ILLUSION of HAPPINESS, Youth Exchange in Finland 2019
Our project Illusion of Happiness is approved!
The Youth Exchange will take place in Ahtela -camping center at
August, 3 - 9, and two nights in Turku at August 9 - 11.
Participants are from Finland, Spain, Georgia and Russia. 6 participants and 1 leader per country. Age 16-24 y.o.
See you soon in Finland!!!
Team leaders will be responsible for their group and their needs, and help facilitate whole project by giving advices, coordinating communication between us, project organizers and participants. Before departure to the venue team leader will be responsible to ensure proper thematic, cultural etc. preparation of participants.
Each national team (participants) will be responsible for preparing several games and lead few thematic sessions during the project. During the APV meeting group leaders and one participant from each participating country will split tasks/sessions between national teams. Based on task division participants before departure will prepare specific tasks with the support of group leaders. If needed, we can recommend each national team for each session NFE methodology to lead the session (daily schedule to be shared shortly after the info-pack).
Why do we do this? Because youth active participation and engagement into leading the project is a best way for exploring new competencies, taking responsibilities as well as for learning and personal growth.
We hope to see you in the project well-prepared, positive and motivated to learn and inspire each-other to start making positive transformation in terms of promoting social entrepreneurship and supporting social inclusion of vulnerable groups.
Please don’t forget to fill this online google for, mandatory for both – group leaders and participants, in order to use details for bookings, Youthpass Certificate and etc.
PRACTICALITIES
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INSURANCE
Personal and medical insurance are the responsibility of the individual participant. We will not be responsible for any loss of luggage, currency or personal effects, or any medical costs.
It is not required any certification or special skills, just bring your enthusiasm and live the event in its proper and cheerful mood!
We encourage participants to be an active part of this project, embracing responsibility and enjoy the cultural side of this experience!
And now, pack your bags, fill your heads with ideas and come meet us and many other young people in Finland!
Together we can make a change!
We hope that you find the Project worth participating in!
Looking forward to seeing you soon in Finland!!!
Normal life in this camp...
| ACTIVITY PROGRAMME FOR A YOUTH EXCHANGE "ILLUSION OF HAPPINESS" | |||||||||||
| Activity n° | A2 | ||||||||||
| Participating organisations | 1.SIRIUS, kansainvälinen nuorisoaloitteiden yhdistys ry (Finland); 2.InoChange (Georgia); 3.NPO "Aerocomputer"; 4.CD el Bosque de Hielo | ||||||||||
| Venue | Duration | ||||||||||
| City/Town | Country | Start date | End date | Activity duration (excluding travel days) | Travel days | ||||||
| Ahtela and Turku | Finland | 8.3.2019 | 11/08/2019 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Activity Programme | |||||||||||
| Timetable | Activities | Non-formal and informal learning methods used | |||||||||
| DAY 1 - 03.08.2019 | Responsible country | Responsible person | |||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-14:00 | Arrival at Helsinki | Arrival of the participants to the Youth Exchange venue | |||||||||
| PM | |||||||||||
| 16:00 PM | Departure from Helsinki to Turku and then transfer to Ahtela Campsite | ||||||||||
| 18:30-19:00 | Accomodation of participants and short introduction of area | ||||||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner at Ahtela | Finland | Ludmila | ||||||||
| 21:00 | Getting to Know Each Other and Secret Friend Game | Individual, in couples, and group tasks and games will be designed to facilitate mingling among the participants. The participants will be introduced the secret friend game | Georgia | Tina, Giorgi | |||||||
| Welcome evening - Music | Finnish group will organize welcome party to support group integration (informal) | Finland | |||||||||
| DAY 2 - 04.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-11:00 | Ice-breaking activities | Georgia | Ia, Keti | ||||||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | The Introduction to the Youth Exchange Discussion of Expectations and Contributions Deviding into the 4 key groups | Introduction to the project's goals, topics, daily schedule. Getting to know the participants' expectations, fears and contributions Participants will be divided into 4 Key groups (non-formal) | Georgia | Ia. Keti | |||||||
| Rules | The participants will agree on project and venue rules | Georgia | Ia,Mariam | ||||||||
| 12:30-13:00 | Introduction of Erasmus Plus and Youthpass | The participants will gain information about Erasmus Plus and Youthpass via presentation and interactive game "piece of cake" (non-formal) | Georgia | Ia, Mariam | |||||||
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 15:00-17:00 | Action Bond - exploring Ahtela | First intercultural experience in international groups. Getting to know the surroundings. The tasks of the game will also include questions from the project topic. This adventure-based learning combines fun and learning process (non-formal) |
Finland | ||||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Break | ||||||||||
