Infos for the groups

Don't forget:
1. Traditional costumes
2. Traditional dances
3. Any traditional element that will help you to show us your culture
4. Traditional energisers
5. Presentations of your organisations
6. Good mood :) :) :)
7. Happy, happy, joy, joy mood :)

Useful links for the Youngsters involved & the first steps for follow up ;)

1. European Commission - Youth
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.htm
2. ... and Youth in Action:
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth-in-action-programme/doc100_en.htm
3. Eurodesk
http://www.eurodesk.org/edesk/Welcome.do
4. Salto Resource Centres
http://www.salto-youth.net/
5. DG Education and Culture
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.html
6. National Agencies
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/youth/contacts_en.htm?cs_mid=152

Partners :)

1. Turkey Youth Union Association - TURKEY
http://www.tgbder.org.tr/
2. Wiatrak Foundation - POLAND
http://www.wiatrak.org.pl/main.faces;jsessionid=0D19B009F569B8FA1F73D9E603BFF372
3. Joint - ITALY
http://www.jointweb.it/
4. Rokiskio jaunimo organizaciju sajunga “Apvalus stalas” - LITHUANIA
http://arch.lijot.lt/index.php?language=lt&page=14446
5. Youth for Community Development Association - ROMANIA
http://www.atdc.as.ro/

Griffon Youth Hostel

Griffon Youth Hostel

address

Str. Electroputere nr. 21 bis, Craiova, Dolj

Phone

0040-351-804.903; 0040-351-804.902
fax

0040-251-544.457
e-mail

dtjdolj@yahoo.com
www

http://tineret-dolj.ro

Facilities: Tourist information, Restaurant, Bar, Living room, Sport facilities, Conference room, Internet acces, Phone, fax, Cable TV, guided tours, Free parking place,

Information available @: http://www.hihostels-romania.ro/hostels_Griffon_Youth_Hostel_28_eng.html

Interesting links :)

If you want to know more about Craiova:

Map: http://www.primariacraiova.ro/pcv/servlet/portal?action=ContentAction&actEvent=showRubric&id=craiova-city-map

History: http://www.primariacraiova.ro/pcv/servlet/portal?action=ContentAction&actEvent=showRubric&id=craiova-town-informations-2

Musical Fountain: http://www.musicalfountain.eu/

Architecture: http://www.primariacraiova.ro/pcv/servlet/portal?action=ContentAction&actEvent=showRubric&id=craiova-town-informations-1

And more about Romania - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCf8NWJ8kzA

Our Location :)

The city hall :)

The bridge from Nicolae Romanescu Park

The Center (if you are lucky, maybe you can see that fountain singing - than you can try the dance ;)

For further information about Craiova, please, check:

Through Europe in Dance Steps!

This project is a youth exchange – Action 1.1 – Youth in Action - focused on European traditional dances. The aim of this exchange is to work and, in this case, to dance all together to share our experiences and to contribute to the knowledge of other European Countries’ traditions and cultures. In Craiova, Dolj County, 25 youngsters, from 5 countries – Turkey, Lithuania, Poland, Italy and Romania will actively participate into the activities that we will run, activities based mainly on the intercultural learning process and on intercultural dialogue, using the traditional dances as a tool.
The dance workshops will be the instrument to know each other and to unite all the participants. In each of the 7 days of activities, the youngsters will discover and learn traditional dances coming from the countries involved in the exchange with the goal of mixing traditions and cultures and inventing new and alternative ways to use the dances as an instrument to express the multicultural issue. Furthermore, at the end all the countries will realize a final show all together.
Our challenge is to discover different cultures, to overcome the differences, to respect the other cultures and to encourage the dialogue among youngsters coming from different countries and bringing with them their own and personal backgrounds.
The dance will be the main activity but we will use other different activities – role playing games, workshops, animation tools - to develop our social skills such as teamwork, solidarity and tolerance.

Aims:
Idea: to valorise the traditional dances as a proper tool to facilitate the intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue process.
We aim to :
o to valorise the intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue concepts by transferring them into practical activities;
o to valorise the creativity and the innovation potential of the participants;
o to promote the cultural diversity of the European space using dances as a tool;
o to facilitate the integration of young people into society and encouraging their spirit of initiative, their participation;
o to raise the intercultural competences;
o to support the development of youth organisations from participating countries or and to frame them in partnerships and projects within the “Youth in Action” Programme;

o to give young people with fewer opportunities or isolated access to the mobility and non-formal education
o to promote a better understanding of the diversity of our common European culture and shared heritage as well as of our common basic values;to come up with a common result of our work: the final show, based on valorising the common roots and the creativity of youngsters in imagining