SSMD - Day 2!

The morning of the day, full of get to know each other games, energizers and NGO’s presentation activities had the role to create the knowing area specific to the project, which was focused on the participants relations, the connection with the organization from where they came and the relation with the supporting programme of Youth in Action.

First of all was realized the introduction of the participants in the project’s theme, which has been resumed to the activities’ agenda, beside the objectives of the project and the purpose, along with its two thematic components : Media and Sport.

An important attention was addressed to the non-formal character of the developed activities. Since that moment of knowing each detail of the project, the young participants realized that the planned activities will have their base on developing the individual and group competences, on relations made between youths and the base of the established communication because, in fact, these were the elements that created the mobile of the entire project.

The following moment has represented in fact the establishing of the first contact of communication between target group and mass media. The identification of the expectations, fears and contributions has been realized within the public conference recorded by the local television team “TVSAT 2002”, showing it afterwards on TV, along with some project’s aspects and some messages given by the participants and group leaders.

This has represented a true chance for everyone to share their opinion about European projects, without being interrupted and realizing in that way that mass media actually cares about youth’s non-formal activities and interests. The information promoted by local media created impact, imagine and disseminated the first results of the project.

The second part of the day conducted to the introduction of the participants in the action area. The Ramnicu Sarat Municipal Park was the host of an painting workshop that was named “Draw your favorite sport !”. In this way, after rules presentation, were made 3 teams and each team had equal resources for drawing. The result of the activity was recorded in the presence of those 3 drawings, beside an introduction made by the participants with the representative message, followed by the discussion of it. At the same time, the participants considered the activity as a ingenious one, that amplified the artistic competences, the collaboration between youth and the team spirit.

Back to the Youth Center, the following activity represented the introduction of Press Office, the rules and the responsibilities to create it. Aliana Rateanu, a young participant from the target group of Romania, with an important experience in National Media Projects, established the rules of the present Press Office, realized some specific materials and a practical presentation of all the aspects that built the base of the activity.

The participants were divided in 4 teams, each one containing 8 participants. Each group had one day(of the four remaining) to manage the Press Office. They had to settle the responsibilities each other, in each time, saying who was taking care of recording, of writing the articles, of taking the photos or taking the interviews. The division of the team was mixed, therefore, in each team were 2 participants from each country.

After finishing this activity, after dinner, the participants organized within the hotel an intercultural night, of knowledge, in the backyard, where, along with the music, dances and lot of socialization, they had known each other better, establishing at the group stage an unitary relation.

Participants’ Impressions : “ The chance to give life to my creativity was an extraordinary one. With the brush in my hand, which I hadn’t used for a long time, along with youth from another states, having in mind 1000 ideas, I managed beside my group to create a very beautiful drawing. I had liked also the others ideas and I had found myself in the definition of their messages. More than this, after presenting the Press Office, I can’t wait to start the activity with my own team ! I think that we will do a good job !  I feel that the success of the other is standing in my hands too, but I convinced myself that I will make the others shine too !”

Gabriella Satrovskaja – participant Lithuania