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Youth Association DRONI presents the Training Course

YOUth

&

ConflictDate: 5-13 October, 2013

Venue: Kobuleti, Georgia

This training course explores adolescence, youth culture, popular culture,

participation, the concept of citizenship, conflict transformation, and youth

work, linking in with the recognition of youth work in different countries.


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AimTo explore how to overcome issues of youth culture in conflict with society in order to work towards stronger

participation of young people in society

Objectives~ To study and understand better the concept of adolescence

~ To understand better what it is that young people fight against

~ To understand better why it is that society is so often scared of including young people

~ To explore the phenomena of youth protestpeaceful and violent

~ To understand better the concept of citizenship

~ To know how to use conflict transformation tools for better youth work~ To learn about youth work and how to promote it for recognition

LANGUAGE:

The language of the course will be English. Participants should be proficient in English.

SCHEDULE AND OUTLINE:

Arrival: 5th

of October before 12.00

Departure: 13th

October in the early morning

All participants will be met at the airport and taken to Kobuleti by bus.

A final program will be forwarded to participants 1 week prior to the training.

THE VENUE:

Hotel: Seashell

Information about Georgia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)

Accommodation includes shared double/triple rooms, on full board, coffee breaks and the use of conference

facilities. Participants will be sharing a double or triple room with one or two people of the same sex. Eachroom has one bathroom; towels and bed lines are provided.
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! Note: Organisers will not provide any accommodation for additional stay in Georgia. If participants plan to

arrive a few days earlier or depart a few days later they are kindly requested to inform us and we will be gladto offer assistance with booking a hotel.

TRAVELLING TO GEORGIA:

Participants from EU countries are allowed to travel by plane to Tbilisi, Batumi or Kutaisi.

Participants from Azerbaijan and Armenia are requested to travel by train or bus.

The cheapest flight connections to Tbilisi are via Riga (Air Baltic), Istanbul (Turkish Airlines), Kiev(Georgian and Ukrainian airlines) .You can also find connections through Munich or Frankfurt (Lufthansa)and Vienna (Austrian Airlines or Georgian AIRZENA). To Batumi you can fly through BELAVIA, TurkishAirlines and Ukrainian AEROSVIT. To Kutaisi you can fly through Wizz Air.

! Note: Participants are not able to arrive to Georgia few days before or depart few days later, just one

day can be difference, so please try to find tickets on exact dates : arrival 5 th of October departure

13th of October.

TRANSPORT TO AND FROM THE VENUE:

Upon arrival, participants will be picked up from the airport, train or bus station by one of our volunteers.They will be the ones holding up a paper with the title of the PROJECT (i.e.YOUth&Conflict). All

participants will be provided with the contact details of our team in Georgia before travelling, in case there

are any travel of flight delays. Before departure, participants will be taken to the airport, train or bus station.

TRAVEL COSTS:

70% of participants travel costs from their home city to Kobuleti, Georgia will be reimbursed .

According to the rules of YiA program, and in order to comply with environmental standards, we kindly askall participants to take the most environmentally friendly and cost effective alternative available.

Also, we will cover the costs of further transportation related to the training, such as the sightseeing

tour once in Georgia.

! Note: Reimbursement of travel costs will only be done upon presentation of all (including return tickets)original tickets, receipt/invoices and boarding passes. This means that once home after the training,

participants will be asked to send the originals of all return documents and boarding passes. Please rememberto bring the original invoicesthere will be no reimbursement without the original invoices and tickets with

indicated Names of travellers, description of the journey, indentification of cost and currency and date oftravel.


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!! Note: If participants pay for their ticket with a credit card, they are requested to bring along the

confirmation of payment (i.e. credit card slip and/or bank statement).

!!! Note: Reimbursement will be done in EUR, regardless of the currency indicated on the ticket and

receipt/invoice. Any tickets purchased in a local currency other than EUR, will then be converted andcalculated according to the exchange rate of the month when the grant agreement for this project will besigned by the NA, as stated in the official European Commission web-site athttp://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?Language=en

Reimbursement will be done during two weeks after the project ends. We kindly ask you to bring along

your bank account details, as we will make a bank transfer.

!!!! Note: The minibuses from Tbilisi to Kobuleti and back will be provided by the organisers. Participantswill be asked to pay 30% of the travel cost Tbilisi- Kobuleti-Tbilisi. The trip will not cost more than 20

EUR/person (return).

!!!!! Note: Please check Annex 1 for the travel budget limits at the end of this document. If travel costs

exceed the amount budgeted in the project, the organisers will only be able to reimburse participants 70%of the maximum travel costs indicated in the travel budget. Participants are therefore strongly advised to

book trip travel well in advance.

!!!!!! Note: Finally, please make copies (or even better, scan or take photographs) of all tickets and invoices

and email these [email protected] attending the training. This will be very helpful toorganisers to begin processing the financial and reimbursement data so that all payments may be made as

efficiently as possible.

