The Youth Exchange has started! SALTO EECA Multipliers Adventures in Adjara Eastern Statistics The SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre Support for Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities (SALTO–YOUTH) network within the YOUTH programme was created by the European Commission in the year 2000. SALTO supports quality development in European Youth in Action projects. It organises training courses and shares resources with European youth workers on diff erent priority areas (geographic or thematic). The SALTO Network consists of 8 SALTO Resource Centres, based within diff erent National Agencies of the Youth in Action Programme. More information can be found on www.salto-youth.net The SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Centre was established in Warsaw, Poland, in October 2003, on the basis of a European Commission decision. The aims of the EECA Resource Centre are: • To raise visibility and awareness of the Youth in Action Programme opportunities within the Eastern Europe and Caucasus region; • To provide support and expertise to National Agencies of the Youth in Action Programme by contributing to events promoting cooperation with the EECA region; • To promote International Cooperation with EECA Partner Countries; • To support project organisers in the development of contacts, partnerships and projects. SALTO EECA RC organises: • TRAINING EVENTS with a focus on the development of skills, project management and building up or contact us contact or an understanding of Youth in Action Programme Actions and non-formal education; • DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES – contact making seminars and study visits aimed at building long-lasting partnerships between organisations from EECA and Programme countries; • INFORMATION ACTIVITIES that enable organisations from EECA Partner Countries to have easy access to the Youth in Action Programme and promote cooperation with counterparts in Programme countries. If you would like to be regularly informed about the activities of SALTO EECA RC as well as the latest developments in the fi eld of non-formal education within the Region, you are invited to subscribe to the bimonthly NEWSLETTER on www.salto-youth.net/newsletter. www.salto-youth.net/eeca In addition to everything mentioned above, SALTO EECA RC also provides access to: • “SALTO EECA Support Service” www.salto-eeca.eu, which is a dynamic and attractive information tool. It has been designed to simplify the process of fi nding a partner organisation and to strengthen communication among EVS volunteers and youth workers. Here you can fi nd a Contact List for future partner organisations for International Cooperation within the Youth in Action Programme, a Forum and Assistance for Communication of EVS volunteers as well as youth workers! • Network of Multipliers who have been trained by the Resource Centre. This is a network of people within the EECA region who are active and experienced in the promotion of the Youth in Action Programme. For further information visit www.salto-youth.net/eecamultipliers. • EECA manual – internet links to sources about Eastern Europe and Caucasus that might help you in the preparation of your projects. More information can be found on www.salto-youth.net/eecamanual. • Support resources for EVS Trainers and Youth Workers, with materials for future participants of youth activities from the [email protected] EU going to the EECA region: www.salto-youth.net/eecainfo. For further information please visit visit please information further For by e-mail: Dear Readers! Multipliers – who is who? We are pleased to present you with the new issue of Th e Network of Multipliers of the Youth in Action Programme the Youth in 7 magazine! in Eastern Europe and Caucasus involves active and experienced youth workers, who are ready to promote and support coopera- Our publication will allow you to get acquainted tion within the Programme. Who are these people? What kind of with diff erent aspects of the international youth organization are they representing? Why did they join the Net- cooperation in 7 countries of the Eastern Europe work? Th ese and other questions will be answered in this issue. and Caucasus, within the framework of European We invite you to see for yourself who is who in the Network! Community Youth in Action Programme. Th e Pro- gramme is constantly developing, involving more Youth Exchange – how to organize a successful project? and more youngsters, youth workers and youth or- If you are planning youth exchange, please read the article enti- ganizations from all over the Europe. tled “Th e Youth Exchange Has Started! Th ings to Do, Th ings to Remember and Th ings to Forget: Advice to Youth Group Lead- SALTO EECA’s activities ers”. Here, you will fi nd plenty of advice and helpful tips to be Th e fi rst half of 2008 abounded in courses on new kept in