26/8 UPDATE: 
Είναι ακόμη διαθέσιμες, μια θέση για ένα συμμετέχοντα με προβλήματα ακοής και έναν συνοδό (accompanying person).

Η ΕΛΙΞ, εταίρος του ετήσιου προγράμματος "The sound of light", έχει εξασφαλίσει για εσάς και αναζητά 6 άτομα άνω των 18-25 χρονών που θα συμμετέχουν στο δεύτερο μέρος του προγράμματος την ανταλλαγή νέων που διοργανώνεται από τις 5 έως τις 14 Οκτωβρίου 2016 στο Poggio Mirteto της Ιταλίας και συγχρηματοδοτείται από το Erasmus+.

Σκοπός του προγράμματος είναι η ανταλλαγή εμπειριών και μεθοδολογιών για την ενεργή συμμετοχή νέων με προβλήματα ακοής σε τοπικές ή διεθνείς δράσεις.

Σε αυτή την ανταλλαγή νέων που οργανώνεται από την Lunaria οι 3 τουλάχιστον από τους 6 συμμετέχοντες θα είναι νέοι που αντιμετωπίζουν προβλήματα ακοής. Την αποστολή θα συνοδεύει εξειδικευμένος συνοδός για άτομα με προβλήματα στην ακοή καθώς και ένας αρχηγός της αποστολής.

Οι χώρες από τις οποίες θα προέρχονται οι συμμετέχοντες είναι η Ισπανία, η Ιταλία, το Βέλγιο και φυσικά η Ελλάδα.

Περισσότερα για το πρόγραμμα:
“The sound of light” project, aims to further develop the quality of youth work in the field of disability -focusing on hearing impairment-, by providing participants, youth and social workers, as well as young people with and without disability, with new working methods to run new inclusive initiatives and projects.

It will include different activities: Training course for youth workers: aimed at gathering the representatives/youth workers/active volunteers of the organizations that will be involved in the entire process. European Voluntary Service short term project – short term EVS: to give the opportunity to young people with disability to make a voluntary service experience abroad, to gain new knowledge and competences and bring their contribution within the project. Advanced Planned visit: targeting the group leaders of the partner organizations, in order to facilitate the subsequent implementation of the Youth Exchange. Youth exchange: it will be a second step in the involvement of young people with and without disability, specifically deaf and hard of hearing young people.

PARTNERSHIP: Abile Mente onlus (Italy), Leo Lagrange Sud Ouest (France), Association des Compagnons Bâtisseurs (Belgium), Asociación para la Mediación Social EQUA (Spain), Grenzenlos - interkultureller Austausch (Austria), ELIX - Conservation Volunteers Greece (Greece), INEX - Sdruzeni dobrovolnych aktivit (Czech Republic), ASOCIATIA UNIVERSITUR (Romania).

DATES: 6th - 13th October 2016 (8 working days)
ARRIVAL DAY: 5th October 2016
DEPARTURE DAY: 14th October 2016

PLACE: TENUTA SANT’ANTONIO, Via Formello 4, Poggio Mirteto Scalo (RT), ITALY.

AIM: the aim of the youth exchange is to tackle, from the perspective of young people with and without disability, the topic of disability and to find interactive ways to activate new forms of participation and active citizenship. Furthermore, the youth exchange is conceived to develop alternative ways of communication to ease the exchange among mixed abilities groups.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: to make young people interact and exchange life’ experiences and perspectives; to reflect about the different learning styles and skills; to provide the young people of new communicative channels to further enhance their skills and to experiment new creative ways of expression; to gather young people from different countries to approach the YE topic from a wider and intercultural perspective; to debate in depth the topic of disability from different perspectives and backgrounds; to approach in depth the active citizenship topic and to set proposals to implement initiatives and local projects that can be implemented on the participants way back home, within their own, local communities; to explore the non formal education methodologies that can be used to better implement the work with heterogeneous groups;

PARTICIPANTS: 6 young people (3 of them deaf or with hearing impairment) for each organization + 1 group leader + 1 accompanying person (youth/social worker experienced in this field).

