INSPIRATION.. .. was born as an idea / need of young poeple for socioeconomical independence. Idea was created by young people based from their needs and enchanced in interaction of young peoples and youth workers. Young people wanted to create a project that can help them and their peers to more easily overcome socioeconomical barriers so they don't need to depend on system or on their parents and in the same time they wanted an interesting project. One young girl prosposed a creative workshop for producing hand made suveniers and similar staff and the ideas start to roll on..
The inspiration lead to development of project proposal and to the project. We didn't suceed from the first attempt so we made changes, but second attempt wasn't a success also. Then we have include more people with new ideas, better workshops, additional possibilities and the third atttempt was a succes!
Down here you can see what we have and how we have done it. Hope that you will find it usefull, we certanly think that. This ebooklet is result of common work of 30 participants together with their group leaders from 6 countries (Greece, Lithuania, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia) participated on this Youth Exchange. Goal of the booklet to be used in future in Youth work both by our participants / partners and by other interested parties – persons.
SHORT DESCRIPTION Aim of the project was to gather socioeconomic marginalized youth from different countries and that through exchange of experiences; practical work and creative work develop their competences in order to improve their own socioeconomic situation. The main theme of our project is development of creativity and entrepreneurship competences as a tool for improvement of participant’s socioeconomic difficulties. During implementation of designed activities / handling different creative methods young people have learn how to old, thrown away things “fresh up” and make them again useful. Further participants had learn how can they the same crafts / items and their creativity promote and offer / sell on online and offline market. The MAIN OBJECTIVE of our project: Encouraging economic empowerment of young people through the development of creativity and entrepreneurial initiatives / capacities.
Participants of this project in majority were young people from 18 to 25 years old. Young people have money issues or would like to improve their creativity and entrepreneurship skills in a way that they can use competences gained on this project to earn some extra money (more than they have now) to improve thyself socioeconomic position. So, what we have done here.. We had shown young people how to make useful crafts / items from the old items that are not in use but also some items that are brand new. They have learn / work on at least 4 methods of transferring / creating crafts / items during which they have individually or in a small groups created more crafts / items. Beside creative and practical workshops had an opportunity to interact / visit local creative enthusiast / entrepreneurs from which they could “still” some tips & tricks for themselves. Further on participants had online marketing workshops where saw examples and learned how they can use social networks to promote and sell their art crafts / creative items.
WHO DID THIS? This brochure was created by 4 young people and their group leaders (1 per country) from 6 countries, notably from Croatia as applicant and partner organizations from: Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Romania. Applicant was a Coordination of Sisak youth associations. We are an umbrella association of 5 local youth organizations from city of Sisak and beside members of organizations we have also about 50 youth volunteers. Each member of umbrella association is focused on work with youth or work for youth but with different area of interest. As an umbrella association we exist for 11 years now. We have our youth club which have one big room suitable for concerts and bigger events, middle room for workshops for max 20 people, plus 3 smaller rooms which we use for administration, small workshops or other needs all in total our club has 950m^2. We have a number of workshops for young people in our workshops. Each year there is about 10 to 20 topic workshops, some of them are continued from previous years and some are new. We also have some of our traditional events among the most important is Small Urban Festival (MUF on Croatian). Though all our work during a year we have from 2500 to 3500 users.
Bulgarian partner: Since the registration of CYA we have been officially partners in more than 40 international training events. Besides the association`s experience, the key staff have around 8 years of experience with nonformal education and projects (Youth in Action, Leonardo Da Vinci, Erasmus Mundus, etc.). We work on projects in fields of ecology, support and integration of people with disabilities, social inclusion, nonformal education and work with kids at risk and youngsters from rural areas.
We cooperate with schools and try to popularize nonformal education among educational institutions. One of our main tasks is to promote volunteering and work with volunteers. CYA is accredited EVS hosting/sending/coordinating organization. So far we hosted 8 volunteers from Spain, Italy, Romania and France and in 2017 we are going to host 3 more. We work together with the schools in Tryavna on common projects under KA1 VET and Mobility of Youth as well as KA2.
