Partecipazione scambio giovanile Slovenia

E' stato approvato il nostro progetto di scambio giovanile ''off the beaten path'' che si terrà in Slovenia dal 13 al 21 Luglio. Verranno selezionati 7 ragazzi/e dai 18 ai 30 anni che condivideranno questa esperienza con altri ragazzi provenienti dal Portogallo, dalla Turchia e ovviamente dalla Slovenia. La tematica sarà il turismo sostenibile e l'ambiente, sono previste varie visite, escursioni, camminate e attività di gruppo. Gli interessati dovranno compilare il modulo allegato ed inviarlo via mail all'indirizzo: sociale@comune.villaurbana.or.it entro e non oltre il 17/05/2015.

Di seguito una breve sintesi del progetto:

'OFF THE BEATEN PATH' - MULTILATERAL YOUTH EXCHANGE, KOSTANJEVICA NA KRKI (SLOVENIA), 13TH - 21TH JULY 2015

28 young participants from 4 partnering countries (Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Slovenia) will join a multilateral youth exchange 'OFF THE BEATEN PATH' taking place from July 13th to 21th 2015 in Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia. Young participants will focus on sustainable tourism and enterpreneurship while adding value to a local heritage trail which aims to educate, connect and promote. We will situate most of our activities in the context of theUskok's heritage trail, borderland walking trail which will introduce us to fascinating local landscape and history, to the stories of local people and culinary delights that are typical for the region. Acknowledging these values, we will use various non-formal learning methods and mobilise our potential to engage in local sustainable tourism practices as young local guides, fully competent to transmit local ideas, practice and heritage to various target groups. It does not take much to become a local guide - you do not necessarily need expensive equipment or payed adds - apart from personal engagement, curiousity, learning passion, ability to hear the stories of the locals, pleasure of storytelling and lots of creativity. In the exchange, we will strongly work on mobilising these with some help of our more experienced peers (i.e. hikers, young local city guides, food promotors and those who have some knowledge on the public relations). Together we will set hands-on workshops and panel discussions which aim to empower our enterpreneurship potential and at the same time add value to the local. Main topics will be: sustainable and responsible tourism practices; adventure creation; young local guides as agents of ‘green' enterpreneurship; the power of storytelling. We will entangle the questions of how cultural heritage shall be presented in order to avoid certain stereotypes, but rather connect a guest to the locals. We will develop sensitivity to intercultural dialogue. Theory will be pertpetually linked to practical learning, our discussions will turn into actions through open culinary workshops (bread baking), storytelling evening and some other activities which will make our exchange visible and echoing on the regional level and wider. At the end we will also organise a press conference. As one of our immidiate results, a web page will be constructed based on our learning experience. The exchange will provide an exploration of opportunities for promotion and marketing of sustainable rural/ urban tours, facilitating the access to the labour market for unemployed young people and providing a supportive environment for job-creation.