We expect to host young people with and without disability. Participants have to be very motivated, interested in the youth exchange’ topics and they have to be ready for 8 intensive and stimulating working days.

Our proposal is to have heterogeneous group since we believe that is an enriching value in the project to have young people with different life’ experiences. It can provide a wider perspective of the way to live with and without disabilities and it may creates positive synergies to implement new activities. We warmly recommend the involved partners to get in touch with local associations and partners working with this specific disability and to send young people facing this situation.

ACCOMMODATION: participants will sleep in dormitories and shared rooms with bunk beds (4 to 8 beds), with shared bathroom. They will be asked to support and to give their contribution in the shift for cooking and preparing meals. Participants will be asked to collaborate in the daily maintenance tasks, such as cleaning the common spaces and giving a hand in the kitchen (cleaning dishes, set the table, etc.). We kindly remind everybody to inform about any specific needs concerning food or allergies and to do it in the application form!

COMPOSITION OF THE GROUP: The composition of the group for each country will be:
6 participants (3 of them deaf or with hearing impairment) 1 group leader 1 accompanying person
Total: 8 people

1. Selection of the accompanying person:
Profile of an accompanying person: Youth / Social worker Know the national sign language and can translate / interpret also it in English Has a specific preparation and previous experience with deaf and people with hearing impairment
Role in the exchange: Participates actively in the activities of the youth exchange Promotes the autonomy of the people in his/her group and facilitates the interaction with other people beyond those with disabilities and beyond the national group Involves and facilitate that people from other groups interact and communicate with his/her national group

2. Selection of youth leader:

The youth leader should come from one of the participants of the Training Course, in order to ensure a continuity among the different actions of the project and to lead the preparatory phase.

3. Selection of participants:
The group should be heterogeneous and so formed by people with and without disabilities: for this reason, half of the group (3 persons) should be deaf or with hearing impairment. The age of the group sould be 18-25 years old.

FINACIAL CONDITIONS:
For Greek participants the maximum travel rembursment is 170€ per participant.

+ 100% food and lodgement covered by the project

NOTE: we will refund all the partners after the end of the project, as soon as we receive all the tickets and air boarding passes A/R in original and as soon as we receive the second instalment from the National Agency.

Normally the refund process can take, approximately, 4 – 6 months.

All the tickets cannot be bought before the 1st of January 2016 that is the official starting date of the project: all the expenses done before this date are not eligible and cannot be refunded. Please before booking write us an e-mail and wait for our confirmation.

GENERAL REMARKS: we kindly remind that the project dates are 6th – 13th October 2016.
The arrival day is scheduled for the 5th October 2016 and the departure day for the 14th October 2016.

If participants want to spend a couple of more days in Italy, we remind them that they can do it before the beginning or at the end of the youth exchange. We kindly remind everybody that during the project won’t be accepted exceptions like late arrivals (not in the scheduled arrival day) or early departures (before than the scheduled departure day) and that the youth exchange is composed by 8 intensive, stimulating and participative working days.

Οικονομικά Στοιχεία
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+ και σύμφωνα με την χιλιομετρική απόσταση το ποσό επιστροφής είναι μέχρι 170€(*) για κάθε συμμετέχοντα.
*(It means that if you have a budget of 170€ and you spend 160€, you will receive all 160€, and in this case will be the 100% of the travel. Otherwise for example, if you spend 200€ with a budget of 170€, we will reimburse you up to 170€.)

Η διαμονή και η διατροφή των συμμετεχόντων καλύπτεται πλήρως από το πρόγραμμα.

Το ποσό συμμετοχής προς την ΕΛΙΞ είναι 50€.

Ο κάθε συμμετέχοντας θα πρέπει να έχει ιδιωτική ασφάλιση κατά την διάρκεια του σεμιναρίου, καθώς δεν θα τους καλύπτει κάποιος δημόσιος φορέας κατά την παραμονή τους στην Ιταλία ή να είναι κάτοχος της Ευρωπαϊκής κάρτας Ασφάλισης Ασθενείας.

Για να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή συμπληρώστε στα αγγλικά την παρακάτω φόρμα συμμετοχής μέχρι τις 15/06/2016 ΑΜΕΣΑ!