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Youth in Action Programme 2012 ― Round 3

Description of the projects selected for funding

Eastern Partnership

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ACTION 2 – EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE

REFERENCE: 534978-2-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Let's Do ICL Outdoors

DESCRIPTION: This is a group EVS project in Armenia for a period of 2 months during July-August 2012

involving 12 volunteers from Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia. There will be 3 volunteers from each country. The themes of the project are art and culture and urban/rural development. The main activity of the volunteers will be to assist the host organization, ICIRLD to prepare and implement educational summer camps in various regions in Armenia. The young people from deprived urban and rural areas will come together to be informed and discuss about Intercultural learning and European values. Intercultural learning is the base of this project, and the EVS volunteers together with Armenian participants will develop their intercultural sensitivity and cultural awareness while interacting together during the summer camps. The EVS volunteers will actively participate in the preparation and implementation of the educational summer camps, including outdoor training modules on concept of culture, intercultural learning, and European structures and programmes. The objectives of the project are: fostering intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding between the volunteers and Armenian young people (also from deprived urban and rural areas) while raising their intercultural sensitivity, raising the awareness of EVS volunteers and young people from excluded urban and rural areas in Armenia on European Cooperation and Values while raising the sense of Active European Citizenship, developing the cooperation between sending and host organisations and planning other future projects within ‘Youth in Action’ programme, promoting ‘Youth in Action’ Programme among NGOs in distant regions in Armenia and later on motivating and supporting them to apply for accreditation and become EVS host organisations.

COORDINATOR: Intl. Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue CONTACT: Mr Artur Sargsyan GRANT AMOUNT: 23.042,00 €

REFERENCE: 535264-2-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: N(etwork) for I(nnovative) and C(reative) E(uropeans) in Ukraine DESCRIPTION: NICE.UA (Network for Innovative and Creative Europeans in Ukraine) will host 12

volunteers from Programme Countries for 7 months in 4 communities in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Under the theme of Community Development and European Active Participation and Citizenship, volunteers will serve as promoters and multipliers to develop and complete a set of diverse and learning-orientated activities using their creativity as the central theme. The will also establish bridges of communication in between sites in their home country and the areas they are established. All activities have 3 dimensions: personal development, development within the host organization and community development. The volunteers will be charged with designing, organizing, and implementing, in conjunction with local counterparts and youth from their hosting communities, a variety of activities such as: - Sports events, group games - Environmental activities - Youth camps - Walks in the cities, visits to different sights and events - Theatre and art workshops - Music and dance - Cultural awareness and learning activities, - All volunteers will be able to get involved in other national and/or international programs developed by Alliance during the EVS Service. Objectives: - Stimulate the intercultural learning process and enhance European Awareness and Active Participation within the host communities in the Donetsk Region. - Provide the context and opportunities for all volunteers to develop both personally and socially by acquiring and improving new skills and competences as well as boost their self-confidence. - Increase tolerance towards different cultures by learning and accepting cultural differences. - Contribute to community development by boosting the participation and active involvement of youth in local communities. - Encourage participation of youth with fewer opportunities - Widen and strengthen the partnership and cooperation between all project promoters

COORDINATOR: Donetsk Civic Organization Alliance CONTACT: Ms Svitlana Zakrevska APPROVED BUDGET: 49.996,20 €

REFERENCE: 535333-2-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Cultural Messengers DESCRIPTION: Our project “Cultural Messengers” will give volunteers of different nationalities a chance to

know and compare different traditions, customs of the Host country of Armenia and becoming cultural messengers to pass it to their own countries. Above that, participating in various activities the 4 EVS volunteers will appreciate more that keeping ones’ cultural traditions, heritage is very important and traditions is what binds a nation and keep it united and unique. The project will be connected with environment, culture and the country heritage, which will be explored by EVS through a photo art/exhibition and outdoor activities and will last 6 months. “Cultural Messengers” EVS project aims at promoting the discovering the country of Armenia, with the local volunteers and try to emphasize the country heritage: the traditions, customs, habits. One of the main objectives is to allow EVS volunteers to discover them, to show different views and opinions of the coexistence of the roots and heritage of the Host country. During the project implementation we will bring the attention of young people from various cultural backgrounds to equality and diversity at the same time. Also, the volunteers will assist in ; -Preparing and making presentations, organizing different promotion actions, work with local volunteers -Assisting in FYCA during the preparation and realization of local activities and community development projects; - Visiting different youth clubs, taking pictures and organise exhibitions Besides 4 EVS volunteers from Spain, Poland, Lithuania and France and local volunteers also will be involved in the project and will foster new friendships, find common ground, and inspire their imaginations.

COORDINATOR: Federation of Youth Clubs of Armenia

CONTACT: Miss Mariam Sahakyan GRANT AMOUNT: 11.084,00 €

REFERENCE: 535355-2-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: Volunteers. Ideals. Perspectives

DESCRIPTION: Project is planned to take place in several communities of Kyiv city and will gather 6

volunteers from Poland, Italy and Spain. Voluntary service activities are planned for 12 months, starting from 1st of May, 2013 and will take place mainly in deprived urban areas of Kyiv. The project aims both towards volunteers’ social and personal development, providing them with opportunities for intercultural learning, new skills and abilities development, multilinguism and European awareness as well as organizational and community development – encouraging participation of young people in local communities, promoting active citizenship and encouraging local and international partnership. 6 EVS volunteers will be working independently, in pairs and as a group on various tasks worth following objectives: - stimulation of intercultural learning process and enhancing European values awareness through running information sessions, workshops at local schools, youth centres, - stimulation of active citizenship and participation among Ukrainian youth through volunteering by promoting and organising local volunteer activities with youngsters, - Increase tolerance towards different cultures by learning and accepting cultural differences, - promoting human rights and equality through implementation of anti-bullying educational activities at local schools, childcare institutions, - encourage participation of youngsters with fewer opportunities. In addition to abovementioned, EVS volunteers will have opportunity to run sessions on World Heritage for local youth, to promote volunteering with help of social media and sports, to develop & run training modules for school kids, to assist in preparation and implementation of international volunteer work camps, to help in managing contents of website and Facebook group informing Ukrainian youth about volunteering. Volunteers can take part in fundraising activities, run language clubs, help in local social institutions (orphanages, hospitals etc

COORDINATOR: All-Ukrainian Association for Youth Co-operation Alternative-V

CONTACT: Ms Iryna Bodnar GRANT AMOUNT: 41.166,00 €

ACTION 3 – YOUTH IN THE WORLD

ACTION 3.1 – COOPERATION WITH THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN

UNION

TRAINING AND NETWORKING

REFERENCE: 534510-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Youth Unemployment: Working on Work DESCRIPTION: Training Course "Youth Unemployment: Working on Work" will gather 30 youth workers

and young leaders from different organisations based in EU and EECA with the aim to tackle the issue of Youth Unemployment. TC will take place in Dilijan, Armenia and will last 9 days (including arrival and departure). The main aim of the TC is to tackle youth unemployment problem, inform, motivate and enable youth workers to work on the topic in their countries as well as equip them with experience, knowledge and skills to easily involve in labor market. The project targets youth workers who are working or want to start working on youth employment projects within their organisations. The main objectives of the project are: - to reflect on unemployment situation of youth in Europe. - to train youth workers and develop their skills and knowledge in this field, - to promote youth’s involvement in voluntary work, - to encourage the creation of future projects within Youth in Action Programme, which will target unemployed youngsters. During 7 working days youth workers from different countries will share opinions and ideas on unemployment and will be involved in various activities. They will learn CV and Motivation Letter writing techniques, Hints to pass a Job Interview, Working with E-Job Databases, how to use Volunteerism as a way to the labour market, what is YouthPass, how to get a Europass Language Passport, how to work with career centres, etc. Training Course will stimulate young people's spirit of initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship and employability through theoretical input from experts and participants. After coming back home, participants will be responsible to transfer their knowledge to young people involved in their organisations or young people from local schools/ universities. TC will be based mainly on Non Formal Learning Methodology. Active participation, group-work and teamwork, as well as theoretical inputs will characterize the program of the TC.

COORDINATOR: Armenian Progressive Youth

CONTACT: Mr Grigori Yeritsyan GRANT AMOUNT: 16.527,50 €

REFERENCE: 534522-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: WHEN SOCIAL MEET RIGHTS DESCRIPTION: When Social Meet Rights is a 6 days Training Course, which was developed as a module for

youth workers/trainers to help them to answer their questions concerning the (Social) rights issues and its implementation in their communities. Having the European Social Charter as a basis and background, we will approach the idea of Social Rights in relation to housing, education, health, employment, non-discrimination, legal and social protection and movement of persons. The end goal of the training course is to support the professional development of young activists and to raise the quality of their projects concerning Social Rights in disadvantaged communities. Our methodology will be mainly based on group-work, case studies and role-playing. We will place special emphasis on developing participants’ capacity to multiply their experience in view of diffusing the training’s results. The training will be held in Kobuleti (Georgia) and counts with 30 participants from Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania.

COORDINATOR: Youth Association DRONI

CONTACT: Ms Ekaterine Gogoberishvili

GRANT AMOUNT: 19.845,00 €

REFERENCE: 534526-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: NEVER AGAIN DESCRIPTION: The project will enable participants to learn how youth work and non-formal education can

help to promote the inclusion of ethnic , national and social minorities in the school community. It will also provide a forum to discuss ways of reintegrating young offenders into society. Youth workers (as well as young teachers) from different countries and cultures will share their diverse experiences and ideas on how to deal with bullying at school. They will be encouraged to establish cooperation between non-governmental organizations and schools to organize youngsters’ leisure time, integrate all minority groups in the school community and encourage young people to continue education at high school and be involved in different social and cultural programmes Youth in Action Programme gives. Finally, it will also develop ways to help youth to speak out about bullying and discuss how the problem should be presented in the media. The project will stimulate and provide the innovative working methods which will supports youth initiative as a key competence for the personal development, creativity, entrepreneurship and youth inclusion in healthy and sport activities; The project will support the partnership building activities between the associations and will develop the skills and give the experience to the participants how to launch of new quality projects, both within the framework of the Youth in Action Programme and on the local levels.

COORDINATOR: Foundation of the Development of the Inter Relations ERTOBA CONTACT: Mrs. Nelly Saginashvili

GRANT AMOUNT: 16.128,00 €

REFERENCE: 534527-3.1-MD-5-2012-R3 TITLE: Study Visit CRONOGRAF DESCRIPTION: Media plays a major role in the entire society, starting with the news and information role

and ending with the manipulation and establishing values. The tired connection between Media, Culture and Society forms today’s youth identity, the social media being a part of the daily agenda and for many already a lifestyle. What is the role of media, how does it influence the culture and society, how the youth culture is shaped by media, are the questions coming to be addressed within the proposed Study Visit “CRONOGRAF”. During 5 days, 34 participants coming from 13 organizations from European Union and East Europe and Caucasus region, will get familiar with media situation in Moldova, will discover the aspects of the national and local media and will meet with the creators of new media (social networks and blogs). Youngsters will have the possibility to discuss the opportunities and challenges mass media in Moldova faces and exchange the best practices of the media usage in the youth sector. Media will be explored as a mean of art and culture through documentary films and meetings with stage directors, and as a mean of entrepreneurship through the produced broadcasts and meetings with producers. The project will run in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova between 11-16 May, 2013, parallel with the XI-th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF:

COORDINATOR: Open World House TV Studio CONTACT: Mr. Virgiliu Margineanu GRANT AMOUNT: 21.395,00 €

REFERENCE: 534593-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: Minorities in Action DESCRIPTION: The training, Minorities in Action, is gathering 20 youth leaders from Republic of Moldova,

Ukraine, Romania and Denmark. The training is aiming at promoting exchange of best practice in the field of minority rights and at promoting Social Theatre as a tool for education and information in the field. The project is expected to lead to a number of concrete projects in the local communities as well as new projects within the frame of Youth in Action Programme. The training will consist of a balance of theoretical presentations and group work or exercises. The training will address themes as human rights, minorities, Social Theatre, Youth in Action Programme, European Youth Foundation and International institutions. The training will take place in Vadul lui Voda, Republic of Moldova, from the 25th of March to 1st of April 2013.

COORDINATOR: Asociatia Obsteasca "Copiii Bugeacului" CONTACT: Ms. Elena Cravcenco GRANT AMOUNT: 11.529,00 €

REFERENCE: 534612-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: Training Course eQauality DESCRIPTION: Discrimination based on gender or sex is a common civil rights violation. We, as young

people leaving in the same framework of time tend to share the same rights and possibilities and enjoy the same values that are offered to everybody. Because of the discrimination aspects beside a Unified Europe you can recognize a clear division and this mainly based on religion, culture and society. Gender discrimination in education, employment, equal play and equal opportunities shows that the applicable laws toward any kind of Gender discrimination are not an impediment. One of the reasons being the lack of education and knowledge that forms the attitude and behaviour. The proposed Training Course is coming with the aim to put under the discussion the issue of gender discrimination and come with some tools that will help young people to not to discriminate and be discriminated. It will offer the understanding of the Gender Equality concept and bring up tools for Gender Education. Objectives: - To raise the awareness and address the issue of gender discrimination, and its realities in relation with culture, religion and society - To give the understanding between sex and gender as a root of gender equality misunderstanding - To promote gender equality in opportunities and empower women. - To increase the understanding of woman’s Human Rights and raise the awareness of the importance of Human Rights and the Fundamental Freedoms - To explore the connection between gender and employment. - To share good practices in field of youth work and Gender Equality. - To increase the capacity of participants to develop projects by delivering info regarding YiA and non-formal education tools. The Training Course will run in Chisinau, Moldova between 17 -24 June 2013 and will train 30 participants coming from 10 countries from EU and EECA region. All the activities will be based on non-formal education and participative approaches.

