enter RURALshiP

journal
1. 12. – 10. 12. 2018
What can you learn from the Youth Exchange
focused on entrepreneurship in rural areas
Associazione Chiocciola la casa del nomade
– educational projects for children and adults
Adress: Strada per Sestino snd, 47864 Pennabilli, Italy
Phone: +39 3204510733
E-mail: info@chiocciolalacasadelnomade.it
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© 2018 Associazione Chiocciola la casa del nomade

Coordinator, Editor: Jiri Dorazil, Webwings s.r.o.
Writer, desgner: Vojtech Zak
Contributors: participants of EnteRURALship project
Photos: Andrejs Aristov, Pilar Montoza Garcia,
Daniel Agrigoroaiei

All parts of this booklet may be reproduced for use in non-formal education,
provided acknowledgement of the source and notification of such use is given
to Associazione Chiocciola la casa del nomade.
This publication was written as a follow-up result of the EnteRURALship
project. All content is the intellectual property of EnteRURALship project,
unless otherwise noted herein.
This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Euro-
pean Union, under the Erasmus+ programme. The opinions expressed in this
publication are those of the authors and do not represent the opinions or posi-
tions of the funders of this project.
The European Commission support for the production of this publication
does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views
only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.
CONTENT
About.....................................................................................6
Program............................................................................... 8
Project plans......................................................................27
Build the Future.....................................................28
Christmas manhunt...............................................32
Community brewery..............................................36
Enteruralshit...........................................................40
reART.......................................................................44
#weCONNECT ....................................................48
Escape the City.......................................................54
Rural Co-working..................................................58
BIO LEARN............................................................62
Vocabulary..........................................................................66
Partners...............................................................................72
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Town Pennabilli has less than 3 000 inhabitants.
As most of the rural areas, it struggles with lack of employ-
ment opportunities. Village related industries are scarce and
not paying much.

problem
Other essential facilities –
electricity, telecommunications, health, transportation, edu-
cation – are far from perfect.

solution
Nevertheless,
community of Pennabilli created
an event called Artisti in piazza – an international ar-
tistic event which attracts more then 40 000 guests every
year.

Pennabilli – thanks to its work with community, connection

with rural area and strong focus on education of youth and
adults as well – serves as an example of a great practice for
all entrepreneurs from rural areas.
Chiocciola la casa
del nomade

Founded in 2012, it is an artistic,

educational and historical-environmental center, which coop-
erates with Artisti in piazza. They organized the project

EnteRURALship
which supports young people from rural to implement rural
enterprises in their local areas.
The project was financed by the
Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani (National Agency for
Youth) of Erasmus+ programme.
This booklet summarazis the project and its results in a way
they can be re-created.

Youth Exchange

From 1st to 10th of December, 2018, 30 young people

from Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and
Romania have gathered in Pennabilli in order to create their
own projects which they could implement in their local com-
munities
Day 1. Connection
“The topic of the day was CONNECTION. We started by play-
ing an icebreaker to – in short – break the ice in the group.
After getting some context about the project, we went on the walk
around the beautiful town Pennabilli.
In the afternoon we came to some common agreements about how
to interact with each other, and played more ice breakers leaving a
friendly vibe this evening.”
EnteRURALship Journal
There were several tasks
to accomplish on the first day, crucial
for successful cooperation during the whole project.
First, participants needed to
1) get to know the place,
2) each other,
3) and co-create rules
so they could live together for 10 days as peaceful commu-
nity. It is important that the rules were created by the group,
not given by the organizers (apart of the most important
safety rules).
Finally, they needed to
4) create a feeling of mutual trust.
Therefore the end part of the day was about TRUST games
– different activities requiring putting their safety into the
hand of the others. By that, they nurture mutual feelings of
trust which supports friendship and cooperation necessary
for the other days.
Day 2. INTROSPECTION
“Hello world!