Greek partner: "Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Eteria En Gnosi" (short: "En Gnosi") is located in Amindeo, a municipality with 5 lakes, in the prefecture of Western Macedonia, Greece. Two of its head members reside in Kastoria, a beautiful town 70 Km away from Amindeo. This fact, gives En Gnosi a wider area for primal action on a local level, and allows for better interregional communication and cooperation, with the aim of development for a wider geographical area. The organization is situated in a disadvantaged area, where unemployment is the highest in Greece, combined with high levels of respiratory illnesses due to the coal mines and the steamelectric power plants that provide 70% of Greece's electricity. The main field of action for En Gnosi is lifelong learning and adult education since two of its head members have been working for many years in this field. Through lifelong learning and adult education, En Gnosi is active in intercultural communication, environment, tourism, culture, elimination of social exclusion, social awareness and care, solidarity, unemployment, support of senior citizens, sensitive and disadvantaged groups.
Further support of groups with special characteristics (religious, cultural, racial, sexual), equality, civil consumer and human rights, health, nutrition, voluntarism and networking of social economy organizations.
Italian partner: Associazione Joint was founded in December 2003 to promote social activities for youngsters between 14 and 30. The mission of the organization is to provide nonformal education opportunities for young people in international contexts. Our main activities are: training courses for high school students’ representatives; Youth Exchanges, training courses and European Voluntary Service within the Erasmus+ Programme and events in local communities. Our aim is to help youngsters develop their transversal competences (life skills) by using nonformal learning approach. Over the last three years, thanks to the experience of our staff in project management, trainings and youth projects, we’ve started to guide local and international NGOs in the Erasmus+ field, coordinating for them EVS projects, training courses and youth exchanges. We also created some of the most known websites about international mobility and E+ opportunities in Italy and in Europe.
Lithuanian partner: Rokiškio jaunimo organizacijų sąjunga „Apvalus stalas“(RJOSAS) is an umbrella organization that unites 7 regional youth organizations. It was founded in 2004 with the goal of better representation of youth needs and encourage closer collaboration between young people, youth workers and local authorities.
Further more also to equip them with the relevant recommendations for youth policymaking at the regional and national level. By involving youth in community development RJOSAS aims to encourage local initiatives and active citizenship in the target group, aged 1330. The activities are focused on the support and empowerment of youth organizations in their development processes by providing non formal education on the subject of leadership, entrepreneurship, core competencies for youth work and etc. Since 2012 RJOSAS is a member of LIJOT, which is the biggest nongovernmental, non profit umbrella structure for Lithuanian national youth organizations and regional unions of youth organizations. At the international level RJOSAS is committed to develop further fruitful partnerships and promote the idea of being a part of Europe. RJOSAS have organized and participated in a great number of international youth events which have contributed to a large extend of our association goals and improved the key competences of our youngsters.
Romanian partner: "Asociația "Tinerii 3D" (The Association of 3D Youngsters) is a NGO from Craiova, Romania existing since 2012. We are a group of young people who is fighting for respecting the right of the young people in the community, for social integration and support of the youngsters that belong to disadvantaged social groups and also for developing a healthy way of life in 3Directions: education of the mind, culture for soul and sport for the body. Among our objectives you can find promotions of the volunteering work, of the general creativity, of gender equality and nonracist prejudices, of the exploration of national and other countries culture, of organisation of sport contests and last but not least, the promotions of the principles of European Union and European citizenship."
WORKSHOPS INTRODUCTION How can we use our creativity? (Is creativity magical?) Are there any secrets to open our imagination? We tried to find some answers to these questions during our workshops by investing in young people so they can easier find their way to unlock their imagination. These workshops were imagined like a box filled with tools that can be used to improve young people skills and knowledge about craft. Some of them already had some basic creative skills, but we wanted to show them how to create or reproduce handmade items for sale using a variety of techniques. So we opened that box and transfer them several craft techniques like Paper Mache technique, polymer clay modeling, acrylic paint coloring and a few decorative techniques. Further on they have developed accuracy, tidiness and their design / craft skills like sawing, drilling, painting and sewing. Through it they have increase their artistic confidence and an interest for creating new things. At the same time, the participants learned how to use materials from around the youth club and recycle them. With a little bit of creativity, they found so many clever ways to use old items and to turn them into something new and here you can see something of that...
