29/7-5/8/2015- Training Course:"Come Out & Play!" (Edessa, Greece)

Young people nowadays spend half of the hours that they are awake in computers, cell phones, TVs, and monitors for video games. The consequences of this phenomenon (called “videophilia”) are especially negative for their psychological, mental and physical health. Major role to combat this phenomenon are considered to have outdoor activities.

The project “Come Out & Play!” has an aim to outline the importance of outdoor activities and street games as means of dealing with young people’s addiction to internet and the “videophilia” phenomenon.

The main idea of the project will be based on outdoor games that are or were played in various countries and how these can contribute to foster healthy behaviours.

All activities and workshops will be realized in the frame of non-formal and informal learning.

Some of the most important goals of the project are the following:
• To encourage outdoor activities as means of promoting healthy behaviours and way of living and as a means of reinforcing the mental, psychological and physical health of young people.
• To create intercultural learning and to discover cultural elements and identities of participants and their countries.
• The intergenerational approach of youngsters with older people.
• The development of social, personal, group skills amongst participants and to reinforce their self esteem and self confidence.
• To sensitize and provide knowledge about the side-effects of modern technological means, about the dangers hidden in getting addicted to internet and about the phenomenon of “videophilia”.

Contact for questions:
E-Mail: programs@youthnet.gr

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