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Monday, June 25, 2007

Italians do it better: our project for the future!

Dear all,
We deeply miss the days in Portugal and you all!
Even if june has been incredibly hot here in Florence and we're all looking forward to holidays (Mirko, Liila and Letizia are going to PAF Festival in Corfu!!!) the italian team is working.... our brains are running fast and produced the great idea to:
ORGANIZE A YOUTH EXCHANGE IN ITALY!!!
This is the pre-call of partners we're sending around. It should have arrived to all of you already.

"We are a group of italian young people who met during a youth exchange in frame of Crossroad large-scale project.
We would like to organize a multilateral youth exchange here in Florence (Tuscany) for April 2008 (deadline 1st September 2007).
We thought that it would be nice and interesting to work on sustainable development with an eye on what we (as individuals and families) can do in concrete. E.g. recycling, reducing consumption, re-using, awareness on our impact on the environment, etc.
For this exchange we are thinking of some activities to involve local communities to be done before, during and after the exchange.
We would like to develop the project part in the city of Florence, part in the countryside because we think it’s important to see the two different scenarios.
We are looking for groups of 4-5 young people aged 20-25 (+ a group leader) interested in participating in this project.
We would like to develop the project together with the partners since the very beginning to promote a strong involvement of all the participant in the project.
If you’re interested please contact Liila within 2nd July 2007 (liila_taruffi@hotmail.com).

Elena, Giuseppe, Liila, Letizia, Mirko."

So... what do you think?? We'll be very happy to see all of you in Italy next year, so... talk with your friends, your organizations, everybody and.... COME!!!!

Friday, June 08, 2007

Ideas for Future Projects! - French Reaction

Corinne sent us the french reply to our request for future projects. Let´s take a look a reflect a little more:


We had a meeting last week in France to talk about the future too. We determined different action and worked in little group about it.

1) Art festival

When we talked about it in Portugal, we were thinking, that it will be during one week. But, now, in France, we think it will be difficult to organize this during one week and, like Portuguese team, it’s hard and expensive…
So, we think maybe it will be better, if the Greek team agree, to integrate this project in the Andreas’s festival, and, if it’s possible of course, in his festival, to profit of one special evening to do a European concert with European music group.
For us, it will be easier to start with anything which exists already, and if in Greece it’s not possible, in other country…. in France we are agree and start, if other country are motivated, to organize this.
But, one of the reflections about the art festival in France is that for the European subvention, it’s necessary to do a festival not for just a festival but to integrate other subject.
And if it happens another country than in Greece, the hosting country need to be very motivated, and ready to carry and organise the project.

2) Training course

At the last meeting, we evocated this project but we didn’t work in this. So, the proposition of the Portuguese team is for me interesting so we will talk about this in the next meeting that it’s the 23 of June, and we tell you the French reaction about this after.
Just a short reflection and suggestion about this training: why not mixing the art festival / youth exchange and training, like having a week of training that finish with a concert (linked with the topic of the week)

3) 6 of October

We work a lot in France on another project that is the project of the 6 of October.
The project is that all the country organizes the same day a manifestation. It would be the Crossroad day.
The subject and animations in this day are free but the principle is to do things the same day in our 6 local networks on the 6 countries related to youth participation and to connect at the same hour with internet and exchange…..
We don’t know if all the countries heard about it but we think that it can be very good to create a European action and mobilise in each of our countries!!!