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Meeting Points
Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our project, called Meeting Points, is a multilateral youth exchange, which will focus on the themes of fatherland and home (in a wider sense of „to be home in Europe”) in the context of migration. The expected result of the project is to increase the sensitivity of young people towards migration and to strengthen their skills within the topic of home and fatherland. The project also supports the healthy lifestyle through the commitment in the inclusive growth and to propagate the green approach (focusing on global environmental problems) through creative initiatives.The project will take place between October 15th and 24th of 2016 (8 days+ 2 travelling) in the Southern Great Plain Region of Hungary, in Szeged. We invite youngsters, who work with the topics of the project in two connected workshops (the participants in there will be rotated between the workshops, so everybody can try all the activities).In the first part of the youth exchange the youngsters will participate in an informative-sensitivity training, where we use the approach of global education and the methods of non-formal education We will deal with the following questions: - What makes a place our home?- How is it connected to the questions of fatherland and migration?- What does it mean „to be home in Europe” for us? The participants walk around in the districts of the city in small (mixed nationality) groups with the help of the volunteers of our organization. Their tasks are to create portraits (photos, film, interviews) about the local people and to search for answers to the question „What makes their home place familiar, comfortable, and livable?” Hereby the participants try to find some alternative places in the city, which are important for the locals, and they are proud of them. These places are a kind of “hidden treasures”, known just by the locals and they aren’t in the touristic maps or in the areas where we walk every day.After sharing the portraits and our experiences in the group, we trace at least 8 points in the city, involving also the marginalized areas. We mix the education through sport and the technics (handicraft) and we make geocache boxes. We create the contents of these treasure boxes (reflecting with them on cultural diversity) partly in the youth exchange; we try to make them by garbage (used pet-bottles, empty boxes) with recycling technics. We also ask the co-operating partners to prepare some small things before the exchange, which they can put in the boxes and which will show and represent their home/homeland. At the end we place the boxes to their places, which this way will shape an alternative sightseeing tour in the city. The participants will be also introduced to a mobile app that creates a self-guided tour, called The Traveler, that keeps track of this alternative sightseeing tour as they walk through the route of the boxes in the city. In the mobile app, besides marking the location of the geoboxes, they can pin photos, add their comments, and share this newly created self-guided tour of the city. We also upload the coordinates of the boxes to the international geocaching website.In the second workshop we create a webgallery about our project and our goals, used also the portraits made in the first days. The two workshops will be parallel, in a changing system, so – as it is mentioned before – everybody can take part in every working process.
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