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What can you learn from the Youth Exchange focused on entrepreneurship in rural areas

Associazione Chiocciola la casa del nomade – educational projects for children and adults Adress: Strada per Sestino snd, 47864 Pennabilli, ItalyPhone: +39 3204510733 E-mail: info@chiocciolalacasadelnomade.itWeb: www.chiocciolalacasadelnomade.itFacebook: Chiocciola la casa del nomade

© 2018 Associazione Chiocciola la casa del nomadeCoordinator, Editor: Jiri Dorazil, Webwings s.r.o.Writer, desgner: Vojtech ZakContributors: participants of EnteRURALship projectPhotos: Andrejs Aristov, Pilar Montoza Garcia, Daniel Agrigoroaiei

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This publication was written as a follow-up result of the EnteRURALship project. All content is the intellectual property of EnteRURALship project, unless otherwise noted herein.

This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Euro-pean Union, under the Erasmus+ programme. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not represent the opinions or posi-tions of the funders of this project.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

About.....................................................................................6

Program............................................................................... 8

Project plans......................................................................27

Build the Future.....................................................28

Christmas manhunt...............................................32

Community brewery..............................................36

Enteruralshit...........................................................40

reART.......................................................................44

#weCONNECT ....................................................48

Escape the City.......................................................54

Rural Co-working..................................................58

BIO LEARN............................................................62

Vocabulary..........................................................................66

Partners...............................................................................72

CONTENT

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Town Pennabilli has less than 3 000 inhabitants.

As most of the rural areas, it struggles with lack of employ-ment opportunities. Village related industries are scarce and not paying much.

Other essential facilities – electricity, telecommunications, health, transportation, edu-cation – are far from perfect.

Nevertheless, community of Pennabilli created an event called Artisti in piazza – an international ar-tistic event which attracts more then 40 000 guests every year.

Pennabilli – thanks to its work with community, connection with rural area and strong focus on education of youth and adults as well – serves as an example of a great practice for all entrepreneurs from rural areas.

problem

solution

Founded in 2012, it is an artistic, educational and historical-environmental center, which coop-erates with Artisti in piazza. They organized the project

Chiocciola la casa del nomade

EnteRURALship

which supports young people from rural to implement rural enterprises in their local areas.

The project was financed by the Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (National Agency for Youth) of Erasmus+ programme.

This booklet summarazis the project and its results in a way they can be re-created.

Youth Exchange

From 1st to 10th of December, 2018, 30 young people from Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Romania have gathered in Pennabilli in order to create their own projects which they could implement in their local com-munities

“The topic of the day was CONNECTION. We started by play-ing an icebreaker to – in short – break the ice in the group.

After getting some context about the project, we went on the walk around the beautiful town Pennabilli.

In the afternoon we came to some common agreements about how to interact with each other, and played more ice breakers leaving a friendly vibe this evening.”

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Day 1. Connection

There were several tasks to accomplish on the first day, crucial for successful cooperation during the whole project.

First, participants needed to

1) get to know the place,

2) each other,

3) and co-create rules

so they could live together for 10 days as peaceful commu-nity. It is important that the rules were created by the group, not given by the organizers (apart of the most important safety rules).

Finally, they needed to

4) create a feeling of mutual trust.

Therefore the end part of the day was about TRUST games – different activities requiring putting their safety into the hand of the others. By that, they nurture mutual feelings of trust which supports friendship and cooperation necessary for the other days.

Day 2. INTROSPECTION

“Hello world!

We are happy to send you some good vibes from downtown Pennabilli! We had a tiring trip from our countries to this beautiful hidden gem in the Rimini Province, but we are so lucky to have found a place from where we can get a lot of inspiration. The first day was a great opportunity to connect with the other participants. And when we woke up we were welcomed by a sunny day.

More than that, the universe gave us an extra gift in the morning so that we could get our source of energy for the rest of the day: an alpine sea right in front of our hostel. We recharged our bat-teries quite nicely while walking from the hostel to the Natural Museum, because we passed through the central little park of Pen-nabilli, where we felt the smell of autumn and we felt the morning dew on the soft colorful carpet made of leaves. We built our excite-ment even more when we heard that we will be doing a walk in the nature around Pennabilli.

