Η ΕΛΙΞ, εταίρος του προγράμματος με θέμα "Enjoy Your Meal", έχει εξασφαλίσει για εσάς 3 θέσεις και αναζητά άτομα (άνω των 18 χρονών) που επιθυμούν να συμμετέχουν στο Εκπαιδευτικό Σεμινάριο που διοργανώνεται από την Γαλλική οργάνωση CONCORDIA, στην Soulvache της Γαλλίας, από τις 21 έως τις 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015.

Στο Τraining course θα συμμετέχουν συνολικά 20 νέοι από 5 χώρες (Βέλγιο, Ελλάδα, Γαλλία, Ιταλία και Λιθουανία).

Λίγα λόγια για το πρόγραμμα:

Concordia is an organization of non-formal education which promotes intercultural exchanges. Our traditional activity is the international work camps, and one of its main goals is to allow participants to get open-minded and develop non-formal skills as autonomy and self-confidence, by meeting and living during few weeks with people from all over the world with different cultural and social background.

During the training course, the group have to organize himself for the food, they have a budget they can use to buy ingredients then cook together. But sometimes, trouble happened, it could be a gender matter like sharing the tasks, or intercultural misunderstanding linked to ritual, religion or habits.

As non formal education, we usually talk about sustainable consumption, feeding, but disconnected from the final application: the meal. We think it could be great to create activities which strengthen the link from the topic to the real, by developing more tools that can be used directly to meal time.

We hope this training will help group leaders to develop activities and animations linked to alimentation in a group. Learning how to do "everyday's collectives activities", an active way to learn about different topics like environment, intercultural, sustainable consumption... And how to having fun doing it !

Objectives of the project:
Share and Create tools linked to food in aim to:
- Transform the mealtime in a fun and friendly time;
- Encourage teambuilding;
- Raise environmental and waste awareness;
- Open up to cultural differences;
- Allow youth workers to experiment new techniques, questioning their practices and learn how to adapt to different publics;
- Promote environmental awareness in our partners associations and future projects ;
- Strengthen skills, capacity and knowledge of youth workers.

Activities:
Feeding is an universal basic need. Moreover it is linked to social and cultural behaviors (type of food, place and way to eat, alone or shared etc.). It has a big correlation with economy (production / consumption etc.) and it can be the reflect of our link to nature.

We found it obvious to use this action that we have every day, several times, as a way to educate and promote an healthy way of life, better cultural understanding, and may be active citizenship!

We think that we can share and create a lot of tools of education around a simple meal.

The first part of the training will be about theoretical learning and reflection about environment, economy, sustainable consumption group dynamic and cultural differences.

In the second hand it will be an collective reflection based on experience sharing, a moment where people can talk about what they lived, how they do, what they feel.

Finally, a practice of creating animation tools will be provided. In small groups, participants will share their practices, teaching methods and create a tool kit.

There will be lot of different activities that we have already planed, this is a non exhaustive list:
- Theorical reflexions on sustainable consumption, interculturality and raising awareness methods;
- Creation of awareness tools and implementation on children and youngsters
- Tour of innovative projects;
- Exchange time on good practices and methodologies of participants and their organizations.

Training results:
- Improvement of professional practices in the field of environmental and intercultural awareness for associations target group;
- Creation of a network of European youth workers multipliers;
- Open minds of the trainees;
- Create a Tool book for meal time.

Participants will get Youth Pass at the end of the training.

Methodology:
We use non formal methods: workshops, small and big mixed groups, manual work, sharing of experience and knowledge, debates, participative evaluations.
Participants are actively involved in all the activities of the project, from preparation to final realization. They will prepare the training at home, they will play an active role during the project and they will go back home with tools to disseminate the final results.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Youth Workers or Youth Program Coordinators, 18+

ACOMOMODATION
Participants will be accommodated either in tents or dormitories depending on their will. Nights may be cold, so please bring a warm sleeping bag and warm clothes (beds or mattresses are provided).

The hosting place is called Manoir de la Grée (http://www.lagree.cc/) which develops self-sufficient and sustainable ways of living. Hence there’s only solar electricity, the water comes from the well and the toilets are dry. The shower is solar as well, we kindly ask participants to use it in a responsible and friendly way so everyone will be able to have enough hot water. Be ready to have a live changing and sustainable experience. You'll have 30 hectares of nature to enjoy, the river and the forest to discover, and you will get to know a typical little village of France.

The food will be cooked from organic products from the little producers of the area.

MEETING POINT: Chateaubriand

Οικονομικά στοιχεία:
Το ποσό συμμετοχής για το πρόγραμμα είναι 100€.

Το κόστος μετακινήσεων επιστρέφεται στους συμμετέχοντες μετά από την ολοκλήρωση του προγράμματος και αφού έχουν καταθέσει τα απαραίτητα χαρτιά (αποδείξεις, εισιτήρια, boarding pass, κλπ…). Σύμφωνα με τους νέους όρους του προγράμματος Erasmus+ το ποσό επιστροφής είναι μέχρι 360€ για κάθε συμμετέχοντα.

Η Διαμονή και η διατροφή των συμμετεχόντων καλύπτονται πλήρως από το πρόγραμμα.

Για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή συμπληρώστε στα αγγλικά την παρακάτω φόρμα συμμετοχής μέχρι τις 12 Αυγούστου 2015 στις 12:00!!!