EUROCYCLE FOR ENVIRONMENT AN YOUTH EXCHANGE ABOUT How to Treat he Natural Environment Protection Areas In Europe in A Sustainable Way? PÄRNU - ESTONIA SUNDAY 22ND APRIL (ARRIVAL DAY) - WEDNESDAY 02NDMAY (DEPARTURE DAY) 2012 PARTNERS AND PARTICIPANTS GUIDE TAKE ME WITH YOU AND DON’T LOSE ME! EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team© WELCOME Congratulations! You are a partner in the Youth Exhcnage EuroCycle for Environment and you are among the 35 participants that will take part at the exchange. Groups from Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Slovenia will get together! You are among these participants, because we believe that you will benefit from the training course. As well we believe that you will be the one that can share his/her experience with others and therefore be the source of enrichment for the other participants. We hope that those 10 days you will spend at “EuroCycle for Environment” will be for you a vivid and useful intercultural experience. To achive this we need to look at some practical needs as well and therefore we have prepared for you this “participants survival guide”, which will help you to answer many questions and as well to prepare for the project. Read the guide carefully and keep it with you on your travels so you can check the information whenever you need. We are looking forward to meet you in Pärnu, Estonia. THE TEAM If you hoped to see our pictures in this part then we are sorry. You will have to wait until you get to Estonia to find this out. However we can tell you that the team of organisers and facilitators is from the Estonia and Brazil. Marika Triin Marco And how will we do it? It will be an exchange, but not like one where you can sit back and relax. We will use active methods, based on experimental learning in combination with practical theory. This means that you will work in workshops, with role plays and exchange the experiences you have from your day to day work and work on concrete future project plans. WHAT LANGUAGE WILL WE USE Despite many of you speak many different languages the official training language will be English only. THE ACTIVITIES In short: Implemented activities: - Teambuilding games, Ice breaking, traditional games, - Non-formal learning, discussions, role play, reflection, simulation games - Presentations (each country Power-point presentations – topic “recycle, environmental and nature conservation in my country). We will learn in a pleasant way the similarities between our countries and the common cultural heritage. This will underline our similarities encourage dialogue, understanding the other’s position and accept and create new perspectives. EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team© - Getting to know the hosting place - city orientation “St. George´ routine” - study tours to nature (Tolkuse hiking trail, Soomaa National park, Paikre waste Treatment Centre and Pärnu Nature and Technology Building/ TUPC) - National Culture evening with traditional foods and drinks, dancing, singing customs, national games or particular traditions - Participation in worldwide environmental protection project in Estonia called “Let´s do it!” - Creating of a Flashmob (with musical instruments and costumes made of recycled materials) INTERCULTURAL EVENING During the Youth Exchange we plan to arrange an InterCultural Evening. You will present your own cultures – national, regional, personal or any kind of culture you feel you belong to. These presentations, you will çasy one evening to each country, should not be a “lecture” but should be done in the creative way. This means that all options are possible. A culture may be presented by a song, a story, a poem, a dance, some drink or food, etc. You may bring pictures, music or anything which you consider to be most appropriate to present your culture. There be as well dvd/video/audio player and data projector within the time limits. However we appreciate if you find more creative way to present your culture. We will not have a kitchen to prepare the meals for the intercultural evening, so we suggest that you adapt your food and drinks to that reality (we can arrange a refrigerator, if necessary). Each country will have a budget of 20 euros for the Intercultural evening products, that will be reimbursed under presentation of the invoice. Note that we will not reimburse the products without and invoice. Participants can bring alcoholic drinks to evening, but as we don’t encourage any alcoholic behaviour we will NOT reimbruse any alcoholic drinks. (We prefer to use the budget of the project in something more positive ☺ ). So in short it should be actually presentation, it should be an activity or something and it is up to you to replace the word something. MARKET OF ORGANISATIONS One of the nice side effects of international exchange is the opportunity to meet new and nice and interesting people from different organizations all over Europe. So let us know in which context you are recently active and present your organization and their work. Bring you promo materials and use your chance to meet future partners. COSTS There is NO participation fee. Board, lodging and programme costs will be provided and paid 100% by grant from the the Estonian YOUTH IN ACTION National Agency. But it is recommended to have a disposal for drinks, small shoppings, etc. We have a budget for travel costs. According to the restrictions of the Youth In Action Programme we can only refund up to 70% of the travel cost, if the following points are fulfilled: EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team© • • • • • Your travel route is from your home town to the venue in Estonia (Pärnu) and back (if you are not travelling from your hometown, contact us previously). You have chosen reasonable and economic means of transportation (e.g. APEX or student fares for flight tickets, cheap airlines, 2nd class trains). Your travel dates are