COORDINATOR: Asociatia Obsteasca Vector Cahul CONTACT: Ms Nadejda Florea

GRANT AMOUNT: 20.635,00 €

REFERENCE: 534621-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: EDUCATION FOR PEACE – YOUTH IN PEACE DESCRIPTION: The training course “Education for Peace – Youth in Peace” aims to offer an insight into

peace education as a value-based respond to acquire competences that people need to be capable of in order to live, apply and promote peaceful means of conflict transformation every day in order to fight discrimination and violence. The objectives of the project are: • To make youth workers familiar with a value-based approach of education for peace • To share educational methods for working with young people on conflict transformation and nonviolence • To design educational programmes on peace education for young people Hence, with this project we would like to share educational tools that empower young people to be active agents of peaceful change in Europe, particularly in the contexts of frozen conflicts in EECA region and in increasingly escalating community conflicts in Western Europe. Since peace education is relying on methods of non-formal education, the methods employed in the training course will be participatory and needs orientated drawing from the working and training experiences of the trainers and based on training manuals such as Compass, Domino and the T-Kits. The project will be organized for 28 youth workers from Slovakia, Turkey, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Georgia. The Academy for Peace and Development will coordinate and host the project in Kobuleti, Georgia, from 05-13 June 2013.

COORDINATOR: Academy for Peace and Development

CONTACT: Mr Giorgi Kakulia GRANT AMOUNT: 21.850,00 €

REFERENCE: 534640-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: International Training Course “Move it!” DESCRIPTION: The current generation of young Europeans is the first to have grown up in a largely

borderless and peaceful Europe, with all that implies in terms of mobility, multilingualism, and new cultural and economic opportunities. Whereas their parents and grandparents defined themselves along national lines, many young people today have added a European dimension to that description. The origin of project comes from recognition of idea of how multicultural the European society is and how important it is to involve young European citizens with fewer opportunities (with social obstacles and cultural differences) into “building” a prosperous and united Europe, where there is no place for social exclusion and cultural barriers. This 7 working days International Training course “Move it!” to be held in Costesi, the Republic of Moldova aims at developing competencies of youth leaders and youth workers for inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities into the youth projects within the EU “Youth in Action” programme, promoting tolerance towards cultural diversity as common value on the local, national and international levels and prevention of exclusion. It focuses on fostering European awareness on benefits of intercultural relations and social inclusion; it highlights the importance of active participation of youth, regardless of person’s social background and financial situation. 28 young participants from the EU and EECA region are deliberately chosen to come from countries with multicultural communities: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Romania. ADVIT Moldova will act as host and sending organization in this project.

COORDINATOR: ADVIT "Europa fara frontiere" CONTACT: Ms. Natalia Roelofs

GRANT AMOUNT: 18.019,00 €

REFERENCE: 534789-3.1-AZ-2012-R3 TITLE: Let's start to learn each other DESCRIPTION: The venue of the project is Lankaran city, Azerbaijan and the duration will be from 11 to 18

May. Type of the project- training course. Theme of the project - Intercultural dialog and rights of minorities. 24 representatives of youth NGOs from the following countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey, Spain and Italy, 4 participants/ organization, will be selected to attend a training course which will focus on improving the capacity, knowledge and skills in intercultural learning, partnership and coalition building. Target group: national minorities, youth workers, people working in NGOs, associations, local authorities or governmental services, involved in the Youth in Action programme. Aims and objectives: -to share, study and discuss the concrete tools that allow participants to run a constructive work using the cultural diversity of the young immigrants, refugees and local volunteers and communities to promote active participation; -to understand intercultural situations in international team work and partnership; -to improve their practice in intercultural dialog related to international youth work; -gain intercultural knowledge of different cultures and working methods through the opportunity to share experiences and in informal moments. During the project the participants will take part in many team building activities, they will exchange their opinions, experiences and reflections about different aspects of human rights, intercultural dialog, project writing and networking.

COORDINATOR: “Youth League for Intercultural Cooperation” CONTACT: Mr. Sadig Rzayev GRANT AMOUNT: 22.798,00 €

REFERENCE: 534795-3.1-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: International Seminar "Re-Exchange" DESCRIPTION: Within International Seminar “Re-Exchange” we would like to evaluate the experience of

the previous international youth exchanges conducted with the participation of the EECA countries. Looking back for what has been done we will try to see the wider picture of the results and to prepare recommendations for future exchange projects and other forms of cooperation in the youth field. Also this seminar will be one of the last opportunities to prepare the good quality projects within action 3.1 of the Youth in Action Programme. The objectives of the project are: to evaluate and to share the experience of the international youth exchanges within action 3.1 implemented with EECA countries since 2007: main topics, participants, successes, challenges, results etc; to discuss tendencies and priorities for the cooperation in the youth field with EECA region; to discuss the new possibilities for cooperation in the youth field with the organizations from EECA region; using evaluated experience to come up with new most relevant youth exchange projects ideas to use the last Youth in Action possibilities. The project will take place in Crimea, Ukraine and will last for 6 working days (excluding travel days) and involve 26 participants from the following countries: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. The methods will be used all based on the non-formal education principles: group work and discussions, brainstorming, simulations and role plays, theater workshops, teambuilding and trust building activities, energizers, ice-breakers, getting to know each other activities, intercultural night, reflection groups. The applicant organization Center for European Initiatives will take the role of the hosting partner in the project.

COORDINATOR: CENTER FOR EUROPEAN INITIATIVES CONTACT: Ms Anna Kovbasyuk GRANT AMOUNT: 20.181,00 €

REFERENCE: 534812-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: Training Course "Creative Us" DESCRIPTION: The Training Course “ Creative Us ” aims to educate young leaders and youth facilitators

coming from rural area in creative education and education through creativity. Participants will be introduced into the creativity aspects by exploring the connection of the creative process (creativity mechanisms and phases), the creative person (traits and characteristics) and the creative product (practical application). They will learn about creative problem solving as a personal and leadership skill and the use of creativity in non formal education concept. Participants will learn to find fresh and innovative solution to problems, and identify opportunities to improve the way that we do things. The training will have a very practical approach by exercising each explored domain and putting in action the learned things. Youth in Action programme will be presented and participants will be able to follow up their ideas and cooperation by implementing other youth projects based on participants and social local needs. Project Objectives: - To explore the understanding of creative education and education through creativity - To introduce participants to the creativity concept, process and mechanism and the way to utilize it. - To experience the creativity tools in field of problem solving and leadership skills - To put in practice the creative tools in non-formal education and youth work - To develop project ideas in frame of Youth in Action programme. The project is design for 30 rural youth workers coming from 10 countries (Moldova, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia ………….) as a result of cooperation between 10 organizations from Programme and EECA region. The project will take place in Cosnita, Republic of Moldova between 1-8 July 2013.