mind, e.g. how to avoid the typical problems of youth topics – training course Lab3Active, partnership exchange – or how to solve them once they appear. building activity EastWestIncluded and training Changing locally – cooperating internationally. It As usual, this issue also contains material written by EVS vol- was a very fruitful and interesting period and we unteer and participants of youth exchanges. We hope that these are happy to share with you some of the outcomes texts will prove a perfect opportunity to get a taste of realities of these courses. Do you want to know what the of diff erent youth projects executed in cooperation with Eastern Lab3Active means? Or how to make changes in Europe and Caucasus! If you have personal experience from in- local communities using experience of the inter- ternational youth cooperation within the framework of Youth in national cooperation? Or maybe you would like Action Programme with EECA region, you are welcome to share to tackle the issue of how to involve people with it with our readers! Please bear in mind that each experience is disabilities from the EECA region in some of the unique and could prove very useful to others! activities? As you can see, this issue off ers plenty of choice for readers with diff erent interests, and We wish you an enjoyable reading, hoping that you will be in- we are sure that some of our future initiatives will spired by the examples of good practice in youth cooperation come up to your expectations too. with Eastern Europe and Caucasus! SALTO EECA Team page 1 INTRO page 1 LOOK EAST Adventures in Adjara, Confusion about PARTICIPATION or playing football with your hands by Evelina Taunyte, page 3 Partnership Building Activity „East&West Included”, page 7 LOOK EAST „Changing locally – cooperating internationally” by Ekaterina Sherer, Jochen Butt-Posnik, page 8 page 11 Multipliers Diff erent people, diff erent countries, the same Youth in Action Programme, Armenia, page 16 Azerbaijan, page 17 Belarus, page 18 Georgia, page 19 Moldova, page 20 Russia, page 21 Ukraine, page 22 The Youth Exchange Has Started! Things to Do, Things to Remember and Th YOUTH EXCHANGES to Forget: Advice to Youth Group Leaders by Rouzanna Ivanyan, ings page 23 Armenia’s culture for peace by Sergey Kirakosyan, page 27 EVS EVS in Lviv by Katarzyna Poplawska, page 29 EASTERN STATISTICS Salto EECA analysis of Action 3.1 in 2007,page 31 AUTHORS Editor: Andriy Pavlovych ISBN 978-83-60058-40-4 Special thanks go to Marisha Korzh for her help in collecting Editorial team: Malgorzata Kostrowiecka, materials from Multipliers. Andriy Pavlovych, Tomasz Szopa Published by the SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Pictures: project benefi ciaries. Resource Centre, December 2008 The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily express Design & layout: Justyna Marciniak the offi cial view of the European Commission Reproduction of texts and pictures is authorised or the SALTO EECA Resource Centre. SALTO EECA RC, Polish National Agency provided the source and author are quoted. of the Youth in Action Programme, FDES To receive further information or to contact the editorial team 43 Mokotowska St, 00-551 Warsaw, Poland Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this with your comments, suggestions or ideas please e-mail: Tel: +48 22 463 14 60, Fax: +48 22 621 62 67 magazine. [email protected] It seemed that there was some serious confusion about what par- ticipation could be. Most probably hundreds of years ago people So, what was happening in Adjara? Let me tell would have thought of it as some kind of culinary term. Th e fact you from the beginning. Several years ago, while is that the idea of taking part in decision making processes and thinking about what I should do with my life and the term participation is very much connected to our time and realising that there are so many structural bounda- the geographical space around Western countries. Our experi- ries to making ideas work I decided to try personal ence in the mountains of Adjara and dealing with applications action – independent of any fund givers, just doing for the training course taught me that participation is far from what I believed was good and right with minimal being universally understood as I had believed. resources. So I gave up my normal life, my career as a trainer and set off by bike to see the world and fi nd places where my eff orts could make sense. I Looking at the structure of interaction, participation could be went to Gypsy villages in Romania, taught girls to compared to a game – a mindset with certain rules and goals to drive bicycles in remote places in Turkey, and cel- achieve. But the mindset of participation is less clear and obvious ebrated Kurdish New Year (Nevroz). Enjoying the than, let us say, in football. Yes, participation is quite a wicked magic of each moment, I learned from the people game.