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PROGRAM

The ˝Train your disconnection" project is a mobility for youth workers implemented in three phases. Participating partially cannot be an option as by the regulations of the Erasmus Plus program.

 1

Preparation

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The participants prepare for the training course with the support of their sending organizations: they plan the practical aspects of the project, like the travel, and they participate in the online preparation-tasks happening through the facebook group of the project. During the preparation, the participants, divided in national couples, invent a short activity (15-20 min) that can be an energizer or an ice-breaker connected to the topic of disconnection from technologies and reconnection with oneself. More info will be given while confirming the participants.

MAY 2019

2

Implementation

JUNE 2019​

The second phase of the project is the training course. It involves 20 youth workers from 10 different countries and it takes place in Bergolo, north-west of Italy, from 3rd June 2019 (arrival day) to 11th June 2019 (departure day). The program of this project is developed mainly by non-formal methods, fully involving the participants in the experience: it's based on the idea that first, we experience ourselves, after, we transmit what we learned to others. Therefore the participants of this training will take part in a number of activities aimed to raise personal awareness, to foster direct interaction with other people and the connection with nature and to build more healthy habits concerning the use of technology. Moreover, the youth workers will experience the effect of staying disconnected from technology for 7 days: they will close all technologic devices (phones, laptops, cameras, watches, music players, etc.) in a safe box and they will take them back 7 days after.
Participants will have the chance to practice and increase their competencies in the field of youth work in relation to the main topic of this project: they will receive some theoretical inputs from the trainers and with their support, they will create their own workshops and activities aimed to create more healthy habits in relation with technology.

Those workshops, together with the original energizers and ice-breakers created in the preparation phase, will be included in a manual that will be used and disseminated by the organizations involved in the project.

3

Dissemination

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2019

In this dissemination phase, participants will implement back in their country 1 activity with a group of young people aimed to improve their relationship with technology (using one of the workshops invented during the training or creating a new one) or an activity within the sending organization to share what they learned. 

They also fill in the evaluation form, write a testimony of their experience and they will share the booklet that will collect all the games and workshop created during the project. ​

Expenses

This program is supported by a co-funding of the European Union allocated by the Erasmus + program through the Italian National Agency . Accommodation, food, materials, the program and the travel costs up to the maximum amount will be covered or reimbursed.
 

PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION: We ask each participant to contribute to the implementation of the program with the amount of 50€ to be paid on arrival. It's a sign of real interest, an investment you do in yourself through the project and concrete economic support.

In case that the contribution represents a real obstacle to your participation explain it in the application form and contact the sending organization from your country.
 

TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT: In order to be eligible for reimbursement you need to:

  • take an active part in all phases of the project; 

  • find the most cost-efficient travel option available to you; 

  • provide all the required travel documents (flight itinerary and boarding passes, bus and train tickets).

 

You are allowed to arrive or depart MAX 2 DAYS BEFORE AND 2 DAYS AFTER the working days of the training course. Bear in mind that extra days will not be supported with food and accommodation and expenses are not reimbursed. Also, if you stay longer than 2 days before/after your travel costs cannot be reimbursed.

 

Before booking the tickets for your journey wait to receive the official confirmation letter, send us your travel plan and wait for our approval. The reimbursement will be sent by bank transference when follow-up activities are completed as a natural closing step of the project, up to the amounts stated below:

 

ITALY: 45€

BULGARIA, DENMARK, GREECE, HUNGARY, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, ROMANIA, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM: 245€

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