Let’s do QUALITY EVS in deprived urban and rural areas

June 9 – 17 2013

Goris, Armenia

3.1 “Youth in Action” Seminar

"Let’s do QUALITY EVS in deprived urban and rural areas"

Information Package

This 3.1 YiA project "Let's do QUALITY EVS projects in deprived urban and rural areas" is designed as a Seminar for 7 working days (excluding travel days) which will be held in a deprived urban area, Goris town, in Armenia. There will be 30 participants (excluding team of organizers) from 20 0rganisations coming from 15 YiA Programme and Eastern Partnership countries (Poland, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Czech republic, France Spain, Estonia, Hungary, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine).

The project has the following objectives:
• To bring youth workers responsible in EVS coordination/management in their organisations together; to give them space to share their good practices in EVS hosting/sending in excluded areas; to put emphasis on the challenges they face while hosting/sending EVS volunteers in/to rural and deprived urban areas and to look for possible answers to these challenges.
• To address the specific measures in designing EVS hosting placements in rural and deprived urban areas (selecting and preparing volunteers for these concrete placements; acquiring problem solving and crisis management and prevention competences within these placements; and having strong link between the EVS volunteers and local young people in deprived urban and rural areas).
• To start the process of developing a practical guide for hosting EVS volunteers in deprived urban and rural areas and thus to ensure quality measures and guidelines of the EVS hosting placements not only in the organizations involved but in a wider context as well (this objective is considered as a long-term objective of the project).
• To strengthen partnership and to develop new YiA projects, in particular EVS between the organisations involved focusing on rural development, but not limiting to it.

The methodological framework used will be based on the approaches and values of non-formal education. The course is participants-based and entirely participant-oriented, experiences and contributions from participants constitute and inherent part of the Activity.

Applicant organisation: BONA FIDES

Hosting organisation: “International Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue” (ICIRLD)

Venue

The Seminar will take place in a rest house near mountainous town Goris which is located in Syunik region, Republic of Armenia and has 20000 inhabitants. The distance from Yerevan, the capital of the Republic is 250km. The nature is very nice in the surroundings of the Hotel, there are a lot of forests and in summer the whole territory is full with thousands of flowers. The comfortable conditions and the appeal of nature hand perfect opportunity to organize tourism all year through. The climate is mild and salubrious; the average temperature in June is 15-25°C. Make sure you take lights clothing as well as something warm to wear in the evening. The rest house is fully equipped to host international projects and the participants will be accommodated mostly in twin rooms.

The organisers will reimburse 70% of your travel costs from your home city to Goris, Armenia and back. Reimbursement of travel costs will only be done upon full attendance in the project programme and presentation of the original tickets with boarding passes and receipt/invoices.

The Original invoices and the Boarding passes to Armenia will be collected during the Seminar, and the boarding passes for the way back should be scanned and sent via e-mail after your return to the Polish organizers and then the originals of the boarding passes should be also sent to Poland via regular mail. Only upon receiving the whole package of the necessary documents (original invoice and boarding passes for the both ways) the travel reimbursement would be transferred to the account you have provided.

Reimbursement will be done in EURO, regardless of the currency indicated on your ticket and receipt/invoice which will be calculated according to the exchange rates from official European Commission website for the month of first payment from National Agency to organizators. http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?Language=en.

Organisation	Country	Pax number	100%
“MilleniuM” Training and Development Institute	Moldova
ADVIT Europa fara frontiere	Moldova
DYNAMA	Czech Republic
Seiklejate Vennaskond	Estonia
Romance International	France
Association ‘Merkuri’	Georgia
Radarmi	Georgia
League of Youth Voluntary Service	Belarus
Young Men’s Christian Association Brest	Belarus
"Armenian Cultural Fund" NGO	Hungary
Associazione Culturale ARCI Strauss	Italy
FATTORIA PUGLIESE DIFFUSA	Italy
Ofensiva Tinerilor	Romania
INDICOT	Spain
GAZİANTEP EĞİTİM VE GENÇLİK DERNEĞİ	Turkey
Community Foundation of Irpin Region	Ukraine
Non-governmental organisation „Mosaica”	Ukraine

! Note: Officially the project starts on the 5^th of May. So, you can buy your tickets ONLY after the 5^th of May!

