TABLE OF CONTENT:
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1. The motivation and background
2. Where and when
3. The first idea
4. Your participation
5. Project preparation
6. Objectives
7. Activities
8. What to do now
9. Partners and leaders
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1. The motivation and background
As I wrote almost all of you before, the decision that we will do the project was done on the way to the Dead Sea in Jordan; I was sitting in the car with Carol and we were talking and we said that cannot be the end; we knew also how much you get friends with each other and we said - we will do the project. We sit down, smoke shisha, drank a beer and wrote the draft of the project.
I came to Poland, typed the draft, send around, Ania contacted Pedro (spanish coordinator) who will be in charge because we want to do the project in Malaga. He said why not, but he offer one more idea, why don't we make a project during Easter Holidays in Spain - there is colorfull that time and very interesting.
Well, sounds good, therefore once sitting and drinking with Ania in bar in Poland, we thought OK, exchange in Spain maybe about holidays, but we have a great art&eco project we wrote in Jordan, so we decided to do it in Latvia during summer time. As I talked to Ieva - she is interested and we will also do it:)
So that is what we have so far. There will me a lot to do for you now.
2. Where and when
We said about ideas for 2 exchanges - first in Spain and second in Latvia, but maybe at first focus on this in Spain. We would love to do it in the beginning of April, just before the Eastern in the catolc church. The project will be of course in Malaga and I am sure that everyone knows a lot about Malaga (well whole APV before Time for Dialogue - was about Malaga, Malaguenos, Malagueta, bars in Malaga, city plan of Malaga, where is what, where did we lived in Malaga and so one)
So Malaga, beginning of April 2009
3. The first idea
There is the idea which we can develop. We were thinking to make an exchange about different holidays (either religious or national) and we wanted to make it during Eastern in Spain because that is worth seeing. With the topic we were very practical, we thing we have better chances that the project will be accepted because Eastern are once a year and we would not be able reapply for the next deadline:) So I would like us to go in this direction and the rest is up to us
4. Your participation
the most important thing - what I want to have is to have OUR project - not that one person will do everything and the rest will just come. The idea of Youth in Action programme is to involve as many people as possible from the very beginning and we can plan it together:)
After the conversation with few people we agreed that it would be great to have the first list of participants while applying (of course it might be change because of different reasons, like someone cant come because... ).
So think if you want to participate in preparation to our reunion project and the project itself, let us know and get involve in preparation.
5. Project preparation
We have to start somehow. The result of our preparation should be an application on the special form send to the spanish national agency and hopefully accepted. There are to main things that we have to do in order to write application. First agree on objectives, and those objectives should meet objectives of youth in action programme, secondly we need to discuss activities, so what we want to do during the exchange and we have to do the table for each day with all activities and the aim of each activity:D you can find the example of table in attachment.
basing on objectives and activities the application is almost ready.
important is that we should finish with that till 25th of July, because then Ania is going to Malaga to meet Pedro and they have to finalize the application or discuss the details.
6. Objectives
To discuss our objectives you should know the objectives of grant giver because to get fundings our objectives have to meet:) So please read it:)
general objectives:
* promotes young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular;
* develops solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union
* fosters mutual understanding between young people in different countries
* contributes to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field
* promotes European cooperation in the youth field
Permanent thematic priorities
a) European Citizenship
b) Participation of young people
c) Cultural diversity
d) Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities
Specific priorities for Spain:
a) European year of intercultural dialogue
b) fighting contra gender violence
c) Sport as a tool of support of citizenship acitivites and social integration of young people
d) Preparation for year 2009: year of innovation and creativity and year of elections to european parliament
7. Activities
OK, the most important thing is what we are going to do during the project. Well integration is already behind us and partying and drinking only will not be accepted by Spanish National Agency and we will not get money for that. SO we have to brainstorm what to do and do it:)
in attachment there is a wonderful matrix, table which should be attach to each application with description of all activities each day. And thats our task for now, the most important one, fill it out!
8. What to do now
Well it is time for action.
what I will need from you for sure it is:
a) a declaration who wants to be involved and participate in the project, and what can you do.
b) brainstorm about the project - write your ideas
c) discuss the ideas of other people
d) organize yourself and prepare some draft of the programme
remember everyone can join brainstorming:)
9. Partners and leaders
In some countries it is quite clear who will be the partner organization and who will be a leader, but there is not so many of that countries. So please from each country - Jordan, Egypt, Latvia and Poland - please discuss through which organziation we will apply and who is going to be a group leader (remember that group leader is the main contact person and this person should come for preparation meeting before exchange).
If you need any information for your organziation about the project, also let me know (but take under the consideration that I know only this what is in this e-mail)
Let us know as soon as possible.
As well we are missing one meda country, because unfortunately we are not able to work with our turkish partner any more. As far as I know Abdallah had some ideas for a good meda partners. Well we need to also take care about this.
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