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 

SSMD - Day 1!

The day of 23^rd July has been addressed to the arrivals, on the first hand, and establishing the first contacts of communication between the participants. Since the arrival at the accommodation place, we settled the division in rooms, counting on the participants’ wish to remain in mixed groups, like we established since the stage of APV.

The evening of the first day was one of the beginning of the socialization, so the youths could provide the full opportunity to get to know each other and to make first contacts.

The organizers of the project granted a special attention to present the zone, to talk into the rules set that the accommodation will impose and the opportunities that the young participants will have during the program.

Participants’ impressions : “ Since the first meeting the comfort was the term that had defined the relationships within the target group. Smiling, eager to meet new people and to find out about new things, the participants developed some very interesting subjects. Starting from the usual questions “How was the trip?”, “Have you travelled ok?” or from expressions like “Hello, my name is…..Nice to meet you”, the respect within the group conducted the intercultural relation from the first day. The knowing each other moments and knowing of the area created nice feelings of a good adaptation to new spaces and people, waiting for the activities that were announced to be an unexpected dynamism !”

Marta Drupa – Group Leader, LATVIA

Street Sports and Media Diversity – APV

From 10 May 2010,the project “Street Sports & Media Diversity” had passed from the stage of planning to preparation stage, beside the assurance stage of a corresponding visibility. After the Press Conference of project’s launching, the young people from  four participating countries had made a real promotion campaign of initiatives which will be sustained within the youth exchange.

In this sense, using promoting materials, direct dialogue or using the online resources, these had managed to give, step by step, life to their initiative to make known the details of the project and the support of the European Commission through Youth Programme in Action that is given for passing in effectiveness of our demarche to promote the sport, in a multicultural project.

All these actions which we can find under the concept of preparation had been accompanied of other preparatory activities like: round tables/discussions meetings of the activities program, of the rules, of the security and protection measures; meetings of accountability of the participants, in case which the young people had become more aware of the project’s theme and what involves to be a participant within the youth exchange.

A very special and important moment of the preparation stage has been made because of the Advance Planning Visit. The Action , held between 15^th and 17^th June 2012 had reunited in Ramnicu Sarat the leaders of those four groups from Romania, Turkey, Latvia and Lithuania who managed in this short period to make a direct first contact between this four different backgrounds.  The purpose of this activity, beside the thematic one, is the one of socializing and creating a new environment of mutual understanding and knowing each other better.

The arrival of the participants had been made on 15^th June, because on 16^th June all the group leaders had to discuss to try to succeed and manage the general case of project’s implementation and to give it  an important dose of objectivism, beginning with the essential aspects of the project.

The first part of the day was dedicated to youth exchange details discussions. The action was held at Milion Complex. Therefore, the leaders had to discuss about the details: Rules, groups and participants, Activities’ Agenda, specific details of the project, accommodation, meals and transport, responsibilities, financial part, visibility and preparatory activities, implication in each stage of the project, the promotion  of the Programme “Youth in Action”. This first part had been finished by an asking session, so each aspect to be found discussed.

After lunch, has been made an activity for evaluate the mode of corresponding the project’s details and the obtained discussions of each leader from APV. With this occasion we could observe the fact that the enthusiasm and the optimism represented the principal elements in project’s approach because the feedback forms sent us this state.

The second part of the day had continued by recognition actions of the implementation zone, presenting the terrains and fields where the activities will be held during the exchange. Also, the young people realized thematic visits with the purpose of knowing better the backgrounds, to explore our local treasures and to increase their cultural heritage. They had visited : Municipal Museum, Culture’s House, The Town Hall, and the residence of our town’s volunteers Youth Center F.O.R.T.E.S. Ramnicu Sarat. The visits made in these locations had offered to the leaders the chance to know the ones that lead our town, the Mayor Viorel Holban and The Vicemayor Sorin Cirjan, both of them supporting the volunteers and the youth movement. The group leaders also met the director of the Culture’s House, Mrs. Violeta Vilcu, and the director of the Municipal Museum, Mr. Marius Neculae.

The day had been finished with a night out, where our group leaders had been socializing, bonding friendships, met new young people and made themselves known as they managed to promote at the same time the “Youth in Action” Programme. 

The last day of the APV had a character more formal because it was dedicated for the latest contacts and discussions, but also, the leaving of the participants to their countries.