We are
happy to
send you some
good vibes from downtown
Pennabilli! We had a tiring trip
from our countries to this beautiful hidden
gem in the Rimini Province, but we are so lucky to
have found a place from where we can get a lot of inspiration.
The first day was a great opportunity to connect with the other
participants. And when we woke up we were welcomed by a sunny
day.
More than that, the universe gave us an extra gift in the morning
so that we could get our source of energy for the rest of the day:
an alpine sea right in front of our hostel. We recharged our bat-
teries quite nicely while walking from the hostel to the Natural
Museum, because we passed through the central little park of Pen-
nabilli, where we felt the smell of autumn and we felt the morning
dew on the soft colorful carpet made of leaves. We built our excite-
ment even more when we heard that we will be doing a walk in the
nature around Pennabilli.
We started our activity agenda for the day with a challenging task:
to be creative in a group without a goal and without receiving
indications about how to do it. Although it was a total chaos and
it made many of us accumulate frustrations, we later understood
that this exercise was a reflection/micro-projection of the world
we live in. Basically, it was a wake-up call through which we un-
derstood that we need to take action if we want to make changes
in our lives and in the societies we live in and it was a cool start-
ing point for planning future actions back home (both on personal
but also on a professional level).
After this introspection exercise, we went on exploring the land-
scape around Pennabilli, activity that gave us the chance to admire
the beautiful nature around here but also to make connections with
our home countries. We got inspired in sharing interesting experi-
ences from places we have been traveling or living and we realized
that things are changing around the world: more and more young
people are moving from the craziness of the big towns to rural are-
as, for a better quality of life and with the hope of feeling happier.
The walk in the nature gave us energy and a nice appetite, for the
amazing food made by our cool chefs: Fabiola and Alessandro.
After a nice siesta we started the second part of the day. All of
these activities (the flying carpet, the success stories, improving your
competences and the pantomime) helped us understand that we need
to work on improving our skills and on finding new ways to com-
municate and cooperate with other people in order to make changes
in our lives and in the communities where we live.
All in all we had a full day, in which we discovered a bit more
about ourselves and about the people in our exchange group. Pen-
nabilli rocks and we are looking forward to learning more about
this place and about its people, and hopefully this experience will
give us the chance to come up with new ideas and new strategies to
improve our ways of acting and reacting!“
EnteRURALship Journal
Day
2 was about
understanding how we are as a people.
What are our strong and weak sides?
What are our behavioral patterns?
What roles are we usually taking?
We discover these through playing games and reflecting
upon them. We were focused mainly on soft skills
relevant for labor market, team-work and communication.
In the evening, the participants were invited by several
families from Pennabilli to dinner. They had a unique op-
portunity to get in contact with locals, learn more about
Italian culture and ask about the life in Italian rural area.
Day 3. Community
Day 3 was about understanding how the community in a
small Italian village looks like and how does it influence an
approach to entrepreneurship.
Through the days, the participants were meeting several
local businessmen who were discussing with them differ-
ent aspects of their work. One purpose was to inspire them,
second to uncover different unexpected difficulties or oppor-
tunities of rural enterprises.

Day 4. inspiration
At the day 4, we went on a field trip to Rimini to visit the
business incubator Innovation Square. We met people from
startups who draw the line between the business in rural ar-
eas and in cities and how they can cooperate with each other.
 Day 5. vision

“We started the day with a big serendipity. In the Internation-

al Volunteer Day we dedicated out time to vision. All our ideas
started to come to life so that in the near future they can be-
come real projects that impact the local communities.
The day was divided in two sessions. The first one focused on
our personal skills and goals. Now we understand that the
first step must be realizing the reasons why we are motivated
to start the project. Inspiration can come from the simplest
things as we did this afternoon when we climbed to the Billi
castle to enjoy the beautiful sunset. The second session was
mainly focused in presenting our vision and allocating the
projects to each country.
At the end of the day the teams were created and we are ready
to develop our visions in the next few days!”
EnteRURALship Journal
The purpose of the day was to reconnect with the one’s
life goals and dreams so the rural enterprises the partici-
pants are going to create will become only one milestone
on reaching what their hearts always desired.
At this moment the participants were ready. They:
1) Found out how to cooperate with others;
2) Learned what are their strong and weak points;
3) Understood what threats and opportunities lie in
rural areas businesses;
4) Got inspired by many different kind of enterprises
which already exist;
5) Realized what are their dreams and goals.
They were ready to create ideas for a project and join
their forces with others into working teams
(see PROJECTS PLANS).
Day 6. business model
On the 6th day, we welcomed Andrea Zanzini, Coordinator
at PRIMO MIGLIO CSR Startups Accelerator and Intercul-
tural trainer. He came to support working teams in the crea-
tion of their business model. Like that, ideas slowly started
to look more realistic.