COORDINATOR: A.O.Generatia Tinerilor CONTACT: Ms Viorica Soroceanu GRANT AMOUNT: 19.859,00 €

REFERENCE: 534846-3.1-BY-2012-R3 TITLE: Neform@3 DESCRIPTION: This is a multilateral youth project for specialists in informal education that come from the

countries of Eastern-European Partnership, as well as from the European Union. The project objectives are to incorporate informal education into a system of work with disabled youth and young people that live in unfavourable urban environment. During the course of the project the participants will become acquainted with various learning programs, forms and methods of informal education. The duration of the program will be 6 days (5 nights). The participant countries are: Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania. The number of participants will be 5 from each of the countries (total 20 specialists with informal education background), 6 experts from partner countries as well as volunteer and staff members, total -- 30 people. In order to conduct educational activities the project will also incorporate 430 disabled young people or youth with limited capacities from the following target groups: teenagers that are in conflict with law, disabled children and young people, youth from needy families, orphans. The educational seminars will be organized with the help of the following methods: round table, conferences, role-play games, intercultural education trainings, teamwork games, video-trainings, field visits, drama and socio-problematic youth program.

COORDINATOR: RPO Belarusian Association of UNESCO clubs CONTACT: Mrs Halina Bedulina GRANT AMOUNT: 9.686,00 €

REFERENCE: 534964-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Creative rural youth work DESCRIPTION: This seminar designed for youth workers involved in rural youth work and young people

from rural areas. The seminar will focus on the added value of creativeness in youth work, identifying key competencies developed in youth work and how theses competencies can be transferred to improve the youth work in rural areas. The purpose of this international seminar is to share the tools and practices of youth work in rural areas. The accent will be made on the creative arts methods which the participants of the seminar will be ready to share with others. We as youth workers use a lot of different methods of non-formal learning for inclusion of young people. There is a big variety of such methods. The methods of creative arts are the most attractive for youth, using them we can involve young people, make them active in our societies, they can be great tools for inclusion for those who are leaving in rural areas and excluded in the societies. It will take place in Armenia for 5 days. Objectives of this seminar are: -To share the realities of work with young people from rural areas; -To provide space and time for sharing best practices on using creative arts methods for inclusion of rural youth; -To learn how to use new methods of creative arts through practicing them; -To identify the best approaches of rural youth work in our countries; -To set cooperation between the organizations participating in the seminar. The seminar will be based on non-formal education. It will be participants-centred (based on the needs and contributions of the participants). Facilitators will prepare creative and active methods and tools in order to explore the topic of the seminar and achieve the aim. Some methods: individual work, small discussion groups, plenary work, group dynamics cooperative games, theoretical input, Open Space Technology, case studies, field visits, collage and posters, movie shooting, etc...

COORDINATOR: Hamashkharhayin haykakan eritasardakan vostayn CONTACT: Mrs Astghik Avetisyan GRANT AMOUNT: 15,064,00 €

REFERENCE: 534991-3.1-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: Outdoor Education for Inclusion of Disadvantaged Y DESCRIPTION: The project "Outdoor Education for Inclusion of Disadvantaged Youngsters" is the

training seminar addressing the lack of experience and knowledge about methods of non-formal learning, especially learning from experience through structured reflection and feedback. The partner promoters want to use the opportunity of intercultural project to bring this educational approach to a conventional system of formal learning as equally prestigious form of learning in more detail. The project will take place in the Crimea, Ukraine and bring together 24 participants from the EU Member States (Austria, Germany and Slovakia) and Eastern European and Caucasus countries (Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine) in order to transfer and exchange of experience in the field of non-formal and experiential learning, to develop competencies of youth workers and youth leaders in applying non-formal and experiential learning in their work with disadvantageous young people.

COORDINATOR: DONETSK YOUTH DEBATE CENTRE CONTACT: Mr. Andriy Donets GRANT AMOUNT: 19.398,00 €

REFERENCE: 535004-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: YiA with Neighbouring Countries DESCRIPTION: The project “YiA with Neighbouring Countries” will be a seven-day training course (TC)

with 32 participants from 8 EECA and programme countries. It will take place in Bakuariani, Georgia during 23 – 29th of march, 2013 and will involve international partners, youth workers, project managers, Young Leaders, ex-EVS volunteers, multipliers, project managers and young people engaged in work of various NGOs. The aim of the project is to: raise awareness towards YiA programme; promote its idea among newcomers in international youth work, especially from EECA region; give the detailed information about cooperation between EU and neighbouring countries; To manage live and work together representatives of different cultures and backgrounds; to rice up positive awareness and promote tolerance; To build new partnership between participant countries and create new projects in framework of Youth in Action. Therefore, the training, based on exchange of ideas, best practices, more practical and less theoretical input etc., will focus on teaching how to organize YiA projects in cooperation with EECA countries. Special attention will be drawn to challenges that can occur while working with the programme and how they can be faced in order to successfully realize common projects in future. Elements of the training are the following: Youth in Action Programme, youth work with disadvantaged people, main features of YE, TC, networking, EVS, cultural diversity, organizing multicultural projects, good partnership, couching, etc.

COORDINATOR: INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PEACE AND INTEGRATION CONTACT: Mrs. Nato Kenkadze GRANT AMOUNT: 19.572,00 €

REFERENCE: 535052-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: FWD: Train your leader! DESCRIPTION: The multilateral youth exchange "FWD: Train your leader!" organized by AVI Moldova will

take place in a town close to Chisinau capital from 28/04 to 04/05/2013. The project is a follow-up of a series of such events organized by partner organizations from SCI network, the name itself meaning a forward message containing best (and worst) practices in leading and running international volunteer projects, especially work camps, as well as guidelines for developing successful leadership abilities for youth. The content of the five days long programme aims to raise awareness about the importance of volunteer leadership as a part of preparation stage of work camp management, as well as providing the participants with information, knowledge, good practices, simulations, and experiences needed by the candidate of camp leaders so that they can manage and lead an international or bilateral project. Further objectives of the project include fostering exchange and mutual understanding between young people from different cultural, ethnic and religious background, encouraging young people to become active citizens, and developing intercultural dialogue. In addition to that some important sub-topics are present in the project, namely gender equality and combating all types of discrimination as well as focus on non-formal, informal and peer education. In a multicultural, informal environment about 28 active and motivated young people from partner organizations will exchange views and ideas on volunteering, leadership, civil society and its role in the democratization process, democracy, rule of law, human rights and basic freedoms. The participating approach as the main learning method will provide the basis for exchanging ideas, information, experience, expertise and good practices. Eventually the programme will be concluded with a set of wiki materials with camp leader guidelines, hosted on an existing on-line resource engine, which will be used for further trainings.

