Workplan - Daily Timetable and Budget

Y31_Training + Networking (1-7) - Activity programme

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Day 1

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Arrivals of participants in Banja Luka and registration in hostel - until 2PM 5/15/2014 5/15/2014 1.0

PM Lunch

Ice breaking games

Stimulation of cooperation and participation will be carried out at the beginning of

TC through the following ice-breaking games: "My Name Is?", "Sit Down If...", "Tall

Stories", "Around the World" and "One Minute Please". Every single mentioned

game should allow the participants to present themselves briefly and to integrate in

the group environment.

5/15/2014 5/15/2014 1.0

Presentation of TC's Schedule

Participants will be introduced with the main aspects and goals of the project,

activities they should perform and work methodology in order for them to

understand the focal points of BOOM and to prepare themselves for the

upcomming tasks. Printed version of the timetable will be provided for the entire TC

group thus the project's activities can be realised right on time.

Team building activities

In addition to the icebreakers, team building games will be included as a stronger

and more interactive stimulator of the group's spirit and bonding, whose usage

shall break social barriers and secure the positive atmosphere in the TC's working

area, as well as in the Free Time zone.

Dinner

Intercultural evening "One Europe.No Borders."

Intercultural evening is ought to be the final and the liveliest point of the TC's first

day as it will allow the participants to present the historical and contemporary

values of their countires through national symbols, customs and traditional goods.

Whichever method of presenting goods and values participants find the most

appropriate, the outcome of the evening will result in improving the intercultural

knowledge and breakage of stereotypes and international barriers. Therefore, the

evening will be designed and managed by the participants themselves, but

coordinated by the trainers. Apart from the TC group, coordinator will invite his or

her partners and supporting local organizations and institutions as guests of the

evening in order to furtherly promote the project and make it more visible to the

local community.

Day 2

AM

Breakfast

Opening plenary

The host will welcome all the participants by giving them a brief audio-visual

presentation of its organization and an introduction into the world of "Youth in

Action" vision. After the official introduction moment, opening plenary shall be

continued in an informal manner with the participants being involved in a reflection

discussion, which will be applied often throughout the entire TC and whose roll will

be to create a comfort zone for free expressing and summing up of the impressions

and thoughts of the previous day.

5/16/2014 5/16/2014 1.0

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AM-PM Panel discussions

Panel discussion is designed to set a firm base for the performance of participants'

activities and to provide them with a closer insight of the project's topics.

Participants will get an opportunity to hear professional lecturers, holding

knowledge and experience in the work of resolving issues of the affected social

categories, which should enable them to understand the existing problems

concerning the social-economical issues of the young with fewer opportunities.

First two panel disucssions will revolve around two project's topics: national

minorites and children of fallen and disabled veterns. Lecturers will not only share

their personal experience and the general view towards the topic, but include the

participants, as well, through opening a vivid disucssion and allowing questions

and remarks.

PM

Lunch

Panel discussions

Above mentioned idea and plan of the panel disucssion will be applied to this set,

as well. However, the difference lies in the topics as these two will be aimed toward

discussing the issues and status of children with no parents and children with

special needs. Once again, the audience will get the chance to hear and react to

the exposed knowledge, which will be of crucical value for the rest of TC's work,

based on the same principle of hearing and reacting, of gathering knowledge and

using the power of it to make a change.

Dinner

Free time

Participants will get a chance to explore the colorful content of Banjaluka's social

life and to feel on their own skin the town's atmosphere and the spirit of the locals.

By tasting the traditional meals in the comfort of national restaurants, watching

acclaimed performances on the national theatre's scene and dancing to the rhytm

of local folklor, participants will sense the true nature of Banjaluka.They will be

guided and followed by the organizer team that will make an effort in directing free

time activities in agreement with the guests and presenting the hospitality of the city

in all its beauty.

Day 3

AM

Breakfast

Opening plenary "Starting Off With the Blog and Social Network Profiles"

As blog and social network profiles are the means for insuring project's visibility ,

this plenary shall be used as an interactive group session aimed toward designing

the image of these highly influential networking materials. Once the blog and

profiles are officially started and first posts are published, plenary will be closed and

participants will enter the TC's reacting part.

5/17/2014 5/17/2014 1.0

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AM-PM Session "The Situation Back Home - Problems & Solutions Comparison"

Coming from various national, historical and cultural backrgrounds, participants

will share their personal views and the experience along with the current situation

and resolution of the issues, concerning the project's topics, in their own countries.

