Invitation to A 1.1 Youth Exchange << Sports for

Invitation to
A 1.1 Youth Exchange
<< Sports for Health, Sports for Inclusion! >>
When?
Exchange: 21-28 May 2014
Arrival: 20 May 2014
Departure: 29 May 2014
Where?
Location: Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania
Venue: Kolping Center
Who?
ASOCIATIA "HANDBAL NO AGE" CRISTURU SECUIESC - ROMANIA
Anthropolis Antropológiai Közhasznú Egyesület - HUNGARY
Eesti Erinoorsootöö Ühing noOR - ESTONIA
Work In Progress – W.I.P. - ITALY
Mikes Kelemen Fanları Gençlik Grubu - TURKEY
Participants:
6-6 participants from each country
How?
Working Language: English
Short Summary of the Project
The Sports for health, sports for inclusion multilateral youth exchange will take
place in Cristuru Secuiesc between the 21-28 May 2014. It will involve 30 youngsters
from 5 countries: Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Estonia and Italy.
The problem tackled by the exchange is the absence of sports in the life of
youngsters nowadays, which causes a lot of health problems like obesity. The other
problem tackled by the exchange is the communication barrier between disabled
youths and youths not confronting such problems.
During the project the participants will share and practice their national sports,
will seek solutions for popularizing sports among youngsters, will make a campaign
in order to make the local community of Cristuru Secuiesc aware of the importance of
practicing sports, will organize a sport day for the disabled youths and youths not
confronting such problems, will visit a local school to motivate pupils to practice
sports.
Besides this, the participants will share their cultural values, will establish
intercultural dialogue with youths coming from different countries, will erase their
prejudices regarding the other participating cultures and will accept more easily the
cultural diversity. At the project will participate also deaf youngsters who will make
energizers for the other participants, will teach the sign language for them and will
be actively involved in all the activities of the project.
Participant Profile
Each Group has 6 members, 1 group leader and 5 participants.
- Age of the group leader can be between 20-50
- Age of the participants has to be 18-25, with a few exceptions until 30.
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- in each group 3 or 4 of the participants have to be deaf or hearing impaired or
from difficult social, economical or geographical backgrounds;
- one person in each group should be able to translate English to national Sign
Language
How to Prepare
The young participants should prepare the following:
- short creative presentation of their country and sending organization;
- creative presentation of the situation of sports and sports for disabled, in each
country;
- creative presentation of the situation of diseases caused by lack of sports
activities, in each country;
- preparing short moments of learning from each country’s language and sign
language;
- bring materials (food, drinks, pictures, movies, music, etc) for intercultural
night;
Finances and Travels
The Youth in Action
program covers all the
costs of this exchange
100%.
This
includes
accommodation, food and
organization.
For
the
Exchange only 70% of
travel costs is covered by
the
Youth
in
Action
Programme, while 30% has
to
be
covered
by
participants or sending
organizations.
Each Partner should
search the lowest means of
transport to arrive in Romania, this means low cost airline tickets and second class
bus, train tickets. All tickets, boarding passes and bills must be kept and sent to
the host organization.
For arriving in Cristuru Secuiesc, You should manage the travels in your own
country and the flight. We will manage your travel from Airports in Romania. When
choosing your Flights, be sure that You find Wizz Air connections from your country
to Airports like Tirgu Mures (very close) Cluj, (close), Arad, Timisoara and Bucharest
(far).
Before Booking any Airline ticket or any other travel means, send your plan to
[email protected] for a confirmation. Please buy tickets as soon as possible.
Accommodation
We will be hosted In a Renting Home in Cristuru Secuiesc. The building is owned by
the Catholic Church and managed privately. It can host 45 people at 1 time and has
rooms with 2 to 5 beds. Participants will be randomly selected in rooms, in order to
ensure a multicultural division everywhere.
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Working Spaces
The conference room, where we will have some of our meetings, discussions,
workshops and debates is also in this building. During some days we will have
activities in parks or green spaces around the city.
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Food
Most of the time, we will have breakfast in the restaurant of the renting room.
Lunch and Dinner will be in a restaurant in the city. We will also have outdoor
cooking if the weather permits it.
Most of the food will be traditional Romanian, Hungarian and Seckler food. If there
are participants who are vegetarian, with a special diet, or other eating needs, pleas
let us know in advance and we will try to prepare for this
About the Town
Cristuru
Secuiesc
(RO),
Székelykeresztúr (HU), is a town in
Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the
Seckler Land, an ethno-cultural region in
eastern Transylvania where the majority
of the population is Seckler, who are a
Hungarian ethnic group which speak a
distinct dialect of Hungarian.
The population of the town is 9672,
from which 96% are of Hungarian
ethnicity, 3% of Romanian while 1% belongs to other groups.
Historically the region, with the whole of Transylvania was part of the Hungarian
Kingdom and later, of the Austro Hungarian Empire. After the Trianon Treaty which
ended World War 2, ut became part of Romania, and since them (with a period of
change during the beginning of World War 2) it is part of this country.
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A bit of informal Romanian and Hungarian before you arrive
English
Hy! / Hello!
Good morning!
Good day!
Good night!
Welcome!
My name is…
Thank you!
I need help.
I’m sorry, I don’t speak
Romanian/Hungarian.
Do you speak
French/German/English?
Excuse me!
Yes
No
Maybe
Romanian
Bună! / Salut!
Bună dimineaţa!
Bună ziua!
Bună seara!
Bine aţi venit!
Numele meu e…
Mulţumesc!
Am nevoie de ajutor.
Î-mi pare rău, nu vorbesc
Românește / Maghiară.
Vorbești
Franceză/Germană/Engleză?
Scuză mă!
Da
Nu
Poate
Hungarian
Szia! / Hali!
Jó reggelt!
Jó napot
Jó estét!
Üdvözlım.
A nevem …
Köszönöm
Segítség.
Sajnálom, nem beszélek
Románul/Magyarul.
Beszélsz Franciául,
Németül, Angolul?
Bocsánat
Igen
Nem
Lehet
This Project is Founded By the European Commission’s Youth in Action Programme, through the Romanian National
Agency, Agenția Națională pentru Programe Comunitare în Domeniul Educației și Formării Profesionale
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