!! Note: There are 1 or 2 participants (pax) per organisation. and the amount of travel costs (100%) refers to 2 people (in case there are 2 people from that organisation).

!!! Note: The above mentioned travel costs are for the costs from your home town to Yerevan. Minibuses from Yerevan Airport to Goris and back will be arranged by the organizers which will costs 70 EUR per person.

!!! Note: Please make the copies of your tickets and invoices before you come to the project.

!!!!! Note: It is allowed to stay in Armenia 1-3 days before/after the event. Just be sure if the tickets are cheaper or not more expensive than that ones on the exact dates of the training starting/ending. If you want to stay longer in Armenia, you will have to arrange your accommodation on your own. The organizers can assist you in finding a hotel.

Travelling to the venue

Description

TRAVEL COSTS:

Take a flight to Yerevan to Zvartnots International Airport from all the countries. You can alternatively fly to Tbilisi and arrive to Yerevan by bus or train.

The best flight connections to Yerevan are flights via Prague (Czech Airlines) and Vienna (Austrian Airlines). It might be also convenient for you to check out the flights via Moscow (Aeroflot).

All the participants will be picked up from the Airport, bus and train stations and we will arrange you with transportation to the Airport, bus and train stations after the project.

You will receive more detailed information regarding picking you up and transporting to Goris once we get your travel information.

Please look at the Airport for the volunteer with a paper with the name of our project.

In emergency cases contact our local project coordinator, Artur - [phone]

VISA Arrangement

Preparation

Please be prepared to present your organisation during the Seminar. Furthermore, bring some information materials about your organisation, photos and report from former projects and other things which will help you to present your organisation.

And do not forget to bring some national drinks and snacks for the intercultural evening ☺

National currency in Armenia is DRAM (AMD) and its value in euro is about 500 drams for 1 euro but it would be good for you to check the exact rate before you depart on the website of Central Bank of Armenia (just to have a better idea). Payments everywhere in Armenia (except Airport) are accepted only in national currency. The best currencies to bring with you for exchanging into AMD are EUR, USD, and RUB. If you want to know more about Armenia here are some web pages:

http://www.armeniainfo.am

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/armenia

Health insurance is not provided by the organizers. All participants are required to purchase health insurance individually.

In case of having special needs, whatever kind they are of, please feel free to communicate these needs to us (allergies, disability, vegetarian, etc.)

Health insurance

Special Needs

None of the participants (except for Turkey) needs visa to enter Armenia. From January 2013 EU citizens do not need visa to enter Armenia. Lucky you! J You just go to the passport checking point and receive your luggage.

The participant from Turkey will get visa on border as before. Consider having 3000 AMD (about 6-7 EUR) with you for paying for your short term 21 days single entry visa. Please, do not exchange much money in the airport, the rates there are unbelievable J

Please, try to send a participant from Turkey who have ordinary passports. For a participant with a green passport or a diplomatic passport there has to be a special invitation letter from us and it takes some time to make and approve it by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Profile of Participants

We are immensely glad to host you in Armenia!!

Looking forward to meeting you all and working together

See you soon!!!

This project is realized with the support of the “Youth in Action” programme of the European Union

There are 1 or 2 participants from each organisation. In total there will be 30 people from 20 organisations. There is no age limitation (18+). The groups have to be gender balanced (1/2 male/female).

The profile of the participant is:

· Youth workers and youth leaders from accredited EVS organization involved in management/coordination of EVS sending/hosting projects in deprived urban and rural areas

· speaking basic English

· interested in setting further co-operation with their friends from other European countries

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