Breaking Walls Opening European Windows

2-9 OCTOBER, MUĞLA/ Erasmus+ Youth Exchange

Project Details

Type : Youth Exchange Venue : Muğla, Turkey Activity dates : 2nd - 9th October Participants : 40 Participants (from 8 coun.) Working language : English Summary of the Project

40 participants will join to our project from England, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden Poland, Czech Republic, Macedonia and Turkey. Our activities will take place between 2-9 october in Muğla. If our Project is approved, half of the participants will be chosen through our activities and other half will be people who works within our partners regularly about youth fields and volunteers. Participants must be who have never come in Turkey before.

Our Project is a kind of youth Project which brings closer youth people who are citizens of European Union countries and candidate countries for European Union. If we make a general explanation regarding the matter of our Project, participants will be informed by common methods of learning related European Union's structure and functioning which also includes cultural richness that has been provided by Union's multicultural societies structure's. Our purpose of the beginning to organize an event related to European Union candidation process for informing youth participants about European Union in the most correct way. Our Project proves how our county has been integrated with European Union and importance given to European Union in our country. Also we would like to eliminate prejudices on European Union and raising awareness about European Union. Another object of our Project is to be made youth participants think about 2020 European Union objectives and beefing European Union's Corporation structure up with youth participant's creative ideas that will be combined with their expectations about the future.

We would like to contribute to youth participants about expressing their own opinions and thoughts and create awareness on them refer to the importance of having more say in democratic platforms. Another goal of our Project is to provide youth participants who lives in member of European Union countries chance for cultural transmission.

We plan to create a web page includes news for youth interests and carry this page till 2020. We would like to encourage youth institutions about working more on European Union's structure and swell the ranks youth make benefit of Erasmus + program. Partner Organisations The following organizations are involved as partners in this project:

Girisimcilik Kulubu – Turkey Asociación Cultural Muxelka - Spain Youth for Equality – Slovakia Youth IN - Sweden EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BRECLAV Z.S. – Czech Republic SFERA – Macedonia ARYP CIC – United Kingdom STOWARZYSZENIE NASZ LAG - Poland

Participant's Prole Every group consists of 4 participants between 17 – 28 years and 1 group leader (there is not age limit for group leader)

Requirements for the selection of participants: To respect gender equality and gender distribution; You must bring at least 2 participants with fewer opportunities (economical obstacles, minorities, geographical obstacles) Please, after the selection of the participants, send us the lled information form about the participants, which will be sent by us. If you need more advice/support in the process of selection of the participants, you can contact us and, as soon as possible, we will reply and we will nd a common agreement. Financial Support The accommodation, meals and activities costs will be free of charge, supported by the host organization through the Erasmus+ grant from European Commission. Related to the travel grant, according to Erasmus+ Program Guide, we will reimburse the travel cost/person, following the Erasmus+ grant scheme:

Spain – 360 EURO Sweden – 360 EURO Slovakia– 275 EURO Macedonia– 275 EURO United Kingdom – 360 EURO Poland – 360 EURO Czech Republic – 275 EURO

We recommend you to search for the most cost-efcient transport way (by train, bus, car, etc.) being given the distances in some cases. !Make sure that you keep the invoices, boarding passes and other documents mandatory for the reimbursement! For advice and recommendations, please contact us. How I can come to MUĞLA?

There are direct ights to Muğla airport from Istanbul. You should take your rst ight to Istanbul and then you can look for plans for this airport. Please ask us for specic trip plan for you. We will also organize bus trip from Istanbul till project Hotel

Our ight companies. : http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-tr/ : http://www.ypgs.com/en/ Atlas Jet: http://www.atlasglb.com/en Sunexpress: https://www.sunexpress.com/en/ : http://www.onurair.com/en/default.aspx PLEASE DO NOT BUY YOUR TICKETS BEFORE OUR CONFIRMATION!

Hotel Our project hotel will be Hotel Bluepalace Marmaris. Hotel link: http://www.bluepalace.net Visas For more information related to the process or necessary documents that have to be provided in support by the organizer, please contact us. Contact Details For more information, the following contact details are available: ·L egal Representative Erdem Güler E Mail: [email protected]

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