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Babel Youth Exchange
Project’s infosheet ♦ 4th – 15th June 2015
What is the project about…?
Although rural areas represent more than 90% of EU territory and contain more than half of the EU’s population, youths in particular keep facing certain challenges including:
­ fewer opportunities in terms of formal and non­formal education: specialized schools and universities as well as youth NGOs are often non­existent, ­ employment: a reduced job market and high unemployment rates among youngsters, ­ leisure time activities: few or non­existent cultural activities, ­ lack of information about youth­related issues, opportunities and initiatives. … Additionally, the lack of access to employment, education, mobility, information and leisure facilities, is often equally the case for young people living in isolated urban areas. They are more disadvantaged compared to youths living in the city. As a reaction to this situation, they seek to manage and cope with the uncertainties of society by developing a virtual, parallel life on social networks. The resolution of this issue, however is a task not only for young people themselves but also for the ability of the society to meet young people’s needs. Young people seek empowerment, they have important skills to be shared, but they also need improved reliability around them. Following these issues, the project “Babel” aims to foster and promote social inclusion of youths living in rural or disadvantaged areas. It will bring together thirty youngsters selected among this target group by five European youth organizations working in five countries: Poland, Spain, Romania, France and Italy. The aim is to equip the participants
with direct and transversal skills in order they become more competitive on the labor market. The main event will be the youth exchange that will take place in Sala Bolognese, close to
Bologna, in June 2015. During those 12 days the activities will be run using non formal methods, a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role­plays, simulations, outdoor activities, etc. In the first part of the youth exchange the main method will be the “time bank”, a pattern
of reciprocal services exchange that uses units of time as currency: the participants will share their skills and competences on ICT and foreign languages. This helps youngsters to enhance their skills and exchange them among peers, fostering active participation and learning from each other. Then, according to the knowledge they’ve acquired, they will create several tools to teach/learn ICT and foreign languages through non formal methods. Other stakeholders could acquire and benefit from the project results by attending the final event, where the participants will share the tools created with other youths, teachers, youth workers, representative from public bodies. It will not only the young people taking part in the project and the locals, profiting a great deal from the project, but also the entire local and international community. Through the dissemination events, the project and its results (in particular the non formal tools) will be spread into the partners’ communities thus attaining an international impact. The results will be spread even in partners’ channels reaching mostly other youths that could be taught foreign languages and ICT in an amusing way. Thanks to Babel, the promoters will acquire competences, tools and skills to insure a stronger support and improve life conditions of even other youngsters living in rural and urban, disadvantaged areas. When will it begin ?
Arrival date: 04/06/2015
Departure date: 15/06/2015
What is waiting for you there?
Games and lessons about ICT competences, languages laboratories, discussion on
different topics related to technologies and communication, visits to local communities,
cultural visits.
Who can participate?
All young people up to 30 years old that are interested in ICT issues and languages learning with non­formal methods. and that want to spend 10 days with similar people from Italy, Spain, Poland, Frence and Romania. How much will it cost you?
Food, accommodation and activities costs are 100 % covered by the project; the travel
cost will be reimbursed up to 170 € for the international groups ­ except up to 20 € for
the Italian group after receiving all the travel documents.
Who is it organizing?
YouNet promotes, designs and carries out: learning mobility and european active citizenship activities at a local, regional, national and international level; medium and long term volunteering and learning projects; cultural exchanges; informative, scholastic and professional orienting; cultural, social, sport, recreational and editorial activities; seminar and formative training aimed to organisations, social workers and citizens; formative, promotional and informative initiative related to specific themes linked to the above mentioned topics. YouNet cooperates with: public institutions especially at local and regional level; schools,
universities, vocational and other education institutions; public and private social inclusion organizations (e.g. under­aged prisons); other NGOs; …. It is particularly active in the field of youngsters with fewer opportunities and risk groups
(ex­offenders, drug addicts, youngsters in rehabilitation centres, migrants…). Most of the
activists of YouNet were involved in youth exchanges, leader trainings and seminars on social inclusion and youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds. YouNet itself organises projects and activities on social inclusion at a local and international level.