| 17:30-18:30 | Action Bond and Boating/Cayacing | The participants will present the treasure hunt results and will discuss the process of the game. (visual & verbal presentation) | |||||||||
| 18:30-19:00 | Group Reflection | Participants are divided into small gender and nationality balanced groups. With one facilitator, each group member is given time to describe her/his feelings and emotions after the day, skills and competences developed/improved, new things learned, and assess the logistical and technical support during the project (non-formal) | |||||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | Board game evening | The participants will bring a play different board games and it will help for better socialising | |||||||||
| DAY 3 - 05.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-11:30 | Energizer and afterwards, Team Building Activities | Developing communication and cooperation among participants and empowering group working; team bonding activities | Georgia | Tina, Lasha | |||||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Break | ||||||||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Presentation: Negative effects of drug use (Presentation + quiz) | What does drug use causes, focus on negative effects of drug use | Georgia | Giorgi, Sandro | |||||||
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 15:00-17:00 | Homework/Presentations by countries about drug abuse | Group presentations about the situation within their countries (short research among the young people in their home countries about drug abuse) (non-formal) | Russia, Artiom | All countries | |||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Break | ||||||||||
| 17:30-18:45 | Workshop "Find a solution" as family, governm, individual, friend… | The participants will be divided into mix groups and will try to find a solution agains drug abuse among the young generation and present each other (non-formal) | Georgia | Giorgi, Tina | |||||||
| 18:45-19:00 | Evaluation/ Happy moments from the day | The participants will be asked to position themselves on axis according to how they felt about each activity during the day. They will have an opportunity to express negative, neutral and positive feedback | Georgia | Ia | |||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | Cultural Evening | Georgian group will present their history, language, traditions, food, music/dances, etc. This event will further increase the intercultural awareness of the participants and will facilitate learning of the new words in the foreign language (informal) | |||||||||
| Day 4 - 06.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-10:30 | Energizers | The participants start the day with different activities to energize themselves (non-formal) | Spain | ||||||||
| 10:30-11:30 | Workshop "Stop your bad habits" | The participants discuss and identify during this workshop their bad habits (non-formal) | Spain | ||||||||
| Break | |||||||||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Aspects of healthy Lifestyle | Discovering dangerous habits (smoking, fast food, computer use, alcohol and etc.) and exploring aspects of healthy lifestyle (eating, sleeping, relaxing, acting and etc.) with the special focus on healthy eating (balanced nutrition). Participants are divided into groups and are given list of food. They should choose food and make acircle of foods, which are good to be consumed on weekly base for balanced nutrition. Followed by discussion. A video is presented on nutrients for healthy lifestyle. Participants create a list of food with the most rich nutrients. (Non-formal) | Spain | ||||||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Info session: "Stress managemant and mental relaxation" | Everyday, youth are influenced by different kind stress caused by so many different things. For young people it can be an even bigger problem as they are not aware of the ways how they can cope with that and using unhealthy ways to reduce the stress(such are smoking, using drugs and etc) This workshop introduce participants to healthy ways of relaxation and recharging (non-formal) | |||||||||
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 15:00-16:00 | Info session: "Stress managemant and mental relaxation", Meditation | Everyday, youth are influenced by different kind stress caused by so many different things. For young people it can be an even bigger problem as they are not aware of the ways how they can cope with that and using unhealthy ways to reduce the stress(such are smoking, using drugs and etc) This workshop introduce participants to healthy ways of relaxation and recharging (non-formal) | Spain | ||||||||
| 16:00-16:30 | Break | ||||||||||
| 17:00-18:30 | Workshop: Relaxation techniques (part 1) | Participants will have a chance to learn and teach each other different relaxation techniques, which they can use in their everyday life to reduce the stress. Participants discuss how to popularise the healthy hobbies among the young people in their communitie(non-formal) | |||||||||
| 18:30-19:00 | Group reflection | Participants are divided into small gender-nationality balanced groups. With one facilitator, each group member is given time to describe her/his feelings and emotions after the day, skills and competences developed/improved, new things learned, and assess the logistical and technical support during the project (non-formal) | |||||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | cultural evening | Russian group will present their history, language, traditions, food, music/dances, etc. This event will further increase the intercultural awareness of the participants and will facilitate learning of the new words in the foreign language (informal) | Russia | ||||||||