Therefore, each and every TC member will be enriched with a deeper

understanding, a solid knowledge and different visions and solutions of the global

problems, that will make them capable to be an active part of the change not only

within the project itself, but in their own communities, as well. At this session, two

countries' delegates will present and discuss the topics in a manner they find the

most suitable for portraying the image of the issue of concern in their environment.

PM

Team building activities

Through a new set of games of exercises, participants will once again be reminded

of the value of group coopearation and unity in resolving certain problems. By

getting to know each other better in fullfilling these activities, their TC tasks and

experiences will be highly improved.

Lunch

Session "The Situation Back Home - Problems & Solutions Comparison"

At this session, another two countries' delegates will present their national situation

and plans for resolving the issues of concern along with their personal vision and

view of the problems.

Dinner

Free time

Participants will get a chance to explore the colorful content of Banja Luka's social




of local folklor, participants will sense the true nature of Banja Luka.They will be

guided and followed by the organizer's team that will make an effort in directing free

time activities in agreement with the guests and presenting the hospitality of the

town in all its beauty.

Day 4

AM

Breakfast

AM-PM Session "The Situation Back Home - Problems & Solutions Comparison"

At this session, two countries' delegates will present their national situation and

plans for resolving the issues of concern along with their personal vision and view

of the problems.

5/18/2014 5/18/2014 1.0

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Dividing participants into groups, preperations for the following TC's activities

Participants will be divided into three groups in accordance to the project's topics,

as a way of ensuring quality coverage of the issues and efficient team work. Group

A will focus on issues of national minorities, group B on children of fallen and

disabled veterans and group C on children with special needs and children with no

parents. Every group will be instructed by the trainers and provided for with all the

neccessary information and materials by the organizers. Considering that the field

research is set as the focal point of the particapants' activites, groups will be

appointed to certain institutions, organizations and national bodies where they will

discover and gather needed knowledge.

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Session "The Situation Back Home - Problems & Solutions Comparison"The final session of countries' presentation will include one group of delegates and

the principle will be equal to the above mentioned.

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Day 5

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AM-PM Field research

From this point on, participants, divided into three groups, will start with their field

research. Visiting and getting to know the work of institutions and organizations

who deal with the issues and solutions of the affected categories, and through the

direct contacts and interviews with young people with fewer opportunities,

participants will get a wider image of the project's themes as well as expand

knowledges gained during the panel discussions. On the first day of active work,

particpiants will visit national minorities association (group A) agencies for rights of

fallen (group B) and disabled veterans and orphanage (gruop C).

5/19/2014 5/19/2014 1.0

PM

Lunch

Open workshop "Writing CV"

Participants will not only gain knowledge and improve their leadership qualitites,

but also get a chance of being a lecturer to young people with fewer opportunities

and transfer knowlegde and skills crucial for improving their socioeconomic

position and employment perspectives. First in the set of workshops, directly

managed by the participants, will be the most basic one - writing a modern high-

quality CV for various employment possibilities.

Open workshop "Business Etiquette"

Next in line of interactive workshops is one providing youth affected categories

with basic knowledge of necessary business etiquette skills that should help them

create a more professional image for themselves and handle correctly delicate

business situations in order to be more successful in the business market.

Group workshop "The Stories of the Day"

As a summary, at the end of each day of field researches and open workshops, the

last workshop will be devoted to participants and their personal impressions. This

workshop will start with reflection discussions, giving participants the space and

time to share their thoughts on what they have seen, heard, experienced and

learned during the day, while their comments will also serve as guidelines for the

trainers in coordinating the following activities. After the oral part of the workshop,

participants will turn their own impressions and conclusions into multimedia

materials, publishing posts on TC blog and social network profiles, adding also the

materials and stories collected from the young people with fewer opportunities

during the forementioned daily activities.

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Day 6

AM

Breakfast


On the second day, in the same pace, participants will continue researching and

gathering material concerning the position and possible solution of the affected

categories by visiting religious objects (group A), fallen and disabled veterans

NGOs (group B) and center for children with special needs (group C).

5/20/2014 5/20/2014 1.0

PM

Lunch

Open workshop "Public Speaking and Body Language Skills"

This workshop is intended to develop skills of articulating thoughts and delivering

the message through adequate speaking oratory and body language. Workshop

attendants will discover useful little secrets of high-level eloquence, a very

important element for making the first steps in the business world.

Open workshop "Road to Activism"

Youth leaders and activists, the participants of this TC, will discuss all opportunities

and benefits of being a young engaged individual. They will present a wide range of

possibilities of activism and volunteerism on European level as well as existing

youth mobility programmes adding their own stories and experiences thus

motivating young people with fewer opportunities to become an active part of

changing their position in social reality.


