Europeu - Associação de Ex-voluntários

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/program/sos/hei/hei_list_from_query.cfm
Serviço de Voluntariado Europeu - Base de dados de organizações acreditadas

http://www.fdti.pt/
Fundação para a Divulgação das Novas Tecnologias de Informação

http://www.movijovem.pt/
Pousadas e Juventude de Portugal

Novo site Juventude em Acção

Visita o novo site da Agência Nacional para o Programa Juventude em Acção em

www.juventude.pt

Conferência Final do Yes Project - 18 Janeiro 2008

On January 18, the “Polo Multimediale La nave di Harlock” will host the concluding conference of the EU project YES-Young European Stage Network.

Taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the conclusion of the works around the YES project, the event will represent a perfect occasion to stimulate reflections and debates concerning youth needs and the policies (national, local and European) which aim at satisfying such needs, but also concerning the role of youngsters in Europe.

The YES project, coordinated by Mondo-Palcogiovani from Brescia, is financed with the support of the European Youth Programme (Action 5) of the European Commission and with the contribution from the Municipality of Brescia. The project involves organizations (both public and no-profit), from six EU countries (Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Germania, Spain e Portugal) which will take part to the event. The YES project aims at favouring dialogue and debate among the actors (institutions, associations etc.) working with and for young people, through the consolidation and promotion of a network aimed at promoting youth projects in the framework of EU opportunities as well as local initiatives.

Youngsters represent in today’s Europe not only a resource but also the future protagonist of the European project. At the same time, for its youngsters, Europe represents a great opportunity for personal and career development. However, as of today, such resource seem to be very little valorized still and Europe (with its institutions, policies and programmes) still too distant from the daily life of many European youngsters. In spite of the several European initiatives (programmes such as Youth in Action, but also Erasmus and Leonardo), as well as the national and local ones (i.e. creation of specific policies and activities for youngsters etc.); discrepancies persists and they should find a solution in a tighter collaboration between different political level and also between institutional actors, youth actors and the youngsters themselves.

In this context, the final conference of the YES project intends to, not only disseminating information concerning the project and the YES network as tools at the service of European youngsters to help them take full advantage of the opportunities available to them, but also favour a larger debate concerning the key role youngsters play in the evolution of the European Project.

Testemunho de participação - Daniel Martins

A minha experiência no Programa Juventude (Hoje Juventude em Acção) já é longa e bastante diversificada, atendendo tambem a que se trata de um Programa com uma oferta tambem ela bastante variada.

Iniciei como participante em Seminários Internacionais de Jovens e rápidamente lhe ganhei o gosto e entendi a riqueza que era o contacto com outras culturas, outras linguas, outras ruas e outros povos. Não demorou muito tempo a começar a desenvolver Intercâmbios como lider e Coordenador de Projectos que juntam jovens de diversas nacionaidades para desenvolverem actividades conjuntas, tornando-se um espaço perfeito para a troca de ideias e experiências, sendo tambem uma oportunidade unica de conhecer outros mundos e pessoas. O impacto que teve, e que ainda hoje tem, na moldagem da minha personalidade e visão da realidade e de um Mundo global onde estamos é bastante grande e visivel em tudo o que faço, idealizo e construo-o.
Com tudo isto a fazer cada vez mais sentido, vendo que este tipo de experienciação não-formal me trazia beneficios claros como um complemento ao que Formalmente adquiri no ensino regular, decidi desenvolver Serviço de Voluntariado Europeu. Procurei projectos dentro da area que me interessava, candidatei-me a varias tendo sido aceita numa organização Checa num projecto que me identifiquei desde o primeiro dia em que o li e ainda hoje o trago comigo como um pouco de mim que me irá acompanhar sempre. O SVE é de todo uma experiência unica que te permite sentir por inteiro os teus limites, gerir emoções e tolerâncias, trabalhares competências de adaptação Pessoal e Profissional, viver outras culturas, entenderes a importancia que tem uma participação activa dos jovens num futuro que se pretende sempre justo e digno para todos.
Hoje, como Coordenador de Projectos de âmbito Nacional e Internacional, bem como formador do Programa Juventude em Acção, sou tambem dirigente de uma ONG (Organização Não Governamental) que é tambem IPSS (Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social), sou dirigente da FAJUDIS (Federação das Associações Juvenis do Distrito de Santarem), faço tambem parte da Bolsa de Formadores do CNJ (Conselho Nacional de Juventude) e sinto que o percurso que fiz até aqui tem sido uma mais valia em termos Profissionais, mas sobretudo em termos pessoas e na forma como vejo o mundo e como actuo-o perante a realidade.