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS 1. BIRD'S HOUSES In this workshop we have learned how to recycle plastic bottles and use them to make useful stuff, such as bird's houses. Using the Paper Mache technique and simple methods of cutting, gluing and coloring, they created the Bird's houses from plastic bottles (of 1l and 2l) which were used for a real bird houses or a room wall decorations.
Supplies:
Supplies for another way of decorating: tapestry paper glue/ decoupage glue / Mod Podge
one 2l plastic bottle
colored magazine, old books, craft papers etc
one 1l plastic bottle
PVA or craft glue (for plastic)
a pair of sharp scissors or cutters lighter primer for plastic acrylic color paintbrushes rope small stones hay or raffia
Stepbystep instructions: Step 1. Use 1L plastic bottle for the main part of the house and the 2L bottle for the roof. Cut the bottles in halves with a cutter; cut a hole for a door; burn the bottle edges with a lighter.
Duration: 2 hours per a lamp
Step 2. Apply a layer of the primer to the both bottle parts and to the bottle top and wait approximately 15 minutes until is touch dry (or more, follow the primer manufactures' instructions). Apply the second layer in the same way. Colour both pieces, inside and outside parts of the bottle.
Step 3. Make some holes so you can connect and tied both bottle parts (we suggest to make double holes on three spots). Connect them later, after coloring. Step 4. Put a layer of colour and wait until is touch dry; put another layer of the colour. Colour both pieces, inside and outside parts of the bottle.
6. Put some small rocks (for stability) and
Step 5.
hay/raffia inside,
Connect the
tied some rope
parts with
under the bottle
the rope.
top and hang bird's houses somewhere. An option: You can just paint your bird's houses or you can decorate them with decoupage technique or coloured magazines. In this case, you don't need to put primer and colour at all.
Participant’s personal overview The workshop was really interesting because we learned something new and we had a lot of teamwork, leadership, we gain the experience in handcrafted items/artifacts, and the most important fact is that birds will not be homeless anymore, except the big ones because they can’t fit in.
2. UPCYCLED T-SHIRT NECKLACES There are plenty of ways to make the most of your old Tshirts. In this workshop we learnt how to make a necklace of old Tshirts. Before main part we did some preparations like cutting the Tshirt into stripes and then continued with more challenging pieces. Further we practised banding and sewing skills and developed our accuracy and tidiness in order to turn their old Tshirts into a brand new necklace.
Supplies: elastic old Tshirt (or leggings / skirt / dress) –combination of cotton and elastin scissors rope lighter
Duration: 3 hours
needle thread metal rings satin ribbons
Stepbystep instructions: 1. For this kind of workshop you need a tshirt which is elastic. If you want to, you can mix tshirts in different colours or you can use just one. First cut the tshirt into stripes and then stretch each stripe until they are rolled into tubes.
2. After that, take aprox. 18 cm long rope and burn its edges.
3. The third step is to fold the ribbons in half and tie them around the rope. Tie the longest ribbon in the middle of the rope and continue with tying them to the left and to the right. Pay attention to the knots while you are tying the ribbons. All the knots should be on side, notably on the front side or on the back side of the rope.
4. Now you have to hide the ugly endings of the rope. Cover them with the material of the last ribbon and sew it. Start and finish with sewing on the back side of your necklace.
5. The next step is to sew rings on the edges of the necklace.
6. Now take your 2 satin ribbons, which should be 45 cm long. Burn all their endings and make a few knots only on 1 end of each ribbon. Push the ribbons through the rings of the necklace.
7. Cut the ribbons in different lengths from the longest to the shortest. In this way you will have a triangle form of the necklace.
