{"id":3292,"date":"2017-08-29T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:09:29","slug":"mediate-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/mediate-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;Media(te) Diversity&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043d \u041c\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u043a\u0438 \u041e\u0431\u043c\u0435\u043d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u201cMedia(te) Diversity\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The international youth exchange <strong>\u201cMedia(te) Diversity\u201d<\/strong> which was planned to take place <strong>in Bratislava, Slovakia <\/strong>from <strong>20 August 2017 \u2013 26 August 2017 <\/strong>aimed to train and equip 42 young people, students, youth activists, youth workers and youth leaders from 7 European countries (Slovakia, FYROM, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Czech Republic). Using peer to peer method they\u00a0 were sharing the knowledge, experience and skills which might help to <strong>boost the youth perception of diversity and boost the knowledge of critical thinking and media literacy.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nFast-paced world today is facing many challenges. That\u2019s why we gathered\u00a0\u00a0<strong>young people from 7 different countries from all over Europe and gave them the opportunity to see from the perspective of the foreigner and to question their own believes or stereotypes and the values of our society.<\/strong> Moreover the youth exchange\u00a0 aimed to inspire the <strong>further involvement and participation of young people in civic life and also preventing violent radicalization of young people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On one side <strong>social media is a powerful tool for forming the public opinion and for making the people to want to contribute<\/strong>. It has made communication with young people easier and more immediate, while exchanging contemporary, accessible information. <strong>Use of social media can be highly effective also in terms of supporting citizenship, life skills, thinking skills and participation and advocacy<\/strong>. Media like Facebook, Twitter,\u00a0 Instagram or LinkedIn play significant role in everyday life and have become one of\u00a0 the most important communication tools in both personal use but also in professional life, at jobs, projects and events created as because they have become the a key in reaching out a wide range of people. However on the other side the information is not always trustworthy, reliable and source-based. The practice shows that <strong>young people nowadays lack the literacy of information verification, which leads to hate speech, xenophobia and other negative phenomena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most relevant topics addressed by the youth exchange were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Promoting diversity and intercultural dialogue;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Media literacy;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Critical thinking;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sense of initiative of young people;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Peer to peer learning.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AIMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To raise the media literacy, critical thinking, power of storytelling, communication and manipulation in communication as well as the argumentation techniques;<\/li>\n<li>The participants should become aware of socially relevant topics as well as discover new ones;<\/li>\n<li>They will make a progress mainly through peer -learning and sharing know \u2013 how;<\/li>\n<li>To strengthen values like solidarity, sharing, friendship and diversity;<\/li>\n<li>To encourage the participants to discover their individual&#8217;s ability to turn ideas into actions. Which includes creativity, risk-taking actions as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve their objectives;<\/li>\n<li>To improve the competences in sharing information via internet, especially on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planned activities in achieving the overall goals of the project were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Thinking-Tools TOOLKIT: <\/strong>the participants\u00a0 had the chance to talk to different local NGOs and initiatives that are investigating and verifying the credibility of media content. They were also introduced to the methods to be used in order to ensure the objectivity and critical thinking of the readers, they had time to combine their experiences with social media (youth) involvement and afterwards they presented their finding on the youth participation, involvement and the impact of social media in the context of diversity\/ immigrants\/ multicultural societies;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mediation of Acceptance: <\/strong>a chance to work in a team with members from different environments and to learn more about each other in a way that they can make a silent theater, followed by playing role plays;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Show of Diverse Beauty: <\/strong>a task to make a media content reflecting on diversity, using digital tools. They can make a video, photos, record an audio and make a graphic design to it, the choice is left to the participants and their creativity;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Participant`s profile required:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Age 18-26;<\/li>\n<li>English level ( at least Medium level speaking and writing);<\/li>\n<li>Committed to contribute to the follow up of the project;<\/li>\n<li>Be interested in developing competences and implement follow-up initiatives;<\/li>\n<li>Some priority will be given to youth belonging from minority groups or facing economic difficulties, coming from rural areas or with other disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as participants from Tryavna or the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Venue:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It was provided in the the centre of Bratislava. In HOSTEL BLUES.<br \/>\nIn the dorms of 4, 6 or 8 people.<br \/>\nMore about the hostel at: http:\/\/www.hostelblues.sk\/<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Working\u00a0methods:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>All the training\u00a0 was done through the methods of non-formal education. The activities\u00a0 were for example brain storming\u2019s, plenary discussions, simulations, role plays, team building, energizers, ice breakers and many others.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"theme-p-title theme-color3\" data-target=\"title\" data-clicktarget=\"#\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Travel Costs:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>100% of the participants\u2018 travel costs\u00a0 were reimbursed within\u00a0the valid budget sums calculated according to the official rules of\u00a0Erasmus+ programme. If a sum exceeded the limit, the excess\u00a0 was paid by the participants themselves. The reimbursement limit was\u00a0<strong>275\u20ac<\/strong> per participant from Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"theme-p theme-color-4\" data-target=\"content\">\n<p>Reimbursement of the travel costs\u00a0 was\u00a0 done after submitting all original tickets, receipt\/invoices, boarding passes and later sending of the return documents and boarding passes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important: <\/strong>It\u00a0 was send only one bank transfert per Country . The recipient of the reimbursement was the partner association , not the participants according to the Slovakian\u00a0National Agency rules.\u00a0To receive reimbursement participants had to attend all the planned progamme elements (before, during and after the project activities).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Financial support:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Project was supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/programmes\/erasmus-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cErasmus+\u201d program<\/a>. Accommodation, meals, program and travel cost (based on distance) are covered from grant. <strong>There was NO\u00a0participation fee<\/strong>.\u00a0However, 15 BGN\u00a0 were deductuted from the travel costs or paid to the sending organisation from each participant, in order to be covered the different taxes, related to the participation of each representative from Bulgaria (bank transfer fees, post expenses, difference in the exchange rates, etc.).<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Insurance:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The travel insurance was not mandatory but it was\u00a0<strong>highly reccommended.\u00a0<\/strong>It costed 1 BGN\/day and covered all the common injuries during projects up to 5000 Euro.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>YouthPass:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Every participant was individually entitled to receive a\u00a0Youthpass Certificate, which confirms participation and<br \/>\nvalidates the non-formal learning (NFL) experience of\u00a0Training course project. Validating the learning\u00a0experiences of participants is important in itself and the\u00a0document can be of benefit in terms of the educational\u00a0or employment future of the participant. Through\u00a0Youthpass the European Commission ensures the Training\u00a0course activity is recognized as a non-formal learning\u00a0experience.<br \/>\n(*For more information on Youthpass you may click on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthpass.eu\/en\/youthpass\/\">this page<\/a> to check it online)<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additional materials:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1IyrcNmI9rwnKZCN_nJCYbSkxKDAk_Njp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THINKING TOOLKIT Media(te) Diversity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-26. 08. 2017<br \/>\n\u0411\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430, \u0421\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043a\u0438\u044f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth-exchanges","category-news","category-completed-projects"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/news.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cya.tryavna.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}