AGENDA - Projectos Internacionais Ágora Bracarense

Estes são os projectos internacionais em que a Ágora Bracarense participará já no primeiro semestre do ano de 2008. Toma nota, inscreve-te, tira as tuas dúvidas, participa:

- "Yes Project" (2nd meeting) - 17-20 Janeiro 2008 - Brescia, Itália;

- "Join Our Game" (Contact Making Seminar) - 10-14 Março 2008 - Zakopane, Polónia;

- "Let's play with strings and balls" - 4-11 Maio 2008 - Ankara, Turquia (aguarda-se mais informações deste projecto, através da Associação Onda Jovem);

- "Relax" (Trainning Course) - 12-17 Maio 2008 - Kayseri, Turquia.


A Ágora Bracarense ainda prepara a apresentação do projecto intitulado: IEE Intelligent Energy for Europe – Youth Training Project em parceria com diversas associações europeias. Este evento ainda não tem data prevista.


Podem ser obtidas informações acerca destes projectos através do contacto: agorabracarense@gmail.com

Workshop Ágora Bracarense

Decorreu no dia 8 de Dezembro o primeiro workshop da Ágora Bracarense, no estaleiro cultural Velha-a-Branca.
Em ambiente informal e descontaído foi possível passar em revista as iniciativas da Ágora Bracarense, com especial destaque para os projectos internacionais em que a nossa associação tem participado.
É importante a presença e o interesse de cada vez mais jovens por estes projectos, capazes de cativar a juventude.
A Ágora Bracarense tem em carteira várias propostas para participar nos mais diversos projectos ao nível internacionais e dá essa oportunidade aos seus associados.

Sabe mais sobre estes projectos em: www.agorabracarense-internationalprojects.blogspot.com

Training Course: "RELAX" em KAYSERİ (Turquia)

A Ágora Bracarense submeteu a sua candidatura para a participação num projecto turco, financiado pela União Europeia no âmbito do Programa Juventude em Acção.
Este projecto trata-se de um curso de formação e intitula-se "Relax", sendo os seus promotores uma associação turca.
Eis as informações até ao momento disponíveis sobre o evento que contará com a participação da Ágora Bracarense:

Action 4.3

Training course


"RELAX! "

Time & Venue : Turkey (KAYSERİ) “ 12-17 May 2008

Target Group: Youth workers (18+), working directly with young people (aged 15-25yrs) facing difficulties in terms of social Inclusion

Language: English

Aim: To motivate young people to start projects in the YOUTH IN ACTON Programme and to improve the quality of these projects and conflict menagement.

Objectives

· To bring a clear view on the possibilities in the (new)YOUTH IN ACTION program
· to provide pedagogical support and time for the participants to develop their own activities in the frame of the Youth in action program.
· to support the inter cultural and inter professional exchange between participants
· Stimulating long term cooperation between similar international organizations
· Prevention of potential troubles and difficulties during international projects.

Costs:

70 % of the real travel costs, and food & accomadation will be

covered by the “YOUTH” program.

Group size : 20 young people aged 18+

(10 countries-- 2 participants form each country)

Ágora Bracarense prepara novo Projecto Internacional

A Ágora Bracarense apresentará em breve a sua candidatura a um novo projecto internacional, desta feita relacionado com a temática do ambiente e das energias sustentáveis.

O projecto entitular-se-á: IEE Intelligent Energy for Europe – Youth Training Project.

Sumary of the project: The main aim of the project will be to train and educate youngsters (aged between 15-18 years old) in the participating countries (one class of around 20-25 youngsters for each country) on themes concerning energy savings and renewable energies. This training and education activities will use formal and informal education means to teach youngster about energy problems of the planet and more practically of their country, region and even home. They will also aim at providing youngsters with, and stimulating them to find themselves solutions which they could implement to solve such problems. Moreover, the teaching methodology will fully and actively involve the youngsters directly, since they will become also teachers during the exchanges (i.e. the hosting classes will teach the foreign classes concerning the renewable energy source and technologies used in their local areas). The project will favour a behavioural change in the youngsters involved but also on other youngsters by spreading the teaching methodologies used during the project. Moreover, the project will provide the participating youngsters with specific knowledge and skills which will significantly increase their job opportunities and career prospects.
The activities of the project will include:
-training on a local scale (i.e. youngsters in their home towns and local school managers and policy makers) -e-learning activities (training youngsters on the utilisation of e-learning tools, putting youngsters from different countries in touch among each other and carrying out common activities by using ICTs –i.e. information technologies such as pcs and internet)
- youth exchanges (with youngsters travelling to the countries involved in the project to meet and implement activities together).

Este projecto conta com os seguintes parceiros: Green Energy (Italy), Province of Brescia (Italy) Municipality of Alcalà La Real (Spain), Regional Environmental Centre-tbc (Slovenia), Municipality of Istanbul -tbc (Turkey).