COORDINATOR: Asociaţia de Voluntariat Internaţional din Moldova CONTACT: Mr. Cezar Cernei

GRANT AMOUNT: 12.677,00 €

REFERENCE: 535054-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Edges of Exclusion DESCRIPTION: ”Edges of Exclusion” is a Seminar on methodology of integration of youth with FEWEST

opportunities. It is designed as an in depth exploration of the concept of “young people with fewer opportunities”. To work on this topic the authors of the project have developed a term “no way groups”- meaning youth in those socio-cultural, economic or other realities which have almost no chances to take part in international youth project due to a wide variety of reasons (no language skills at all, not literate, living in excluded areas, behaviour disorders etc.). Youth workers, leaders and trainers taking part in this Seminar will perform a mapping youth subcultures of their respective societies, to find out WHO are the REAL “youth with FEWEST opportunities”, and during the project the whole work will be concentrated on the development of tools, methodologies and concrete projects with those on the “edges of the map”. Therefore focus of the seminar will be on young people from deprived urban and rural areas. This Seminar will serve also as a platform for in depth reflection and discussion on the issues of social exclusion and cultural diversity in Europe and to the roots of xenophobia and discrimination in the scope of social exclusion. It is also planned to help the participants of the Seminar to acquire competencies necessary for development of special youth measures under Actions 2 and 3.1 directed specifically to the inclusion of “no way groups” youth. The Seminar will be held in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia hosted by the applicant organisation, International Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue. There will be 26 participants from the following countries: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova. Ukraine, Malta, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Croatia, Poland, and Slovenia.

COORDINATOR: Intl. Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue

CONTACT: Mr Artur Sargsyan

: 12.677,00 € GRANT AMOUNT 21.820,00

REFERENCE: 535077-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: Our Shared Village DESCRIPTION: Nearly 90% of youth live in developing countries, or 3 billion youth under the age of 25

comprise of the largest generation in human history (CIDA, UN Population Report 2008). Georgian Youth for Europe's project, Our Shared Village aims to empower young men and women from rural communities in developing countries and provide the needed knowledge, tools, and skills. The Our Shared Village project is a new Georgian Youth for Europe (GYE) initiative that aims to promote a better understanding of Georgia’s community development in rural areas. It seeks to bring together participants from programme countries and 4 Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova) in areas of rural youth and get to know their changing environment, organizational and community needs for rural development, organizational participation in society and politics, and youth work in rural areas. One of the activities to meet the goals and objectives for this project is a training and networking programme to bring motivated international youth rural workers together and exploit their realities and projects on rural development. GYE will host a 7 day study visit in May 2013, where participants will have the opportunity to tour 8 different NGOs throughout Georgia that focus on youth and rural community development. Participants of the Our Shared Village project will get to know each other and Georgian rural NGOs history and mission, community involvement, project initiatives, realities and challenges of working in rural communities, and future projects. GYE's staff and participants will develop a creative and informative brochure that aims to give a relevant picture of rural organizations in diverse communities. Participants will also have the opportunity to exchange best practices and highlight the positives and negatives of rural organizations throughout varied communities.

COORDINATOR: Association "Georgian Youth For Europe"

CONTACT: Mr Gus Davidson GRANT AMOUNT: 12.593,00 €

REFERENCE: 535113-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: Plan, Spice, Do, Go! DESCRIPTION: Plan, Spice, Do, Go! is a training course which aims at building confidence, raising self-

esteem and identifying the main characteristics and personal qualities needed nowadays to reduce youth unemployment and encourage creativity and entrepreneurship. The training course will be held in Tbilisi Georgia from 8 to 16 June 2013 and involve 20 participants coming from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary ,Italy, Latvia, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and Turkey. In order to reach the project’s objectives we have planned several activities (training sessions, intercultural evening and intercultural programs) that will guide the participants through the process of getting specific competences. These will enable them to create their own self-development process but also to support other youngsters that are facing difficult economic and social exclusion situations to start a self and social development process, in order to overcome them. The activities will be implemented with the support of non-formal education methods and tools (games and exercises, group presentations, workshops, debates, role plays, forum theatre, open space, open café, outdoor activities, team building).

COORDINATOR: Association "Georgian-European Collaboration" CONTACT: Mr. Mamuka Khatiashvili GRANT AMOUNT: 15.856,00 €

REFERENCE: 535128-3.1-AZ-2012-R3 TITLE: Theatre Techniques for Youth Inclusion and Empower DESCRIPTION:

In cooperation with 9 partners from Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Germany, Turkey, Czech Republic, Spain and Romania, the organisation “Bridge to the Future” will implement as the hosting organisation the training course “Theatre Techniques for Youth Inclusion and Empowerment” for 30 participants in Ganja, Azerbaijan, from the 15th until the 23th of June 2013. In line with the priority of the Youth in Action Programme and the specific priorities for the Eastern Partnership Window, the training course will provide participants with tools to support and encourage young people with fewer opportunities to participate more actively in societal life and to stimulate young people’s spirit of initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship, and employability. Thus youth work and its relevance for societal development are at the core of the project. The training course includes two topics: arts and cultures and anti-discrimination. With creative theatre-art techniques we would like to widen the understanding of youth work for inclusion and empowerment. Theatre methods and other art tools are not only art for art, but have an amazing potential to engage young people into educational endeavours, empower them to take social action and to learn how easy it is to create success for oneself, a group or a community. This training is meant for ‘hands-on people’. They will take an active role in all parts of the training, trying out new activities and new methods of deconstruction. Everyone will play a part in the success of the training. Thus, by letting our participants experience our approach, we want to encourage them to try an arts-based creative methodology with youth to enhance social learning process, their personal development in crucial aspects such as interpersonal communication, group dynamics, intercultural learning and team work as well as leadership and decision-making.

COORDINATOR: “Bridge to the Future” Youth Public Union

CONTACT: Mr Seymur Valiyev GRANT AMOUNT: 24.934,00 €

REFERENCE: 535263-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Deep Immersion 2012+ DESCRIPTION: The project is planned as a deep training experience in the methods of Community

Integration. Work with community and communication with it is in the core of all the projects to be implemented in the framework of Youth in Action Programme of EC. But still trainers and youth workers lack some methodological base to organize a deep integration with the community where the project takes place. This TC will be organized as mostly a practical experience, where the participants will live with Community (host families), investigate it (journalistic and research groups) and work with it (help in solution of some problems that may be in the given Community). This practical part will be accompanied with work with expert in social psychology and a professional team of trainers with serious experience in NFE, to provide ongoing reflection, evaluation and consolidation of the experience and knowledge got during the TC. This training course will be held in Tatev village (near Goris city in Sunik region) during 20-28 June 2013 for 8 working days. There will be 26 participants from the following countries: Croatia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Romania, Malta, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia.

