📌 About the project:
"Olympic Games of Diversity and Inclusion" is a YOUTH EXCHANGE within the frame of Erasmus+ about how to use sport as a tool for social transformation and inclusion of diversity.
During 9 days, participants from 5 countries will work together to discover and learn how to transform our society through sports. We want to use sports to promote the inclusivity of LGTBQIA+ people in every part of our society. We notice that some hateful and non-inclusive language is taking place in our spaces, and we want to stop this by educating the younger population about inclusivity. In that way, we can build a more diverse, inclusive and respectful future for everyone. We want to achieve this goal using sport as a tool and methodology due to its power to transmit values such as respect, comradeship, teamwork and solidarity.
We know that sport is a useful tool for social transformation, and that's why we think it will be enriching for youth workers to know more about it and to learn about its possibilities. Sport has also a lot of health benefits, we currently lead more of a sedentary life away from nature. Therefore, we believe that this is a good way to introduce sport into the lives of children and teenagers and create healthy habits while transmitting values.
We all know how harsh it can be to express yourself in our villages. Therefore this is a topic that youth needs to face creatively. Sport is our bet on doing this!
📌 Reimbursement:
The cost of food and accommodation will be 100% covered by the Spanish National Agency, furthermore, travel costs will be granted with an amount according to the travel distance.
For traveling from Bulgaria the grant will be 360€ per participant
Remember to keep all your boarding passes and original travel tickets so we can reimburse you for the travel costs!!
Please, before buying the ticket write to us, so we can check it.
There will be a participation fee of 15€/person. This fee will be paid in cash on the 3rd day of the project.
📌Accommodation and food:
The venue will be in CERRALBA, PIZARRA (MÁLAGA) Spain
Our village doesn't have a hostel, so the accommodation will be very basic. We will sleep all together in a mixed room and only two showers will be available, so a good schedule will be displayed to guarantee hygiene among participants. Before coming you will need to accept this schedule. We know that this will be a challenge, but our objective is to work on the development of rural areas, even if the resources are limited. We are willing to find people that are ready to break down personal limits and open up!
The Village is very rural, so does not offer a wide range of services, but there is a little shop, and we will do our best to provide common goods that the participants can share.
📌 What to bring?
- Comfortable clothing.
- Towels, toiletries. We will provide basic goods for personal hygiene like Shampoo, hair conditioner, body gel, body milk, toothpaste, tissues and a common hair dryer. So you don't need to bring them.
- A sleeping bag.
- Stuff for the Intercultural Evening: Local products from your area as well as brochures and information about your association, country and area.
- You need to have some “ice-breaking” activities prepared.
- Your ID and insurance documents (European Health Insurance Card)
- We recommend you bring your own water bottle, so we can avoid using plastic as much as possible.
- Your own masks. They are mandatory in public transport and pharmacies
- Good Mood!!
📌 Participants profile:
The participants can be anyone interested in working with young people, sports and inclusion. For example students, teachers, youth workers or association workers. We're also looking for young people willing to share their experiences, learn from others and grow personally and professionally. One of our priorities is to offer this opportunity to young people from rural areas. We want to spread knowledge and increase their opportunities for self-development.
When applying for this youth exchange you should consider if you can adapt to non-comfortable and shared spaces with multiple people.
We are looking for 4 participants + 1 group leader of each of the countries with +21 years old
📌 Practical information:
COVID -19 policy
As we all know we need to make some adaptations to the pandemic situation so, here you have some important questions:
- Before you travel, make sure what do you need to travel from your country to Spain (Covid passport, test, country form...)
- You will have to bring your own masks, and please take into account that public transport and pharmacies are mandatory.
- In case of needing quarantine for contact, symptoms or positive results in tests, participants will need to cover that expense. So we highly recommend having your own insurance.
- During the week we will:
o Disinfect the common areas regularly
o Ventilation, or open-air activities
- If the covid-19 situation changes, we will propose more measures
Rules
- We will be hosting you in our building where our colleagues will continue their working routine, so we will kindly ask you to keep silent especially from 8 to 15h
- Participants will have to bring their own towels and sleeping bags
- There is no possibility to extend your stay at our place.
- Smoking, drinking alcohol or consuming any other harmful substance is forbidden in the building
- Participants have to respect the installations, the rooms and the common areas.
- Covid measures. In case of symptoms or positive results quarantine expenses will need to be covered by the participant (you can have an insurance for it). In case the covid situation change, other measures can be implemented.
The rest of the house rules will be created on the first day of the training.
