"Universal Youth Village"
Youth Exchange
Chisinau, Moldova, 04-15 of May 2014
The idea of the project is to organize an youth exchange that is aiming to connect young people from 5 different countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Armenia, through culture and creating a space for debate and for the exchange of different experiences and perspectives.
The aim of the project is to exchange experience about youth activities and to promote quality of work in that field, promoting cultural elements.
The activity will be focused on the use of visiting national parks, reserves, NGO's, groups of initiatives in nature protection field and cultural heritages, local NGOs, which activate on cultural field. During Youth Exchange participants will expand their minds, skills, and horizons about multicultural diversity and national identity, about cultural heritage, and nature protection, active citizenship.The program will be structured in such a way, that it will cover both exchange of experiences and a range of workshops. On the practical side, it will focus on specific cases from the mentioned above; will be organized workshops, debates; participants will work on them and develop together ideas, that could be followed up after the exchange when participants come back home.
Objectives:
- To raise awareness of participants on the role of culture as well as active citizenship;
- To discover cultural element from our life and possibilities for living, creating and being active in it;
- To exchange about the topic of the project in international context;
- To develop strategies and methods to be used in order to increase civic participation.
- To develop materials (linked to culture) which can be used for educational activities on the topic in the future.
- Test and pilot innovative green infrastructure and promote sustainable best practices in greenworks and public health policies.
Project coordinators: Victoria Novac, Cortac Olga.
Prepteam: Budu Viorica, Friptu Marcela, Birlea Valentina.