COORDINATOR: Tteni Cooperation CONTACT: Ms Varduhi Adunts GRANT AMOUNT: 23.132,00 €

REFERENCE: 535321-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Creating a Peace of Art DESCRIPTION: Loesje Armenia is the hosting organisation. The project is a training course (TC) “Creating a

Peace of Art”. It will be held in Dilijan, Armenia at something hotel/conference/cultural centre. The TC will be for 8 working days plus 1 arrival and 1 departure day. The partners are coming from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, Greece, Cyrprus. We will have 27 participants plus trainers team. The theme of the TC is on the role of youth work and young people in promoting peace and reconciliation using art as a medium. The objectives are: explore youth work as a tool for peace and reconciliation; explore the role of young people in society working for peace; development of youth work practice; promote art as a medium for exploring these issues. The main implemented activities will include the exploration of the youth work profession from different countries in order to improve the participants youth work competencies. The TC will investigate the role and influence that young people can have especially in communities where there is or has been conflict. The subjects of peace building and reconciliation will be explored. There will be an exploration of the use of writing, storytelling, poster art, graffiti, painting, photography and other popular art forms as a means of young people having a voice in their communities. The methodologies will all be based on the principles of non-formal education/learning. We will use small groups, experiential learning, learning to learn, using and developing of participants own experiences, and self-directed learning. We will use games and exercises as well as inputs and exploration of theories.

COORDINATOR: Loesje in Armenia CONTACT: Ms Hranush Shahnazaryan GRANT AMOUNT: 13.235,00 €

REFERENCE: 535342-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: TC VOICES DESCRIPTION: VOICES is a project for emerging platforms for online collaboration. They are

fundamentally changing the way we work, offering new tools to engage with individuals, communities, colleagues, partners, and the world at large. Social media has become the way to inspire, educate and connect. This is a training course for youth workers, youth project managers and volunteers that will introduce them to the contexts, forms and tools of social media. Main aim of this course is to equip learners with the knowledge, critical thinking ability, and practical skills they need to improve the effectiveness of their work and meet the personal, professional, and civic challenges posed by social media. Proposed program includes a mix of hands-on, practical tuition together with theory, case studies and strategy tips. Participants will discover the possible pitfalls of using social media, learn appropriate etiquette, and look at examples of how to best construct and spread their messages to get results. With help of practical group and individual exercises blogging, micro-blogging, document, image and video sharing applications, social networks and social bookmarking will be explored. Learners will become familiar with a range of online communication tools, analyse their uses and implications, explore how can social media help non-governmental organizations to increase active participation and citizenship of young people, to foster inclusion, to achieve organizational goals and promote their causes. The knowledge acquired will be immediately applied as participants will develop a concrete social media strategy for their organizations or projects at the end of the course.

COORDINATOR: Youth Association “Millennium” CONTACT: Ms. Lolua Tamari GRANT AMOUNT: 22.939,00 €

REFERENCE: 535360-3.1-AZ-2012-R3 TITLE: Equal Education Possibilities -Different Abilities DESCRIPTION: “Equal Education Possibilities - Different Abilities” - maximizing inclusion of disabled

people into university experience is youth innovative Training Course on youth with disabilities and their challenges on studying at Universities. 24 young people from 8 countries (EU and EECA) will come together for 7 days to discuss problems about educational possibilities of disabled youngsters at universities and some obstacles preventing the execution of their study rights. Meanwhile, in the framework of this project is expected to share and exchange some national experiences of different countries on educational status of youngsters with disabilities. In each country’s group will be one disable youth or a participant who is able to talk about their countries’ youth, universities and their disable student's problems. 7 days disabled and non-disabled participants will make presentations on situations in their countries, discuss differences, discover similarities and make conclusions and recommendations for universities that will be useful both for EU and for EECA countries. The final result of the training course will be not only raised self-esteem and empowerment of participants, but also wider awareness of the problems of disabled people and positive solutions. Training will empower participants to share their knowledge on the topic and professional trainers will provide competitive information on the training topic. The professionally designed program will allow participants not only to share their experience, but also get acquainted with the legislation and official point of view of the politicians. As the result an active dissemination campaign will be implemented in local university to make the problem more visual and understandable. Together the campaign will give a floor to the organized Youth Organizations Exhibition in order to establish new contacts and make Youth in Action Programme more visual and promote new projects within Youth in Action Programme.

COORDINATOR: Azerbaijan Students' Union CONTACT: Mr Elvin Aslanov GRANT AMOUNT: 20.473,00 €

REFERENCE: 535389-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: "Goodbye Violence" TC on conflict resolution DESCRIPTION: The training course “Goodbye Violence” is aimed at promoting the non-violent approach

to the conflict management. It will emphasize the role of non-violent actions in the peace-building process and especially concentrate on the role of the youth in this context as the main moving power and beneficiary of peace. The objectives of this training course are • to deepen participants’ knowledge and understanding on non-violent actions and peace-building process by discussing the key concepts of the non-violent actions and peace-building, • to provide participants with theoretical knowledge and practical skills to act as educated civic activists in non-violent actions who respect such values, as equality, tolerance, democracy and human rights, • to discuss the success stories and give the opportunity to the participants to share their own practice mentioning the challenges, problems and also achievements, • to motivate participants to act multipliers of the project and activists in the non-violent actions, • to enhance network and cooperation between the participants. The TC will bring together 36 young leaders from 12 countries such as (AM, GE, RU, TR, BiH, AL, SR, FN, CZ, IT, PL, LV). The methods used will include plenary sessions, discussions, workshops, creativity sessions, intercultural and interactive exercises and other non-formal education methods. The TC will also include project planning sessions for follow-up events and future networking. Seven day training will be held in Dilijan, Armenia from 17-24 May, 2013.

