📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
According to the latest statistics, 19% of young people across Europe have been bullied, the highest rates being registered in Poland and Greece. Greece is the 4th country in Europe known for student bullying, only superseded by Poland. The past two years, there have been recorded a total of 251,640 cases of bullying all over the world. The project is following the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme for 2018 and more specific marginalized youth, the νpromotion of diversity, tolerance and freedom and through the respect for human rights. Youth workers from 7 countries Greece, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania are going to debate various topics, such as: what bullying is, how it can manifest, and how can it be prevented,giving the opportunity to those who have suffered from being bullied to speak up for themselves and share their experience through examples.
📌AIMS OF THE PROJECT:
The project aims to address bullying in aspects of life and includes verbal bullying (insults, mocking, threats), physical bullying (hits, beatings, inadequate touching), relational bullying (exclusion, spreading rumors), as well as indirect bullying (property theft, destruction, graffiti, vandalism). At the same time seeking to find concrete solutions to help the social integration and the increase of self-esteem of those who were victims of bullying.
📌PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE:
Participants should be young leaders or youth workers. We expect participants to be over 18 years old.
📌VENUE:
The Project will take place in Athens city the capital of Greece. The name of Athens, connected to the name of its patron goddess Athena, originates from an earlier random city-state, Greek Pre Greek language. The etiological explaining how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described by Herodotus, Apollodorus, Ovid, Plutarch, Pausanias, and others. It even became the theme of the sculpture on the West pediment of the Parthenon. Both Athena and Poseidon requested to be patrons of the city and to give their name to it, so they competed with one another for the honor, offering the city one gift each. Poseidon produced a spring by striking the ground with his trident, symbolizing naval power.
Athena created the olive tree, symbolizing peace and prosperity. The Athenians, under their ruler Cecrops, accepted the olive tree and named the city after Athena. A sacred olive tree said to be the one created by the goddess was still kept on the Acropolis at the time of Pausanias (2nd century AD). It was located by the temple of Pandrosus, next to the Parthenon. According to Herodotus, the tree had been burnt down during the Persian Wars, but a shoot sprung from the stump. To the Greeks, they saw this as a symbol that Athena still had her mark there on the city.
📌ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD:
The project will cover the accommodation and food during the projects days100 %. Also, participants will be accommodating in double and triple beds. Breakfast will be provided and 2 meals (lunch and dinner). Snacks, coffees, beverages, beers and other drinks will not be covered from the project each participant will pay those expenses on each own. Coffee will be served in breakfast and during breaks of the training. Any extras, participants should cover on their own. During the served lunch and dinner if participants would like to order drinks from the restaurant they have to pay it on the spot. Organizer won’t cover these expenses.
All participants will be accommodated in Oscar Hotel http://oscar.gr/en/ which is located in very Central Street of Athens next to the metro station (Larissa Station www.socialinclusion.gr Stop). The hotel has a very good connection with the airport, so we advise you to use the metro to reach the Hotel.
📌 TRAVEL BUDGET AND TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT
It is important to start your journey from Bulgaria and come back to Bulgaria after the project.
Bulgaria – 275 EUR/ per person
If travel costs exceed the amount budgeted in the project, the organizers will only be able to reimburse participants maximum travel costs indicated in the travel budget. Under regulations imposed by Erasmus+ Programme, you are required to travel by the cheapest means of transport. Taxi expenses are not covered. Please, keep all your travel reimbursement documents (it has to include date, journey, cost, and name).
Without it, we will not be able to reimburse you.
📌 DEADLINE
After finding the right candidates, we can select the team before. We will only contact selected participants.
