📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 

YES! GAM-EU is an EU project supported by ABS (Active Bulgarian Society). It has 5 phases whose main goal is to encourage youth to vote for the upcoming European Parliamentary Elections in 2019. "Let's start playing! Setting the common ground" is the first phase of the project. During this training course, the youth workers will gain experience, knowledge and the needed skills in order to use the beta version of the application/platform created throughout the whole project.

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📌PROJECT GOALS:

➢ to facilitate the access to information and data about the EU and its institutions for all young people through innovative media channels and through interactive online gaming platform, apps, and virtual reality educational tools that can proactively engage them and foster European values and citizenship.

➢ to increase young people's understanding of the EU and its institutions, enhancing their role as active contributors to EU policies and the future of Europe in general.

➢ to engage young people in the 2019 Parliamentary Elections, reaching out to disadvantaged and marginalized ones and increasing their involvement in EU matters by also providing opportunities to engage in dialogue with decision makers.

➢ to bring together young people from all over Europe to interact and discuss the issues and topics they care about and to make their voices heard at the European level, in order to fully become actors and multipliers of new needs-based EU policies in the field of youth (and beyond).

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📌CHOSEN CANDIDATES MUST PARTICIPATE IN ALL PHASES:

➢Phase 1 – Let’s start playing! Setting the common ground
- Youth workers will be reached through partner organizations and their own volunteers and staff members.
- Young people (initial research) will be reached thanks to the interaction with local stakeholders (reached thanks to existing networks at the local, regional, national and European level)

➢ Phase 2 - Beyond Games: Road Map to 2019 EP Elections
Following the training, the trained youth workers will be delivering and facilitating gamification activities at the local level and support young people to use the beta version of the application/platform.

➢ Phase 3 – First youth exchange

After the 2019 European Parliamentary elections, the participants of the roadmap events will be part of the Youth Exchange that will be held in Brussels and get the opportunity to meet with MEPs (Members of the European Parliament).

➢ Phase 4 – Training of local facilitators

The participants of the first Youth Exchange held in Brussels will be later part of the training of local facilitators which will then create educational events at a local level peer to peer.

➢ Phase 5 – Playing (G)Local
The local facilitators will take part in the educational events held at a local level with the support of the initial 50 youth workers.

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📌PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE: 

➢ aged 18+

➢ involved in the youth sector.

➢ active and engaged civically.

➢ available for the above-mentioned activities.

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📌COSTS AND REIMBURSEMENT:
The travel, accommodation, food and the program itself are co-funded by the European Union
through the ERASMUS+ program. 
The organizers will reimburse travel costs for the amount showed in the original boarding passes, tickets, and invoices, up to the limits indicated in the ERASMUS+ program guide (see the table on the side). For this reason, is essential that you bring with you and keep all the original tickets and invoices of the traveling. Please note that the amounts on the side are the MAXIMUM amounts that will be reimbursed, all the costs exceeding these amounts will be covered by you as well as the costs for accommodation sustained in case you decide to start your travel before the arrival day and after the departure day.
NB: In order to be entitled to reimbursement respect the time limits as mentioned in the previous page, be on time for the starting of the program and participate in all of it.
Important: Participants must travel from Bulgaria to Portugal and back to Bulgaria within the travel dates will only be eligible for reimbursement.

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📌TRAVEL BUDGET - 275 EUR

Please remember that it is your limit for BOTH ways.

📌DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS: 27.01.2019