Personal overview I think it is really good idea if you don’t want to throw away the unnecessary clothes, so you can use them in the better way. I really liked this workshop. The necklaces are wonderful and easy to make. I think that this workshop helped me to stimulate my creativity and also showed me the procedure to make my own jewelry and I liked it. Also, it was pleasant to work in group in this workshop because we helped each other and we have given to each others great ideas how to make our jewelry special.
3. FABRIC FLOWERS In a Fabric workshop the participants found out that they can experiment with different fabric and techniques to come up with something interesting. They did fabulous fabric flowers using the simple techniques of cutting, burning and sewing. Also, they
Supplies: tulle scissors candle / lighter needle embroidery thread elastic hair bands and brooch pins
decided that their fabric flowers could be use as a fancy detail on a hair band or as a brooch.
Duration: 15 minutes per a broche Step-by-step instructions:
1.Cut the tulle with scissors in a shape of rectangle (approx. 5 x 3 cm) and square (approx. 3 x 3 cm).
2.Use a candle or a lighter to burn the edges of the tulle pieces.
3.Arrange the pieces in a circle and hold them with your fingers in the centre all the time. Keep adding the layers of circles until it's thick enough or until you are satisfied.
4.Sew the pieces together one over another with a needle and an embroidery thread. In the end, sew an elastic hair band or glue a brooch pin with a hot gun glue to the backside of the flower.
Participant’s personal overview The method is very creative because you can create a large pallet of jewelry with very cheap materials. Although, making brooches and necklaces is a girly activity, the male attenders took the job very seriously. As a conclusion: Beauty does not depend on gender.
4. WOOD (UPCYCLED FURNITURE) With a little bit of creativity, there are so many clever ways to use broken wooden parts, old furniture, or even everyday household items and to turn them into something new. Working in small groups and focusing on different items and methods we have learnt many paint effects and how to use or combine different ways of decorating. We have applied acrylic paint colouring, drawing simple illustrations, writing short texts, printing and paper Mache technique and we had successfully succeeded to turn old chairs, desks and drawers into new and modern pieces of furniture.
Supplies:
old wooden furniture (chair, desk, drawer) medium grit sandpaper cloth primer for wood and metals acrylic paint different sizes of paint brushes / foam roller / sponge tapestry glue / Mod Podge glue newspapers / magazines / old books / fabric / comic nails hooks hammer painter's tape oil soap (for cleaning) varnish for wood / wax
Duration: 46 Hours
Stepbystep instructions:
Before using paint effects, there are some basic things to follow: 1. Prepare your piece of wood. Give it a good cleaning especially if it's very dusty. You can use oil soap or a cloth for it. Remove all drawers before painting and work on those separately.
2. Sand your wooden item and get all of the glossy finish off because the paint will have a good surface to “grab” on to. Remove the sanding dust with a cloth.
3. After your furniture is dry and dustfree, paint it with some primer, wooden and metal parts if there are any. This helps your paint adhere to the piece better and it also covers any stains on the wood.
4. Now that you have your piece primed and ready, it’s time to paint. Paint thin layer and sand a little bit between each layer. This step is very important if you want to achieve an even smoother / nicer final product. It is normally to paint 23 coats. Use a small foam roller for the painting on the main parts of the wooden items and a brush in the hard parts to reach crevices. (The roller helps prevent visible brush strokes.) Paint the crevices first. 5. After your last layers of paint has dried for at least 24 hours, protect your furniture with varnish or wax (an optional). There are so many exciting ways to use modern paints and different paint techniques. Here are just few of them that you can use to refresh and repurpose your old pieces of furniture:
Collage Method:
Shabby Chic Method
1. Choose pictures or text and cut or tear them with 1. Paint and draw. When you’re using the your fingers. shabby chic method, first colour the object 2. Cover the surface with tapestry glue and create a with dark colours and then finish the top of composition. the object with a brighter. That creates 3. Put another layer of tapestry glue to finish it. contrast.
Stamping method 1. Pick a form you want to make on the wood and think of how you could make it. 2. Once you have the stamp, dip it into the paint,
2. Once you have all the layers ready, you need to sand the parts where you want the layers of paint to be visible. The more you sand the more intense the first colors will
start stamping the pattern of yours and wait for it to dry.
be.