Useful links
www.canvanizer.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of34BmUUjIg
Day 7. ACTION
“The «action day» was dedicated to our project’s realization. Each
team had to fulfill 10 activities in order to start making the idea
come true.
We also had to create a video to show to the team the way we work.
It was a busy day, but thanks to the great sunny day that
Pennabilli offered to us, we had the chance to find some great
ideas by discovering the village and enjoying its magic nature.”
EnteRURALship Journal
“P. S. We hope you will like it.”

WATCH VIDEOS
https://vimeo.com/manage/albums/5641192
Day 8. PLAYGROUND

Since local families invited participants for dinner to their

houses, we had decided to repay their kindness and invited
them (and the rest of the village and region) for an intercul-
tural evening.
Participants had the whole day to prepare the evening cel-
ebration:
1) Arrange the space
2) Prepare food without using the kitchen
3) Prepare an interactive program focused
on intercultural dialogue
It was a beautiful playground during which they could test
how they are cooperating with each other, working in a
team, managing things, see about their leadership skills,
team-roles, etc.
At the end, the program attracted around 200 people from
Pennabilli and the surroundings. Participants presented their
countries, National agency and Erasmus+ program, their
projects and they started networking about their projects.
Day 9. COMMUNICATION
Day 9 was dedicated to evaluating their experience and co-
operation from the previous day and anchoring their learn-
ing.
Also, we welcomed guests from the University of the Re-
public of San Marino – professors of XY, names, etc. who
supported participants with creating a brand for their
projects and its manifesto.

Day 10.
closing
“All good things come to an end.
During the last day of this great experience, we remembered the
memories from the last nine days and heard about all the opportu-
nities that Erasmus+ has to offer.
The day wasn’t over without taking a final group photo and writ-
ing goodbye messages to each other.”
EnteRURALship Journal

We gave goodbye to Pennabilli… and we started to get

ready for leaving.
project
plans
 BUILD The future
Building houses for poor people.

Camilla Elisabetta
Ranghetti,
Italy
Federico Ungolini,
Italy
Mădălina Oprea,
Romania

“We believe in the potential of humans and we want them to grow

so they can contribute to society, but we believe that the first thing
that is needed in order to grow is a healthy environment which, for
most of us, is a home.

Without sense of caring, there is no sense of community.

Our vision is to BUILD a better environment for people in rural
areas and through faith, to change the “life”
of a community.”
To build house for people who live in
bad conditions
goal
of the project

specific
to build a home for a family (2 to 5 people)

measurable
the goal will be achieved
when there is a standing house and a family
ready to use it and be part of a bigger community

achiEvable
Some organizations
(e.g. Habitat for Humanity) have done it before.

relevant
Sense of caring
is crucial for sense of community.
 time schedule
17th of December 2018 Presentation to REMAX
(Romania)

End of January 2019 Meeting with other potential

investors and
potential partners

15th of March 2019 First workshop

(for 25 people)

End of March 2019 Presentation to

“Tonino Guerra” (Italy)

June/July 2019 Starting the construction

https://vimeo.com/307848596
 Christmas manhunt
Organizing an outdoor game for teenagers in order to create every
year tradition which will bring excluded micro-generation (teen-
agers) back to community life

Laurie Timoa Taylor,

Portugal

“There is a lack of interaction between micro-generation, and an

increasing amount of young people doing nothing in my village.
The vision is to break the social barriers.”

