LIFE+ | Burak experience as EVS@ICDET

My EVS journey started with very interesting people and places. I was in a new city with the people that I am not familiar. This is interesting because it was a challenge I had to overcome.

Bulgaria is a country which has partially like my country, Turkey. So, some parts of about it was really easy to understand. Of course, there are so many different things. I learned the facts that I wasn’t aware too. And I had a chance to contribute a society which I have never live before.

Thanks to old EVS’s help, I adapted to environment quickly. But things weren’t perfect as they seemed. I had problems in accommodation, these problems started to affect even our office duties. Even so this was an experience which I needed to learn for how to manage crisis and be more tolerant. So, at the end there weren’t anything to talk about as a problem.

All the remarkable moments are happened thanks to people from ICDET; they are open minded, hard worker and true European Union citizens. I also had a chance to discover other countries. After every single trip, I am more lightened about those countries, their people and how they see the rest of the world. I decided, if I want to know more about a country I should visit instead of looking media and internet.

In my second month, I had an opportunity to join VET program under Erasmus+. There were so many students from different cities. Even though they are from same country, they were so different. Therefore, I became gentler about my communication and relationship with them. I also facilitated some sessions and plus in these sessions, I learned from them. This was my first time, but hopefully won’t last, to do a session with a big group. Those are people, I also want to see again one day.

Like this I had so many firsts in here. My first facilitation, first visit to Bulgaria, first train trip to another country… I noticed so many things about myself thanks to these experiences.

Simply If I wanted to explain my EVS journey in a one sentence, it would be “Sofia and ICDET became my second home.”

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LIFE+ | KA2 European response in migration and integration

The training course of the KA2 project “European response in migration and integration” took place in Struga, Macedonia in the period 08-14 March 2019. There were participants from Bulgaria, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Germany and Spain.

At the same time there was another project. We spent our free time with the participants of the second project. In this way we exchanged knowledge about both projects at the same time. The first day we traveled through the various monasteries (female and male) as well as through the Muslim mosques. This is how we met the different cultures and religions that the various nations are confessing. This gives information about why some people migrate to different countries. One of the biggest reasons is because of religious views.

We also had a trip to the Macedonian capital - Skopje. There, we examined the architecture and became more familiar with the history of their country.

The next day began with toning exercises in the yard to break the walls between the participants and give them a more informal conversation. The work on the project was in such an informal setting. The leading methodology, learning by work, work monitoring, seminar, training of trainers and coordination meetings. We were constantly splitting into small teams to get the participants together faster and understanding the migration problems of different countries from their people.

The first task was for each country to write the reasons for immigration and emigration in their country.

For the second task we were divided into 4 randomly generated teams. The themes were: "Information about Migration", "European Voluntary Service", "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration" and "Culture and Migration”.

The third task was about the difference between Training course and Youth Exchange. Because most participants in this project were for the first time on a European project and so they were better acquainted with the different programs of Erasmus +.

The last task for the day was .... For her we were again divided into 2 new randomly generated teams. The themes were “Youth Pass” and “Funds and grands to support migration”.

In the evening there was an intercultural night, where representatives of all countries from both projects presented local national food and drinks.

The next day, we had to find information and record videos in different languages on three different topics - "The main terminology in migration” (migrant, immigrant, emigrant, refugee, asylum seeker), "Migrants and Education" (How migrants to get high quality education), etc.

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LIFE+ | Youth of the World | Final Project Meeting and Final Event | @Thessaloniki, Greece - 13th an

Yow – Youth of the World, the transformative Power of Global Education

No 2017-1-IT03-KA205-010978

The final transnational meeting, that took place on the 13th and 14th of December 2018, in Thessaloniki, Greece, was fundamental to close project activities and management issues. Moreover it was the occasion to present evaluation and dissemination results, as well as the final multiplier event. It was also the moment to complete the decision about sustainability and exploitation of Youth of the world.

The project involved partners from different cultural backgrounds with different expertise and experience levels. Nevertheless they were all engaged in a collaborative activity in the project framework. Irrespective of the differences we had a common goal: to deliver a successful project.

Youth of the World put together carefully a unique and strategic cross sector and transnational strategic partnership in order to support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practices in the field of youth at local, national (Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Portugal, Ireland) and European levels.

The project not only created a paradigm of youth-led/ user-led models of training and education but also helped to achieve the Erasmus + equality educational objectives. The main result was the Tools Kit for youth workers, etc., on how to use Global Education Prospective in their daily activities.

Given the message, the open access platform, the multiplier events targeting Europe regionally, the dissemination waves to different levels and locations in different formats - there is a realistic hope that the project will be capable to influence the citizens and bring the EU policy on active participation of young people in society and environment issues closer to them.

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