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We have announced competition. In the next five months - by 30 June 2017, participants who got selected for some of our projects can send us a postcard from the project they will participate in. Of course, together with some greetings to us + one sentence to answer the question:
"What would you refer to those who hesitate if they should apply for Erasmus+ projects?" Team ADEL will select the most interesting one and the sender gets the chance to participate in any youth exchange in the future. We will use the collected postcards and replies to encourage and motivate other young people to join our projects :) Update in July: Album of received postcards is here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ADELSlovakia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1028978520569390 We organized youth exchange focused on development of rural areas and photography between 21 – 30 March in Pieniny National Park in Slovakia. We are very happy about the fact, that 80% of our participants were first-commers in Erasmus+ program. This fact contributed to whole atmosphere during the youth exchange, participants were very active all the time and appreciated this opportunity a lot. We are encouraged even more to give such a chance to more and more young people J
Bellow you can read also their opinions: “This was a lifechanging experience. Youth Exchange made me realized countless opportunities that being a young European offers. I have positively changed in so many ways during these 7 days than I havent in my whole life. I have fallen in love with the various cultures and personalities participanting in this program and the breath-taking views of Cerveny Klastor.” Mikaella, Cyprus “I was pleasantly surprised. The youth exchange was organised very professionally and interestingly. Participants were also extreely funny, helpful and social. I wish aI had knownt about youth exchange earlier.” Eduard, Estonia “Slovakia and her people are wonderful. I love the rural areas from Slovakia and I think that its very productive to promote it with photographies. Slovakia has got an interesting natural heritage. Lenka you are the best. Barbara Gracias!” Pablo, Spain “It was a very good youth Exchange, with nice activities, especially the outdoor ones. I gained new knowledge about photography and I nwas convinced to use manual mostly while taking pictures. The group was one of the best that I have met during many of YE-s and TC-s.” Bartosz, Poland “My first experiences happened in this rural area 🙂 Firstly hiking was amazing for me because it was my first time and I was so scared. But I had really nice friends with me and they helped me. Now, I haver eally good amazing friends in the world. I dont want to come back, but in here, I learned being better person, more social and friendly.” I love you!” Sevval, Turkey Summary what was youth exchange about: Are you interested in photography, nature and development of rural areas? Organization ADEL decided to organize youth exchange where you participants improved skills in photography but also helped to promote Slovakia abroad and develop tourism and business in rural areas. Slovak villages are beautiful but running off people, therefore we also wanted to share experience from other countries in order all together find new ways how to change that situation. There were various activities during the youth exchange: getting-know each others activities, teambuilding activities, energizers, intercultural evenings… The main programe was devided into two parts: devlelopment of rural areas through promotion and tourism – workshop how to work with camera and take good pictures, how to edit them, how to use graphic design software (of course basics of it), field trip where we visited various villages in Slovakia and collectd materials there (pictures, videos) which were used in preparation of promotional materials. The second part of the youth exchange was focused on: development of rural areas through business – we discussed challanges to do business in rural reasa, how to overcome them. The project aimed also to familiarize participants with other projects, programs and possibilities that they can use in the future, such as Erasmus+, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, European Voluntary Service, possibilities to apply for grant as „new entrepreneur“ etc. We also discussed about some potential business ideas and possible future projects – another youth exchanges or local projects in order to improve rural areas. The main results of the youth exchange are promotional materials – photos, leaflet, brochure, 2 videos about slovak countryside which participants will promote also in their countries. Of course, another results – new skills and knowledge which participants got, new friends which they made, unforgettable moments and a lot of fun which we had together 🙂 There were participants from Italy , Spain , Cyprus , Turkey , Estonia , Poland and of course Slovakia . More pictures from the region taken by participants can find here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ADELSlovakia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1032647743535801 You can find all materials here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BznpF_Gy4SJQSjBCSUxiVDFTLUE Project was co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme In mid-February, we organized a discussion in Bratislava about "Fight against hate speech: Should we act or threaten freedom of speech?" V. Klus (Member of the National Council), V. Žuborová (Head of Political Science Departments and European Studies of University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava) and A. Bencel (Coordinator of the Campaign "Without Hate on the Internet").
Besides discussion about the topic, of course participants got some basic information about our organization and Erasmus+ program as well. You can see the video from the discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9QY1PV4yMo&feature=youtu.be More photos here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ADELSlovakia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1004811082986134 Our organization ADEL (slovak partner) joined City Bound Europe that is a network of several partner organizations from different EU countries working with adventure-based learning. Through set of activities (PBA, Training Courses, Seminars about Youth Policy and many youth exchanges organized. The main aim of the network are:
- raising awareness of common European culture and cultural heritage of Europe among youngsters, - Building solidarity, understanding and cohesion among them by breaking up national divisions, language barriers and seeking universal values, - Building skills and capacities of our youngsters, youth leaders and organizations, - Consolidating non-formal learning on international level and raising its social, institutional and formal recognition. Thereby, we are raising the quality of non-formal learning activities, contributing to the professionalization of youth work all around Europe, developing the methodology of adventure-based learning, by building innovations, sharing ideas and sense of creativity in order to build big, international, influential and professional European Network. For this project, particularly is important to mention training for youth leaders, since one of the aim of this project is to increase youth leaders capacity. Therefore during those trainings, future youth leaders get a chance to: - learn how to set the learning objectives and how to achieve it using adventure-based learning methodology - get the expert knowledge on evaluation of an adventure-based learning experience - develop the training programme for youth leaders on City Bound Europe Network - learn how to perform effectively in front to the group We made our new, interactive website with a lot of new aspects. Although we had our website already before, new one consists of several new interactive things – all projects that we are involved are published; all interested candidates have to register/create profile and whole application process is made through our website, not through google form as before. Besides that, for each project are selected participants published as well on the website, so whole process became more open, transparent and interested young people can contact each others easier. There is also interactive map of our projects published on the website, plenty of pictures, articles from participants etc. Please check it out – www.adelslovakia.org
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