rules of the game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(urban_game)
 Create a new local tradition:
playing the Manhunt game
with teenagers goal
of the project

specific
to get people to interact with people they don’t usually in
order to break the social barriers between
the micro-generation

measurable
to organise a game of manhut with at least 25 players

achiEvable
community is used to organising different activities

relevant
local community is alive from different traditions, sadly, this
micro-generation (teenagers) are left out of them
 time schedule

7th of December 2018 Contact the town hall

Contact the rowing club
Market research
Make event page
Write rules
Finalize date
Make poster

23 of December 2018 Make rule book

Make trophy
Make score board

https://vimeo.com/307848826
 Community brewery
Create a culture place (brewery and restaurant) for a community
living in a remote area with no opportunity for cultural life.

Anna Mencáková, Filip Michek,

Czech Republic Czech Republic

Helena Kuthanová, Lukáš Monček,

Czech Republic Czech Republic

“We would like to start something what helps local community and
what´s able to make enough money to by self-sustainable. Small
brewery with small restaurant can provide local people place to
gather because there are no areas, which serves to this purpose.”
To create a local community brewery

goal
of the project

specific
to create beer brewery and small restaurant

measurable
goal is achieved when the brewery is officially opened

achiEvable

some organizations (e.g. Pivovar Ohrada)

have done it before.

relevant
For Czech people pub is the most favorite place to meet.
 time schedule
16th of December 2018 Contacting of investors
Discussion with partners

12th of January 2019 Meeting with Mayor

Contact local action group

31st of January 2019 Discus brewery technology

with experts
Start to prepare the project of
reconstruction
Arrange meeting with
community
Name/brand for the brewery

28th of February 2019 Logo design

Start to create website

https://vimeo.com/307848701
 Enteruralshit
Implementing the composting toilet in local international festival,
in order to make the whole event more sustainable and eco-friendly.

Barbara Demurtas,
Italy

Margherita Pieronni,
Italy
Nicola Ianni,
Italy

“We want to create composting toilet in order to spread a diffuse

ecological awareness and value, in particular during the festival
of Artisti in Piazza in Pennabilli. Our goals are reducing the use
of water and chemical products to face the growing environmental
issues. Behind thisconcept we oversee a possible use of compost in
agriculture and biomass fuel participating this way in a circular
economy. Dry toilet represent a new concept of sanitation.”
 introduction of composting toilet in the
camping of Artisti in Piazza, Pennabilli
goal
of the project

specific
introduction of composting toilet in the camping of Artisti
in Piazza, Pennabilli

measurable
If we install composting toilet in camping of Artisti in Pi-
azza, we completed our goal.

achiEvable
Observing others entities all over the Europe, we know that
this model already exists and it works.

relevant
This project is needed because it will achieve a real green ef-
fect on the environmental impact of the festival and because
actually it doesn’t exist in this context in Italy.
 time schedule
15th of January 2019 Look for information
about similar peojects
Personal training
Look for laws about mobile-
-toilet and community composting
Find out more partners in this
rural zone
Meeting with ProLoco
(association for local promotion)

20th of January 2019 Meet the stakeholders

of the project

1st of February 2019 Apply for European funding

15th of February 2019 Try to build up one

composting toilet

30th of May Be ready with composting toilet

https://vimeo.com/307848559
 re ART
Organizing a workshop about re-using the trash for creation of
art in order to live more sustainable and eco-friendly life, bring-
ing community closer and giving the youth the opportunity how to
spend their time in useful way.

Danae-Mina Dimitris Tskinas, Maria Pallasidou,

Papadopoulou, Greece Greece
Greece

Avgi Foundou, Dimitris Papadopoulos,

Greece Greece

“We believe that the local community need places where to gather
all together and express themselves by strengthening their relation-
ship. Our main vision is creativity and the main need that our
project will fulfill is no waste idea and social inclusion.
Inspired by the way that people give life back to small villages we
want to give life back to old and useless items in a new and unique
way. Nowadays, people waste more and more without taking in
consideration the environmental negative effects. That’s why we
think that our project will propose an intelligent and alternative
way of using other way wasted materials.”

