Workshop : Erasmus+
Where : Fort de France (Martinique)
When : 20/02/2019
To Whom : youth people
Duration : 1day







I participated in a meeting about youth engagement. I was all day at a booth to inform young people about mobility opportunities in Europe.

I told them about the mobility program with Erasmus+ and the possibility to go with the association "D'antilles & D'ailleurs".

I reassured them about the fears that young people may have when leaving their island (language barrier, unknown country, racism ...) by sharing my experience in Estonia.
I gave them information about the different possibilities offered by Erasmus + (youth exchange, trainings, volunteering).


I discussed with them the subject of non-formal education and offered them to experiment energizer.

Estonian workshop Erasmus+

Workshop: Erasmus+
Where: Tartu forseliuse kool
When: 18.12.18
To whom : 9th grade students
Duration: 45min

About the class :
I gave 9th graders english class about erasmus+
Introdused myself and erasmus, talked about each program a bit (youth exchange, trainings,volunteering)
Also talked about my experiences, did 2 energizers and a kahoot quiz.

Dissemination part 2

Here we are to share our second block of activities we have done.

This time we made two short and specific activities with youngsters with ages from 14 to 22 years old, from a Sunday school (on 29th of December) and students from the school of tourism in Coimbra(on 16th of January). Activities held without any official level and with an informal approach. These meetings happened in the city of Coimbra and in a small village close to Penacova.

During these meetings, we talked about the Erasmus program and the project in Estonia, we shared information about the program in general and the activities we carried out in Estonia.

We underlined mainly the Erasmus projects (youth exchanges, training courses and EVS), sharing contacts from different Portuguese NGOs and sharing experiences and clarifying doubts related to Erasmus projects.

Besides of these sessions, thanks to Barbara a student from Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, we participated in an online magazine where you can find a podcast in Portuguese mentioning Erasmus program and also Tetrao Metaphora the Portuguese sending organization ( https://view.joomag.com/on-my-way/0519676001545765274?fbclid=IwAR3Q8hk2_8iJm185juPMM9eCxy22O5lLSbK9rL3-Sj5zBlq9dKXH2QpUgVI ) - page 44-45.

Upcoming event:  6th of February there will be our last session at the University of Coimbra with students from the department of international relations (bachelor/master degree).


Portuguese Team!!!

Erasmus + Workshop in Martinique, FRANCE by Sandrine Peytier

Erasmus + Workshop in Martinique, FRANCE by Sandrine Peytier

The 7th of January, I did the first part of the workshop about Erasmus +. 

I met the "Eco Mobil" (https://www.ecomobil972.com/) team, youth people who work in the "Repair Café". It was a team of 15 youth, most of them never heard about Erasmus + before.

In this workshop I share my own experience in Estonia in the "ABC of Inclusion project" and I have explained to the youth people how Erasmus + works and how you can apply.

I show them some video about Erasmus+ and the activities we do during the project.

I used some energizer that I learned in the project.

I have invited them to the French Facebook Group for Erasmus+, to the "D'antilles et d'Ailleurs" facebook page and shared the link of the Estonian Association http://www.seiklejad.org.

They were extremely interested about Erasmus+ opportunities, Some want to apply to the "D'antilles et D'Ailleurs" project soon.

Erasmus+ dissemination activity in Turin, North Italy.

On the 14^th December I had the opportunity to carry out the dissemination of the project ABC of Inclusion that took place in Estonia last month.

Participating at an intercultural happening in the city of Turin I made a workshop about Erasmus+ project and about inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.

The participant to this happening where mixed age people from 16 to 40/50 from different economical and cultural backgrounds. The happening was a volunteering day with immigrant from Africa and South Asia to share experiences and knowledges from a lot of different countries all over the world.

Helped by some friends working as group leaders in my Erasmus+ support association in Turin I leaded a 30-45 minutes workshop to explain what Erasmus+ is and the new techniques learned during the Training course in Estonia.

It has started as a short speech in the circle to explain the main concepts with free questions and curiosity from the people participating at the happening.

On the other side, thanks to the support of the other group leaders we gave the chance to youngsters interested in participating to these projects giving more details about what is Erasmus+, how to apply, what is possible to learn and give in these experiences and the different kind of project that people can participate in (Youth Exchanges, Training Courses and European Volunteering Service). And on my side, I discussed about the theme of inclusion in a intercultural environment and related to young people with fewer opportunities in our society.

Due to the strong interest of some young participant we decided to keep in contact with them to help them to find some Erasmus+ opportunities that may be interesting for them.

Some of the people participating already knew about the Erasmus+ and helped us to give information creating a nice opportunity to share our experiences in an intercultural group.