according to the programme (one day plus or minus is O.K., if you can prove that this transfer is cheeper, in other cases please contact Marco Santos [email protected] You have a receipt or invoice for the cost of your plane ticket and the boarding cards or the train tickets. If you go by plane and book an e-ticket please send us a copy by email [email protected] The travel details needed is the following: - Name of the Traveller (Participant) - Date and Time of the Arrival and Departure - Price of the ticket CONTACT DETAILS YOU MAY NEED If you have any questions concerning the organization or the programme of the course, please contact Marco Santos [email protected] PREPARING FOR THE CONTENTS In this section you can find web-links which will help to broaden your understanding of the youth in action programme, non-civic and intercultural education in the European context. These links will be useful for you before the exchange (in terms of introduction) and after the event (in terms of future project implementations as well as training opportunities). General information on European Youth Program http://ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.htm Information on the European Youth in Action Program. User’s guide is available. Non-formal education and intercultural learning http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-nonfor.htm Formal/Non-Formal/informal Education background http://www.efc.be/ftp/public/cpi/TCFF%20Intercultural%20Learning.pdf Intercultural learning http://www.youth-partnership.net/youth-partnership/publications/Tkits/T_kits T-kit publications connected with european youth work European Citizenship Resources http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/index.htm ...small overview on historical details http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/ website of the Council of Europe on citizenship education EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team© ABOUT THE VENUE The training course will take place in Pärnu, Estonia. The arrival day is Sunday afternoon 22nd April 2012 and departure day will be Wednesday morning 02nd May 2012. We will be hosted in the following place: REIU PUHKEKESKUS (http://www.reiupuhkekeskus.ee/) The place will be booked only for our group and we will be accomodated in shared rooms from 2 to 4 people. We will share the nationalities among the rooms. Each room have own bathroom and shower. Towels and bed linen will be provided by hotel, of course you are free to take your own with you ☺. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Coffee break will be done in the hotel during the whole project. As you can check in the website, the place offers different activities and possibilities and it can be enjoyed by the participants. We will have a sauna evening included already in the programme! ☺ As the biggest part (almost all) of you will arrive to Tallinn International Airport or Riga International Airport (check both possibilities) so you will have a bus to Pärnu. Each group will be instructed separately in the best way to reach Pärnu by e-mail after confirming the arrival time. All the groups will be picked up by the organisation team in Pärnu bus station to the accomodation place. Information about Pärnu you can find under http://www.parnu.ee/lang/eng/ Clothes: we don`t have any dressing code at our exchange. So feel free to take whatever clothes make you feel comfortable and able to participate in all activities. Remember that Estonia is a cold country and we advice you to check the weather forecast because we will have some outdoors activities, such as hiking, during the programme. PARTICIPANTS AND PREPARATION OF THE GROUPS Each country will select the leader and 4 participants from 18 to 25 years old. We will need the following information about each one: - Full Name - Gender - Birthdate / Age - Passport Number or ID number with issue and expiration date - Phone number and e-mail - Special Needs (Allergy,Food restriction, Health restrictions) We will make an extra Health INSURANCE for all participants, so it’s very important that the information would be accurate! All the preparation costs will be made by Edela Eesti Arenduskesus and we will be able to reimburse the Intercultural Evening costs (like mentioned before) and we will make the insurance ourselves. The preparation costs for the partners will be EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team© used in the project (better accomodation, food, materials, local transport, etc) and it will not be given to the partners without any costs proven and agreement with Edela Eesti Arenduskeskus. DEADLINE: All partners have to give information about their group and the flight st details before 1 March 2012! The failing of the partner to accomplish this deadline will give to Edela Eesti Arenduskeskus the right to replace the partnership in accordance of the Youth in Action Programme rules! TRAVEL BUDGET According the rules of Youth in Action Programme and the budget that was applied in the Estonian National Agency, here is the maximum amount that each group can use for the travel to Estonia and back: Partners Organisations Asociación Juvenil “Inter” Sudota Village Community Associazione culturale Arcistrauss Društvo PI – društvo za promocijo in razvoj podjetništva National Libary for the blind “Louis Braille 1928” Internationaler kultureller JugendAustausch e.V. Country Maximum Budget per participant (100%) Spain 490 Euros Lithuania 100 Euros Italy 500 Euros Slovenia 350 Euros Bulgaria 350 Euros Germany 300 Euros We intend to make the reimbursement in cash to all particpants who bring the necessary documents already mentioned before. We will NOT reimburse the amounts that get over the maximum budget for each participants. So please book your tickets as soon as possible (After 1st February). SEE YOU IN PÄRNU SOON THE TEAM EuroCycle for Environment – Participants Guide - Designed by EuroCycle team©