Interwiev IV

Country: Croatia

Age: 23

Occupation: student

Favourite Social Media: youtube

This project in 3 words: cool cool cool

           Funny story from the project?
We had a lot of funny stories, but the last ones aren`t ment to be written.

 What is this project going to change in your life? 

My metabolism (hihi), my perspective on different cultural backgrounds…

 What will be the most memorable thing from this project?

I can`t point at one thing only, maybe 60`s party and photo project task

 What did you learn about other cultures?

First of all, they`re different than mine, but there are also some similarities  like some words and jokes.

What did you learn about yourself?

I learned that I should always be myself wherever.

What does Youth in Action mean for you?

A great opportunity to learn about other people and myself, to share experience and ideas.

Is social media important for you? Why?

It`s important for me because it enables me to stay in touch with people  who live in different regions and countries.

Interwiev III

Name: Brian

Country: Spain

Age:  19

Occupation: Student

Favourite Social Media: Facebook

This project in 3 words: I love everything

Funny story from the project?

Everything

What is this project going to change in your life?

I understand English better.

What will be the most memorable thing from this project?

Friends!

What did you learn about other cultures?

They are very interesting.

What did you learn about yourself?

Knowledge is a very powerful thing.

 What does Youth in Action mean for you?

New experiences

 Is social media important for you? Why?

Yes and now I understand them better.

Interwiev II

Name: Andrius

Country: Lithuania

Age:  24

Occupation: student

Favourite Social Media: None

This project in 3 words: Good, exhausting, interesting

Funny story from the project?

It’s getting funnier and funnier.

What is this project going to change in your life?

I’ve found out about new social networks and the ways to use it.

What will be the most memorable thing from this project?

Being in a movie clip.

What did you learn about other cultures?

In my opinion other cultures use social media a lot more than Lithuanians, as talking to them revealed.

What did you learn about yourself?

That I’m very cute (laughs). And weird. And that I can communicate in Spanish.

 What does Youth in Action mean for you?

A fun possibility to meet a lot of new people and learn something.

Is social media important for you? Why?

No, not really. I prefer social relations in real life. 

Interwiev

Name: Filip

Country: Poland

Age: 22

Occupation: Student & Photo Journalist

Favourite Social Media: Wordpress, Facebook, Flickr

This project in 3 words: Education, Creativity, Fun

         




 Funny story from the project?

Żaba byk!

            What is this project going to change in your life?

           Now I know that there are many interesting projects      like this one that I can get involved in the future. I improved my knowledge about social media and I’ve met many interesting people from different countries.

  What will be the most memorable thing from this project?

The video – we recorded it together and it allowed us to cooperate with people from many countries. It was great because we shared our creativity and had so much fun while doing it!

 What did you learn about other cultures?

I learned a lot in many aspects. What strucked me especially was the Croatians talking about their experiences from the war time.

 What did you learn about yourself?

That I can manage even very difficult situation and create something from the scratch even if I have to explore the tools from the very beginning.

What does Youth in Action mean for you?

It’s like Rock & Roll for young people! Great way to be an active young member of European society.

 Is social media important for you? Why?

Yes, they are in fact very important for me. I use them in both professional and personal life. I connect with possible employers, present my work and keep in touch with my friends.

What is Social Active Youth?

Hey!:-)

Here, in Nurri, we all have a chance to get to know each other's cultures – not only working together, but also during special events. One of them was an inter-cultural evenings, when every group had to prepare the presentation about their country, sharing not only the important facts but also some funny stories and traditional food. We got to know the story of Tesla, tried delicious Lithuanian bread, heard about the beauty of Canary Islands, tasted Bulgarian spicy peppers and got to meet a Polish superhero, superconsonantman!

During the activities, focusing on the social media, we have a chance to exchange our experience and opinions, based both on our cultural background and personal story. Via different methods of work we try to learn how to use social media better and more efficiently, at the same time seeking  the answers to the most essential questions connected to the social media: what is their role in the modern world? What is the danger? How do they change our reality?

One of our activities requires making up a video on a topic of Youth in Action. We were assigned different methods to carry out our task. Discussing, we set up the basic plan and then, sometimes with real sacrifices, we turned into real filmmakers. We not only had fun, but got familiarized with the basic applications, devices and methods of video-making. And even though some people were so engaged in the work that they accidentally fell into the swimming pool, it was still worth it...

Our work

Participants develop their skills, using different online communication platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr to share photos  and activities, blog to share links, Slideshare to publish the presentation.

Something about intercultural learning :

http://www.slideshare.net/socialactiveyouth/intercultural-learning-sardegna

Learning process is  documented in photos and video blog  using social media: 

http://www.slideshare.net/socialactiveyouth/social-youth-in-action-20

Hello everyone!

We are the participants of the youth exchange project that takes place in a beautiful Nurri in Sardinia. There are six countries here (Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain) and we all spend our time discussing the complex phenomenon of the social media. Besides that, we have a wonderful time meeting each other, sharing cultures, languages, experience and simply enjoying ourselves!

Social Active Youth 2.0

Social Active Youth 2.0 is an 8-days Youth Exchange for young leaders, youngsters and volunteers that will introduce them to the contexts, forms and tools of social media.

Main aim of this YE is to equip the participants with the knowledge, critical thinking ability, and practical skills they need to meet the personal, professional, and civic challenges posed by social media.

Proposed program includes a mix of hands-on, practical tuition together with theory, case studies and strategy tips. Young participants will discover the possible pitfalls of using social media, learn appropriate netiquette, and look at examples of how to best construct and spread their messages to get results.

 With help of practical group and individual exercises blogging, micro-blogging, document, image and video sharing applications, social networks and social bookmarking will be explored.  Participants will become familiar with a range of online communication tools, analyze their uses and implications, explore how can social media help non-governmental organizations to increase active participation and citizenship of young people, to foster inclusion, to achieve organizational goals and promote their causes.
The knowledge acquired will be immediately applied as participants will develop a concrete social media strategy for the improvement of their own societies at the end of the YE. Youth Exchange be hosted in Nurri, Italy, and gather 42 participants from Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia and Italy.

Youth in Action Programme

Youth in Action is the Programme the European Union has set up for young people. It aims to inspire a sense of active European citizenship, solidarity and tolerance among young Europeans and to involve them in shaping the Union's future. It promotes mobility within and beyond the EU's borders, non-formal learning and intercultural dialogue, and encourages the inclusion of all young people, regardless of their educational, social and cultural background: Youth in Action is a Programme for all.

The Youth In Action programme is the EU’s mobility and non-formal education. Its general objectives are:

• Promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular;
• Develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union;
• Foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries;
• Contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field;
• Promote European cooperation in the youth field.

In order to achieve its objectives, the Youth in Action Programme foresees five operational Actions:

Action 1 - Youth for Europe

Action 2 - European Voluntary Service

Action 3 - Youth in the World

Action 4 - Youth Support Systems

Action 5 - Support for European cooperation in the youth field

DG Education and Culture is responsible for the running of the Youth in Action Programme. It manages the budget and sets priorities, targets and criteria for the Programme on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, it guides and monitors the general implementation, follow-up and evaluation of the Programme at European level. The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is responsible notably for the implementation of the permanent and centralised actions of the Youth in Action Programme and for launching the specific calls for proposals. It is in charge of the complete life cycle of selected projects, from analysing the grant request to monitoring projects on the spot.

The National Agencies are responsible for the implementation of the permanent and decentralised actions of the Youth in Action Programme.

Source: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/programme/about_youth_en.php