Keep Talking Introduction !

What? When? Where? With whom?

Title: “Keep Talking”

Type of event: Youth Exchange

Hosting organization: HEureka Generator

Dates of the project: 01.07.2017 – 31.10.2017

Dates of the preparatory meeting: 14-16.09.2017

Dates and Location of the Youth Exchange: 07-14.10.2017, Motycz Leśny n. Lublin, Poland.

Number of participants: 14+2 per organization

 

Organizations:

Poland (HEureka Generator – Zamość),

Ukraina (Kreativ - Vinnytsya),

Working language: English (participants need to know this language on communicative level). 

Who: Open-minded young people from small Polish and Ukrainian towns and villages from Lubelskie Region and Vinnytsya Region who would like to develop their knowledge in frames of intercultural communication (16-30yo).

What is Youth exchange about?

With the Project ‘Keep Talking’ we want to discuss issue which is important for us, young Europeans: European cultural diversity and it’s mutual respect. We will discuss topic with proven non formal education methods, advertise and disseminate results. It will be our input in decreasing of tensions which are more and more visible in Europe nowadays.

‘Intercultural communication workshops’ will be main method of our meeting. Our  experiences with such workshops proof that every time we are using it, we are able to develop  knowledge in frames of discussed topic, develop skills of cooperation in group, increase self  confidence being in ‘public speaking’ situation, increase language skills on high level and to learn  critical approach in discussion.

Methods: Integration games, Team building, intercultural communication workshop,  orienteering game, reflection groups, Live Action Role Play, brainstorming, intercultural  simulation, World cafe, press conference, city game, presentation, discussion, trip, happening,      exhibition.

Coordinating and hosting organization:

    HEureka Generator Association has been founded in September 2016 by people with many years of experience in the field of non-governmental organizations. Our members are professional local and international project coordinators, non-formal education trainers and other young people who have been participating in many local and international projects. What we all have in common is the will to be active and act for our local community.

Main goals of our association are:

1. Increasing social activity of citizens;

2. Promoting and spreading the idea of non-formal education;

3. Organizing and supporting different forms of pro-youth activities;

4. Equaling chances for people with disabilities and those endangered by social exclusion;

5. Organizing and supporting activities aimed at preventing social exclusion.

Our association fulfill its aims by activities such as:

1. Organizing and conducting local, regional, national and international courses, seminars and study visits aimed at increasing social activity of citizens;

2. Organizing international youth meetings conducted with use of non-formal education methods;

3. Creating new tools and methods of non-formal education;

4. Creating and distributing materials and publications concerning social activity, non-formal education and problems of young people and socially excluded groups;

5. Preparing and distributing publications in the field of conducting courses concerning elicitation of young people, and problems concerning social exclusion.

To check information about the hosting organization, please, visit the website: heurekagenerator.pl and FB page: www.facebook.com/HEurekaGenerator/