Projecto em Ankara: Let's play with strings ans balls - Maio 2008

Através da Associação Onda Jovem, recebemos o seguinte convite para participação num projecto:

Divulgação de projecto em Ankara na Turquia.
Datas: 4-11 de Maio de 2008
Local: Ankara, Turquia
Título do Projecto: LET'S PLAY WITH STRINGS and BALLS
Preço: 150€ com viagem desde Lisboa ou Porto, alojamento e alimentação incluídos (visto não incluído)
Participantes: 4 portugueses *

Inscrições:
enviar ficha de inscrição em actividade
pagamento das quotas em dia
enviar cópia do passaporte
enviar código de conduta assinado

+ informações e programa serão enviados brevemente
* podem participar cidadãos da UE desde que residam em Portugal

Testemunho de participação - Krasi e Jana

Hello, we are Krasi and Jana.

Foundation “New Beginning” is a Bulgarian youth non-governmental organisation. We are working in the fields of HIV/AIDS prevention, drugs prevention, first aid, ecology, youth exchanges, intercultural activities, youth lidership, “peer to peer” education, unformal education and a lot of others. The biggest goal of the volunteers of “New beginning” is to help young people in solving their problems and making their way in life.

We can definitely say that international projects gave us the taste of other people’s culture and way of life… We recommend to everybody to try – it is an amazing adventure :)

Krasi and Jana (Bulgaria)

Yes Project - Final Conference

A reunião final do Yes Project decorrerá nos próximos dias 17, 18, 19 e 20 de Janeiro em Brescia. Mais dois representantes da nossa associação irão deslocar-se a esta localidade para fazer o balanço final deste projecto, bem como para lançar as bases para um novo projecto.

A Ágora Bracarense preparará a sua participação em mais um evento internacional onde terá a oportunidade de divulgar o trabalho realizado até agora, bem como para recolher mais algumas ideias dos seus parceiros internacionais.

Testemunho de participação - Custodio López

Hola, soy Custodio López, trabajo en las Áreas de Juventud y Deportes del Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real en Andalucía (España). En una de las visitas que he hecho a Brescia conocí a tres amigos Portugueses al los cual me une una muy buena amistad, (Jorge, Marta Ferreira y Tiago Mourao). Ellos también participaban dentro del programa Yes Project. Un programa financiado por la Unión Europea y que coordina nuestros compañeros de Brescia (Italia)

El Yes Project, nos ha servido como una herramienta de contacto, comunicación y de cooperación entre jóvenes de diferentes nacionalidades. A Brescia hemos acudido ya en dos ocasiones, allí hemos conocido las inquietudes, problemas, demandas, y culturas que tienen los jóvenes en los diferentes sitios de Europa. Hay que destacar que lo que más les preocupa en general a los jóvenes europeos, son el trabajo, la vivienda, y los temas relacionados con el consumo de sustancias perjudiciales para la salud y las actividades de Ocio y Tiempo libre. También nos ha servido de mucho, el saber como afrontan y que medidas toman los distintos estamentos juveniles de la Unión Europea, llámense, asociaciones juveniles, corporaciones locales y responsables de políticas de juventud de los distintos países.

Pero lo que yo más destaco es los buenos lazos de amistad que se han creado en esta gran familia llamada Unión Europea y sobre todo el trabajo en equipo que podemos desarrollar entre todos. Fue en Brescia donde conocimos a unos amigos de Letonia (Latvia) Inga Drele y Guntars, con ellos hemos cerrado un programa participativo con jóvenes de 16 a 25 años (Investigation of the Furthest European Eastern Border) que se va a celebrar en Rezekne Letonia del 28 de Diciembre al 6 de Enero próximo. Un programa donde van a participar 12 jóvenes de Letonia, 12 de España, 12 de Italia y 12 de Polonia. Los objetivos y contenidos principales del programa están todos relacionados con la cultura juvenil, el ocio, y las demandas de los jóvenes desde la perspectiva de los países que se han incorporado hace poco tiempo a la Unión Europea como son Letonia y Polonia, y lo que opinan los jóvenes que van a participar de Italia y España dos naciones que llevan ya muchos años perteneciendo a la U.E.

Dentro de los proyectos que tiene que tiene el gobierno Europeo denominado “Juventud en Acción” También hemos participado en julio del 2.007 en otro programa con que se ha desarrollado en la ciudad alemana de Lofedhenl con jóvenes de la Republica Checa, Austria, Alemania y España. Han sido 9 días de convivencia juvenil inolvidables, donde se ha participado en actividades medio ambientales, cerámica, acuarelas, teatro, música etc...

En definitiva, creo que con nuestros amigos de Portugal tenemos que preparar algún que otro programa, a través de Agora Bracarense y Alcalá la Real. Tenemos los conocimientos, la U.E nos ofrece los recursos ¿A que esperamos amigos portugueses?
En muchos años de trabajo con la juventud, nunca había encontrado una actividad tan estimulante para los jóvenes ¡!!