This is how we did it:
First we had to pick the furniture we wanted to renew. Most people chose to go with chairs but there were some people who went with jewellery hangers and old drawers. When everyone was done we started thinking of decorating it. Then, we sanded it and cleaned the surfaces we wanted to decorate with paint. We put primer on it so the paint dried faster and the colours looked brighter. Obviously, the painting and drawing part was the most interesting. Some people chose the sanding method that includes painting the surface in a few different contrasted colours and then sanding it to create a multicolour effect. Others decided to do collages on surfaces which include gluing pictures and newspapers on a surface. In the end, all we had to do was to put varnish on it and let it dry.
We were left with beautiful, new chairs and happy hearts full of accomplishment.
(Personal overview)
Victoria “I had fun by transforming an old piece of furniture into sweet coffee table”
Chara „ It was a surprise for me that you can make old furniture more valuable using your creativity “
Michela „I made my first collage and i tried to find the perfect combination of colours „
Ilijana “I enjoyed painting big surface and drawing little details“
Paulius “Renewing these chairs was really fun and it gave me ideas for things to renew at home”
5. THE BIRTHDAY REMINDER BOARD The Birthday reminder board calendar is a creative and very cute way to remember the birthdays of our favourite people or other personal important dates. To make this product useful we have used a wooden board, paper and polymer clay and practised different types of craft techniques as sawing, drilling, cutting and clay modelling..
Supplies: wood planks or large wooden sign eyelet hooks round jump metal rings 12mm (approx. 50 pieces) photo frame hooks pencil ruler Duration: 3 hours. crill acrylic paint paint brushes liner for writing on the board (optional: for silk)
Supplies for (2 ways of making) circles: various colours of polymer clay bottle cap cutter/plastic knife baking paper roller or glass bottle sharpie paint pen (for writing the name and the date on each circle) or various colours of thick paper scissors
Stepbystep instructions: 1. Select the materials. Take the 53cm x 10cm wooden plank (or choose the size as you wish). Measure the distance between the months (or weeks/days if you want to make this board as a reminder for something else this is optional) leaving at the same time some space (2 or 3cm) on the endings of the plank.
2. On the lower bottom side of the plank drill 12 holes and screw hooks for each month (day / week optional).
3. On back side of the plank attach the hangers for the wall.
4.Sand the endings of the plank with sand paper and clean the dust off.
5. Choose the colour/colours as you wish. Paint the plank and write the months with a liner on it. You can write months by yourself, print it or transfer it. Leave it to dry.
From a cardboard or thick coloured paper: Draw round shape circles. Cut them. Make holes into the top and bottom of each circle making sure they were directly opposite each other.
6. There are 2 different ways to create the round circles:
From a polymer clay: Warm up the polymer clay by kneading with your fingers in order to make it softer. Make little balls from it. Use a rubber roller or a bottle to make out of each ball 0.5 cm thick layer. Do this on a baking paper. Use a bottle cap to make round shaped circles from the polymer clay. Make holes with a toothpick into the top and bottom of each circle making sure they were directly opposite each other. Use the plastic knife to fix the edges of the circle if necessary. Bake it on 130°C for 40 minutes. Let them cool down.
7.Put everything together. Connect all the circles with the round jump rings in a form of a chain and then attach them to an eyelet hooks. On each chain there should be 45 circles.
8.Write the name and the date on each circle.
Personal overview:
Calendar / Reminder is a good tool to: Stay updated with the upcoming events of your friends; Attract youngsters and even adults into a collective work; To promote reusage of materials and turning “garbage” into art and/or useful tools; To include people with fewer opportunities, disabilities and gender/age differences into a divers/mixed team work; To decorate your room. It is useful and a great way to use your creativity and at the same time to remind yourself about the events of your friends. It is a great fun to do it, because during the process, the creativity of the people can turn nice job to a really fun job. At the same time, can teach some new skills such as drilling, measuring, painting, etc. It can work perfectly to people which are working “boring office” job and need a piece of “light”, “color” and creativity in their work environment.
