Partner Call for a Project: East Or West – Outdoors is the Best

Activity type: Youth Exchange

Location of Project: Georgia

Dates: August-October 2017

Call for partners: 5 organisations with background of non-formal education and youthwork with outdoor methods. This call is only for 3 Erasmus+ programme and 2 Erasmus+ partner countries. In total we will be 7 organisations

Apply here: East-Or-West-Outdoors-is-the-Best-applicationform and send the application form to hello@abroadship.org

Deadline: already passed

East Or West – Outdoors is the Best

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Sport and outdoor experience is a unique tool that leads to exchange and understanding among people of various backgrounds, nationalities or beliefs, beyond cultural and traditional barriers, promoting cultural diversity by involving European and non European participants.

Nowadays youngsters spend more and more time indoors than outdoors which leads to the passive style of life.  Project Participants are the “First E-Generation”, which grew up in the environment of computers, I-pods, Internet, Facebook, playstations and can stay in front of the computer for 12 hours in a row. This generation avoids going out and having fun with simple things like hiking and camping in the nature.  With this project we would like to bring them outdoor, give a chance to discover different “world”, which is nature. With this project we are seeking to address the importance of spending time outdoors: exploring the nature, to show that spending time and learning outdoors is a great way to keep fit both mentally and physically.

Aims and Objectives:
Multilateral Youth Exchange project aims to promote healthy behaviours, in particular through promotion of Sport and Outdoor Activities, as a mean to reach a healthy lifestyle. Objectives:
– to explain the main principles of outdoor education and using experience as learning tool with the main focus on outdoor activities
– Through the own experience to increase motivation of participants and their involvement in organizing activities in the nature.
-promote healthy life style and sport activities.
-to experience camping and living outdoors.

Working language
English – all participants must be able to actively communicate using English language.

Funding
100% for accommodation and food will be covered. 80% of your traveling expenses will be covered. We will contribute to your travel costs maximum and depending on the distance of your country.

Who we are:
Georgian Youth For Europe is an non-governmental organisation established in December of 2006.  The organisation is based in Rustavi City, in the Kvemo Kartli region of Eastern Georgia. The mission of the organisation is to motivate the youth of Rustavi to develop their personal potential as individual and responsible citizens. GYE offers space for members to develop their own interests and talents and increases civic participation of its members. Organisation is active and experienced in a field of youth exchanges and international projects in order to promote EU citizenship.

Abroadship.org is a centre of learning through mobility. Abroadship focuses on youth and particularly British youth to enhance their opportunities abroad. Abroadship is a non-profit and non-government initiative, officially registered under a Subtiluship community interest company in London, UK. Our desire and mission is to encourage you to become world’s citizen with tolerance, sympathy and empathy towards different cultures, with understanding and appreciation of environment, with knowledge of interdependence, connection and benefits of collaboration. We strive to create tools, provide information, organize events, training courses, exchange programs and in all ways possible enhance benefiting from being abroad. We want you to be more abroad-intelligent by: traveling abroad, exchanging abroad, studying abroad, working abroad, training abroad, living abroad, finding friends abroad, collaborating abroad.

Requirements for Partners: We are searching for pro-active partners, who are connected to non-formal and outdoor projects and preferably participated in the projects related to outdoor methods. We would like to have long term partnership, which would outgrow the current project to other projects. As a result, we would like to see active dissemination of the results.