Hosting organization: Dragones de Lavapiés
Partners:

I.D.E.A. (GREECE)
YOUTH OF EUROPE (POLAND)
KULTURÁLIS KAPCSOLATOKÉRT ALAPÍTVÁNY (HUNGARY)
CLUB DEPORTIVO ELEMENTAL DRAGONES DE LAVAPIES (SPAIN)
EVROPSKE CENTRUM MLADEZE BRECLAV – EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BRECLAV Z.S. (CZECH REPUBLIC)
MTÜ Escape (ESTONIA)
JUMP IN ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE (ITALY)
YOUTH VISION (ROMANIA)
THE CHANGE IS IN YOU (BULGARIA)
A.D.E.L. – ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND LABOUR (SLOVAKIA)

Dates: 14th – 19th March of 2017. Madrid.

“Live Together, Learn Together” is a project born from the project “Play Together, Learn Together”, held in Elche in June/July of 2016. During this seminar varied strategies and good practices were shared with the main focus of using sport as a tool for social inclusion. One of the Spanish organizations that had participated in that seminar, Dragones de Lavapiés, is the organizer of this new project “Live Together, Learn Together” with the following goals:

AIM: To foster social inclusion through coexistence and youth participation”

GOALS:

o Exchange experiences and good social inclusion practices through coexistence initiatives and participation of the youth.
o Share the realities of the participating partners related with strategies fostering coexistence and youth participation.
o Foster intercultural dialogue through coexistence and youth participation.
o Create a booklet with experiences and best practices about youth initiatives and self-managed communities that are promoting the coexistence between young people and the community.

Understanding that coexistence is a priority in this nowadays more intercultural society, we are going to focus in fostering social inclusion and preventing radicalization of young people through local actions that involve the them. This project is aimed to the creation of coexistence spaces where young people can be motivated to participate in the society, being part of a “larger” thing that will increase the feeling of community.

Here you can find more information about the previous project “Play Together, Learn Together” and the project LEARN TOGETHER, a web for social inclusion: http://www.learntogetherweb.eu/

THE HOSTING ORGANIZATION

Dragones de Lavapiés, is a multicultural grassroots football club based in Lavapiés, Madrid. They work with young people creating the space for practicing sports and learning very important values that foster social inclusion in their neighborhood. Their experience creating this intercultural sports project is the perfect point for starting to discover other initiatives in the neighborhood that we will explore together, as well, we are willing to share other countries experiences that will come with your participation. https://www.facebook.com/dragones.delavapies/posts/513276442195249
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They are very active as local organization, promoting the participation of young people from different nationalities in local actions such as:
– Football league.
– Radio shows.
– Sports gatherings.
– Neighbors gatherings.
– Round tables.
– And much more that we will discover during the seminar.

THE VENUE

Lavapiés, this is the “barrio” (neighborhood) where we will be hosted during the seminar. This is one of the most typical neighborhoods in Madrid, next to the city center (Considered as city center, actually) and it names means literally “wash feet”. Nowadays, Lavapiés is the neighborhood with the highest concentration of immigrants from several nationalities. This makes It the perfect spot for our project.
Dragones de Lavapiés, our hosting organization is based in this “barrio” and their young members have more than 50 different nationalities. Here we will be visiting different local initiatives that are fostering the coexistence among the neighbors.
You can find more information about Lavapiés, here: http://www.timeout.com/madrid/thingsto-do/the-best-of-the-barrios-lavapies We kindly encourage you to seek for more info about this amazing neighborhood.

ACCOMMODATION

We will be hosted in the Hostel EDREIRA, in Atocha, 75. This Hostel is very close to our visits of interests in Lavapiés, and it is very easily reachable by metro from Atocha train station, even by walk. It is very close to other points of interest from Madrid’s city center, Reina Sofia musem, etc. (We will be sharing more information about “how to get…” in future communications.
The accommodation will be provided in double and triple rooms, with private bathroom included. However, the breakfast, lunch and dinner will be in a different place (We hope we can surprise you with very interesting local and international food around the neighborhood of Lavapiés).

PARTICIPANTS

 23 Participants from 10 different countries.
 2 participants per country, except Spain, that participates with 5.
 No age limit for the participation. But not less than 18 years old.
The selection of participants will be a participative process between the hosting organization, the facilitating team and the sending organization. How this will work?
– Hosting organization will provide to sending organizations an online form that will work as candidacy. Participants will state their interest, experience and contributions to the seminar.
– The selection of participants should be done, latest on 22nd of February, but can be done before too. Once the participants gets the okay, the confirmation for participating will be the purchase of the transportation needed to reach Madrid and come back.
We are looking for participants with experience in community building projects and initiatives that they have been participated or created. Projects that foster coexistence and social inclusion among people from the same community or neighborhood, through working for one common goal.
At this point, knowledge, experience and/or competences about the topic of the project will be crucial for the final selection. We will appreciate the engagement of participants with this seminar idea, with the topic of the project and their eagerness of sharing their experiences.
Here is the link for the application form: APPLICATION FORM.

TRAVEL COSTS

We will reimburse your travel costs according to the rules of the Erasmus + Program. Reimbursement process of the travel costs will start upon presenting original tickets, receipts/invoices and boarding passes. Reimbursement will be done in EURO, regardless of the currency indicated on your ticket, receipt or invoice. The reimbursement process will start once:
– We have all the necessary documents regarding your travel costs (invoices, tickets, and travel costs document).
– The dissemination of the results of this youth exchange has been done by your sending organization.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Any ticket purchased without consulting might not be reimbursed. Arrival to Madrid should be at latest on 14th (before 20h) and departure from Madrid should be at earliest on 19th during the morning. It is
possible to travel 1 or 2 days earlier/later, but this needs justification and approval from the facilitating team of Live Together, Learn Together.

IMPORTANT NOTE 2: Reimbursement will be done after the youth exchange for the participants that accomplish the steps shown above. However, we can ONLY reimburse up to 80% of the total travel costs (please consult the next table to check your 100%). The other 20% will be done once the project final report has been submitted and approved by the National Agency of Spain. That is why we kindly advise you to spend 80% of the amounts of this table.