Implementation of workshop about turning

trash into art in local community
goal
of the project

specific
implementing of a workshop

measurable
at least 25 participants

achievable
Similar projects are happening all around the world

relevant
Since Greece is filled with trash, promoting zero waste
policy is very important.
 time schedule

End of January 2019 Find the artists

End of February 2019 Find the materials and volunteers

End of May 2019 Find the place

15th of April Implementation of workshop

https://vimeo.com/307848607
 #weCONNECT – Șezătoare
Organizing of public gathering for young and old people in order
to exchange experiences and get closer to each other.

Irina Mihălcuţ, Simina Cernat,

Romania Romania

Diana Plugari, Daniel Agrigoroaiei,

Romania Romania
“Nowadays people become more and more divided and lonely. We
believe that this world can be a better place if we connect to each
other and we share knowledge, quality time and joy.

There is a big gap between generations and an increased need of

old people to feel accepted, integrated and useful. Our project aims
to help rural communities to better connect by offering the context
for young people to meet the old ones and share stories, skills, ex-
periences and knowledge so they increase the feeling of wellbeing
and personal growth.

We want to start a series of monthly meetings refreshing the tra-

dition of “sezatoare” that exists in Romania, and to adapt this
concept to the present reality. In this meetings that will happen in
a public space (either public libraries, in the local cultural space of
town hall or in schools) elder people and young ones will have the
occasion to share stories, be more creative, learn new skills from
each other (young people can learn handcrafts and old ones can
become comfortable in how to use new technology, for example).

We believe that the local community need places where to gather

all together and express while strengthening their relationship.
Our main vision is creativity and the main need that our project
will fulfill is no waste idea and social inclusion.”
Monthly meetings where we bring young and old people
together and give them the opportunity to share
stories, handcrafts skills and technological
knowledge, to identify and discuss the
community problems and to
understand each goal
other better of the project

specific
implementation of monthly meetings

measurable

At least 50 participants at first 2 gathering

Openness to organize more meetings like that

achiEvable

This type of gathering used to be normal in the past

relevant
there is a strong need of connectivity between generations
and also a need of understanding and integrating old and
new ideas of these different generations in romanian rural
areas
 time schedule
End of December 2018 finished design of the project
(writing it, making a logo, a pres-
entation, identifying possible
locations)

1st week of January contacting of possible partners

2019 and the local administration

End of January 2019 First activity of the pilot project

in Neamt county

End of February 2019 Second activity of the project in

Bacau country

March 2019 Third activity simultaneously in

Neamt and Bacau with guests
(musicians and artists)

April 2019 Detailed report after the end of

the 3rd gathering
https://vimeo.com/307848847
 Escape the city
Create educational Escape Game in rural area

Javier Ibáñez Ruiz,

Spain

“The scape room is a physical and mental adventure game, in

which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues,
hints, and strategy to complete the objectives and get out of the
room. The idea is create one escape room in a rural area of Gra-
nada, using historical events of this zone.

We forgot that adults also play. We are trapped in our works, stud-
ies, projects … This is one way to escape the routine, enjoying our
free time or taking advantage using the escape room as a team-
building.

I really like this way of entertainment because I think that is an

innovative idea and I can be creative because I can orient the busi-
ness to specific themes that I really like.”
 Open this business and promote this type of
entertainment.
goal
of the project

specific
to open escape room

measurable
we fulfill the goal in a moment we have a first customer

achiEvable
Escape rooms already exists, I am just bringing them to the
new context

relevant
it is a new way of culture and entertaiment for a locals
 time schedule
End of January 2019 Try new scaperooms to get some
ideas

End of February 2019 Decide the name of the company

End of March 2019 Make the logo

End of April 2019 Take information about historical

villages in Granada

End of May 2019 Talk with the Mayor of the vil-

lage

End of July 2019 Rent an a apartment

End of Septemeber Write the story

2019

End of October 2019 Adapt the story

End of December 2019 Buy and make the furnitures and

devices required
https://vimeo.com/307957888
 Rural Co-working
Creation of co-working and co-living space in rural areas.

