Dates: 6th May – 17th May 2024 

12 nights/days – 10 days program – 2 days for traveling

Venue: University Center Bachinovo in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Blagoevgrad is а town in Southwestern Bulgaria. It is the economic and cultural centre of Southwestern Bulgaria. It is located in the valley of the Struma River at the foot of the highest Mountan on Balkans - Rila Mountain, 101 kilometres south of the capital Sofia, close to the borders with North Macedonia and Greece. 

Objectives: The objectives are related to implementing educational mobility activities with the participation of young people with intellectual disabilities. Both youth with disabilities and young adults, as well as volunteers who are interested and ready to support their social inclusion, will participate in these activities. Collaborative learning and sharing knowledge and skills with their peers from other nationalities will help achieve this goal. That way, they will be satisfied with the need to develop specific knowledge, skills, and competencies and provide emotional and psychological support for the active social inclusion of young people with intellectual disabilities. The informal learning methods, especially peer-to-peer learning, will create models of mutual learning and collaborative activities with peers from different cultures. Young people will understand more about the natural qualities and abilities of those with intellectual disabilities and will form a sense of empathy and understanding, and readiness to support.

In this youth exchange youth participants from each partner country should prepare and present different methods for interactive non-formal education – through play games, dance, rhythm, drama activities, sport activities, art and etc.

Topics in the training program:

1. Morning yoga and energizers 
2. Get-to-know interactive games,
3. presentation of each partner organization’s activities
4. presenting activities for interactive peer to peer learning from each partner’s country. 
5. Outdoor activities
6. Sport activities
7. Teambuilding activities
8. Nonverbal communication activities,
9. Role play games
10. workshops, educational games, 
11. art activities – painting, clay work
12. building with ecological materials
13. musical and dance sessions
14. work with natural materials
15. country cultural presentations
16. cross-cultural interactive activities and any other according the needs and proposals of the partners’ organizations and the participants.

List of partners:

DAR DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION – Romania

Bosphorus Youth Team – Turkey

SYTEV - Slovakia

Host organization: For Tomorrow Foundation  – Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

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