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Follow the trails
Start date: Jun 23, 2014, End date: Dec 22, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Context Under the Erasmus + program, the regional office Concordia Picardie NPDC, with its numerous experiences, leads a Youth exchange which deals with the First World War. To engage young Europeans in the commemoration of the Great War enables the young peoplen to strengthen the values on witch Europe was founded: peace and reconciliation between peoples. Moreover, the Picardie and more specifically the department of the Somme is devastated and ravaged during this period. The project will take place in the East of the department, at the edge of the former front line of 1914. b. Objectives and content of the project The objective of the project is to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War, by gathering volunteers from 4 different countries. The presence of different nationalities on a common project foregrounds the European citizenship and encourages exchange, interculturality and open-mindedness. Those volunteers will achieve a gesture of memory around Blaise Cendrars, volonteer in the french foreign army Army during the Great War and a renowned poet. Participants will communicate a message of peace and sharing through various activities. This project will be conducted in an environmentally friendly way. The Participants will follow the trails of Blaise Cendrars by bike; by this manner they will meet the population of the cities and villages they cross. The local population will join the volunteers in the activities they organize. This project is meant to be visible. Posters will be created by the volunteers in order to make the project acquainted by the inhabitants of the villages. During the project, various consciousness-raising campaigns will be organized, especially concerning history and environment. All their activities will be linked with the compilation of a support (format to specify during the APV and with the volunteers) which will report their adventures and their feelings. The main activities that lead volunteers will be the following : - Creating visibility, promoting the project itself. (participation in the intervention of a professional graphist, illustrator, colorist, designer, photographer. The choice of abstarctor will be negotiated and set by the leaders during the APV) - The creation of a report in the form of testimonies and documentaries over the period 1914-1918/ international mobility/ raising awareness of contemporary environmental issues / testimony about their experiences. It will have the effect to be a pedagogical support in schools and will also be able to serve for the presentation of Erasmus's+ non-formal program. - The Intervention to raise different audiences awareness (primary schools, MARPA (Rural Home for the Elderly), foyer de vie, MFR, local people at the closing) of the duty of memory / ecological footprint of each/ intercultural exchange / understanding and tolerance of others. The participants will be accompanied by the leaders during the activities, tasks to be fulfilled, intercultural discoveries, exchange of opinions, linguistic exchange. The leaders will set up formal and non-formal animation tools, they wil create them during the APV (Advanced Planning Visit) c. Important details Required skills: the volunteer is able to ride a bycicle and has no particular dread to move with it. It also involves people with disabilities, we are going to study solutions which are the most suitable for them with a partner who rents the bike park, as well as with relevant specialized structures. Number of participants: 32 Age: from 17 to 30 years old Planning period: 20 days (from the 1st to the 22nd September 2014) Legislation: The volunteer must sign a charter agreeing that he/she may appear in the report they will create.
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