COMMON SENSES
by VertLife Informal Group
Events
Common Senses is an 18 months project funded by the Erasmus + program.
The project is run by the VertLife Group based in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Partner organisations in the project are:
Youth for Creative Life from Hungary, LINK from Italy, RED from Latvia, SYNCRO from Crotia, Synergy Romania from Romania and Brno Connected from Czech Repuclic
The project consists of 4 events that will take place in the 18 months.
ACT Youth Exchange
Ommen, The Netherlands
1st - 11th May 2015
The idea of this exchange is based on the need of every human being to find his/her own way of self-awareness and connection.
The aim is to create awareness about ourselves and through this connect to other people.
We believe that this can be the key for effective communication and personal relations.
The role of the youth exchange in the project is to create the "demo" event of the methodology. We organize the exchange based on our previous experiences. We will focus on body movements and self expression through art tools (creative writing, drawing, dance, movement).
Objectives:
-to raise awareness of young people on the importance of non verbal communication.
-to create the space for an interactive and creative approach on issues of
discrimination, tolerance, and social participation through the use of movement, art and self expression.
-to support youngsters develop communication skills
-to promote intercultural learning and cooperation among youngsters through the tool of creativity and self expression.
-to empower youth to become active citizens through expressing and promoting their views and worries for the world today through creativity and performance
-to promote and empower entrepreneurship and youth initiatives
DETECT Training
Hungary
18th - 26th July 2015
The training course is for youth workers and trainers .
The aim of the training course is to develop the quality of youth work with giving an alternative methodology that focuses on non verbal communication.
Objectives:
-to develop the skills and competences of youth workers and trainers.
-to develop verbal and non verbal communication between young people and youth workers.
-to improve outreach youth work by gaining more knowledge about how to approach different target groups
-to summarize the methodology used by VertLife Group
-to give an alternative way to address crucial social topics (such as discrimination, xenophobia, tolerance, racism, gender issues) with young people
IMPACT
Implement Phase
All partner countries
July - November 2015
The implementation phase will take place in each of the project partner countries. This part of the project will be initiated and lead by youngsters and youth workers that participated in the previous events.
The aim of the implementation phase is to bring the knowledge aquired, the experience and the methodology back to the organisations and the local youth of each of the countries.
This can take any form such as internal or local workshops, using the different methodology tools in exchanges that organisations will organize, in seminar and training courses, during mentoring volunteers or organizing playsessions for less opportunity kids.
CONNECT
Conference
Ommen, The Netherlands
25th - 30th November 2015
The conference will work as a dissemination event where the results of the project will be shared. After the implementation phase there will be 7 organizations with experience of using the methodology. This creates a significant group of youth workers being able to share good practices.
The aim of the dissemination event is to spread these results and practices not only with the partners but also the partners of the partners in a wider network. In this event we will bring youth workers together from the partner countries of the project, as well outside of the project .