The following only applies to participants travelling by plane:

Please RESERVE the tickets, but DO NOT BUY them before consulting with the organisers.

Reimbursement is only possibly for tickets bought from August 20

If more than 10 people choose to do so, we can arrange a group ticket with a better fare (in all cases,participants still need to keep and submit the boarding passes from the airport's check-in).

VISA ARRANGEMENTS:

Georgia is not yet in the EU so please bring along your passports!

EU citizens and TC other participant countries do not need visas to enter Georgia.

For more information on visas, seehttp://www.mfa.gov.ge
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Kindly contactLeila Tevonian [email protected] further arrangements.

PARTICIPATION FEE:

There is no participation fee for this course.

HEALTH INSURANCE:

Health insurance is not provided and will not be reimbursed by the organisers. All participants are strongly

advised to purchase private travel insurance, as costs of private health care in Georgia are quite high.

WEATHER:

The weather in Georgia in October is generally good, you can expect temperatures of around 20-25 degrees.

Please bear in mind that the evenings can get cool so bring some warmer clothes as well.

Kobuleti is located on the coast of the Black Sea, and sometimes if the weather is good people are swimmingin the sea, so please bring your swimming suits if you want to swim

PREPARATION:

If a participant represents an organisation, kindly bring information and materials about the organisation, i.e.photos and reports from former projects and further material, which will help to present the organisation tothe other participants. Furthermore, we kindly ask all participants to bring some national drink, snacks

and music from their home countries, as a contribution to the intercultural evenings!

PRACTICALITIES:

We have Wi-Fi in the hotel but still please note it can work not properly every place in the hotel.

In Kobuleti, there are internet cafs and business rooms in some other hotels,but beingrequested to fullyparticipate in the programme,internet access during the training course will be rather limited.

Euro and US Dollars can be easily exchanged across Georgia. ATMs (cash machines) are very popular inKobuleti. Cash is the preferred payment alternative; these facilities are available not far from the hotel. The

type of electric plugs in Georgia is European.
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PARTICIPANTS:

Our group of participants is composed of:

Country of

residencePromoter

Number of

participants

Profile of

participants

Georgia Youth Association DRONI 3

NGO

members,Youth

workers,leaders,

multipliers

Armenia Loesje 3

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Youth for Peace 3

Belarus Non-governmental organisation New Group 3

Ukraine AUAYC Alternative-V 3

Turkey TakimYildizi Scouting, Youth and Sports Club 3

Czech Republic Be International 3

Estonia NGO Youth for Society 3

Portugal H2OYouth Association of Arrouquelas 3

Spain AsociacionJuvenil Inter 3

All participants will receive a certificate of participation and have the possibility to register for an EU Youthpass and

add this event at:http://www.youthpass.eu/en/youthpass/

TEAM

Our team is composed of:

Nik Paddison - Trainer

Maria Teresa Bellini - Trainer

Ekuna GogobershviliJunior Trainer

Dato DaiauriSupport Staff

Leila TevonianSupport Staff
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CONTACT:

For questions related to Logistics, practical issues in Georgia, as well as international travel and financialissues, please contact the Host organisation Youth Association DRONI:

Project Coordinator: Leila Tevonian

Mobile Phone: +995 598 696813E-mail:[email protected] Skype ID: lilu9997

ANNEX 1: Travel budget limits: Budgeted amount per person from original destination to Tbilisi,

Country of

residenceFrom To

Means Total costs

per

participant

(100%)

of

transport

Armenia Yerevan, AMKobuleti,

GEBus 80.00

Azerbaijan Mingachevir, AZKobuleti,GE

Bus 100.00

Belarus Minsk, BYKobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 380.00

Ukraine Kyiv, UAKobuleti,

GE Plane, Bus 350.00

Turkey Istanbul, TRKobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 350.00

Czech Republic Brno, CZKobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 480.00

Estonia Tallin, EEKobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 480.00

Portugal ARROUQUELAS, PTKobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 650.00

SpainJerez de la Frontera, ES

Kobuleti,GE

Plane, Bus 600.00


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! Note: As previously mentioned, the amounts in the last column represent 100% of costs allowed;

participants will be reimbursed 70% of it (upon evidence of original receipts and tickets).

HOW TO APPLY:

Which form to use?

You are requested to use the standard application form that has been attached along with this document.

Which language to use?

You are requested to write your application in English.

How address the e-mail and the application file?

When naming the subject of your e-mail, as well as naming your attached application file, please use the

following format:

yourcountry_yourname_YOUth&Conflict

As in the following example:

Subject: Estonia_ Rebecca MIFSUD_YOUth&Conflcit

WHERE TO APPLY:

After naming your application as stated above,

Kindly submit your application to our project address:

[email protected]

Please feel free to fill in the attached application form and send it to us before the deadline

20.08.2013

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