COORDINATOR: Civic Forum NGO CONTACT: Ms Manucharyan Marine

GRANT AMOUNT: 15.843,00 €

YOUTH EXCHANGES REFERENCE: 534535-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: ECO CARAVAN DESCRIPTION: “Eco Caravan” will bring 36 young people from EU and partner countries to increase the

awareness of young people on nature, ecology, recycling and environment pollution issues. The project will support to research environmental pollution problems, how environment effects or the life and it will promote deeper understanding of the linkages between energy, climate change, social and development issues. The Youth Exchange will support youth to put in practice for their own community what they will experience during Youth Exchange and act as multipliers in their home countries. During the meeting we ll be use non formal education techniques, the program will be based on interactive workshops, games, round tables, debates and presentations, , recycling efforts, information campaign (World Environment Day - 5 June), ECO Art and photo exhibitions and tree planting and clean-up campaigns. The participants will move around Georgia to visit different place and research ecological issues of the country. The activity will promote successful cooperation, certainly under condition of mutual tolerance and interest to comprehended culture of each other and develop intercultural dialog related to environmental protection field and to demonstrate the best methods to implement it in own communities This Youth Exchange has a goal to show how people of different cultures can unite their views on life, opinions, experiences and expressions in creating their final general “map of diversity and mutual understanding”, also basis for cooperation, nevertheless for the follow up activity it is considered to create a calendar which will be illustrated with the photos of the nature will be made by the participants. The project will support the youth mobility, their active participation in Youth in Action Programme and development of the networking between the partners, realization common projects and learn different possibilities Youth in Action Programme gives.

COORDINATOR: Foundation of the Development of the Inter Relations ERTOBA CONTACT: Mrs. Nelly Saginashvili

GRANT AMOUNT: 17.328,00 €

REFERENCE: 534602-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: Creating a new society – An outdoor simulation for DESCRIPTION: Gender equality is still a burning issue in European countries. Women are discriminated just

because they are women and in many countries the discrimination of women is not even considered a topic of relevance, but hidden behind cultural patterns. Forms of gender discrimination are diverse and differ in their severity. Thus, with this youth exchange we would like to engage into a dialogue with young people about gender equality and gender roles in their social environment. We would like to challenge our participants with different perceptions of the role of man and woman in modern Europe and in its past. Therefore, we will ask young people from six countries to engage into the demanding process of creating a gender equal society for the duration of the youth exchange. To make the situation more interesting the youth exchange will be held outdoors in form of a camping experience which automatically exposes the participants to simple question of shelter, food supply, sanitation and common ground rules right from the start of the encounter. With this approach we aim to: • To identify and discuss common forms of discrimination against women • To foster a gender-sensitive understanding of currently existing societal models and its inherent forms of discrimination • To experience that a new society based on gender equality is possible • To create follow-up initiatives that promote gender equality in the sending communities The Georgian youth organisation Youth for the World will host the youth exchange in Shaori (Georgia). Its dates are June 27 to July 7 2013. 30 young people and 6 group leaders from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Bulgaria and Italy will participate in the project.

COORDINATOR: Youth For The World CONTACT: Mr Giorgi Bukia GRANT AMOUNT: 24.112,00 €

REFERENCE: 534617-3.1-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: Youth Experience for Sustainable Development DESCRIPTION: In the modern world Sustainable Development is often an over-used word, but goes to the

heart of tackling a number of interrelated global issues such as poverty, inequality, hunger and environmental degradation. Young people from all over the world are interested and involved in the process of sustainable development principles implementation to achieve the main its goal “to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. National Youth Center “Environmental Initiatives” together with partners from Ukraine and abroad has developed idea of youth exchange under the theme “Youth Experience for Sustainable Development”. Within this project three Ukrainian organizations will bring together their resources and abilities to host participants from Hungary, Moldova and Turkey. Team of each country will be represented with 6-7 persons and group leader interested and experienced in field of social and environmental activity. Countries participating in project will illustrate outstanding achievements of youth from European Union, candidate country for accession to the EU and countries of the Eastern Partnership. Brainstorms, seminars, workshops and informal meetings will be held in Kiev for one week in July 2012 to insure opportunities for each participant to get together and talk about their view on development of mankind, about the role that environment plays in their life and get a possibility to share experience to understand how social, economic and environmental issues are interrelated. Different methods of non-formal education will be applied to achieve the objectives of project among which are : - stimulation the dialogue about issues of common interest namely sustainable development that covers human rights, cultural integration, tolerance, right to live in clean environment, access to education, civic liberties, etc.; - exchange of ideas and experiences; - participation of youth in decision making process.

COORDINATOR: National Youth Center "Environmental Initiatives" CONTACT: Ms. Oksana Aliyeva GRANT AMOUNT: 7.619,40 €

REFERENCE: 534638-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: Mind your heritage! DESCRIPTION: Nowadays there is a real problem existing in the historical cities of Europe. The old

buildings that represent the cultural heritage and reflect on the history of the city and its citizens, are being demolished or rebuilt and transformed into modern hotels and office buildings, leaving both the citizens and visitors without a connection to the past and their roots. We, young Europeans, feel that this undermines the cultural diversity of Europe and therefore action should be taken to value and safeguard our heritage. The Youth Exchange ‘Mind Your Heritage!’ aims to support the involvement of young people in the sustainable development of urban communities and to promote the understanding of the importance of protection of cultural heritage both on national and international level. The youth exchange will take place during June 10-17, 2013 in Costesti village near capital of Moldova, Chisinau. There will be an international group of 30 young people from 3 EU countries – Lithuania, Greece and Poland, and from 3 EECA countries – Moldova, Ukraine and Armenia. The total duration of the project is 8 days, including the arrival and departure days. The applicant organization ADVIT Moldova has hosting and sending role in the project. The project aims to raise the awareness of the European community and local authorities on the cultural heritage of the city of Chisinau, namely its architectural monuments, built during the 18-20th centuries. The activities planned by the organizers will encourage the participants to demonstrate their creativity towards the realization of the common goals and therefore will contribute to the personal development of competences. The following methods will be used to achieve the common goals: - old city quest - team building exercises - strategic action planning - work in groups on project development - group and individual reflections - group and individual evaluations - theoretical inputs and plenary presentations

COORDINATOR: ADVIT Europa fara frontiere CONTACT: Mrs. Natalia Roelofs GRANT AMOUNT: 14.140,00 €

REFERENCE: 534723-3.1-GE-2012-R3 TITLE: PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR NONVIOLENT COMMUNITY ACTIONS DESCRIPTION: Many challenges exist in European societies which are subject to societal negotiation

processes and result in societal conflicts and in diverse forms of violence such as ethnical tensions, structural discrimination of minorities and religious value-based conflicts. Additionally, in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus territorial conflicts can be found resulting in ethnical tensions between the conflicting populations and in many cases in segregation from each other.. Hence, the promoters will implement a youth exchange that allows its participants to analyse societal conflicts and to reflect on grass-root activities led by young people to lower existing tensions and to approach these conflicts with peaceful means. The main themes of the youth exchange “Practical Tools for Nonviolent Community Actions” are anti-discrimination and art and culture. By this, the project combines education for peace based on the principles of non-discrimination, tolerance and nonviolence with the use of interactive, creative and artistic theatre methods. The specific objectives of the project reflect the priorities of the YiA Programme as follows: - To introduce nonviolent conflict transformation as a peace-building approach to young people to enhance competences of intercultural learning and tolerance and promoting non-violence as a European value - To analyse community conflicts in Europe and to design grass-root youth based responds to conflicts fostering active citizenship and participation of young people - To empower young people to use their creativity and to become agents for peaceful change in their community, country and Europe fosters a sense of responsibility for common European challenges, social justice and diversity in Europe The project will be organized for 32 young people from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia, Greece, Turkey and Italy. The Academy for Peace and Development will coordinate and host the project in Kobuleti, Georgia, from 15-25 June 2013.

