Erasmus +
Erasmus+ co-funds the Build your balance project. Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth, and sport in Europe. It offers opportunities for people of all ages, helping them develop and share knowledge and experience at institutions and organizations in different countries.
The aim of Erasmus+ is to contribute to the Europe 2021 strategy for growth, jobs, social equity, and inclusion, as well as the aims of ET2021, the EU's strategic framework for education and training.
PROGRAM
The Build Your Balance project is a mobility for youth workers implemented in three phases. Participating partially cannot be an option as by the regulations of the Erasmus Plus program.
PREPARATION:
The participants prepare for the training course with the support of their sending organizations: they plan the practical aspects of the project, like the travel, and they participate in the online preparation-tasks happening through the facebook group of the project. During the preparation, the participants, divided in national couples, invent a short activity (15-20 min) that can be an energizer or an ice-breaker connected to the topic of disconnection from technologies and reconnection with oneself. More info will be given while confirming the participants.
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IMPLEMENTATION:
The second phase of the project is the training course. It involves 28 youth workers from 9 different countries and it takes place in Bergolo, north-west of Italy, from 12 Sep 2021 (arrival day) to 20 Sep 2021 (departure day). The program of this project is developed mainly by non-formal methods, fully involving the participants in the experience: it's based on the idea that first, we experience ourselves, after, we transmit what we learned to others. Therefore the participants of this training will take part in a number of activities aimed to raise personal awareness, to foster direct interaction with other people and the connection with nature and to build more healthy habits concerning the use of technology. Moreover, the youth workers will experience the effect of staying disconnected from technology for 7 days: they will close all technologic devices (phones, laptops, cameras, watches, music players, etc.) in a safe box and they will take them back 7 days after.
Participants will have the chance to practice and increase their competencies in the field of youth work in relation to the main topic of this project: they will receive some theoretical inputs from the trainers and with their support, they will create their own workshops and activities aimed to create more healthy habits in relation with technology.
Those workshops, together with the original energizers and ice-breakers created in the preparation phase, will be included in a manual that will be used and disseminated by the organizations involved in the project.
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DISSEMINATION:
In this dissemination phase, participants will implement back in their country 1 activity with a group of young people aimed to improve their relationship with technology (using one of the workshops invented during the training or creating a new one) or an activity within the sending organization to share what they learned.
They also fill in the evaluation form, write a testimony of their experience and they will share the booklet that will collect all the games and workshop created during the project. ​
EXPENSES
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This program is supported by a co-funding of the European Union allocated by the Erasmus + program through the Italian National Agency . Accommodation, food, materials, the program and the travel costs up to the maximum amount will be covered or reimbursed.
PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION: We ask each participant to contribute to the implementation of the program with the amount of 40€ to be paid on arrival. It's a sign of real interest, an investment you do in yourself through the project and concrete economic support.
In case that the contribution represents a real obstacle to your participation explain it in the application form and contact the sending organization from your country.
TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT: In order to be eligible for reimbursement you need to:
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take an active part in all phases of the project;
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find the most cost-efficient travel option available to you;
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provide all the required travel documents (flight itinerary and boarding passes, bus and train tickets).
Travel costs are going to be refunded according to the guidelines of Erasmus+ depending on the distance from your residence to the venue. The reimbursement is going to be made via bank transfer to your bank account after the youth exchange and it will be done in Euros €. Therefore, it is necessary that we get all ORIGINAL TRAVEL DOCUMENTS (tickets, invoices, boarding passes, fuel receipts, tolls …) from you.
Digital travel documents must be sent to us via e-mail. If you take the plane to travel to Italy and back, it is necessary to send us the boarding passes and the invoice for your flights.
The given amounts are the maximum of travel reimbursement for your travels in both directions foreseen by Erasmus+. Reimbursement can only be made for real expenses. No travel reimbursement will be made without the presence of original travel documents or if you do not participate during the full programme, take that into account! For all your questions about travel reimbursement please contact us.
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Staying in Italy before or after the project is not possible due to Covid-19 regulations. If there is any very important reason for you to stay longer let us know and we will discuss if there is any possibility.
Before booking the tickets for your journey wait to receive the official confirmation letter, send us your travel plan and wait for our approval. The reimbursement will be sent by bank transference when follow-up activities are completed as a natural closing step of the project, up to the amounts stated below:
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Austria - 235€
Hungary - 235€
Italy - 235€
Bulgaria - 235€
Greece - 235€
Poland - 235€
Tunisia - 235€
Portugal - 235€
Lithuania - 320€
*40€ of the travel budget is taken for local transportation, the stated amount is the maximum that you will be reimbursed.