We started our activity agenda for the day with a challenging task: to be creative in a group without a goal and without receiving indications about how to do it. Although it was a total chaos and it made many of us accumulate frustrations, we later understood that this exercise was a reflection/micro-projection of the world we live in. Basically, it was a wake-up call through which we un-

derstood that we need to take action if we want to make changes in our lives and in the societies we live in and it was a cool start-ing point for planning future actions back home (both on personal but also on a professional level).

After this introspection exercise, we went on exploring the land-scape around Pennabilli, activity that gave us the chance to admire the beautiful nature around here but also to make connections with our home countries. We got inspired in sharing interesting experi-ences from places we have been traveling or living and we realized that things are changing around the world: more and more young people are moving from the craziness of the big towns to rural are-as, for a better quality of life and with the hope of feeling happier. The walk in the nature gave us energy and a nice appetite, for the amazing food made by our cool chefs: Fabiola and Alessandro.

After a nice siesta we started the second part of the day. All of these activities (the flying carpet, the success stories, improving your competences and the pantomime) helped us understand that we need to work on improving our skills and on finding new ways to com-municate and cooperate with other people in order to make changes in our lives and in the communities where we live.

All in all we had a full day, in which we discovered a bit more about ourselves and about the people in our exchange group. Pen-nabilli rocks and we are looking forward to learning more about this place and about its people, and hopefully this experience will give us the chance to come up with new ideas and new strategies to improve our ways of acting and reacting!“

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Day 2 was about understanding how we are as a people.

What are our strong and weak sides? What are our behavioral patterns? What roles are we usually taking?

We discover these through playing games and reflecting upon them. We were focused mainly on soft skills relevant for labor market, team-work and communication.

In the evening, the participants were invited by several families from Pennabilli to dinner. They had a unique op-portunity to get in contact with locals, learn more about Italian culture and ask about the life in Italian rural area.

Day 3. Community

Day 4. inspiration

Day 3 was about understanding how the community in a small Italian village looks like and how does it influence an approach to entrepreneurship.

Through the days, the participants were meeting several local businessmen who were discussing with them differ-ent aspects of their work. One purpose was to inspire them, second to uncover different unexpected difficulties or oppor-tunities of rural enterprises.

At the day 4, we went on a field trip to Rimini to visit the business incubator Innovation Square. We met people from startups who draw the line between the business in rural ar-eas and in cities and how they can cooperate with each other.

“We started the day with a big serendipity. In the Internation-al Volunteer Day we dedicated out time to vision. All our ideas started to come to life so that in the near future they can be-come real projects that impact the local communities.

The day was divided in two sessions. The first one focused on our personal skills and goals. Now we understand that the first step must be realizing the reasons why we are motivated to start the project. Inspiration can come from the simplest things as we did this afternoon when we climbed to the Billi castle to enjoy the beautiful sunset. The second session was mainly focused in presenting our vision and allocating the projects to each country.

At the end of the day the teams were created and we are ready to develop our visions in the next few days!”

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Day 5. vision

The purpose of the day was to reconnect with the one’s life goals and dreams so the rural enterprises the partici-pants are going to create will become only one milestone on reaching what their hearts always desired.

At this moment the participants were ready. They:

1) Found out how to cooperate with others; 2) Learned what are their strong and weak points; 3) Understood what threats and opportunities lie in rural areas businesses; 4) Got inspired by many different kind of enterprises which already exist; 5) Realized what are their dreams and goals.

They were ready to create ideas for a project and join their forces with others into working teams (see PROJECTS PLANS).

Day 6. business model

On the 6th day, we welcomed Andrea Zanzini, Coordinator at PRIMO MIGLIO CSR Startups Accelerator and Intercul-tural trainer. He came to support working teams in the crea-tion of their business model. Like that, ideas slowly started to look more realistic.

Useful linkswww.canvanizer.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of34BmUUjIg

Day 7. ACTION

“The «action day» was dedicated to our project’s realization. Each team had to fulfill 10 activities in order to start making the idea come true.

We also had to create a video to show to the team the way we work. It was a busy day, but thanks to the great sunny day that Pennabilli offered to us, we had the chance to find some great ideas by discovering the village and enjoying its magic nature.”

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“P. S. We hope you will like it.”

WATCH VIDEOS

https://vimeo.com/manage/albums/5641192

Day 8. PLAYGROUND

Since local families invited participants for dinner to their houses, we had decided to repay their kindness and invited them (and the rest of the village and region) for an intercul-tural evening.

