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Start date: Dec 2, 2014, End date: Dec 1, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our project is a sending project of European Voluntary Service in which 14 volunteers will be in Lithuania for 10 months, 2 volunteers will be in Romania for 9 months, 2 volunteers will be in Macedonia for 10 months and 8 volunteers will be also in Macedonia for 59 days and it is going to last for 2 years. The main aim of the project is to encourage young people have conciousness and sense of European Citizenship. Also the project emphasizes the whole concepts of Active Citizenship based on European Citizenship. Thanks to the project, our young people will be able to have the opportunity of making their dreams come true which are about serving and living in Europe; besides, they will be able to get acuainted with the different cultures and to represent their own cultures. Our target volunteer age rank differs between 17-30 years old. Our volunteers will be selected according to such criteria which is being qualified in the concepts of media and tending to participate in group activities. The volunteers who have not had broad opportunities to socialize, to have euality with their peers in aspects of life quality or to have prominent economical roles in the society will be given priority. Our volunteers are going to participate in several training courses and activities. They are supposed to take part in not only sports activities but also desingning and drawing works related to visual media tools; apart from that activities mentioned, there are going to be works indoor such as the ones are in the office. These activities have a duty which motivates volunteers work with young people. Furthermore, our volunteers will be provided with some courses to learn the local languages of the countries they will be in. The expected outcomes of the project are to make volunteers gain the faculty of activating against discrimination, to create a sense of respect to different cultures, to overcome common stereotypes which have strong and deep roots in almost each culture. The participants will be able to understand how wrong to have ‘ Foreigner Prejudice’ idea by activating on different grounds Young participants will be able to use knowledge obtained from the project for a long life time and will be able to transfer it to both their careers and daily lives, so they will provide people around them to take advantage of that utility.
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