First Partners Meeting of the „Find your talent, work on your skills!“ Erasmus+ project!

23 September 2019 by Leave a comment

„Find your talent, work on your skills!“, a new strategic partnership in the field of youth, a new and exciting Erasmus + Ka2 project gathered together last weekend, 21-22 September 2019,  four NGOs in the friendly city of Almelo, Netherlands.

The coordinator of the project is Stichting Avedan Welzjin from the Netherlands, that’s why Kim Novak and Patricia Kuster were our hosts  for the transnational meeting at the offices of Avedan . Avedan Welzjin is a welfare organization that works with a wide range of social policy in the area. It works closely together with the local municipalities, focusing on groups and individual citizens and promoting social participation.

Two representatives of each partner organization took part at the meeting:

Jens Depelchin and Laura Vantornout have represented iDrops from Belgium, a social innovation agency that tackles important social issues in their activity. Imago Mundi Projects and Initiatives for Youths Association has been represented by Constantin Dedu and Aura Constantinescu, youth workers. The Romanian NGO supports the personal development of the youths and contributes to the development of the local communities by local activities and international projects carried out for more than 10 years.

Fundacja Youth ACT from Poland was represented by Filip Krajniak, the director, and Mateusz Górecki; their organization promotes at local level the Non-Formal Education in the local schools and implements workshops for youths development,  using the improvisation theater and British drama as a methodology.

Find your talent, work on your skills! is a 24 months project and it focuses on talent development in working with young people. Each partner organization has different expertise, methods and outlook on talent development.  Using interconnected expertise, we shall be able to develop methods and tools for youth workers to identify individual talent in a group, to stimulate self discovery, self knowledge and self regulation, to develop a program with projects and activities for all talent areas and skills needed nowadays.

There will be 4 training courses, one per country, 80 youth workers will attend them and then disseminate and spread the knowledge in a web of local activities. Two intellectual outputs, a Guide on Talent Development  and an Innovative phone app for visualizing youth’s talent will be developed with all the partners contribution.  A web of local activities will involve numerous youths from the local communities involved. During the meeting, the participants have gone briefly through all the project and have established clear responsibilities for each NGO for the following months.

Regarding the dates for all the TCs, during this meeting, partners  decided that the first TC (training course) will unfold in December 2019, the second, in Romania in April 2020, the third in The Netherlands in October 2020  and the last TC will take place in Poland in  December 2020.

The second Transnational Meeting will take place in Belgium in June 2020, and the third in Romania, followed immediately by the multiplier event in  May 2021.

There have been asked a lot of questions, and a lot of answers have been told. Everybody went away from the meeting with a clear mind, knowing what to do further. After the meeting, a very moving moment has happened while visiting Studio15 Avedan: the Romanians met the youths and the youth workers from the project Eyes On Transylvania, an Erasmus+ youth exchange that took place in Sighisoara, Romania, this summer. In this bilateral youth exchange, funded under the Erasmus+ program, Imago Mundi Association was also partner with Avedan Welzjin. Nice memories, hugs, joy and songs, friendship and a lot of love have floated in the air that evening!

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Till we meet again…

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We know what you did this summer! ‘’Eyes on Transilvania ‘’ Youth exchange, Erasmus+ program, 29th of July – 7th of August 2019

1 September 2019 by Leave a comment

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An exciting new project, a youth exchange funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program unfolded in Sighisoara between 29th of July -7th of August 2019. Dutch and Romanian youths met and organized together a series of workshops designed at finding more about Romanian and Dutch cultures by using photography, graphic design, drawing and lyrics.

The participants focused on Transilvania, as one of the largest regions of Romania, and on making a difference between the myth of Dracula and the real history of the place. Youths engaged in research on the main UNESCO heritage of both countries involved, made pictures and videos, presentations that will be used to show in each of their communities what they found out, what they learned and how they changed their perspectives on other cultures after this experience. In order to find out more about other opportunities provided through the Erasmus+ program, Alexandra Negrei and two EVS volunteers from Wild Carpathia NGO from Sighisoara were our guests and presented their activity to the youth engaged in the youth exchange. Although the main activities unfolded in the medieval town of Sighisoara, youths also visited Bucharest and Cluj Napoca, and got in touch with locals, finding out more about Romania and its cultural aspects.

Avedan Welzjin & Studio 15 as coordinators and Imago Mundi as partner, worked together for making this project a success story and a first Erasmus+ experience for the majority of the participants, one that they will for sure want to repeat. Local activities implemented by Dutch youths in Almelo and by Romanian youths in the county of Arges, Romania will unfold starting from September 2019.