6. PLASTIC LAMPS We had a focus making ecofriendlly products, so the participants used some newspapers, old books and big plastic bottles to make new trendy lamps. We have reused things they already used / bringed with us, in order to make something new, so check it
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a 7L (og 6L) plastic bottle a cutter a screwdriver a lighter an old book/magazines/decorative paper a pair of sharp scissors for paper stripes/circles some stick to apply glue a PVA or craft glue (for plastic) primer for plastic paintbrush acrylic colour a bulb a plug in (jack) connected to electric cable and bulb
Duration: 2 hours per lamp.
Stepbystep instructions: 1. Take a 7L plastic bottle and move the top and the holder with a cutter and a screwdriver (or with something similar) 2. Cut the down part with the cutter (if you want longer lamp than cut just the bottom of the lamp, but if you want a smaller and shorter lamp than cut more of the bottom part). Burn the edge with a lighter because you don't want to cut yourself on it during the creative work.
3. If you want a shorter lamp, the inside part will be visible a little bit and you don't want to have an ugly inside part. In that case you should apply a layer of the primer on the inside part of botle and wait approximately 15 minutes until is touch dry (or more, follow the manufactures' instructions). Apply the second layer on the same way and when it's dry enough, colour it. We suggest white colour. But if you want a longer lamp, inside part want be visible so you can skip that step. 4. Next step is to start with decorating. Prepare a lot of stripes of papers ( or circles or any other shape you want) from an old book or some magazines. Glue one stripe of paper one by one, next to each other starting from the bottom of the bottle. Don't leave space between them. Continue in this way all to the top. Cover even the top of the plastic bottle.Add a little bit of body text
5. Connect the electric cable with the plug in on one side as it is shown on the pictures.
On the other side of electric cable connect the bulb connector (base) as it is sown on pictures Add a little bit of body text
Participant’s personal overview It was interesting how useless materials can be used as useful piece of art and in same time a very useful item. It was fun and unique thing to do for decoration. It is valuable, simple and cheap to make.
ON-LINE WORKSHOP Within the project "Use your creativity", participants had the opportunity to learn how to sell their products on the market. Young people have gained / increased competences towards basics of market sales and online sales, with special emphasis on online sales by Facebook, through two workshops. Through the workshops, participants learned the basics what the marketing is and what is the marketing mix, how to explore the market, what are the factors affecting the market and customer’s needs, and how to start sales of goods they have produced. They had the opportunity to learn how to write an article about the product and how to present the product on the internet, how to establish credibility in the market and what on line techniques to use in achieving better visibility on the Internet. The best example of this was creating on line store on Facebook. Divided into five groups, participants had the opportunity to create their own Facebook page and within it by using Ecwid applications set up an online store. It was necessary to come up with the name of the shop, set photos and a description of several products and to set up shop to be ready for immediate use. After this exercise, they have presented their work to the whole group. It is especially important to emphasize that this exercise directly assist in the sale of the already started projects to some of the participants, and that had a special practical significance. As part of the exercise, participants showed a high level of collegiality and teamwork through helping each other some have written description of the product, the other entered the data into the application, the third designed promotional slogans, etc. After a successful presentation and the presentation of the results of teamwork, we continued on how to promote sales: how to set goals in online sales, how and why it performs optimization intended for sale, how to create an offer and they learned golden rules of sales that always help on the market.
Through concrete examples, they were able to learn the difference between good and better sales slogans. Slogans were discussed during the workshop and the young people could express their opinion. Especially active were students of economics and marketing, who passed their knowledge further to other members of their group. This is particularly helpful either to the technical terms in English closer to the younger population for who is getting familiar with this topic for the first time.
All the participants got the materials in electronic form from which they can recall everything they learned during their stay in Sisak. In addition, the materials are expanded with videos as well as clarification of everything that they need for a successful sale.
