Applicant Profile

                                                                     
   

 APPLICANT PROFILE

Please send the filled application form to the following email account before October 22:  projectteam.vpf@gmail.com

Brief Project Description:

• Venue: Bakuriani, Georgia
• Dates: 5-11 November, 2011
• Project Language: English
• Participants: 40 participants from 8 countries

The Youth Exchange will deal with the following topics:

The topics of our project are developing the ideas of peace, dialog among young people from different countries by different backgrounds, non-violence communication, minorities, exclusions, promoting solidarity and tolerance between youngsters by working together in international groups, stimulate better understanding of diversities, learning to avoid the conflict situations and developing awareness against of xenophobia.

We believe that these items are very actual and needful for modernity. Especially tolerance, which is the base of peace and excludes conflicts in contemporary world. During this YE young participants will learn elements of Peer Education and the main aim of the YE will be learned by the method of Peer to Peer. Different workshops and activities will help participants to rise up their skills of leadership, presentation, tolerance and self awareness. Group building activities and ice breakers will help participants to create strong group atmosphere. Promoting tolerance, dialog among young people from different countries, religions, cultures, views and ideas of peace will be the guarantee of mutual understanding and base of peace in modernity.

Aims & Objectives:

The aims & Objectives of our project are:

-To unite young people from different countries by different backgrounds for supporting the peace-building process in the world, antidiscrimination policy, non-violence communication and agitating peace in general;

-To inspire youngsters to get the volunteers and ambassadors of the Peace in their surroundings. Implant the belief in new generation that they do not have to follow the old way of their ancestors , but they are the policy makers today and they can make their choice, they can have their say.

-To promote understanding diversity of different societies, cultures, religions and people instead of discriminating and excluding them;

-To promote the idea, that policy of countries should not determine relations between people in a negative way, opposite to this youngsters - the new generation should work for to calm the permanent conflicts and “build new bridges” between people;

-To manage representatives of different cultures and backgrounds to live and work together; to rise up positive awareness and promote tolerance to contribute peace-building process in the world;

-To stimulate peaceful relation between different societies, develop youths awareness against xenophobia and to promote common European culture and equality of all nations;

-To build new partnership between participant countries for to implement new projects in the

framework of YiA programme.

Partner Countries:

Czech Republic, Georgia, Poland, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia

Conditions:

Transportation, accommodation and food will be provided by the organisers.

Applicant profile:

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English skills	Excellent   Good   Suitable
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What is your personal/professional experience with non-governmental non profit sphere?

Why would you like to participate in this project?

What will be your contribution to the project? Have you ever done volunteering job?

Have you participated in any youth exchanges before?  If yes, please specify name of activity and dates?

How will you benefit from your participation in this project?

Do you require any special needs (vegetarian food, no pork, allergies, etc)?

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