| DAY 5 - 07.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-14:00 | Kayaking and picnic | The participants will have a chance to do kayaking and after that to make a picnic all together and play different funny activities in the nature | Finland | ||||||||
| PM | |||||||||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 15:00-16:00 | Workshop on project writing | Short workshop on basics of project management with the focus on project writing; Brainstorming for ideas; dividing into the groups and start working (non-formal) | Georgia | Mariam, Ia | |||||||
| 16:00-17:30 | Project writing and preparation for presentation | The participants brainstorming new project ideas and according to their interest are divided into the mixed national group and developing new projects and later presenting to each other | Georgia | Mariam, Ia | |||||||
| 18:00-19:00 | Evaluation | The participants form a circle and toss a small ball to one another. Who catches the ball shares one thing that she/he learned or can use from the workshops and activities during the day, as well as can share their feelings and assessment of the day | Georgia | Mariam, Ia | |||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | cultural evening | Spanish group will present their history, language, traditions, food, music/dances, etc. This event will further increase the intercultural awareness of the participants and will facilitate learning of the new words in the foreign language (informal) | Spain | ||||||||
| DAY 6 - 08.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-11:30 | Traditional Games from each countries / Sports Games preferably | Playing traditional games from each countries | Finland | All countries | |||||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Break | ||||||||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Workshop on visibility materials | The participants are divided into key groups and making visibility materials of the project:c 1. Summary of the project in 5 different languages. 2.Project Video; 3. Project flyer 4. Project painting | Georgia | Ia, Keti | |||||||
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 15:00-17:00 | Workshop on visibility materials | The participants are divided into key groups and making visibility materials of the project:c 1. Summary of the project in 5 different languages. 2.Project Video; 3. Project flyer 4. Project painting | Georgia | Ia, Keti | |||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Break | ||||||||||
| 17:30-18:30 | Presenting visibility materials | The participants involved in the key groups are scrutinising the last details, and later they present their work to the audience | Georgia | Ia, Keti | |||||||
| 18:30-19:00 | Packing (Next day moving to Turku) | The participants will pack as the other day in the morning they will move to Turku | Georgia | Ia, Keti | |||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | Cultral evening | Finnish group will present their history, language, traditions, food, music/dances, etc. This event will further increase the intercultural awareness of the participants and will facilitate learning of the new words in the foreign language (informal) | Finland | ||||||||
| DAY 7 - 09.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00-12:00 | Moving to Turku | The participants are traveling to Turku and placed in hostel | Finland | Ludmila | |||||||
| 13:00-14:00 | Meeting with Policeman | We will go to Police and talk to Policeman who will speak about drug abuse and drug related crimes among the youth and participants can also ask their questios and share own view | Finland | ||||||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 16:00-17:00 | Visit to Office which deals with drug users | Youth Station - helping youth to overome drug related problems | Finland | ||||||||
| 17:00-18:00 | Final evaluation | The final evaluation of the Youth Exchange will be verbal and paper-based. During the verbal evaluation, the participants can express their thougts about the whole project. After that, the participants will fill out the final evaluation forms with open and closed questions about each session and activity of the whole project, including the logistical and technical support, facilitators, etc. | Georgia | Ia Ludmila | |||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | Closing Ceremony & YouthPass Award & Secret friend Revealing | The participants will be awarded Youthpass certificates and secret friend game will be revealed | Finland | ||||||||
| DAY 8 - 10.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| AM | |||||||||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 09:30-13:00 | Jail Museum in Turku | Finland | |||||||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||||||||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Free time in Turku | ||||||||||
| 15:00-16:00 | |||||||||||
| 16:00-19:00 | Free time in Turku | ||||||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner | ||||||||||
| 21:00 | |||||||||||
| 22:00 | |||||||||||
| DAY 9 - 11.08.2019 | |||||||||||
| 09:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||||||||||
| 10:00 | Departure | According to the departure schedule of the participants | |||||||||