21-26/06/2016 - Making the Difference 3: A North-South Partnership Building Activity (Portugal)

This Partner Building Activity (=PBA) aims at creating concrete partnerships – by preference between North and South of Europe, so that they can develop youth exchange projects and apply in 2016 under the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme.
The PBA is organised in a small village where the involvement of and contact with the local community serves as an example and inspiration on how this can be done during youth exchanges. The participants live together in different houses in the village.

Objectives of the PBA:
- To create an opportunity to find good and reliable partners to make youth exchanges with
- To understand what is needed to plan a youth exchange of good quality.
- To create a solid network of contacts and partnerships.
- To equip the youth workers with insight in their role as coach and support in the youth exchange process.
- To experience the possibilities of local involvement.
- To understand the impact and social change a youth exchange can have within the local community.

Target group of the ‘Making the Difference’ Partnership Building Activity
- Up to 30 participants from NORWAY and SOUTHERN Europe (Croatia, Cyprus, France, Italy, Portugal and Turkey++)
- Youth workers able to use English as working language
- Youth workers from organisations/instititutions that have a true and real interest in establishing partnerships
- Youth workers and youth leaders who can represent their youth group’s interest, and have the authoritity to make decisions on behalf of the group
- Particularly, but not exclusively, open to youth workers from groups wishing to start working with youth exchanges.

Expected outcomes:
Participants should leave the PBA with partners and ideas to apply for a project in 2016 under the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme.

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