URGENT CALL for 5 Spanish participants for Youth Exchange in Kızkalesi, Türkiye
- Name of the project: “CareerTorch; Career Guidance in Combating Youth Unemployment”
- Date of Project: 4.09.2022. – 14.09.2022.
- Place: Kızkalesi, Türkiye
- Participants age: +18
- The number of participants: 5
- Working language: English
- Deadline for applying: ONGOING
This project is financed by the European Commission through the Erasmus Plus Program. This publication reflects the view only of the author, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. By Erasmus+ rules organizers will cover travel costs, accommodation and food.
PROJECT INFO
This is an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange project which will be organized in Erdemli District of Mersin on 04-14 September 2022 by ULUKIŞLA EĞİTİM VE GENÇLİK KULÜBÜ DERNEĞİ.
▪ Project Title: “CareerTorch; Career Guidance in Combating Youth Unemployment”
▪ Project Type: KA152-YOU
▪ Venue: Kızkalesi, Erdemli, Mersin, Türkiye
▪ Duration: 10 days
▪ Implementation Dates): Arrivals: 04/09/2022 – Departures: 14/09/2022
▪ Nearest Airport: Adana Şakir Paşa Airport (ADA)
▪ Participant Number: 5 participants (preferably 3 female, 2 male) per organization
ABOUT YOUTH EXCHANGE
30 participants from EU and Neighbouring Countries of EU will come together for 10 days to make practices about youth, problems of youth, education of youth, employment of youth, youth policies, occupational guidance in different countries, understandment of occupation, entrepreneurship, Erasmus+ Program, Youthpass, EU Citizenship, active citizenship as a team. Participants who will participate in the project will be active, inquisitive, entrepreneurially orientated, solution orientated citizens who is able to take responsibility in society through workshops they will participate, and presentations they will prepare and present while they will be becoming young people who believes in human rights and values of democracy and they will gain experiences about active citizenship and European Citizenship. We are aiming to prevent wrong profession preference in struggle with youth unemployment, develop personal capacities of yonung people to maket hem reach happy Professional life, make young people work on non-formal learning methodologies through project activities, and give skills of preparing effective CVs, new generational methods of searching and finding jobs, interview technics to our participants.
PARTNERS
- JORDAN YOUTH INNOVATION FORUM SOCIETY
- ASOCIACION INICIATIVA INTERNACIONAL JOVEN
- Leadership Development Association Balkan, Kumanovo
- AsfarEurope MTÜ
PROJECT GOALS
Our project will provide the following opportunities.
✓ To raise awareness about youth work and non-formal education
✓ Developing and strengthening social skills
✓ Encouraging youth participation, solving local needs and challenges
✓ The ability to learn to learn will be strengthened,
✓ Digital competence skills will be strengthened,
✓ Intercultural tolerance and expression skills will be strengthened,
✓ How to manage the project and facilitate activities
✓ Having experienced volunteers to work with participating organizations
✓ Collaborating together for future projects and follow-up activities
As the project applicant, we and our other partners will benefit from an empowerment and inclusion project in developing the personal and professional skills of the participants, building partnerships, cooperation, using the learned knowledge and skills in their own lives. All partners will work together on the follow-up, sustainability, and dissemination of the project.
Key Tasks
✓ To raise awareness about youth work and non-formal education
✓ Contributing to the success of Erasmus+ Youth in Actions and the upcoming program of Erasmus+ Youth
✓ Informing project participants about Erasmus Plus and European Union programs/opportunities
✓ To enable him to create new projects with the non-formal learning methodologies and cooperation gained in the project
✓ Promote respect for diversity, intercultural and interreligious dialogue
✓ To promote youth work
✓ Promoting non-formal learning methods
✓ Establishment of partnerships and collaborations on the basis of this project within the scope of Erasmus+
In this way, our project will improve the importance and awareness of lifelong learning and develop strong partnerships between education and training providers and the job market. It will try to motivate young people who are unsuccessful in education, bring them into the process, and increase the chance of young people being integrated into employment.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
Partner organizations will be presented by 5 participants. We are expecting 5 participants to be older than 18 years old and between 18-25 years old, participants who are under 18 years old will not be accepted to the program. Group Leaders: preferably between 25 and 35 y.o and with previous experiences in ErasmusPlus projects and a good knowledge of English. It is also requested to take gender balance under consideration while selecting participants. Please give priority to people who have had few or no opportunities to live experiences of this type and/or experience intercultural learning activities). All participants should be interested with project topics and their full motivation to take part in all activities will be expected.
YOUTHPASS
YouthPass is certificate of Erasmus+ Program, which is used as a tool to recognize non-formal education and achievements of participants through different programs where they take part. Each participant of the training course who would attend all workshops and respect rules which will be formed together with participants will receive YouthPass Certificate at the end of our project.
ACCOMODATION AND FOOD
During the project participants will be hosted in Hotel which meets international quality standards in Silivri District of Mersin Province. There will be different rooms (divided by gender) and 2 participants will stay at the room. The facility will be equipped with all necessary technical facilities. We also ask you to bring personal things suchas your shampoo, gel, etc. All costs related to accomodation and food (3 meals per day; breakfast, lunch & supper, warm drinks in coffee breaks) will be covered by project budget. There will be no participation fee. If there will be vegetarian or vegan participants we will also provide food for them depending on their eating choices, diets or special needs. You can inform us about your eating habits/allergies through mail.
Hotel Name: BİR UMUT OTEL
Hotel Adress: Kızkalesi, Merkez Mah. Silifke Cad. No:89 / Erdemli / Mersin / Türkiye
Hotel Phone: +90 324 404 07 70 Hotel website: https://www.birumutotel.com
Location on map: https://goo.gl/maps/bbHhyRL3EFPD67bq8 It is 60 km to Mersin city center and 120 km to Adana Şakir Paşa Airport.
REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT
TRANSPORTATION AND VISA
Transportation costs of all participants will be covered by project budget depending on limits of distance calculator of European Comission. Participants who needs visa will need to buy their visa stamps from airport as soon as they will land to first borderline or through internet https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ and it is not more than 60 €s mostly. Visa costs (upto 50 € per person; to be taken from the total exceptional costs) can be paid in case some participants will need visa since we mention about this in project budget on application process. You can reach to the hotel address link below with your own means. It is 60 km to Mersin city center and 120 km to Adana Şakir Paşa Airport.
WHAT TO BRING / PREPARE
- Two warm up / energizer
- Intercultural evening: presenting your country throughtypical food, games, dances;
- Comfortable clothes and shoes for workshops which we will organize indoor and outdoor atmospheres depending on weather, slippers.
- Camera and laptop you can bring on your own risk. Photos will be taken during Project by our team as well and at the end of the project we will share photos with all participants and partner organizations through links.
- Don’t forget to bring good mood since you will have chance to spend your time during end of summer in Mersin and it will be best period to discover and enjoy Mersin and Turkiye.
- Each partner should prepare presentations about their organization for “Organization Fair” Workshop and presentations about traditional games, and sports as well as legends and fairy tales of their country.
INSURANCE & HEALTH ISSUES & COVID-19 SPECIAL MEASURES
Transportation costs of all participants will be covered by project budget depending on limits of distance calculator of European Comission. Participants who needs visa will need to buy their visa stamps from airport as soon as they will land to first borderline or through internet https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ and it is not more than 60 €s mostly. Visa costs (upto 100 € per person; to be taken from the total exceptional costs) can be paid in case some participants will need visa since we mention about this in project budget on application process. You can reach to the hotel address link below with your own means. It is 60 km to Mersin city center and 120 km to Adana Şakir Paşa Airport.