Info pack the gardens with nonformal education

„THE GARDENS WITH NONFORMAL EDUCATION!” Dates: 23-08-2014 – 02-09-2014 (10 working days) Location: Craiova and Gradinile Village, Romania Host NGO: Romanian Association of Playback Theatre ART-P Craiova: • Find us on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiova • Images from Craiova: http://images.google.co.uk/images? sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4SKPB_enRO307RO307&q=craiova&um=1&ie=&biw=1272&bih=700 • Google map: Craiova : http://www.maplandia.com/romania/dolj/craiova/ Gradinile Village: • http://comuna.info/harta-gradinile-ot/ Date 23 august - 02 september (arrival date and the first day of activities – Saturday 23 august, departing-Tuesday 2 september); 10 days of activity Name of the project: „THE GARDENS WITH NONFORMAL EDUCATION” Participant countries: Romania and Cyprus Parteners from Cyprus: Thalleo Cyprus Playback Theatre and arts Therapy Total number of participants – 35 ( 17 participants from Cyprus and 18 participants from Romania, gender balanced) The host association: Romanian Association of Playback Theatre aims to improve the quality of life of youth by promoting education, non-formal education in particular, the culture and values among them.

Summary of the project:

Through the project THE GARDENS WITH NONFORMAL EDUCATION we want to create an initiative group between our volunteers that can teach elements of two very effective methods of working , psychodrama and playback theater , and rural young people in a context of exchange of experience with people involved in working with young people. All these people coordinate or are part of organizations or youth groups.

Through this project, our organization will create the necessary exchange of experience and initiate the use of Playback Theatre and Psychodrama elements , which we consider very suitable for young people and for young people in rural areas, both intended beneficiaries and the role of participants .

We want the project activities to show young people from Cyprus and Romania organisations what means tolerance , acceptance and effective intervention methods of education, with the development of rural youth .

We offer an international non-formal learning framework to give a practical solution related to " futility " of young people from rural area, in a way that we can make them feel useful .

The role of our organization is to create a framework of non-formal learning, in which 35 young people from two different areas as culture and social organization to find the most efficient way to use elements from the two non-formal methods , to be applied also by 14 in rural areas , to be applied among the communities to which they belong . All this project will also make possible role of intercultural understanding of the two groups of participants , through all aspects of the similarities / differences cultural .

The project will be implemented in Gradinile Village and Craiova City, Romania and aims to improve the competences for implementing nonformal activities for 35 participants from 2 countries, to enhance the 35 participants’ abilities for applying nonformal educational metods in projects Erasmus+ and to promote their cooperation in the youth field and the tolerance spirit.

The activities planned for the 10 activity days are based on the following themes: The importance of Nonformal education; Nonformal education in the context of Erasmus+ Program and European context; Psichodramma and playback theatre; How to use creativity and spontaneity in education, Disadvantaged people and nonformal education. The methods used during the Youth excange are non-formal methods: psichodramma, playback theatre, energizers, team-buiding and communication games, ice-breaking, role plays, group work.

The activities undertaken will involve learning the basic techniques of the two methods in a context of intercultural values and attitudes towards children from rural area.

What you need to prepare before the project: Prepare the PPT presentations, ingredients,food , drinks and music for intercultural activities, materials and games as to participate in the learning process and a presentation of your group/association. Please pictures with the beaches... be included!

To better promote the project we need your logos associations by 1 august 2014.

How to reach Craiova: Have a look on: http://www.romaniatourism.com/maps/romania/romania_detail_map.html and we can tell you that 220 km far from Bucharest, You should book your flights for Bucharest : Step 1: http://otp-airport.ro/index.php - Henri Coanda Airport – Bucharest Step 2: Airport – GARA de NORD (Obs: The main train station in Bucharest) (Obs: the train is the most convenient mean of transport to Craiova! If not try to go for Bus or taxi) A. Bus 780 – is leaving from the aiport and it takes you directly to the Train Station – Gara de Nord. The price of the ticket is 8 lei (around 2 euro) B – By small train – in the airport, you will find the ticket’s selling point – Bilete CFR. You can buy the tickets here – the price is 6 lei (almost 1.5 eur) and the person selling the tickets will guide you to reach the departure point (for 1km you will be transferred by minibus and then by train). In almost 40 minutes you will reach GARA de Nord.

Gara the Nord (in English would be The North Railway Station) to Craiova: Obs: 1. Book tickets for the 2nd class (clasa a II a)! – We can’t reimburse the 1 st class tickets!

2. The price of the ticket should be not more than 50 lei, one way. (this means aprox. 12 eur).

I will personally give u all the train programme, when i will know the hour of your landing.

Please buy plain tickets as soon as possible, so they can be less expensive. U will receive 270 euro of the transport at the end of the project days (around 29 august).

Info currency: You can’t use Euro in Romania! Change a small amount in the airport! – Max. 30 eur. Nowadays, the exchange rate is: (Ro National Currency – Leu)

1 EUR = 4,3 / 4.4 Info Accommodation: The accommodation will be provided in Hotel GRIFON in triple rooms.

Contacts: Project coordinator Gruia Irina mail:

gruia_irina@yahoo.com

For further communication please fill in the following request form for each participant and send it to gruia_irina@yahoo.com not later than 20 August 2014.

Participant Details Full Name: ........................... Age: ...................... Email address:.................... Contact Number: ................

Special Meals (any special food requirements): Any other comments/requests: What is your experience in non-formal activities? ..................................................................................................................

What is your contribution to the agenda? ..................................................................................................................

Why do you intend to participate in this Training Course? ...................................................................................................................

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