Participants had the whole day to prepare the evening cel-ebration:

1) Arrange the space

2) Prepare food without using the kitchen

3) Prepare an interactive program focused on intercultural dialogue

It was a beautiful playground during which they could test how they are cooperating with each other, working in a team, managing things, see about their leadership skills, team-roles, etc.

At the end, the program attracted around 200 people from Pennabilli and the surroundings. Participants presented their countries, National agency and Erasmus+ program, their projects and they started networking about their projects.

Day 9. COMMUNICATION

Day 10. closing

Day 9 was dedicated to evaluating their experience and co-operation from the previous day and anchoring their learn-ing.

Also, we welcomed guests from the University of the Re-public of San Marino – professors of XY, names, etc. who supported participants with creating a brand for their projects and its manifesto.

“All good things come to an end.

During the last day of this great experience, we remembered the memories from the last nine days and heard about all the opportu-nities that Erasmus+ has to offer.

The day wasn’t over without taking a final group photo and writ-ing goodbye messages to each other.”

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We gave goodbye to Pennabilli… and we started to get ready for leaving.

project plans

BUILD The futureBuilding houses for poor people.

Mădălina Oprea, Romania

Camilla Elisabetta Ranghetti,

Italy

Federico Ungolini,Italy

“We believe in the potential of humans and we want them to grow so they can contribute to society, but we believe that the first thing

that is needed in order to grow is a healthy environment which, for most of us, is a home.

Without sense of caring, there is no sense of community. Our vision is to BUILD a better environment for people in rural

areas and through faith, to change the “life” of a community.”

goalof the project

To build house for people who live in bad conditions

specific

to build a home for a family (2 to 5 people)

measurable

the goal will be achieved when there is a standing house and a family

ready to use it and be part of a bigger community

achiEvableSome organizations

(e.g. Habitat for Humanity) have done it before.

relevant

Sense of caring is crucial for sense of community.

time schedule

17th of December 2018

End of January 2019

15th of March 2019

End of March 2019

June/July 2019

Presentation to REMAX (Romania)

Meeting with other potential investors and

potential partners

First workshop (for 25 people)

Presentation to “Tonino Guerra” (Italy)

Starting the construction

https://vimeo.com/307848596

Christmas manhuntOrganizing an outdoor game for teenagers in order to create every year tradition which will bring excluded micro-generation (teen-

agers) back to community life

Laurie Timoa Taylor,Portugal

“There is a lack of interaction between micro-generation, and an increasing amount of young people doing nothing in my village.

The vision is to break the social barriers.”

rules of the game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(urban_game)

goalof the project

Create a new local tradition: playing the Manhunt game with teenagers

specific

to get people to interact with people they don’t usually in order to break the social barriers between

the micro-generation

measurable

to organise a game of manhut with at least 25 players

achiEvablecommunity is used to organising different activities

relevant

local community is alive from different traditions, sadly, this micro-generation (teenagers) are left out of them

time schedule

7th of December 2018

23 of December 2018

Contact the town hall Contact the rowing club

Market research Make event page

Write rules Finalize date Make poster

Make rule book Make trophy

Make score board

https://vimeo.com/307848826

Community breweryCreate a culture place (brewery and restaurant) for a community

living in a remote area with no opportunity for cultural life.

Anna Mencáková,Czech Republic

“We would like to start something what helps local community and what´s able to make enough money to by self-sustainable. Small brewery with small restaurant can provide local people place to gather because there are no areas, which serves to this purpose.”

Filip Michek,Czech Republic

Helena Kuthanová,Czech Republic

Lukáš Monček,Czech Republic

goalof the project

To create a local community brewery

specific

to create beer brewery and small restaurant

measurable

goal is achieved when the brewery is officially opened

achiEvable

some organizations (e.g. Pivovar Ohrada) have done it before.

relevant

For Czech people pub is the most favorite place to meet.

time schedule

16th of December 2018

12th of January 2019

31st of January 2019

28th of February 2019

Contacting of investors Discussion with partners

Meeting with Mayor

Contact local action group

Discus brewery technology

with experts Start to prepare the project of

reconstruction Arrange meeting with

community Name/brand for the brewery

Logo design Start to create website

https://vimeo.com/307848701

EnteruralshitImplementing the composting toilet in local international festival,

in order to make the whole event more sustainable and eco-friendly.

