Rural Youth Festival, Greece

Rural Youth Festival, a Trasnational Youth Participation Activity is a seven-day (23-29 / 8/2022) project hosted by the greek organization, Youth Active Minds.

It will bring together 35 young people (10 participants from each partner) 22-30 years old who are ready to be part of a 3-day festival 26-28 / 8/2022

Participants will be guided on a journey to develop their own open workshop, explore their creative potentials and use art, nature and sport as the main thematic pyllars for their engagement.

The objectives are:

• to motivate 35 young people, some of them with fewer opportunities to take initiatives through the open space activities method
• to motivate and increase the participation of rural youngsters who will visit the workshops of the festival
• to familiarize young people with the use of non-formal learning tools in groups based on creative practices and function as tools for social change;
• to provide young people with the opportunity to experience the process of exploring and meeting the upcoming challenges
• to give young people the opportunity to develop an individual set of skills, including communication, critical thinking and teamwork in an intercultural environment
• to understand the democratic tools through the involvement of young people throughout the democratic process, life, discussion with decision makers, developing dialogue and trying to influence.
• to increase participants' knowledge of the Erasmus + program and to support the development of new ideas for future plans and generally the revival and promotion of a place that disappears over the years through their participation activities young people

More informations here:

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