Irene Valenti, Gonçalo Hall,

Italy Portugal

“The way people are working is changing, more and more people
are working remotely and want to escape the city stress and move
to a smaller village. We believe that in the future more and more
people will work from rural areas, with their laptop and internet
connectivity. This is why we decided to create a co-working and
co-living space in small villages to allow entrepreneurs and remote
workers to have a beautiful and calm place to work and live at the
same time they build a strong community with the locals.”
 Open coworking/coliving spaces in rural ar-
eas in harmony with local communities.
At least 1 new space
every year. goal
of the project

specific
Open a network of co-working spaces

measurable
A coworking space is open and having first client

achiEvable
Co.working spaces alreeady exists in cities and we see de-
mand for them in rural areas

relevant
By opening a coworking space in a rural area we will allow
highly educated and successful people to come to places that
have lost population to cities in the last years. Also, we will
offer to remote workers a calm and peaceful place where they
can focus and do their best work. The exchange of knowl-
edge will both open the mentality of small villages and
improve the awareness of the advantages of working close
to nature.
 timely

11-12-2018 Visit living spaces

07-12-2018 Create social media pages

30-01-2019 Contact local authorities

30-01-2019 Find a space for coworking

30-01-2019 Create live events on Facebook

To explain the project and gather
leads

30-05-2019 Get furniture and restore the

coworking and co-living spaces

10-06-2019 Launch date

Forever Grow the community and build

awareness
https://vimeo.com/307848837
 BIO LEARN
Creation of school garden for playing and education

Andrea López Ruiz, Marisa Máximo Murtinha,

Spain Portugal

Pilar Montoza García, Saúl Olcina Ruiz,

Spain Portugal

“We chose to do this project because nowadays our society has a big
problem with childhood obesity. With this project we are trying to
bring awareness to the young community about the problem with
obesity and the benefits of following a healthy diet.

The main vision hidden behind the project is provide a Better

Life.”
Creation of School Garden, which can be used by
teachers as an alternative educational tool to teach
the commun subjects. At the same time, the kids
will learn how to work in group,
the value of sustainability
and the importance goal
of ecosystems. of the project

specific
Creation of school garden

measurable
The goal is achieved when seeds are planted with the class
of children in the school.

achiEvable
The goal is realistic in the time frame we have to implement
the project.

relevant
In this day and age, childhood obesity is real problem. This
project is aimed to combat this reality. By being involved in
the process of making and taking care of a school garden,
we expect that children will be more aware of the impor-
tance of a heathier lifestyle.
 time schedule
End of February 2019 Contact to the Ampa
Contact with companies in case
we need more things

End of March 2019 Contact with the School

Make the presentation with chil-
dren in the school
Build the garden in the school
Planting the seeds and show them
to take care of them
Editing foto and/or video

https://vimeo.com/307848766
vocab
ulary
Agenzia Nazionale per i Giovani

is a public body, with organizational and financial autonomy,

overseen by the Italian Government and the European Com-
mission. www.agenziagiovani.it

Artisti in piazza

Since 1997 Pennabilli houses the International Festival of

Street Art “Artisti in Piazza”. From the first edition, the
event has become one of the most important events planned
in Italy. In the five days 60 international companies (over
200 artists) of theater, music, new circus, street art, are in-
vited by the organization.

For each edition, the program is renewed at 90%, there are

about 400 reruns of the shows during the five days, it is esti-
mated a turnout of about 40,000 people. For the realization
of the festival is employed a staff of about 300 people. The
festival will include performances and concerts by profes-
sional companies of street art in all its forms. Bands repre-
senting trends and traditions from all over the world, a large
space is also devoted to local and international craft with the
“Mercatino del solito e insolito”. Each year are offered exhi-
bitions and art installations.

XXIII Edition: 13th - 16th June 2019

#artistiinpiazza
www.artistiinpiazza.com/en
Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education,

training, youth and sport in Europe. Its budget of €14.7 bil-
lion will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans
to study, train gain experience, and volunteers abroad.