Nicola Ianni,Italy

Barbara Demurtas, Italy

Margherita Pieronni,Italy

“We want to create composting toilet in order to spread a diffuse ecological awareness and value, in particular during the festival

of Artisti in Piazza in Pennabilli. Our goals are reducing the use of water and chemical products to face the growing environmental issues. Behind thisconcept we oversee a possible use of compost in agriculture and biomass fuel participating this way in a circular

economy. Dry toilet represent a new concept of sanitation.”

goalof the project

introduction of composting toilet in the camping of Artisti in Piazza, Pennabilli

specific

introduction of composting toilet in the camping of Artisti in Piazza, Pennabilli

measurable

If we install composting toilet in camping of Artisti in Pi-azza, we completed our goal.

achiEvableObserving others entities all over the Europe, we know that

this model already exists and it works.

relevant

This project is needed because it will achieve a real green ef-fect on the environmental impact of the festival and because

actually it doesn’t exist in this context in Italy.

time schedule

15th of January 2019

20th of January 2019

1st of February 2019

15th of February 2019

30th of May

Look for information about similar peojects

Personal training Look for laws about mobile-

-toilet and community composting Find out more partners in this

rural zone Meeting with ProLoco

(association for local promotion)

Meet the stakeholders

of the project

Apply for European funding

Try to build up one composting toilet

Be ready with composting toilet

https://vimeo.com/307848559

reARTOrganizing a workshop about re-using the trash for creation of art in order to live more sustainable and eco-friendly life, bring-

ing community closer and giving the youth the opportunity how to spend their time in useful way.

Danae-Mina Papadopoulou,

Greece

“We believe that the local community need places where to gather all together and express themselves by strengthening their relation-

ship. Our main vision is creativity and the main need that our project will fulfill is no waste idea and social inclusion.

Dimitris Tskinas, Greece

Avgi Foundou,Greece

Dimitris Papadopoulos,Greece

Maria Pallasidou, Greece

goalof the project

Implementation of workshop about turning trash into art in local community

specific

implementing of a workshop

measurable

at least 25 participants

achievable

Similar projects are happening all around the world

relevant

Since Greece is filled with trash, promoting zero waste policy is very important.

Inspired by the way that people give life back to small villages we want to give life back to old and useless items in a new and unique

way. Nowadays, people waste more and more without taking in consideration the environmental negative effects. That’s why we think that our project will propose an intelligent and alternative

way of using other way wasted materials.”

https://vimeo.com/307848607

time schedule

End of January 2019

End of February 2019

End of May 2019

15th of April

Find the artists

Find the materials and volunteers

Find the place

Implementation of workshop

#weCONNECT – ȘezătoareOrganizing of public gathering for young and old people in order

to exchange experiences and get closer to each other.

Irina Mihălcuţ,Romania

Simina Cernat,Romania

Diana Plugari,Romania

Daniel Agrigoroaiei, Romania

“Nowadays people become more and more divided and lonely. We believe that this world can be a better place if we connect to each

other and we share knowledge, quality time and joy.

There is a big gap between generations and an increased need of old people to feel accepted, integrated and useful. Our project aims to help rural communities to better connect by offering the context for young people to meet the old ones and share stories, skills, ex-periences and knowledge so they increase the feeling of wellbeing

and personal growth.

We want to start a series of monthly meetings refreshing the tra-dition of “sezatoare” that exists in Romania, and to adapt this concept to the present reality. In this meetings that will happen in a public space (either public libraries, in the local cultural space of town hall or in schools) elder people and young ones will have the occasion to share stories, be more creative, learn new skills from each other (young people can learn handcrafts and old ones can become comfortable in how to use new technology, for example).

We believe that the local community need places where to gather all together and express while strengthening their relationship.

Our main vision is creativity and the main need that our project will fulfill is no waste idea and social inclusion.”

goalof the project

Monthly meetings where we bring young and old people together and give them the opportunity to share stories, handcrafts skills and technological knowledge, to identify and discuss the community problems and to understand each other better

specific

implementation of monthly meetings

measurable

At least 50 participants at first 2 gathering Openness to organize more meetings like that

achiEvable

This type of gathering used to be normal in the past

relevant

there is a strong need of connectivity between generations and also a need of understanding and integrating old and new ideas of these different generations in romanian rural

areas

time schedule

End of December 2018

1st week of January 2019

End of January 2019

End of February 2019

March 2019

April 2019

finished design of the project (writing it, making a logo, a pres-entation, identifying possible locations)

contacting of possible partners and the local administration

First activity of the pilot project in Neamt county

Second activity of the project in Bacau country

Third activity simultaneously in Neamt and Bacau with guests (musicians and artists)

Detailed report after the end of the 3rd gathering

https://vimeo.com/307848847

Escape the cityCreate educational Escape Game in rural area

Javier Ibáñez Ruiz, Spain

“The scape room is a physical and mental adventure game, in which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives and get out of the

room. The idea is create one escape room in a rural area of Gra-nada, using historical events of this zone.