A new day of field researches and open workshops will end in another set of

reflection discussions and publishing of multimedia materials, nurturing the idea of

constant internal sharing and public awareness raising.

Dinner

Free time

Participants will get a chance to explore the colorful content of Banjaluka's social




of local folklor, participants will sense the true nature of Banjaluka.They will be




Day 7

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The last day of research will end in group visits to natioanl minorities Cultural

Artistic Societies (group A), organizations of tallen and disabled veterans (group B),

center for children found on the street (group C).

5/21/2014 5/21/2014 1.0

PM

Lunch

Open workshop "Creative Entrepreneurship"

The final and most inovative workshop of the TC will be based on developing

creative entreprenuership among the attendants. Through a simulation of project

designing and planning, business negotiation and event menagement they willl

discover their personal business potential and creative side of business world. This

workshop will complete theoretical and practical ensamble of this non-formal

education programme which will serve as a base for empowering and encouraging

young people to lead the change of their faith.


After ending the process of educating both themselves and the young people with

fewer opportunities, the participants will have the opportunity to once again share

their thoughts on the knowledge and experience aquired during the daily activities.

They will also publish new materials on TC blog and share them via TC social

network profiles, thus tranfering their own messages and messages of the affected

groups to the public.

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Day 8

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Breakfast

AM-PM Preparations for the final public event

Participants, along with their group trainers, will prepare the materials and

speeches for the final TC's public event and to discuss the ways of presenting their

entire TC experience and the infromation gathered throughout it.

5/22/2014 5/22/2014 1.0

Sightseeing - discovering Banja Luka

Participants will explore the historical and culturalal values and treasures and the

national heritage of the town seen in the life of museums and monuments. Guided

by the organizer's hospitality team, guests will be secured and comfortable in

discovering Banja Luka's traditional artistic wealth.

Lunch

Preparations for the final public event

Participants, along with their group trainers, will get to prepare the materials and

speeches for the final TC's public event and to discuss the ways of presenting their

entire TC experience and the infromation gathered throughout it.

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Public event

Тhe final TC's event, open for public and media, will be the crown of the

participants' activities and presentation of the project's accomplishments. The

event is designed as a combination of an exhibition and an interactive presentation.

Participants will be presenting the audio-visual material collected in their research,

but the event will also feature speeches from the participants themselves, the

attendants of the open workshops and representatives of the institutions and

organizations who are dealing with the project's issues. This high-profile end of

project's activities will be essential for raising public awareness for the issues TC

focused on, as well as for the begining of the dissemination of project's results.

Dinner

Day 9

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Group workshop "The Stories of the Final Day"

The last workshop of this kind will be, just like all the previous, divided in two

phases. The first one will be a set of reflection discussions revolving around the

project's final event, where the participants will a chance of stating thei views on

the event's preparation, realization and effects. After closing of this phase, the

participants will publish the last pieces of multimedia materials, articulating their

final messages.

5/23/2014 5/23/2014 1.0

Debriefing and future plans

During this session, participants will get an opportunity to express their opinions

about the whole TC learning process, all the experience and knowledge they

gained. There will be another set of discussions on creating a base for further

cooperation among the partners, expansion of the project's lifecycle, multiplying

effects and dissemination. This is one of the most vital parts of the TC, because it

will provide a better base for future projects under the new framework of the Youth

in Action Programme and outside of it. Youthpass Certificates will be handed out to

the participants.

Team Building activities

The final set of team building games and activities is planned for the last day, as a

deserved entertaining element after the days of busy schedule. The goal is also to

deepen the bonding before participants' departure, thus ensuring the continuation

of their cooperation and communication after the formal end of this Training

Course.

PM

Final evaluation

The final evaluation will be realized in a separate session using the round table

form and a different dynamic. Participants will get a chance to speak freely, give

their comments or remarks on the practical and fundamental part of the TC, such

as accommodation, group/field work, equipment, themes, expectations, results,

planned activities, intercultural dimension, both human and technical competences

and follow up.

Sightseeing - discovering Banja Luka

Participants will explore the historical and cultural values and treasures and the

national heritage of the town seen in the life of museums and monuments. Guided

by the organizer's hospitality team, guests will be secured and comfortable in

discovering Banja Luka's traditional artistic wealth.

Dinner

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Farewell partyParticipants will have a chance to say goodbye to each other and spend some

more time together during a small celebration of successful ending of the project.

Day 10

Departure of the participants 5/24/2014 5/24/2014 1.0

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