(*English bellow) În perioada 22-28 iunie 2015, a avut loc în Faro, Portugalia seminarul “ Let’s join through ART – Artistic Treasure” organizat de AGA – Associação de Guitarra do Algarve. Aici au participat câte doi reprezentanţi din România, Spania, Macedonia, Grecia, Turcia, Bulgaria, Ungaria, Letonia şi Portugalia.
Asociaţia Connections a implicat doi participanţi în această activitate: Elena-Cristina Torcătoru (Ploieşti) şi Andrei Ciobanu (Bucureşti). Proiectul a avut ca principal obiectiv stabilirea de noi colaborări între reprezentanţii diferitelor ONG-uri în vederea realizării de proiecte şi parteneriate finanţate de noul program Erasmus +.
Timp de o săptămână, lucrătorii de tineret au fost implicaţi în activităţi de educaţie non-formală (energizers, team-building, role play, debates etc). Ei au avut parte de un program încărcat, însă foarte plăcut, deoarece la finalul activităţii, echipele şi-au prezentat ideile de proiecte ce vor fi elaborate şi depuse la următorul termen Erasmus +.
Organizatorii portughezi s-au întrecut în ospitalitate. Participanţii au avut ocazia să participe la o seară cu muzică Fado, să deguste preparate tradiţionale, să exploreze rezervaţia naturală Ria Formosa sau să admire apusul soarelui de la cel mai vestic loc din Europa (Cabo San Vicente, Sagres).
La finalul seminarului, toti participanţii au primit certificatul Youth Pass. Proiectul a fost co-finanţat de Comisia Europeană prin programul Erasmus +, program de finanţare a activităţilor de tineret din întreaga Europă.
The project “Let’s join through ART – Artistic Treasure” held in Faro, Portugal (June 22nd-28th 2015) was a first step to boost the cooperation among organisations, youth workers and young people involved in the field of Culture and Arts. This project aimed to create a space where participants would be able to develop future cooperation projects related with arts and culture as a tool for social inclusion.
The organisation involved were from Macedonia , Greece , Bulgaria , Romania , Turkey , Latvia , Hungary and Spain . During 6 working days there were used a diversity of participatory methods based on non-formal education like exploratory group discussions, debates, role-plays, workshops, creative thinking tools and action planning.
The main objective was to create a platform for discussion and partnership cooperation of artistic NGOs and youth workers in showing and using artistic field not only as artistic skills development, but also as a solution and a way to prevent many social problems among youth. Involvement of youth in artistic activities shapes personality, internal skills, organizational skills, responsibility, team work, solidarity, creativity, responsibility, accountability, public exposing, project management, time management, enhance self – confidence, and in the same time gives a real glee, a proud, a taste of success.
Connections Organization was represented by Elena-Cristina Torcătoru from Ploieşti and Andrei Ciobanu from Bucharest .
During this week, the participants had a very busy schedule, but at the same time they had the opportunity to get to know the Portuguese life style through its music, food, great places and people. At the end of the seminar, all the participants received an Youth Pass certificate.