Youth in
Action
1.1 – Youth
Exchange
Florina/GREECE
Region of Western Macedonia
25th of September - 2nd of October
7 Countries - 45 participants
LATVIA- The NETHERLANDS- BULGARIA- ITALY- CYPRUS- SPAIN- GREECE
"Youths
in Europe’s Regions" is a multilateral youth exchange designed under
the frame of the Youth In Action programme, action 1.1, the basic motivation
of this project is to gather youths around Europe to work together in the
concept of a common European futureThe main goal of the project is
therefore to increase the European awareness of youth and encourage young
people into active participation in their regions.
YER - ‘Youths in Europe's Regions’ is an
initiative involving 42 youngsters from rural areas of six countries. The
project will take place in the greater area of Florina, a city located in the
region of Western Macedonia in Greece, and also in some neighbor hooding
villages. The activities will last 8 days and participants will try to live
according to traditional lifestyle in a small region of a member state. The
rural areas are often rich of latent treasures that can give the opportunity to
overcome the crisis and other problems concerned the environment, unemployment
and unhealthy lifestyle. It is important to become aware of those possibilities
and see them with modern eyes. The global tools (e-market, internet, social
network, languages knowledge, networks) cut distances and can offer, in a
international market, what rural areas offer. The traditional lifestyle foresees
a healthy life in touch with the environment. The project proposes activities
aimed to grow local traditional knowledge (culture and folklore), crafts and
farming. The young people will learn the different way to cooperate each other,
successful cases of entrepreneurial activity matched with global
instruments. Being awake and developing
the local traditions on the one side permits a better comprehension of own
identity, on the other offers the opportunity to get job opportunities. The
young people will live the experience in an informal setting with the
opportunity to participate actively, compare each other and grow. The foreseen
activities are: visits in rural areas learning history and traditions,
excursion "Into the wild", workshops at the farms and tradecrafts
locations to learn organic farming and professions, job shadowing about
sustainable economy and final presentation. The program aims to promote the
importance of creative and the need to develop small regions of the EU.