More on Avedan Welzjin, the coordinator of the Eyes on Transilvania project, funded through the Erasmus+ program, are available on their website.

 

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Eyes on Transilvania, o nouă experiență de învățare Erasmus+ pentru tineri argeșeni, începe luni, 29 Iulie 2019!

22 July 2019 by Leave a comment

Asociația Imago Mundi promovează tinerii din România și frumusețile Transilvaniei prin programul Erasmus+.

‘’Dutch & Romanians explorers through arts and culture. Eyes on Transylvania’’este un youth exchange finantat prin programul Erasmus+, coordonat de asociația Avedan Welzjin din Olanda, având Asociația Imago Mundi ca partener. Proiectul bilateral are drept principal obiectiv cunoașterea interculturală, descoperirea de către români și olandezi a altor culturi. Schimbul de tineri va avea loc între 29 Iulie – 7 August 2019 la Sighișoara și va fi urmat de activități locale, în orașul Almelo, Olanda și în comuna Mălureni și municipiul Pitești, România.

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Tinerii participanți au vârste cuprinse între 14 și 21 de ani, iar majoritatea sunt tineri pasionați de fotografie, dans, design grafic. Folosind dansul, fotografia, filmul, designul grafic, desenul, tinerii vor afla lucruri noi despre România, cu focus pe Transilvania și pe separarea mitului lui Dracula de realitățile istorice, vor prezenta principalele obiective UNESCO din Olanda și România, vor afla despre mentalități și obiceiuri ale românilor, olandezilor dar și despre alte culturi, dat fiind că grupul olandez este unul multicultural, cu tineri ale căror familii au etnicități și culturi diferite, din Orient, Asia Centrală și Africa. Tinerii vor realiza vizite tematice, vor participa la ateliere de fotografie si grafic design, vor realiza materiale despre ceea ce află și trăiesc, pe care le vor prezenta apoi tinerilor din Almelo, Olanda respectiv din Argeș, România.

Este al doilea schimb de tineri desfășurat cu organizația din Olanda, primul a avut loc în anul 2013, mai multe informații aici. Vara aceasta pregătim activitățile unui alt proiect în care suntem parteneri cu Avedan Welzjin, un parteneriat strategic finanțat prin programul Erasmus+, Find your talent, work on your skills / 2019 – 2021, coordonat de olandezi și în care Asociația Imago Mundi este parteneră, alături de ONG-uri din Belgia și Polonia.

Vineri 19 Iulie a avut loc una din întâlnirile tinerilor români participanți la acest nou proiect Erasmus+. Cei 15 tineri participanți din România sunt voluntari Imago Mundi, tineri de la alte instituții de învătământ din Argeș și București; un rol aparte printre participanți îl au cei 6 tineri elevi de la Liceul Tehnologic Vedea însoțiți de d-na psiholog Cristina Berechet.

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Asociația Imago Mundi a încheiat parteneriate cu mai multe licee din județ, iar pentru Liceul Tehnologic Vedea acesta este al doilea proiect Erasmus+ pentru implementarea căruia colaborăm cu elevii și cadrele didactice, după ce în aprili 2019 elevi și cadre didactice au participat la schimbul de tineri Practice Makes Perfect, ce s-a desfășurat în Lituania!Vara aceasta pregătim activitățile unui alt proiect în care suntem parteneri cu Avedan Welzjin, un parteneriat strategic finanțat prin programul Erasmus+, Find your talent, work on your skills / 2019 – 2021, coordonat de olandezi și în care Asociația Imago Mundi este parteneră, alături de ONG-uri din Belgia și Polonia.Vineri 19 Iulie a avut loc una din întâlnirile tinerilor români participanți la acest nou proiect Erasmus+. Cei 15 tineri participanți din România sunt voluntari Imago Mundi, tineri de la alte instituții de învătământ din Argeș și București; un rol aparte îl au cei 6 tineri elevi de la Liceul Tehnologic Vedea însoțiți de d-na psiholog Cristina Berechet. Asociația Imago Mundi a încheiat parteneriate cu mai multe licee din județ, iar pentru Liceul Tehnologic Vedea acesta este al doilea proiect Erasmus+ pentru implementarea căruia colaborăm cu elevii și cadrele didactice, după ce în aprilie 2019 elevi și cadre didactice au participat la schimbul de tineri Practice Makes Perfect.

 

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