We forgot that adults also play. We are trapped in our works, stud-ies, projects … This is one way to escape the routine, enjoying our free time or taking advantage using the escape room as a team-

building.

I really like this way of entertainment because I think that is an innovative idea and I can be creative because I can orient the busi-

ness to specific themes that I really like.”

goalof the project

Open this business and promote this type of entertainment.

specific

to open escape room

measurable

we fulfill the goal in a moment we have a first customer

achiEvable

Escape rooms already exists, I am just bringing them to the new context

relevant

it is a new way of culture and entertaiment for a locals

time schedule

End of January 2019

End of February 2019

End of March 2019

End of April 2019

End of May 2019

End of July 2019

End of Septemeber 2019

End of October 2019

End of December 2019

Try new scaperooms to get some ideas

Decide the name of the company

Make the logo

Take information about historical villages in Granada

Talk with the Mayor of the vil-lage

Rent an a apartment

Write the story

Adapt the story

Buy and make the furnitures and devices required

https://vimeo.com/307957888

Rural Co-working

Creation of co-working and co-living space in rural areas.

Irene Valenti,Italy

Gonçalo Hall,Portugal

“The way people are working is changing, more and more people are working remotely and want to escape the city stress and move to a smaller village. We believe that in the future more and more people will work from rural areas, with their laptop and internet connectivity. This is why we decided to create a co-working and

co-living space in small villages to allow entrepreneurs and remote workers to have a beautiful and calm place to work and live at the

same time they build a strong community with the locals.”

goalof the project

Open coworking/coliving spaces in rural ar-eas in harmony with local communities. At least 1 new space every year.

specific

Open a network of co-working spaces

measurable

A coworking space is open and having first client

achiEvable

Co.working spaces alreeady exists in cities and we see de-mand for them in rural areas

relevant

By opening a coworking space in a rural area we will allow highly educated and successful people to come to places that have lost population to cities in the last years. Also, we will

offer to remote workers a calm and peaceful place where they can focus and do their best work. The exchange of knowl-

edge will both open the mentality of small villages and improve the awareness of the advantages of working close

to nature.

timely

11-12-2018

07-12-2018

30-01-2019

30-01-2019

30-01-2019

30-05-2019

10-06-2019

Forever

Visit living spaces

Create social media pages

Contact local authorities

Find a space for coworking

Create live events on Facebook To explain the project and gather leads

Get furniture and restore the coworking and co-living spaces

Launch date

Grow the community and build awareness

https://vimeo.com/307848837

BIO LEARN

Creation of school garden for playing and education

Andrea López Ruiz,Spain

Marisa Máximo Murtinha,Portugal

Pilar Montoza García,Spain

Saúl Olcina Ruiz, Portugal

“We chose to do this project because nowadays our society has a big problem with childhood obesity. With this project we are trying to bring awareness to the young community about the problem with

obesity and the benefits of following a healthy diet.

The main vision hidden behind the project is provide a Better Life.”

goalof the project

Creation of School Garden, which can be used by teachers as an alternative educational tool to teach the commun subjects. At the same time, the kids will learn how to work in group, the value of sustainability and the importance of ecosystems.

specific

Creation of school garden

measurable

The goal is achieved when seeds are planted with the class of children in the school.

achiEvable

The goal is realistic in the time frame we have to implement the project.

relevant

In this day and age, childhood obesity is real problem. This project is aimed to combat this reality. By being involved in the process of making and taking care of a school garden, we expect that children will be more aware of the impor-

tance of a heathier lifestyle.

time schedule

End of February 2019

End of March 2019

Contact to the Ampa Contact with companies in case

we need more things

Contact with the School Make the presentation with chil-

dren in the school Build the garden in the school

Planting the seeds and show them to take care of them

Editing foto and/or video

https://vimeo.com/307848766

vocabularyAgenzia Nazionale per i Giovani

is a public body, with organizational and financial autonomy, overseen by the Italian Government and the European Com-mission. www.agenziagiovani.it

Artisti in piazza

Since 1997 Pennabilli houses the International Festival of Street Art “Artisti in Piazza”. From the first edition, the event has become one of the most important events planned in Italy. In the five days 60 international companies (over 200 artists) of theater, music, new circus, street art, are in-vited by the organization.

