CDN Summer Camp 2008 “Youth culture as a sustainable path to democratic society” Project information
Call for prep team members The call for the participants Financial conditions Dear participants of CDN Summer Camp Documents
Project information: Where and when the meeting be held Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 20. July – 27. July 2008 Summary: The main themes of this event are youth culture and artistic, creative activism as a tool for young people to take active participation in politics and social changes towards more open, democratic and diverse society. We want to: Support active participation of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other non-EU countries (SEE and Former Soviet Union countries) by creating more space for alternative and informal participation of young people. Explore and discuss the youth culture, its elements and cultural impact that it has to the positive changes of the society towards social inclusion and equal opportunities. Support changes of the society in which young people are truly able to express their political thoughts and ideas. Learn about public art and street activism role in development of youth culture and sustainable and democratic society. Objectives: By locating social obstacles and prejudices of youth life-style based on intergenerational and intercultural misunderstandings we wish to improve mutual understanding and lower prejudices between mentioned groups and to support the vision of citizenship built and guaranteed on equal rights for all individuals regardless of gender, race, age, religion, class, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, disability, wealth or health. In the course of the seminar, we would like to promote the activism of youth organizations and youth non formal groups in post-communist countries, and in general, enhance the active citizenship of the youth of that specific region by offering them tools to take active part in democratic processes By using creative/artistic ways we want to encourage direct action against different forms of discrimination (sexism, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia), against authoritarianism and against hierarchical order in society. The seminar program will consist of workshops, educational games, discussion groups, role play, open space technology workshop and lectures. Additionally we will form working groups that will during the seminar focus on expressing their view on role of the youth culture through different art mediums (word poetry, original music, dance, theater and visual arts). This will also support future activities by participants and organisation to continue the work we have started. Working groups will be formed in order to come up with recourses for future projects, fresh ideas and views. We want to make working atmosphere closer to young people from eastern countries same time keeping the short distance with general methods that western participants are used to. We will also use these practices to organize manifestation in the public in order to support and promote youth culture and youth activism. We will invite local youth initiatives to join. Purpose of the meeting in your organisation's short- and long-term programme With this camp we would like to make our contribution to this process giving young people informal education, democracy training and the possibility to cooperate and build networks for the future. Also we would like to further develop and explore CDN possibilities to support more their member organizations in their work on the local level. In this purpose we are planning to form a working group that will propose campaigns, street actions and other activities that CDN would conduct in cooperation with Member organization. Build information network between Eastern and Western European countries in order to get support for future activities of participants and member organizations of CDN. Preparation of the meeting - Preparations
Preparatory meeting
Regular e mail communication
Phone conferences
Introduction of programme, aims, participants
Lectures, workshops and discussion groups Group building games, Role play, energizers
International evenings
Project development - Follow up
Prep team evaluation meeting
distributing of report and other related material
International preparatory team will be selected after the open call for its members and selection will be done according to the geographical diversity, experience and motivation of the applicants. We will also ensure the gender balance of the preparatory team members. There will be two preparatory meetings. First will be done in March in order to visit the location of the event and discuss technical preparations needed (logistics, reporting, financial management, communication and other technical support needed) for the second meeting and event itself with the local organizers. This visit will be done by one Executive committee member and Office stuff of CDN. Meeting of the international prep team should not be longer than 2 days and will take place in May 2007 at the location of the event. E mail communication and web site forum will be main tools for preparations and as well we will try to organize few phone conferences when needed. Lecturers/trainers that will be invited, selection of participants, agenda of the seminar and all of the technical issues (traveling, arrival/departure, accommodations and food, meeting rooms, material) will be discussed and decided at this meeting. Follow-up to the meeting ¨ Continuing contacts with future possible youth member organization to Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe(CDN) ¨ Forming a Working group of CDN that will work on developing and organizing campaigns, actions and other concrete street activites in order to promote the Political platform and goals of CDN ¨ Provide participants and member organizations with material produced during the Summer Camp and support their activism on the local level Profile of the participants and recruitment procedure: The participants should be interested in the topics of this event, willing to take active part in the planned activities and open for new experiences and people. The advantage (but not the condition) is to have green organisation background and the experience with the topics of the event. Considering that this is a youth event the participants will not be younger then 17 and older then 32. The selection of the participants will be completed by the International Prep Team. We would like to keep participation open for people of different education levels and with different backgrounds. Important is the diversity of experience and knowledge. The allocation of participants will be based on gender and geographical balance. We will use the application files standard procedure.