Through the formal agreement with the local and regional Europe Direct, the municipality of Bologna and the Emilia­Romagna Region runs at the municipality of Bologna a infopoint on transnational learning mobility (volunteering, study, internships, …) in which twice a week YouNet staff give information and support to youngsters and citizens that want to make intercultural, training, education and working experience abroad. YouNet is accredited as EVS Coordinating, Hosting and Sending Organization since 2010
and has been involved as applicant or partner in more than 35 EVS projects since 2011. YouNet has developed strong knowledge in the EVS field thanks as well to its coordinating role in 2 centralized EVS projects involving and 20+ volunteers and 4 continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, America).
Practical Information: Please, remember to keep all your travel tickets and invoices for the reimbursement of travel cost. It is strongly recommended to make copies of all your tickets and invoices in case some document gets lost.
Travel direction As the activities will start on 5 th June in the morning we
kindly ask you to find a travel solution that will allow you to arrive to
Bologna during 4th noon. On the 14th, the activities will end in the night and
the departure day will be 15th !
From Bologna Airport to Bologna train station The Airport is about 6 Km away from Bologna city centre. A shuttle bus links G. Marconi airport to Bologna railway station (Aerobus
­ BLQ Shuttle service).
A one way ticket costs 6,00€ and can be bought directly into the bus or in the red
machine near the bus stop. You should plan the exact sum in change. Departures from the airport are scheduled every 20 minutes. There are buses from 05.30 am until 00.15 from the airport to Bologna train
station. There are buses from 05.00 am until 11.35 pm from the train station to
the airport.
The bus stop that you have to exit is the last stop: Bologna train station “stazione
centrale”. You can consult the timetable here: http://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/VARIAZIONI/tper_Bo040_1.pdf
The Meeting Point:
We will meet at the train station in front of the McDonald’s on 4th of June. We will
let you know the time at least two weeks before the project starts. We will take a
bus number 91A direction “Bagno di Piano”. You can see the timetable here :
http://goo.gl/x7yY6T . We will get off at “Padulle Poste” bus stop.
(Please be on time because during August buses to Padulle Poste are not very
Living conditions
Accommodation
Participants will be accommodated in a Guest
House in Sala Bolognese. It is a small town, in the
province of Bologna, lacking in typically urban
entertainment.
We have chosen this kind of accommodation in order to make participants focus more on the themes and the group, in order to have less external distractions. You can find pictures of the accommodation in the project’s
blog: https://babelsocialincluding.wordpress.com/acomodation/ Please keep in mind that there are no blankets­ Bring your own sleeping bags
or bed sets and your towels!! This place is surrounded by nature, so please provide to bring with you
proper clothes to come for the stay. In addition, please also provide a
mosquito spray protection for the night. First floor: bedrooms (common bedrooms. Divsion: male/female) + WC + Showers
Ground floor: activities rooms + 1 dinning room + 1 big kitchen
Outside: 1 dinning room, garden, stage
Internet connection will be available during all the laboratories. Meals
All meals are covered by the project from 4thevening until 15thmorning.
Please it is strongly recommended that if you have any particular need
about food you should inform us before the beginning of the youth
exchange. We will use as self­management so the participants will be divided in
groups to cook and to clean. These groups (in rotation) will be
responsible to cook and clean the spaces EVERY DAY.
Please note that YouNet cannot provide any additional accommodation for your
stay in Italy outside the dates of the youth exchange. What should you bring?