For each edition, the program is renewed at 90%, there are about 400 reruns of the shows during the five days, it is esti-mated a turnout of about 40,000 people. For the realization of the festival is employed a staff of about 300 people. The festival will include performances and concerts by profes-sional companies of street art in all its forms. Bands repre-senting trends and traditions from all over the world, a large space is also devoted to local and international craft with the “Mercatino del solito e insolito”. Each year are offered exhi-bitions and art installations.

XXIII Edition: 13th - 16th June 2019

vocabulary#artistiinpiazza www.artistiinpiazza.com/en

Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Its budget of €14.7 bil-lion will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train gain experience, and volunteers abroad.

Set to last until 2020, Erasmus+ doesn’t just have opportu-nities for students. Merging seven prior programmes, it has opportunities for a wide variety of individuals and organisa-tions. Detailed information on these opportunities, inluding eligiblity criteria, is available in the Erasmus+ Programme Guide. An indicative funding guide for some centralised op-portunities is also available.

Erasmus+ has opportunities for people of all ages, helping them develop and share knowledge and experience at insti-tutions and organisations in different countries.

Erasmus+ has opportunities for a wide range of organisa-tions, including universities, education and training provid-ers, think-tanks, research organisations, and private busi-nesses.

Youth Exchange

Youth exchanges allow groups of young people from different countries

to meet, live together and work on shared projects for short periods.

Youth exchanges take place outside the school environment. On a youth exchange, you can expect to participate in activities such as workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, outdoor activities and more.

Youth exchanges last between 5 and 21 days. This excludes travelling time.

Youth exchanges are open to people between the ages of 13 and 30. To be a group leader in a youth exchange, you must be at least 18 years-old.

Youth exchanges are managed by youth organisations, informal groups of young people or other organisations.

The EU grant supports travel as well as practical and activity-related costs necessary for the exchange.

partners

partners

Chiocciola la casa del nomade

Chiocciola La casa del nomade realizes educational projects for children and adults In, With and For the landscape.

Founded in 2010, Chiocciola La casa del nomade matured from an interest in places and the complexities that underlie them.

Artistic, educational and historical-environmental researches twined together resulting in activities related to the educa-tion and appreciation of nature and its territories. In 2014 formally becomes a cultural association.

Experience organising residential international projects - Migrant Landscapes was a project involving young design-ers, graphic designer, educators and artists in a process of reading and interpretation of the landscape surrounding the historical centre of Pennabilli.

www.chiocciolalacasadelnomade.it

YOUTHphoria

YOUTHphoria is an informal group of young people based in Katerini, Pieria, Greece. It was established in December of 2016 by a group of four active young people working on the voluntary and non-for-mal learning sector. We are united with the common vision of a tolerant, multicultural society, in which each young per-son can be an active member. We promote voluntarism, civil

activism, environmental awareness, creative expression, mu-tual respect and productive dialogue.

Our goal is to create sensitive, capable of living and work-ing in the newly formed multicultural environment, active citizens and extend their personal and professional horizons. Furthermore, we are advocating the active participation of young people with fewer opportunities and we are encourag-ing social values among young people.

To achieve the above objectives, we provide young people with opportunities to improve their skills and enrich their experiences with their involvement and participation in voluntary action programs, seminars and mobility in local and European level. We are very active in local, national and European level. We organized and implemented actions aim-ing to spread accurate information to young people from our region.

We focus on offering our volunteers various opportuni-ties for educational and mobility projects and we encourage them to enrich their experiences and improve their skills and competences. At the same time we participate in national campaigns and we promote values and principals based on democracy, constructive dialogue, free expression and tol-erance. We are also very active in writing projects for our region, taking under consideration the needs, requirements and abilities of our volunteers. We are always trying to im-prove our work and include more and more young people in our workshops and projects.

https://sites.google.com/view/youthphoriakaterinigreece

Agoraveiro

Agoraveiro is a non-profit and non-governmental, private NGO, founded under the Portuguese law, by a group of young professionals in May 2010 in Aveiro. Our main field of activities is promo-tion of an active citizenship, inclusion, international aware-ness and healthy lifestyles and most of our activities are planned based on those principals.

