LOOKING FOR / Exchanges

ART FOR YOUTH is a Youth Exchange project, part of the Youth in Action
programme. The main objective of AFY is to use the creative process of
art making to improve the personal and inter-personal development of
young people. The project will be implemented in Romania and involves
three promoters from Romania, Bulgaria and Austria. The priority is to
increase the acceptance inside the groups and between the participants
and the local communities, in spite of their cultural differences.



I am on time pressure and I need to find a partner in maximum two days,
then we will have time to arrange everything. The project have to be
sent on 1st of February.

mircea@artinbucharest.com

Consell Comarcal del Bages, is a coordinating organisation for Youth in Action in Spain. Since 2000 the organisation is involved in the European Voluntary Service and other iniciatives for young people to promote their participation and emancipation.

The organisation is looking for partners from EU countries under the Youth in action Programme for a project in Action 1.1.

Project title: Discovering new cultures through art experiences

Dates: 17-24 April 2012 (with a visit plan for leaders in February).

Venue: Manresa (Barcelona). Spain

Number of participants: 6+1 (leader) per country

Number of partner countries: 4 (Spain, Portugal and 2 more)

Age: 18-25

Costs: 70 accomodation and food are covered, as well as the activities.

Deadline to show your interest: 12/10/ 2011

Application deadline in our national agency: 01/11/2011

Project Description:

The main aims of the exchange are to promote european citizenship, tolerance betweeen people from different countries and to facilitate the dialogue between young people.

The exchange will contain activities to foment creativity, open the mine and destroy stereotypes between different cultures and traditions. It would give the oportunity to discover new places and to get to know local groups that promote art and culture for young people. At the same time, it would give spaces to learn about the experiences that each group of participants can bring from their countries.

At the end participants will create a short movie about their experience, showing what they create, the impact to be in another country and what they learnt about this non formal learning project.

The oficial language of this exchange is English.



If you wish to participate or you would like to receive more information, please contact Laura.

The adress is: info@babaluc.com

Phone number: 0034 936930355.

Event: Exchange in Latvia
Contact person: Manuel Rodr?guez Rodr?guez
Coordinating organisation: Youth against AIDS
Host: Youth against AIDS: http://www.jpa.lv
Location: Riga, Latvia
Deadline: 23/08/2011
Start: 01/06/2012
End: 08/06/2012


We are looking for partners for youth exchange about street art as a tool for telling social messages. During the project youngsters from 5 countries (5 people from each country) will discover different types of street art (graffiti, stencils, posters, comics, music etc.) and in the end will make final event including all these elements.

Youth exchange will take place in June, 2012 in Latvia.

Important – during all youth exchange (8 days) youngsters will live in one guest hose and also will be responsible for cooking during all youth exchange time (youngsters will be divided in smaller international groups and they will cook lunch and dinner for rest of group).

All partners should send PART III to Manolitopubli@gmail.com, original Part III sing must to be in Riga before 23 of agust 2011.

http://www.youthnetworks.eu/ShowEvent.aspx?Event=street-art-as-a-tool-for-telling-social-messages

Our orchestra was established in 1975. It is the only youth wind orchestra in Sofia. It has many prizes and distinctions in the country and abroad.
It has participated in International festivals in France, Germany, Hungary, Italy. It has had exchange travels with youth orchestras from England, Germany, Norway and Greece. Some of them has been financed by projects of the European Union.
Thanks to the financial help of the European Union our orchestra acknowledged the culture of these countries and were created permanent friendly connections with young people from Germany and Norway.
We wish to connect with new partners with which to realize exchange travels in July 2011 with new projects of the program "Youth in action" of the European Union.

The contacts can be made on the following e-mail: angelova_conductor@yahoo.com

For contacts: Nikolina Angelova- conductor of the orchestra
Тел:+359 2 8666710 GSM 0889532272
1164 Sofia, Bulgaria, 11”Zeleno Darvo”Str.

Name of organization: Harku Valla Noortekeskused (Youth centers of Harku)
Address: Teenuste 2, Tabasalu Harku vald 76901 Harjumaa, Estonia
Name of contact person: Jekaterina Zhavoronkova
Telephone: +372 53472172 (mobile), +372 575672 (work)
E-mail: katerina.zhavoronkova@gmail.com

Describe your organization:
Youth centers are places, where children and young people can come every time they want and do what they want. There are many possibilities of spending free time: playing games, watching TV, painting, studying and so on.

Describe your group:
Our group consists of young people, who are very actively taking part in work of Youth centers and teachers, working in Youth centers of Harku and Tabasalu.

What kind of project do you want to do?
Project „Country by the sea“ is international project with 2 countries participating (Estonia and Bulgaria). These two countries were chosen because they present two different cultures (Nothern European culture by Estonia and Balcan and Slavonic culture by Bulgaria). Also both of these two countries have same problem topic: relations between native people (estonians and bulgarians) and national minors (russian-speaking people in Estonia and Rumanians in Bulgaria). The name of the project came from geografical location of countries (Estonia is by the Baltic Sea and Bulgaria is by the Black sea).
We will try to show young people in two countries, that all differences are because of history of each nation. And history is not the reason to hate each other, but reason for trying to letting know each other.
Main activities are:
- workshops (national craft, food and so on, maybe some workshops will be prepared by youth
- discussions (forums), where participants are getting knowing each other, speaking about their countries, culture and so on
Main questions for discussions:
- National minors – am I in peace with them?
- If I am national minor, what do I feel living in my home country?
- My experience of communication with other nation’s people: positive or negative? Why (both of anwers)? Is the reason of it in history (both of answers)?
- If experience is negative, what can I do to change it? Can my experience be useful for people in other countries?
Age of young people may participate in this project is 15-18 years, but also younger and older young people can participate also.

Partner country: Bulgaria
Do you already have other partners? No
What do you prefer?: Youth center or other youth organization
When do you want to do the project? Starting on summer 2011
Working language(s) of the project: Main language – English. Also we can find opportunities for translating, if some person don’t speak English fluently.