Set to last until 2020, Erasmus+ doesn’t just have opportu-

nities for students. Merging seven prior programmes, it has
opportunities for a wide variety of individuals and organisa-
tions. Detailed information on these opportunities, inluding
eligiblity criteria, is available in the Erasmus+ Programme
Guide. An indicative funding guide for some centralised op-
portunities is also available.

Erasmus+ has opportunities for people of all ages, helping

them develop and share knowledge and experience at insti-
tutions and organisations in different countries.

Erasmus+ has opportunities for a wide range of organisa-

tions, including universities, education and training provid-
ers, think-tanks, research organisations, and private busi-
nesses.

Youth Exchange

Youth exchanges allow groups of young people from different countries

to meet, live together and work on shared projects for short periods.

Youth exchanges take place outside the school environment. On a youth

exchange, you can expect to participate in activities such as workshops,
exercises, debates, role-plays, outdoor activities and more.
Youth exchanges last between 5 and 21 days. This excludes travelling
time.

Youth exchanges are open to people between the ages of 13 and 30. To
be a group leader in a youth exchange, you must be at least 18 years-
old.

Youth exchanges are managed by youth organisations, informal groups

of young people or other organisations.

The EU grant supports travel as well as practical and activity-related

costs necessary for the exchange.
partners
Chiocciola la casa del nomade

Chiocciola La casa del nomade

realizes educational projects for
children and adults In, With and For the landscape.

Founded in 2010, Chiocciola La casa del nomade matured

from an interest in places and the complexities that underlie
them.

Artistic, educational and historical-environmental researches

twined together resulting in activities related to the educa-
tion and appreciation of nature and its territories. In 2014
formally becomes a cultural association.

Experience organising residential international projects

- Migrant Landscapes was a project involving young design-
ers, graphic designer, educators and artists in a process of
reading and interpretation of the landscape surrounding the
historical centre of Pennabilli.

www.chiocciolalacasadelnomade.it

YOUTHphoria

YOUTHphoria is an informal
group of young people based in Katerini, Pieria, Greece.
It was established in December of 2016 by a group of four
active young people working on the voluntary and non-for-
mal learning sector. We are united with the common vision
of a tolerant, multicultural society, in which each young per-
son can be an active member. We promote voluntarism, civil
activism, environmental awareness, creative expression, mu-
tual respect and productive dialogue.

Our goal is to create sensitive, capable of living and work-

ing in the newly formed multicultural environment, active
citizens and extend their personal and professional horizons.
Furthermore, we are advocating the active participation of
young people with fewer opportunities and we are encourag-
ing social values among young people.

To achieve the above objectives, we provide young people

with opportunities to improve their skills and enrich their
experiences with their involvement and participation in
voluntary action programs, seminars and mobility in local
and European level. We are very active in local, national and
European level. We organized and implemented actions aim-
ing to spread accurate information to young people from our
region.

We focus on offering our volunteers various opportuni-

ties for educational and mobility projects and we encourage
them to enrich their experiences and improve their skills and
competences. At the same time we participate in national
campaigns and we promote values and principals based on
democracy, constructive dialogue, free expression and tol-
erance. We are also very active in writing projects for our
region, taking under consideration the needs, requirements
and abilities of our volunteers. We are always trying to im-
prove our work and include more and more young people in
our workshops and projects.

https://sites.google.com/view/youthphoriakaterinigreece
Agoraveiro

Agoraveiro is a non-profit and

non-governmental, private NGO,
founded under the Portuguese law,
by a group of young professionals in
May 2010 in Aveiro. Our main field of activities is promo-
tion of an active citizenship, inclusion, international aware-
ness and healthy lifestyles and most of our activities are
planned based on those principals.

The association is widely recognised within both local people

and local institutions. We have been collaborating on dif-
ferent projects with some of the most relevant institutions
- like the City Hall, secondary schools (high schools and
vocational schools). University of Aveiro and we are often
invited by them to share our experience and good practices,
or to co-organize different activities.