Un abrazo
Custodio López
Jefe Negociado de Juventud y Deportes del Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real

Testemunho de participação - Nadja Rein

My dear friends,

Have you ever thought that while travelling around representing your organisation you can actually learn something which might totally change your life!

I am a traveller I was born in the Soviet Union and then when it collapsed I appeared to live in a new state, Kazakhstan. Due to several reasons my family immigrated to Germany (probably it is needed to say that I am also from Multicultural family, in general I can out it saying that I am Russian-German). In Germany I had to learn to live with a new culture and learn German asap in order to be able to solve very simple problems, such as shopping, making appointments etc. But moreover I needed German because I wanted to study. When I was already at the University I learnt about Exchange Programme as ERASMUS and that led me to the UK, where I live and work till this moment. In the UK I had to cope with some cultural differences as well. And what was the most amazing about the place I got in is the fact that it is a very diverse place! You can meet people from different cultural and faith background here. Sometime it is difficult to live with people who have completely different ideas about what is your concept of life, because their concepts are different. In the beginning I couldn’t make living with my house mates who as I thought could not appreciate my concept of ‘clearness’, ‘nice and disgusting smells’ etc. But one day I realised that actually it is not all about them, but a huge part of our misunderstanding was because of me. Then I tried to talk to them to learn about their habits, thoughts, tastes in music, food, movies, clothes etc. And surprisingly, though no one of us has change their concepts of life, we began to feel closer and to understand better each other.

Then one day, when I was finishing my first year at Loughborough University, my tutor who was also a chair at Charnwood Racial Equality Council asked me whether I would like to volunteer for one international project which was to take place in summer. I liked the idea to work with native speakers and decided to take an opportunity to improve my language skills. In the beginning I couldn’t understand what all that was about, mostly because I was working on the arrangements of facilities rather than with content of the project. I also took part in the project as a participants and though I got loads of information about the racial issues and the different work methods against racism in the UK from experts and trainers and about other European countries from the participants of the event I was still not completely sure about the Youth in Action Programme as such.

Being in touch as a volunteer with CREC during my second year at the University I was engaged in a number of local projects and also attended some international event in Moscow and in Turkey. That increased my knowledge about the Programme and its great possibilities for us, young people. The British young people are not really active in participation in different international projects, partly because they are not aware of them. While talking to my friends at the University and local young people I came across due to my work with CREC. My colleagues and I arranged some of them to go to Youth Exchanges in Poland, Turkey, Spain and some other European countries. They were amazed learning about different cultures and new people from all over the Europe. They build friendship and became more interested not only in international projects but also in local projects engaging people from different cultural backgrounds. As a result we applied for another project within Youth in Action Programme focusing on Intercultural learning. That was also due to the fact that my British friends while being abroad realised how few they know about their own culture, which they took for granted.

As I was already quite experienced in these kinds of projects I was a project director for that one. The event had great success and I was approached by people from the Charnwood Racial Equality Council offering me to apply for a post of Community Cohesion Officer. I still needed to submit my application and went through Interview, but those knowledge I gained while working as a volunteer with Youth in Action projects made me the best candidate for that post.

Now I work for the CREC and still work with Youth in Action Programmes giving other young people in Charnwood an opportunity to gain experiences which can benefit them on a personal level but also be a good start for their future careers. All that is without mentioning the fact, that Youth in Action Programme gave me also an opportunity to travel and see the world.
I hope to meet you very soon on one or another project based in the UK or other countries.

Best wishes

Nadja Rein

Community Cohesion Officer at Charnwood Racial Equality Council & Programme Director at Youth Across Frontiers (YAF), UK, Loughborough

Workshop de Projectos Internacionais Ágora Bracarense

A Ágora Bracarense vai promover algumas sessões/workshops relacionados com os Projectos Internacionais em que tem vindo a participar.
Estas sessões terão como objectivos principais:
- A divulgação do trabalho realizado pela Ágora Bracarense;
- A promoção de Programas Europeus e Internacionais para Associações;
- A formação de jovens para participar em Programas Internacionais.

Nestes workshops, de forma informal, os jovens participantes aprenderão mais sobre programas como o “Programa Juventude em Acção”, e conhecerão todas as potencialidades e virtudes de participar neste tipo de eventos em que a Ágora Bracarense se encontra envolvida.

Estes eventos são uma forma única dos jovens bracarenses ingressarem no “admirável mundo novo” do movimento associativo dos jovens europeus.

Mais informações podem ser encontradas em: http://www.agorabracarense-internationalprojects.blogspot.com/
Para esclarecimento de dúvidas: agorabracarense@gmail.com