The association is widely recognised within both local people and local institutions. We have been collaborating on dif-ferent projects with some of the most relevant institutions - like the City Hall, secondary schools (high schools and vocational schools). University of Aveiro and we are often invited by them to share our experience and good practices, or to co-organize different activities.

Our local activities are mostly orientated to active partici-pation in different processes of society: powerful guerrilla actions (drawing attention of citizens to a social, environ-mental or other type ofproblems), workshops (as diverse as: baking biological bread, knitting, healthy eating habits, upcycling, languages, origami, etc.), activities where we pro-mote healthy lifestyles (for example creation of AMAP in Aveiro where we connect local bio-agricultures with inter-ested consumers) as well as social inclusion and tolerance (like Suspended Coffee, Human Library), etc.

In terms of international scope, we are trying to enhance in-ternational dimension and non-formal learning methods by

being active partners in meaningful international projects.

We co-organize annual TEDxAveiro and TEDxYouth@Aveiro conferences (around 500 participants each), where we promote entrepreneurship, innovation and good practices. TEDxAveiro is aimed at 18+ audience, while TEDxYouth@Aveiro has different concept - it is organised by youngsters from local schools (with our mentorship) and for youngsters <18. They are responsible for all the aspects of the organi-sation: design of the stage, catering, event greening, photos and video recording, postproduction of speeches etc. Most of the speakers at TEDxYouth are youngsters from local schools who come to present to the audience their ideas, projects or achievements. Our TEDx event is the second biggest in Portugal and this year we hosted 720 people in the audience.

www.agoraaveiro.org

KULT Hub

KULT Hub is an educational and creative space that provides to young people an integrated experience of personal and professional development courses, access to a model community and the opportunity to implement their own projects. Our NGO was established in 2017 in Roman, a small town in north-east part of Romania. We are work-ing with teenegers and we are developing an curricula based by longlife learning and 21 century skills through courses, educational projects, cultural events, volunteering and youth exchanges. In Roman we even formed an initiative group

and we want to give an example of active citizenship that motivates others. Today our city vibrates and this is due to all young people who want to change something around them and do not expect this to come from nothing. Also we promote values and principals based on free exporession, co-laboration, creativity, constructive dialogue, democracy and tolerance.

http://www.kulthub.ro

Asociacion Cultural Somos Europa

The “Asociación Cultural Somos Europa” was born with the task that the young people of our province (Granada) know more deeply what Europe is, its different cultures, languages, ways of under-standing life, history.... We want to strengthen the European identity using intercultural knowledge as a tool. We also want our young people to be socially more participative, to be committed to be autonomous and involved with the social problems, we want them decide for themselves and become drivers of change. We would like to favor the acquisition of skills through non-formal education mainly (workshops, project development, cultural activities, volunteering ...).

We are a group of people, mostly young people who come from working with the Padul in Action Youth Association and the Padul Town Hall, we worked with these two enti-ties working with the Erasmus + program with more than satisfactory results. We decided to give One step further and

expand our work to the rest of the province. Our way of working is integrative and proactive, it is the young partici-pants who carry out and implement our projects always with our coordination and supervision.

We developed our first European volunteer project in our town, It has been a magnificent experience that has given participants the opportunity to know new cultures and to acquire new tools.

We collaborate with the Youth Center of our municipality in the dissemination of the Erasmus + program among our young people.

We have developed several informative talks about the Eras-mus + program with the young people of High Schools and University from Granada.

www.somoseuropa.eu

MAS Hradecky venkov

Local Action Group is made up of representatives of municipalities, local entrepreneurs (also farmers), NGOs and active citizens.

Our organisation is thus made up of representatives of municipalities, local entrepreneurs (also farmers), NGOs and active citizens. The territory of LAG shall be homogenous. LAG draws up a multi-sectoral development strategy for its area which is subject to approval of all its members.

Target group - young people, youth, youth workers, leadres, people with geographical disadvantages, local entrepreneurs, schools, farmers, representatives of municipalities, NGOs and active citizens. Our organization support these target groups. We are trying to reduce geographical disadvantages. We offer them lot of opportunities and improve their live-style. Together, we participate in the organization of events and conferences.

www.hradeckyvenkov.cz

Core team

Irene Valenti

Noa Phillipi

Hanny Castro

Vojtěch Žák

Andrejs Aristovs