Italian team: Alberto Chiarandon

Workshop Erasmus+ Hungary part2

A few weeks have passed since the training in Estonia, where I think we got a good picture about how to work with young sters who has fewer opportunities. The task was given to each and every one of the national teams participating in the training to implement some form of training in their own community for a positive change.

Ont he training our national team represented Hungary. The members of the team were Javad Khalilli, Giorgi and I. As I know, Javad and Georgi have completed a workshop in Debrecen, Hungary for a few weeks, which I could not join because of my EVS in Croatia.

The day before yesterday, on the 17th December, I finally managed to implement the workshop with youngsters with fewer opportunities, at the workshop's current residence in Petrinja, one of the local elementary schools in Croatia, Osnovna škola Dragutina Tadijanovića Petrinja (http://os-dtadijanovica-petrinja.skole.hr/). The organization IKS, the local youth organization (my EVS host organization), helped me in the development and in the implementation of the workshop, which I appreciate. The participants in the workshop were 7th grade students, about 20 people. Since the participants had not heard anything about Erasmus + before, because of their socially disadvantaged situation and their younger age, the aim of the workshop was to enable youngsters to get involved more easily in the future in programs wich they can apply for, for example mobility projects, youth exchanges, and to get a picture of Erasmus + in general.

The course of the workshop:

1. Introduction

2. Some warm-up games / energizers

3. Presenting about Erasmus + and youth exchanges

4. Watching Erasmus + youth exchanges video (https://ec.europa.eu/.../indi.../young-people/youth-exchanges_en)

5. Storytelling about Erasmus + experiences / Benefits of participating in Erasmus + projects

6. Creating posters about Erasmus +

During the workshop, I have used a number of non-formal educational tools wich I have learned during the training. (energizers, warm-up games, sharing thoughts and feelings, presenting themselves and teamwork)

Young people with fewer opportunities

        In Wednesday 12th of December, we had the opportunity to present in a young audience, especially university students with the help of Jef, the federalists,  in Komotini Greece at Europe Direct the reasons why young people and their peers don’t know much about the Erasmus plus projects and in general why this problem is still on top priority.
How can we  fix this situation ?

       Nowadays, seldom do we observe young people who have a clear view and opinion about these issues. But which are the reasons and why don’t they  participate?

      So the presentation according to this plan, was separated into six parts.Firstly we had the chance to present ourselves and say some things about the Estonia’s training course, the aims and goals. After this brief demonstration, we presented the most well known projects to the audience, such as the Erasmus Youth Exchange, Mundus, Solidarity Corps and some others. It was quite interesting to see where was the knowledge of the Greek audience. Next, we had a Skype call with Eirini, and she gave an extra explanation of the Erasmus plus projects and she communicate with the young’s people and answered some questions.
      The fun part started when we prepared some questions, a small workshop, to examine the audience how carefull they were during the audience and to have some statistics about their knowledge. During the hole presentation we present to the people videos from different expriepnces to be more vivid and interesting and this part we present them to basic small videos about the hole idea of Erasmus plus projects. In the end we gave the opportunity to the audience to ask any question and help them with any difficulties.

       It was quite a unique and different expirience for us because it was our first type presentation, the good part is  that there was a lot of people and it went really well.

                       Greek Team Participants: Nikolaos Markovitis, Vasiliki Ventouli, Eirini Dragoumanou

Portuguese dissemination - Workshop after project

After more than one month since the training course, we finally implemented the project/Erasmus program dissemination through a workshop/presentation in an official Portuguese entity with the following name "Secretaria Regional da Educação" in Madeira.

Our strategy was to set one-hour dissemination session, among the people from this institution.

Where we have shown 2 videos about the Erasmus program and one powerpoint presentation. Moreover, we spoke about the training course (ABC of inclusion) and other past experiences we have had before.

The participants showed a big interest and curiosity about taking part in a training course, in a near future. They were really open-minded about what is happening in this kind of projects, how they could participate, what kind of topics were reached, conditions to apply for the projects, etc.

For sure these Erasmus projects are really important for the ones who are living far from Europe (mainland), giving to them the opportunity to broaden the horizons and also to let the other European citizens know: Europe just ends in middle of the Atlantic ocean (Canaria islands, Madeira and Azores archipelago), sharing the culture, life habits,  climate differences, historical facts and so on.

To finalise we would like to thank everyone who took part on it. 

We make a very positive balance of all the project, that we are closing now with the dissemination session.

IT tools used for this dissemination: MS Office; Skype; WhatsApp; Youtube; Prezi; 

Portuguese team: Luís Silva; Marisa Fernandes; Pedro Morgado; Ricardo Rodrigues; Sara Calafatinho;