COORDINATOR: Academy for Peace and Development CONTACT: Mr Giorgi Kakulia

GRANT AMOUNT 24.979,00

REFERENCE: 534776-3.1-MD-2012-R3 TITLE: Let's act, we are the Europe! DESCRIPTION: The project “Let's act, we are the Europe!” aims to increase the dissemination of

information on EU and raise the interest of youth in the decision making process in the EU. The programme of this project was designed to focus on young people with fewer opportunities (young people with a low standard of living), to provide them opportunity to explore the meaning of European values as their common identity and to raise their sense of belonging to Europe, to empower them to take active role in their local communities. We intend to reach our objectives through a youth exchange, where 56 participants, aged between 18 and 25, from different rural areas of EU countries (Sweden, Romania) and neighbouring countries (Moldova, Belarus) have to reflect upon what the EU is and what it should be for them in the future. One of the objectives is to build strong links between participants after the project implementation. The methodology of the Exchange is based on the principles of informal and non-formal learning, with an accent to peer-to-peer education. The youth exchange will take place in Ialoveni, Republic of Moldova, in May 2013.

COORDINATOR: Center for International Communication and Human Rights CONTACT: Mr Andrei Hincu GRANT AMOUNT: 26.958,00 €

REFERENCE: 535002-3.1-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: Feel the Fairy Tale DESCRIPTION: “Feel the fairy tale” youth exchange will gather 21 participant from 4 countries in Kharkiv,

Ukraine, with aim to create tactile books with international fairy tales for young people from Pravo vybora center for visually impaired youths. While working on tactile books, participants will learn about social inclusion and practices in different countries, exchange about intercultural learning, explore crafts, folk art and fairy tales during the project activities, and work together to create tactile books with fairy tales and stories from their home countries and cities. The outcomes of the project will include tactile books with fairy tales, increased knowledge and skills of the participants on the project themes, and online resource with materials of the project, methodology of creating tactile books. The project, tactile books and online materials will also contribute to promotion of Youth in Action programme, and improving quality of international youth activities in its framework.

COORDINATOR: Interregional Volunteer Organization (IVO) "SVIT-Ukraine" CONTACT: Ms. Natalia Velikobrat GRANT AMOUNT: 14.113,00 €

REFERENCE: 535068-3.1-UA-2012-R3 TITLE: Fairy-Tales through LifeTime DESCRIPTION: The youth exchange takes place in village Koblevo, Ukraine on 06-15 July 2013 (10 days).

The theme of the youth exchange is relations between generations and values behind them through exploration of fairy-tales from 4 countries with different cultures. The objectives are: to promote cooperation between generations through analysing national fairy-tales by youth from Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Azerbaijan and comparing them to real life situation in these countries; to promote inclusion of youth from orphanages, fostered and deprived families. The participants of the youth exchange are 7 young people (13-16 y. o.) from fostered families, orphanages and deprived families and 3 group leaders from each country. The methodology is based on the methods of experiential, non-formal learning and participatory approach. The methods used are: integration, team-building and trust building activities, role plays, intercultural learning activities, presentations, story-writing, theatre, make-up, setting scenery, costumes workshops; work in national groups for analysing fairy-tales; creation of illustrations to fairy-tales as the result of analyse; work in mixed groups; creation of intercultural fairy-tale by participants. The product of the exchange will be staged fairy-tale created by the participants which will be presented to local community. The follow-up of the youth exchange is published compilation of fairy-tales selected and translated by participants together with the fairy-tale created by the participants; presentations of the project results in the local community by the project participants.

COORDINATOR: CENTER FOR EUROPEAN INITIATIVES CONTACT: Ms. Yuliya Ielfimova GRANT AMOUNT: 20.832,00 €

REFERENCE: 535213-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: "Sounds of Peace" Musical exchange for Peace DESCRIPTION: General aim of “Sounds of Peace” Musical exchange is to bring together 42 young

musicians from 6 countries (Northern Ireland (UK), Poland, Kosovo, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia) to play music together and to promote peace. They will talk about peace they will play about peace and they will share their understanding of peace through their music. Objectives of the exchange are: - To share the music of their country and their understanding of peace with each other - To play music together and to think of interesting compositions that will help the public to support the idea of peace - To perform in front of their peers from other countries in general and from Armenia in particular - To promote Youth in Action programme of EC as a great program supporting young people to share the values they believe in. During the nine days the participants will perform for each other and will try to create new bands and will prepare a solo performance with a completely new band from another country. The exchange will end with an open air concert in the capital Yerevan. We are also planning to hold an advanced planning meeting to go over all the details of the concerts, to check the venues, to agree on PR strategies to assure the success of the festival. We believe that peace has to be promoted, it should be outspoken and "outsang" and "outplayed". We hope that "Sounds of Peace" will inhabit in everybody's souls and there will be no alternative to peace. The exchange is planned to take place from 7-16 May, 2013 in Aghveran, Armenia and it will be hosted by Civic Forum NGO from Armenia. *The program of the APV will be sent separately.

COORDINATOR: Civic Forum NGO CONTACT: Ms Marine Manucharyan

GRANT AMOUNT: 19.487,00 €

REFERENCE: 535405-3.1-AM-2012-R3 TITLE: Challenging discrimination in the Forum Theatre DESCRIPTION: Project title: Challenging discrimination in the forum theatre.

Training course 3.1 (EAP window) Partner Countries: Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia The project will let the young people to know that we work together and learn from each other. During the exchange the participants will present their own countries, own heritage, traditions, culture, habits, languages and will try to teach each other. Supporting interaction among peers can foster some of the most fruitful learning because peers often share a deep understanding of each other's’ common challenges, experiences, and practices, and have developed valuable expertise in their fields. We will use the forum theatre as a good tool in youth work and youth participation. Objectives of the project are: -Exchange of experience and developing skills for 31 young people and youth workers from 6 European countries for carrying out activities against discrimination by using the Forum theatre method. -Train participants to use Forum Theatre non-formal method in projects/ activities meant to prevent marginalization and discrimination against young people belonging to minorities and immigrant communities. Results: Participants will get skills and information in Forum Theatre Method, A performance will be prepared and played for the local community in Armenia, A study visit will be organized, Min.30 young people from Ashtarak town participating to the Forum Theatre performance.

COORDINATOR: World Armenian Youth Network CONTACT: Mrs Sofya Piradyan GRANT AMOUNT: 17.540,00 €

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