The call for the members of the International Preparatory group This call is open for applicants coming from any of the Council of Europe member states (listed bellow). The prep team member should be interested in the topics of this event, willing to take active part in the preparations, implementation and follow up of the project and be available to take part in the preparatory meeting in spring 2008 and the summer camp itself. The advantage (but not the condition) is to have green organisation background and the experience with the topics of the event. Considering that this is a youth event the members of the prep team will not be younger then 18 and older then 35. The selection of the prep team will be done by the Executive Committee of CDN in April 2008. DEADLINE for submitting the application (filled in applications form attached to the call) to
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is 15th of April 2008 at 12AM CET. Role of the prep team Prep team will take the responsibility for development, coordination, implementation and reporting of all the program and technical activities related to the project. Their work will be supported by CDN office, project host team and the Executive Committee of CDN. It is expected that the preparations of the event will start on 1th of May. In preparation period the prep team will be in regular communications via e mail, several phone conferences will be organised based on the need of the team and the prep team will take place at least one month prior to activity start at the location of the event - latest 16th – 18th of June. The follow up of the event will be coordinated by the prep team in July and August 2008. Preparatory meeting During the meeting the prep team will prepare all the documents needed: program of the event, readers for the participants on the topic, information sheet about the country and general conditions and requirements, list of the group building games that will be used and the list of energizers for the mornings. Special attention will be on the good methods for handling and integrating such big group. All of the technical issues (travelling, arrival/departure, accommodations and food, meeting rooms, material) will be discussed and decided at these meetings. Decision on lecturers/trainers that will be invited and selection of participants will be mostly done through e communications though we will make definite choice while we are together at the prep meeting. International Prep team should consist of up to 5 people. All of the travel and lodging costs of the prep team member, connected to event preparation and realisation, will be covered by the organisers. Prep team application form is sent together with this call and also can be downloaded from the documents section of this page. To repeat: DEADLINE for submitting the application (filled in applications form) to
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is 15th of April 2008 at 12AM CET. Download Prep team Application form
The second call for the members of the International Preparatory group This call is open for applicants coming from any of the Council of Europe member states (listed bellow). The prep team member should be interested in the topics of this event, willing to take active part in the preparations, implementation and follow up of the project and be available to take part in the preparatory meeting in spring 2008 and the summer camp itself. The advantage (but not the condition) is to have green organisation background and the experience with the topics of the event. Considering that this is a youth event the members of the prep team will not be younger then 18 and older then 35. The selection of the prep team will be done by the Executive Committee of CDN and you will be informed about selection result till 15th of May 2008. DEADLINE for submitting the application (filled in applications form attached to the call) to
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is 6th of May 2008 at 12AM CET. Download Prep team Application form
The call for the participants CDN – Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (www.cdnee.org) is announcing a call for participants of the summer camp “Youth culture as a sustainable path to democratic society”. This project will take place from 20th to 27th of July 2008 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This event has been so far financially supported by Council of Europe, European Youth Foundation and the Green Forum, Sweden. Profile of the participants This call is open for applicants coming from any of the Council of Europe member states (listed bellow) and Belarus. The participants should be interested in the topics of this event, willing to take active part in the planned activities and open for new experiences and people. The advantage (but not the condition) is to have green organisation background and the experience with the topics of the event. Considering that this is a youth event the participants will not be younger then 17 and older then 32. We would like to keep participation open for people of different education levels and with different backgrounds. Important is the diversity of experience and knowledge. The allocation of participants will be based on gender and geographical balance. We will use the application files standard procedure. DEADLINE for submitting the application (filled in applications form attached to the call) to
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is 1st of June 2008 at 12AM CET. General conditions If accepted as participant to this event, you should arrange your travel in most environmental friendly and economic way. You are expected to arrive before 20th of July and depart only after 2 am on 27th of July. The organisers will partly reimburse your travel expenses. At the moment we are not able to confirm the exact amount but we are aiming to be able to support up to 70% of your travel costs, upon presentation of all the original receipts. Accommodation, meals, educational materials and refreshments will be provided by organisers for the entire duration of the activity, free-of-charge. The participation fee for the event will be set at later stage aiming at around 30 euro per participant. Download Application form for participants
The financial conditions The participant shall organise the journey in the most economic manner. The participant is encouraged to use more environmental friendly means of transport whenever possible (trains or buses instead of plans, collective transport instead of the car travel, etc.) The participation fee for this event is set up to be 40 euro for participants coming from the European Union member states and 30 euro for all the other countries. The travel reimbursement will be done according to the General rules of CDN Financial Management of the projects (stated bellow). The amount that will be reimbursed to a participant of this event is 70% of his/her actual travel costs. The maximum amounts applied by this rule can not excide 220 euro. Download the Financial management of this event
Dear participants of CDN Summer Camp, I wish you welcome on this Email list, hopefully I will be glad to wish you the same on our Event. As you were informed, the prep team had 2 round of selection, and among 167 Application it chooses you to be participants of the CDN SC 2008. The choice was brought using standard criteria mentioned in the call, having in mind CDN priorities. People who are in International Prep Team are: Marc Giménez Villahoz - Federation of Young European Greens spokesperson, Benjamin Grochowski - CDN Executive Committee member, Marina Dragomiretzkaya - Youth club of the Bulgarian Green Party activist, Hector Sanjuan Redondo - Jóvenes Verdes International secretary, Gordan Isabegovic - Youth Movement Revolt. Gordan will also perform the function of Program Coordinator, which means that he is the one which will follow eventual changes, try to put them in proper frame of the Event aims and objectives, and is obligated to pass all changes to you. CDN Office will be present in order to make sure that all Program issues are fitting the conditions of our donors, and also to fulfill any technical need. