Training Course: “All Dreams Matter”

Mersin, Turkey: 12 - 20 January 2019

Contact

Radmila Serafimoska – serafimoska.radmila@gmail.com

Project summary

EU is home to over 33 million people born outside the EU. In addition, the most recent Eurostat figures, show there are more than 17 million citizens switched their country of birth within the EU. Conflicts in the Middle East and lack of safe places for living and working are forcing more refugees to seek safety in EU. The current EU politics in practice are giving little consideration to their vulnerabilities and needs as children. Even the EU-Turkey Agreement clearly says that “due account must be paid to the situation of vulnerable groups, in particular, unaccompanied minors for whom all decisions must be in their best interests”. Still many end up without the humane treatment. Instead, they face with big cultural shock and trauma caused by obstacles to accessing education, lack of acceptance, affection, participation, language understanding and etc. We believe that this situation can be improved by developing non-formal learning methods and pedagogical approaches which will be put into practice by the youth workers who are working with young refugees on a daily basis in the refugee camps, houses and cities where the young refugees are mostly situated. Therefore in cooperation with our 10 international partners we designed the project "All Dreams Matter" Overall aim: Bringing new non- formal learning methods and pedagogical approaches for higher inclusion of young migrants and refugees. Objectives: - Raising awareness and understanding in the youth workers about the problems of young migrants and refugees. - Equipping 33 youth workers with non-formal methods, pedagogical approaches, and tools for working with young migrants and refugees. - Increasing the capacities of the participating organizations for working with young migrants and refugees. - Increasing the knowledge, understanding and motivation of the youth workers about working with young migrants and refugees. - Increasing the cooperation among the youth workers involved in working with young migrants and refugees. - Preparing new projects about decreasing the problems of the migrants and refugees. - Increasing the involvement of the young migrants and refugees in the social life - Increasing the tolerance and acceptance of the local communities for the newcomers and promoting cooperation and multiculturalism - Increasing the knowledge about the current Erasmus+ possibilities for learning and cooperation.

Participants

“All dreams metter” project is designed for youth that:

• working directly with disadvantaged youth (preferably underaged) from refugees/asylum seeking and migrant background.

• have the basic knowledge of facilitation of non- formal learning processes;

• have a desire to apply their competences in developing new non-formal education tools

• with fewer opportunities (youth who are refugees, has geographical obstacles cultural differences)

Age limit: are 18 years old and up. No upper age limit.

DEADLINE FOR SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS: 1 December 2018 !!!

Country People Organization Maximum Travel

Reimbursement

Germany 4 Lucky Punch Jugendhilfe gGmbH 360 Euro

Turkey 5 Demokrasi ve Hukuk Toplulugu 20 Euro

Macedonia 3 Association Humanost 275 Euro

Hungary 2 Eurotender 275 Euro

United Kingdom 3 Active Youngsters 360 Euro

Italy 4 SOS Europa 275 Euro

Spain 3 SAL FUERA ELX 360 Euro

Sweden 4 Zenobia 360 Euro

Cyprus 2 Stressball 180 Euro

Austria 3 Inter- Aktion 360 Euro

Venue – Mersin/Turkey

ARRIVAL DATE: 12 January 2019

DEPARTURE DATE: 20 January 2019

Accommodation and sessions will be in a hotel in seaside of Mersin. Hotel details will be shared with selected participants in later.

We encourage participants to buy all the tickets online (do not use travel agencies, cash payments are not allowed!) and always make online check-in (costs made for late check-ins while boarding are not refundable costs). This will also speed up the reimbursement process and is more environmentally friendly. Only economy class tickets are refundable.

All tickets should be sent before the project to serafimoska.radmila@gmail.com

BEFORE BUYING THE TICKETS SEND THEM TO US FOR APPROVAL

Reimbursement: Reimbursement of travel costs can be done as soon as we have all original documents from participant and participant has carried out follow-up activities and posted about it in their Facebook and/ or web pages . We will make bank transfer.

Documents which are needed:

Original invoice of the flight ticket, it should be in English and amounts in euros (if possible). Please book your tickets in travel site where you can get the documents in English and in Latin alphabet! Bank statement of the payment or credit card slip.

Boarding passes (very important) from your journey to Macedonia and Turkey and from your journey back electronic versions – make online check-in! )

Flight tickets with travel times (English! Latin alphabet!)

Bus/train tickets In some cases we will need some statement if you travelled by uncommon routes

If luggage is not included in plane tickets, try to add it right away while buying the tickets (online separate luggage receipts are not subject to reimbursement)

Use of taxi / personal car will not be reimbursed.

Travel insurance:

If you are European Union citizen, please make sure that you have the European Health Insurance Card (http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=653&langId=en) or temporary certificate. Additionally it’s obligatory to make travel insurance (for people coming outside of Ireland and Turkey ), this is your own contribution and will not be reimbursed. Travel insurance should include medical insurance, trip protection and luggage insurance.

What to bring: Winter clothes, but something lighter for the day Swimming suit Rain jacket / coat

Personal medicine, cosmetics, sun cream, mosquito repellent Some national/traditional food, drinks, clothes, music or other things of your country you would like

to present/show for intercultural evenings Some materials/flayers/contact sheets from your organization to share with others,

You can prepare some energizer, bring some games for the activities and free time as well

Positive energy and open-minded attitude

Mersin

Mersin is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is part of an interurban agglomeration – the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area – and lies on the western part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical, and cultural region. The city was named after the aromatic plant Myrsine (Greek: Μυρσίνη) in the family Primulaceae, a myrtle that grows in abundance in the area.