Cameras, laptop/tablet, typical food from your country for international evenings, good mood, sleeping bags or bed sets, towels, games for playing in the free time, guitars…
Please together with your Groupleader you should prepare the activities of the Time Banking laboratories. You need to contribute to this activity with your ideas and good mood and of course, with you time. Group leaders together with international groups and other partners, will organized this activity as diverse as possible, using the facebook group that you will find in contacts. Travel reimbursement procedure
Travel should be done on the travel days of the project ( 4 thand 15thof August). You
should always wait for YouNet´s approval before buying tickets. So send us your
travel proposal before to buy it !
If you wish to travel outside the official project dates you need YouNet´s approval first.
Please contact us at erasmus.younet@gmail.com.
Tickets purchased without YouNet´s approval may not be reimbursed.
All the payment will be done in euro. In case you buy your travel with a different
currency InforEuro will be used to calculate the amount in euro.
To get the reimbursement it’s compulsory to collect and send to the host organization all
the receipts (boarding passes, e­tickets, train tickets…). Only the cost duly justified can
be reimbursed. Find in the next page a table with all the reimbursement rules. The
reimbursement will be done after the project, once we have received by post ALL the
original proofs of travel. We will send you an email to remind you to send us the proofs
and we will provide you the post address to send it. We will also ask you to fill in an excel
table with all travel cost. We will reimburse the total amount in the partner
organization’s bank account in Euro. TYPE OF DOCUMENTS
NEEDED DOCUMENTS
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS ­ Bank Account Statement
issued by a Travel Agency,
together with the travel
ticket; or Electronic ticket,
together with the
communication of Booking /
Payment sent by the
Transport Company. The Bank Account Statement must be
headed to your organization or to one of the
participants of the project. International travels
­Boarding Pass / Certification of the travel.
(no word file will be
accepted, the only pdf file
accepted will be the original
one sent to you by the flight
company)
It must report: names of participants, ticket
cost, date of issue and date of travel. The communication of Booking / Payment
shall include: the code of identification of
the booking (PNR), the name of transport
company, the characteristics of transport,
the price, the progressive number, dates of
issue and of travel, and also the names of
participants.
Boarding Pass or different statement that
certifies the presence of participants. The arrival flight has to land in Bologna on
the 18thof August. The return flight has to
leave from Bologna on 28 thof August. If
you make a trip with a stopover it cannot
be more than 24 hours.
If you do not comply with this constraint
the Italian National Agency won’t
reimburse your flight.
Local transfer
Taxi receipt, public Tickets must be regularly clipped and
transports tickets, fuel card with the original price visible. In absence
of validation and / or price a valid
declaration of the date of use and / or the
cost paid should be provided.
Transfers by taxi and private car are
eligible only for circumstances beyond
your control and only if previously
approved by the Italian National Agency. The receipt must show date, route and
driver's signature.
Language
The language of the exchange will be English. Other know languages will be
favorable.
The language of Italy is Italian; Find below a table with basic Italian:
yes/no
si/no
Hi
ciao
left /right
destra/si
nistro
thank
you
Grazie
good­bye
ciao
straight on
dritto
your
welcome
Prego
How
quanto
much is
costa
it?
Street
via/strad
a
excuse
me
mi scusi
Where?
dove
Ticket
biglietto
Please
per favore
When?
quando
I
don’t non
understand capisco
good
morning
Buongiorno
yesterday
ieri
I
don’t non
speak
parloitali
Italian
ano
good
afternoon
Buonpomer
iggio
today
oggi
hot/cold
caldo/fre
ddo
good
night
Buonanotte
tomorrow
domani
no problem
nessunpr
oblema
In Italian every written letter is pronounced. You should remember this useful rule and,
without thinking, in a while you’ll be speaking Italian ;)
Useful contacts
For more info please contact us on:
Erasmus.younet@you­net. eu ;+39 380 869 8725
FACEBOOK group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/364770470373291/
Blog: https://babelsocialincluding.wordpress.com
Emergency numbers European emergency number : 112
Police Department : 113 Fire Department : 115 Medical Emergencies : 118
We are looking forward for meeting each of you …
Have a safe trip …
YouNet team