International Youth Exchange

1. General information
Title: European Youth Meet The Cultural Heritage
Place: Krakw, Poland
Date: 14-21.12.2014
Participants: young people (age: 18-26)
Partners: Romania, Estonia, Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Poland
Number of Participants: 7 (6+1 leader) per organization

2. Project description:
The project prepared by Foundation "EUROPEAN YOUTH MEET THE CULTURAL
HERITAGE " is an exchange of youth, which will be attended by young people from
Poland, Estonia, Romania, Italy, Hungary and Portugal - 42 people in total. The main
objective of the exchange is to deep cooperation and understanding between young
people from different countries, by knowing the culture of the people from the
countries participating in the exchange, their national languages, traditions, history,
customs, national and realities of everyday life in the countries where they come from.
For 8 days the participants will have an opportunity to meet their peers from other
countries. This will enable them to know the history, culture and language of the
countries of their peers, to refute the stereotypes and prejudices, and promote
tolerance towards others. During the exchange the youth will participate in a variety of
activities which will help them in free exchange of opinions. Issues of cultural heritage in
each country and across the Europe will be a tool which we will use to achieve the
primary objective. During the exchange there will be organised the workshops, lectures,
presentations, games, sport activities, panel discussions, film screening, tours and
meetings with the local community. During the stay in Krakow young people will try
together - using the achievements of art and literature - to promote tolerance and fight
stereotypes . At the same time there will be organised the workshops in the purpose of
breaking down social and cultural barriers. The project will result in the promotion of
culture, art and literary constituting a joint cultural heritage. Presentation of the
European cultural heritage will illustrate how many links the different countries, i.e.
feeling the need of beauty, love and needs of acceptation. Activities will include:
- workshops and discussions,
- presentations,
- integrative classes and language animations,
- activities, which help to support intercultural education of the participants:
national evenings and group presentations (each national group should)

3.

Place

General information:
Krakow, Poland.
Krakow is situated in the South of Poland. It is the second biggest and one of the oldest
cities in Poland.
See more on:
http://www.inyourpocket.com/poland/krakow/sightseeing
http://www.krakow.pl/english/
https://www.google.pl/maps/place/Krak%C3%B3w/@50.0467657,20.0048731,11z/data
=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x471644c0354e18d1:0xb46bb6b576478abf
How to reach Krakw:
Two nearest airports are situated in Cracow (KRK) and Katowice (KTW). We suggest you
to travel to Cracow Airport. The airport is connected with the city center by buses.
When your group knows the time of arrival to Poland and gets us know it we will send
you detailed instruction how to get from the airport to the hotel.

4.

Accommodation
We will be accommodated in Student Hotel Nawojka. It is situated about 15 minutes
walk to the Old Town Square.

5. Preparation
Remember that each national group has to prepare:
- group presentation (who you are, where you are from, what you do, something about
your organization)
- national evening (traditional food, drinks; some customs from your country). Due to
the variety of countries participating in the project most probably there will be two
countries presenting their country and culture each evening.

IMPORTANT:
- Take some warm clothes, waterproof jacket, proper shoes. Cracow is located near the
mountains. In the mountains winter is colder than in other parts of Poland. It may be
cold, slippery and rainy/snowy. Be prepared.
* take your own towels

6. Travel costs:
We reimburse travel costs up to:
- Portugal: 270
- Estonia: 170
- Hungary: 80
- Romania: 80
- Italy: 170

If you have any questions, please ask:

Project trainers: Anna Ostojska
- ye.culturalheritage@gmail.com
- when you are in Poland you can contact me via phone:
Anna: +48 533 518 162
- or find us on Facebook (Anna Ostojska) ;)