Our local activities are mostly orientated to active partici-

pation in different processes of society: powerful guerrilla
actions (drawing attention of citizens to a social, environ-
mental or other type ofproblems), workshops (as diverse
as: baking biological bread, knitting, healthy eating habits,
upcycling, languages, origami, etc.), activities where we pro-
mote healthy lifestyles (for example creation of AMAP in
Aveiro where we connect local bio-agricultures with inter-
ested consumers) as well as social inclusion and tolerance
(like Suspended Coffee, Human Library), etc.

In terms of international scope, we are trying to enhance in-

ternational dimension and non-formal learning methods by
being active partners in meaningful international projects.

We co-organize annual TEDxAveiro and TEDxYouth@

Aveiro conferences (around 500 participants each), where we
promote entrepreneurship, innovation and good practices.
TEDxAveiro is aimed at 18+ audience, while TEDxYouth@
Aveiro has different concept - it is organised by youngsters
from local schools (with our mentorship) and for youngsters
<18. They are responsible for all the aspects of the organi-
sation: design of the stage, catering, event greening, photos
and video recording, postproduction of speeches etc. Most
of the speakers at TEDxYouth are youngsters from local
schools who come to present to the audience their ideas,
projects or achievements. Our TEDx event is the second
biggest in Portugal and this year we hosted 720 people in
the audience.

www.agoraaveiro.org

KULT Hub

KULT Hub is an educational and

creative space that provides to
young people an integrated experience
of personal and professional development courses, access to
a model community and the opportunity to implement their
own projects. Our NGO was established in 2017 in Roman,
a small town in north-east part of Romania. We are work-
ing with teenegers and we are developing an curricula based
by longlife learning and 21 century skills through courses,
educational projects, cultural events, volunteering and youth
exchanges. In Roman we even formed an initiative group
and we want to give an example of active citizenship that
motivates others. Today our city vibrates and this is due to
all young people who want to change something around
them and do not expect this to come from nothing. Also we
promote values and principals based on free exporession, co-
laboration, creativity, constructive dialogue, democracy and
tolerance.

http://www.kulthub.ro

Asociacion Cultural Somos Europa

The “Asociación Cultural Somos

Europa” was born with the task that
the young people of our province
(Granada) know more deeply what
Europe is, its different cultures, languages, ways of under-
standing life, history.... We want to strengthen the European
identity using intercultural knowledge as a tool. We also
want our young people to be socially more participative, to
be committed to be autonomous and involved with the social
problems, we want them decide for themselves and become
drivers of change. We would like to favor the acquisition
of skills through non-formal education mainly (workshops,
project development, cultural activities, volunteering ...).

We are a group of people, mostly young people who come

from working with the Padul in Action Youth Association
and the Padul Town Hall, we worked with these two enti-
ties working with the Erasmus + program with more than
satisfactory results. We decided to give One step further and
expand our work to the rest of the province. Our way of
working is integrative and proactive, it is the young partici-
pants who carry out and implement our projects always with
our coordination and supervision.

We developed our first European volunteer project in our

town, It has been a magnificent experience that has given
participants the opportunity to know new cultures and to
acquire new tools.

We collaborate with the Youth Center of our municipality

in the dissemination of the Erasmus + program among our
young people.

We have developed several informative talks about the Eras-

mus + program with the young people of High Schools and
University from Granada.

www.somoseuropa.eu

MAS Hradecky venkov

Local Action Group is made up of

representatives of municipalities, local
entrepreneurs (also farmers), NGOs and active citizens.

Our organisation is thus made up of representatives of

municipalities, local entrepreneurs (also farmers), NGOs and
active citizens. The territory of LAG shall be homogenous.
LAG draws up a multi-sectoral development strategy for its
area which is subject to approval of all its members.
Target group - young people, youth, youth workers, leadres,
people with geographical disadvantages, local entrepreneurs,
schools, farmers, representatives of municipalities, NGOs
and active citizens. Our organization support these target
groups. We are trying to reduce geographical disadvantages.
We offer them lot of opportunities and improve their live-
style. Together, we participate in the organization of events
and conferences.

www.hradeckyvenkov.cz