The APV stage had represented an essential pylon of resistance for the “Street Sports & Media Diversity” project, an important point on establishment map, of first intercultural contacts and also, an assuming moment of new perspectives and responsibilities which will be added to the practice during the youth exchange held between 23^rd and 30 July 2012.

Florin Ceparu

SSMD - Visibility activities!

Street Sports & Media Diversity – Visibility

The “Street Sports & Media Diversity” project, beginning with 10 may has started along with the young participants from Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Turkey a great process of insurance of a good visibility, using a diversified range of methods and resources.

The first action shared was the press conference of the project’s launching, which was promoted within mass-media, like writing press and audio video with the help of the newspaper “Sensul Ramnicean” and the TV channel “TV SAT 2002”.

Following these actions, in the immediate period were conducted steps of promoting which created a real visibility campaign that got inside secondary schools and upper schools, which were actually the principal resource of selection the participants for the projects funded by Youth in Action.

The communication, the thematic dialogue that was continuously sustained by the young participants from the target group were the principal methods within the participants had managed to inform the community about the project and convince people that the importance of multicultural involvement for solving some necessities is starting from an universal problem : the weak practice for sport and the introduction of a new trend : The Street Sport, beside the improvement of media abilities for the participants.

Another extremely important way to promote, afferent to the project, was the online/internet medium recovery. In this way were used the blogs “euramnicean.blogspot.com” and “streetsportsandmediadiversity.blogspot.com”, with the Facebook  group of the project and with the Facebook page of the Onix Youth Association where the young participants created within communities the complete image of a project which will include youths from four states who approach similar themes : The street sport and media art.

The online promotion was fully recovered by our participants. So, continuously, once with the different ongoing activities of visibility, the participants were posting within the facebook group of the project different motivational pictures which represented the proof of the implication and the enthusiasm that the youths showed during the project.

An special attention was addressed to the promotion with informative materials. In this way, dressed in blue customized T-shirt that had on them the name of the project, the seals of the European Commission and the Youth in Action logo and having on the arm the seal of Onix Association, the participants had developed some repeated campaigns of promotion using : flyers, posters, stickers, leaflets.

At the same time were created a roll-up of the project and also a banner which were printed with the details of the project, beside the seals and logos of the European Commission and Youth in Action. Like this, all the young people who entered within the F.O.R.T.E.S. Youth Center had the chance to have contact with the area of the project and to be informed about the youth exchange.

Once with the conducting of the APV, our organization had given to the leaders the promotion and visibility materials that had been used within their own communities and the most relevant photos were uploaded on the facebook group of the project.

The promotion activities and visibility will continue until the effective moment of youth exchange. The date when the exchange will be made is on 23^rd July, the moment when these 32 participants from Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Turkey will give life to the multicultural elements.

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                                                                                        Maria Constantinescu

"Street sports & media diversity"

“Street sports & media diversity” is a multilateral project, developed with the participation of 4 partners from Romania, Turkey, Latvia and Lithuania which will take place from 10.05.2012 to 30.11.2012 in Ramnicu Sarat, Romania. The target group consists of 32 young (28 participants + 4 group leaders) from the 4 communities, which in a period of seven days will implement activities in a common framework based on a double theme: street sports and social – media involvement. The  project aim is to promote sports activities on the street (in the nature), as a means of harmonious development of human mind and body, as well as social – media  objective is to develope  young people's abilities and skills in a journalistic way. The objectives set for our project are consistent with the overall objectives of the Programme "Youth in Action", as follows: promoting active citizenship of young people through participation in activities in a common framework, develops solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, especially in to strengthen social cohesion in the European Union, equality and tolerance, fosters mutual understanding between young people from different countries by taking some common behavioral patterns, and thus promoting European cooperation in youth. Mentioned objectives will be developed and fulfilled through the following activities set out in our project: workshops, teambuildings, seminars, media activities, press office, round tables, intercultural and national evenings which will have a significant impact on physical and intellectual development of youth group target.  All these activities will be met using non – formal methods which will generate in a continous way new competences, an active spirit, creating also new opportunities for a better  collaboration at European level.

AIM: The  project aim is to promote sports activities on the street (in the nature), as a means of harmonious development of human mind and body, as well as social – media  objective is to develope  young people's abilities and skills in a journalistic way.