📌PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Terra Incognita Youth Exchange will take place in Stina, Ukraine. The project aims to bring positive change to rural communities and make an impact among its young inhabitants by helping them uncover the wide experiential and touristic potential of the countryside. The Youth Exchange will have an experiential component for youth on educational and creative tourism programmes in the rural area. Organized by Pangea Ultima in Stina, Ukraine with new dates: 29 July - 6 August 2019. Each of the 4 project partners will send 7 young participants interested in experiential education, rural tourism and rural development including group leaders.
📌THE AIMS OF THE EXCHANGE ARE:
➢ To transfer the knowledge and ideas from the project working groups and leaders on how to use the local potential in
the direction of development of educational-touristic and other creative products to the participants of the exchange;
➢ To try out some of the already prepared by the working group for Stina context experiential methodology;
➢ To empower youngsters and let them experiment with the practical realization of own ideas in “field conditions” having
the supportive environment provided by the Eco-Center in Stina activists;
➢ To develop a number of competencies among youngsters including a sense of initiative, leadership and group management;
➢ To start preparation for the final activity in Stina announced as a large-scale youth event as a place of public demonstration
of the elaborated experiential and creative programmes;
➢ To explore the cultural, social and ethnic background of the Stina community by the participants;
➢ To get intercultural experience and satisfy peer-communication need.
📌LEARNING GAINS:
The exchange will be valuable for the participants in five learning areas:
➢ thematic (experiential education and creative tourism) - participants will be engaged in common work learning from it and each other;
➢ familiarizing - participants will get acquainted with the geographical environment and with new people;
➢ development - participants will get experience of creating and developing the concrete products to be implemented in the village;
➢ personal - participants will gain experience of self-organization, life in natural conditions, acquire leadership skills and will improve other competencies;
➢ The participants will enhance their proficiency in the English language as it is the used one.
📌WHOM WE ARE SEARCHING FOR?
1 group leader and 6 participants
As a participant you are:
➢ 16-25 years old;
➢ interested in experiential education, rural tourism, and rural development;
Group leaders:
➢ 18-30 years old;
➢ interested in experiential education, rural tourism, and rural development;
📌VENUE:
Stina is the village on the South of the Vinnytsia oblast in the Tomashpil region. Tomashpil is the closest town with a population of around 6000 people. From the city of Vinnytsia the village is located on the 110 km distance. The village is situated in the deep Valley of the Rusava river which gives it a special climate and a peaceful, retired atmosphere. The first mention of its name dates back to 1550. In 2001, there were 1033 inhabitants.
Stina has a deep historical background and hosts some archaeological excavations of the Trypillia culture. In the medieval, the central rocky part of Stina called “The Castle” accommodated a fort which was important in withstanding attacks by Ottoman Empire and during the national liberation war of Ukrainian Cossacks against Rech Pospolita. From the medieval comes a legend that almost whole population of Stina was killed in an attack by Crimean Tartars and from then on those women who survived this tragedy by hiding into local caves started to embroider national clothes in mourning black and white only colors. Now the technique of this embroidery is gone and no one can reproduce it. The old samples of skirts with such exquisite knitting are very valuable. On the outskirts of Stina is located a natural reservation of the local importance. There grows Eastern pasqueflower which blooms every spring attracting numerous visitors to the valley above the village.
In 2016-17 DC Pangea Ultima together with its partner NGO Nashe Podillia launched the “Eco-center in Stina”. The mission of the center is: to serve the platform of collaboration between different actors that are interested in the practical implementation of ideas of sustainable development, exchange and preservation of local knowledge and realization of other rural initiatives.
📌LIVING CONDITIONS:
The participants will be accommodated in camp conditions on the territory of the Eco-center in Stina. The participants are likely to have the previous experience of the camp life, as when for some it may seem like apleasure, the others may feel a domestic shock. People will be settled in tents mainly by three in one, cook over a campfire (assistance will be provided by the local organizers in it, but the participants are welcome to prepare some traditional, national recipes to treat others), use a
compost toilet, a summer shower, conduct activities and work outdoors. The participants can expect some assistance in everyday complexities from the Local Partner.
📌 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.