OTHER THAT CREATIVE WORKSHOPS... Meeting history of Sisak... During the youth exchange, participants were introduced to a rich history of the city of Sisak. We took a trip to a city centre, where they visited Tourist office of Sisak, City Museum and Old fortress of Sisak. In the City Museum, they saw a short movie about city history, which showed them how Sisak evolved through the centuries and why city location played an important role in the history. Curator of the museum showed them the permanent exhibition of the city history and invited our participants to visit Old fortress, where they saw the history of the city in medieval time and enjoyed beautiful nature on the cross of two rivers Kupa and Sava.
Introducing with a local craftsman... During the visitation of Tourist office of Sisak, one group of participants visited a family enterprise located on the outskirts of the city. The group had the chance to see the process of manufacturing souvenirs by the local craftsman. It was showed which types of wood are the best for making wooden souvenirs, how to use machines for modeling souvenirs and what can be made from wood as a result of the creative idea. The goal of introducing participants with the local craftsman was to show them positive sides of entrepreneurship, as much as to gave them idea for their future work.
We visited and participated „Kupa nights“... The event called „Kupa nights“ is a threeday tourist and sports event which took place on the banks of the river Kupa (city centre) in period of first weekend of September. The event is traditional and every year it has it's different topic. This year topic was traditional entrepreneurship and crafts in which our project fitted exceptionally. „Kupa nights“ include various activities, for example „Šiklijada“ and „Kupska alka“ which represents a traditional competitions in our region in which visitors can try their skills / participate. Besides this, event also included Aeroshow, music program and cultural program. The main program was a presentation of entrepreneurs / craftsman’s who are producing / selling traditional items and souvenirs. The whole program is organized by Tourist office of Sisak and City Museum Sisak, with whom we have a beautiful cooperation. This cooperation has reflected on our youth exchange project from 2 areas. First of all we took participation in main even in first day of the whole event as presenters / sellers of items that participants have made on workshops. Here participants practicated their selling skills and checked their creative skills. During that time some of our participants took part in other activities of this event, such as „Kupska alka“ which considered tha 1 participant steer a small river boat and other one had a spear with he/ she needed to take down a circle item during boat full speed. The result of participation on „Kupa nights“ was to connect project participants with locals through their active participation in the event, learning and getting knowledge of selling souvenirs and introducing participants from other countries with history and tradition of the city of Sisak.
What did we do with money participants earned by selling souvenirs? A week after youth exchange a few volunteers from KUMS visited Red Cross Sisak, where they met with principal and workers of City Red Cross. After short presentation of project and possibilities for future cooperation we have donated them all the income participants earned by selling souvenirs on the „Kupa nights“. They agreed that earned money will be used for welfare recipients, which showed not only that project participant gained selling skills, but also they made humanitarian work.
Each exchange carries new experiences, friendships and memories of moments that participants keep in their hearts long after the exchange ends. Our experience and the memory of „Iskoristi svoju kreativnost“ (on English: „Use your creativity“) is amazing and participants showed that through final evaluation of the project as well as through follow up communication.
That's how they evaluate us (grades are from 1 to 5): • The workshop which participants liked the most was crafting with wood. It was evaluated with an average grade 4.36. • The workshop which was scored weeks is necklaces workshop. It was evaluated with an average grade 3.59. • Participants were accommodated in apartments next to our organization and they evaluated it with 4.9. • All in all the overall satisfaction of the project were evaluated with 4,07.
This way we want to thank to... Bulgaria
Greece
Lithuania
Croatia
Italy
Romania
...and to our participants from Croatia for active participation and making a great outcome by being part of Erasmus+ youth exchange.
Special thanks to: • Craftsman Mr. Davor Lovreković DAR, souvenir family enterprise RADNIČKA ULICA 13 SISAK, Croatia
• Tourist office of Sisak Rimska bb 44 000 Sisak web page: Tourist office
• City Museum Sisak Ulica kralja Tomislava 10, 44000 SISAK web page: City Museum
• Filip Krčelić Volunteerphotographer
Editors: Boris Negeli
Marija Cvetković
Anita Baltić Javornik
Authors Participants of this project
Publisher: KUMS Place: Sisak Date: October 2016.
Information on content and copyright This brochure is published as OER and it can be freely used and distributed.
Disclaimer This publication reflects views only of the author and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.