📌GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

The goals of our project are to educate and raise awareness about the importance of healthy lifestyles, healthy eating, physical activity, knowledge of different strategies for coping with stress; encouraging the public towards a healthy lifestyle; encouraging and educating young people to play a more active role in their local communities, active citizenship; reducing the incidence of stress through effective coping strategies; promoting intercultural dialogue, embracing diversity, enhancing European identity and values among young people; increasing young people's awareness of various Erasmus projects; promoting critical thinking, non-formal learning and different competences.

📌PARTICIPANTS PROFILE:

- 5 Youth participants (18-30) + 1 group leader (21+ with no age limit).
- Required to be part of some voluntary organization or connected to the topic of mental health
- Motivated to address the issue in their communities, issues concerning young people at international level;
- Motivated to speak about mental health, antistress methods and to spread tolerance among minorities issues and to turn ideas into actions;
- Ready to work in a mix-intercultural learning environment, to contribute to successful project implementation;
- Motivated to take part in Erasmus + project, work in an international team and share their experiences in the follow-up period;
- Have a communicative level of English and be able to take part in preparatory meetings, youth exchange, and follow up activities;
- Active and ready to do outdoor activities;
- Non-smoker;
- Required to be a promotor of a healthy lifestyle and against the use of alcohol and drugs;
- Every group will include participants with fewer opportunities facing cultural differences and social, economic obstacles. It means young people who face unemployment, are coming from socially and economically challenging environment and/or might face discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices in
their communities.

📌WORKING METHODS:

Working methods will be icebreakers, energizers, team/group work, interactive and creative workshops, open space workshops, discussions, evaluation, role playing, informal gatherings, local visits, guest visits etc.

📌VENUE:

Our project "The world of Roma" will take place near Murska Sobota, which is the biggest city in the region of Pomurje.

📌ACCOMMODATION:

We will stay in a beautiful countryside Mansion Rakičan. Our accommodation will offer us rooms, (which are equipped with a private bathroom with shower, internet and TV), room for activities, a big park, a dining room, and a common space near our rooms.

- Each person will get one towel
- You don't need to bring your own bedding
- There is no hairdryer in the bathroom
- There are no cosmetics in the bathroom

Name of the accommodation: DVOREC RAKIČAN
Address: LENDAVSKA ULICA 28, RAKIČAN, 9000 MURSKA SOBOTA

📌LOGEMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT:

- All costs related to accommodation, food and activities are covered by organizers.

- Transportation costs of all participants will be covered by the project budget up to 275€.
Important: We will reimburse the transport money ONLY if the participant will ACTIVELY take part during the whole project. This is an international project with non-formal education that is granted from European funds. Notice also that we can reimburse the costs that you can prove us (original tickets). You can travel 2 days before the activity starts and 2 days after the activity ends. Don't buy your travel tickets before getting our confirmation! Each participant can arrange with sending an organisation if you have to buy your own tickets or the organisation will buy and will get reimbursed by us.

- We will reimburse taxi costs in a short distance.

📌 WHAT TO BRING:

Each group should bring:

-We will have a Cuisine market; it means that we will prepare presentations of our traditional food and drinks. We are kindly asking that participants should bring food that they DON'T need to cook! (NO cooking!). It should be a presentation with snacks and drinks. Before this activity, we will have a normal light dinner. Participants should bring some traditional food and drinks from their country.

- Each group should collect recipes of healthy snacks which should also include at least one traditional ingredient from our country.

- Every evening we will have a national evening. It means that each country will have at least 1 hour to present their traditions, attractions, culture... On this activity only presentations (powerpoint, Prezi, video, dance, singing, theatre...) no food! Participants should prepare the presentation before arriving to Slovenia. Info about when each country will have a presentation is in the timetable.

- Flag from their country

- Each group should have at least one computer and one camera

Each participant should bring:

- Warm clothes, sports clothes for team building, comfortable clothes & shoes for hiking & clothes that can get dirty while our work actions

- We kindly ask you to bring some toys & animal food that we will donate at the animal shelter.

- We kindly ask you to prepare a short Self-care plan, where he/she describes his/her personal methods of reducing stress and taking care of mental health

-We kindly ask you to bring some toys, Kitchenware cosmetics or anything that they want to donate to a local organization which we will visit and is working with people that face any kind of obstacles.

- We kindly ask you to bring some traditional flower or vegetable seeds that we will use while preparing the kitchen/balcony garden

- Medicine that they usually use (if they do)

- Passport or ID card

- Invoices and travel tickets for reimbursement

- European health insurance card (mandatory) and travel insurance

📌 INSURANCE & HEALTH ISSUES:

- The participants are responsible to get travel insurance.

📌DEADLINE FOR APPLYING: 4 October 2020.

📌 FEE:

Cleaning Fee of €10
+
There is a non-refundable administrative fee of €35, and it is due only if the applicant is approved to take part in the project.

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