Međukulturni Bonton/Intercultural Manners

27th October-05th November 2017. Đurđevac, Croatia

INFO PACK

Results of research and political reaction in Europe show, on the example of the current

migrant crisis in Europe, that we as a society are still unprepared to meet with different

cultures, despite all the supposed changes and all the different policies of relating with it.

We aim to encourage intercultural dialogue that our participants will continue in their local

communities and raise the impact of the project on an international level. We hope that the

skills and competences acquired in this project will be a useful tool for the dissemination of

cultural tolerance, dialogue and sense of belonging to European society.

Tangible results : developing an e-book which reflects the knowledge and products of the

project, which will serve to raise awareness of issues that this project deals with. The stories

of refugees that will be participating in the exchange, will be turned into scripts by all of the

participants for the creation of a set of theater performances that will be held on the local,

national and international levels.

Key words: intecultural dialogue, refugees, theatre of the opressed, peer learning,

ethnocentrism, media literacy, critical thinking, tolerance, active youth

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of this project is to stimulate discussion among young people on the topic of

intercultural relations in the context of the migrant crisis, and demonstrate methods to

actualize this topic among their peers in their local community, and ways to approach

problems and phenomena related to intercultural relations.

Through various broader and specific thematic workshops on intercultural relations (such as

the theme of women and children among the refugees, conections of media sensationalism

and political populism, good and bad practices relating refugees), another objective is to

familiarize the participants with the ways of positive action in their own social contexts and

further.

- Increasing awareness of other cultures and perspectives

- Awareness of one's own ethnocentrism

- Development of critical thinking

- Increased level of media literacy

- Informed debate on the subject of refugees and intercultural relations

We aim to encourage intercultural dialogue that our participants will continue in their local

communities and raise the impact of the project on an international level.

We hope that the skills and competences acquired in this project will be a useful tool for the

dissemination of cultural tolerance, dialogue and sense of belonging to European society.

27th of October 2017

5th of November 2017

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

Ocean Znanja u Republici Hrvatskoj (Croatia, host)

Hellenic Youth Participation (Greece)

Newality:Up2YOUth (Sweden)

Centar za razvoj socijalnog poduzetništva (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

NaturKultur e.V. (Germany)

TURKIYE AVRUPA VAKFI (Turkey)

THE VENUE

The exchange is going to take place in a town called Đurđevac in the Koprivnica-Križevci

County. Đurđevac is very famous for ''Đurđevački peski'', the only desert of this kind in

Southeastern Europe.

This is a protected botanical area, with distinctive habitats of a large number of endemic

species, unique flora and fauna, and visible forms of sand dunes, it is known as ''Croatian

Sahara''.

We are going to stay in a very nice 4 star hotel in the center of Đurđevac. Participants will be

in rooms with 2 or 3 beds. Mixed nationalities of the same gender will share rooms.

The venue is equipped with a conference room where all activities will be held, a restaurant

where we will have all the meals and a disco only for us where we will have the intercultural

evenings.

Here you can check how the hotel looks : http://hotel-picok.hr/

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

Please try to mind the gender balance in your group, also half of the participants in your teams

should be in one of the categories : Immigrants, refugees, geographically disadvantaged and

cultural differences. All the legal things regarding the refugee status and their mobility we

will help to solve, please don't give up on including them just because it is a bit more things to

do.

We expect teams of five participants from eighteen to thirty years old and one adult (18+)

team leader from six different countries: Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Bosnia and

Herzegovina and Sweden.

IMPORTANT:

Partners have the responsibility of choosing participants, preparing them for exchange (after

you select them we will send you the 2nd infopack where we will explain how to prepare the

participants) and helping them arrange the best and cheapest travel route to the venue.

The teams should be formed until 20th of July. After that the partners collect the Participant

Registration Form (in the attachment) from all participants and send it to us.

TRAVEL COSTS

Maximum travel costs per participants are:

Country Max. amount

Germany 275 €

Sweeden 275 €

BiH 180 €

Greece 275 €

Turkey 275 €

Croatia 20 €

The amount of money allowed doesn't mean that you should spend it all, but this is the

maximum that can be reimbursed. All participants should try to find the cheapest travel route.

The reimbursement of the travel costs will be done upon receiving all tickets and boarding

passes.

Please remember that the reimbursement can only be done if we receive all of the original

tickets, bills and boarding passes!

Please don't book any tickets before our approval.

INSURANCE

Every participant should have valid health insurance (for example European Health Card for

the EU members) during their stay on the project. This means that if you don't have your own

insurance, the organizer doesn't bear any responsibilities towards the participant. That is why

every participant should purchase their own insurance on time.

Health insurance will not be provided or reimbursed by the hosts. All participants should

purchase health insurance individually.

We highly recommend to book cancellation insurance. This insurance is in case you miss your

flight, you get ill or someone in your family gets injured or sick and you cannot participate on

the exchange.

The program doesn't cover the costs if the participant doesn't arrive to the venue and

participate in the program.

HOSTING TEAM

Aleksandar Čičković – Facilitator and contact person

Zrinka Suk - Project manager and logistics

Marija Maja Jukić - Croatian team leader, holding a workshop „Position of women and

children in the imigration wave“

Stipe Nogalo – Croatian participant, will be doing a workshop „Introduction to the

intercultural dialogue“

If you need more information or have questions about the project or just want to say

hi - contact: Saša- sasa.cickovic@hotmail.com +385 97 6378478

SEE YOU IN OCTOBER!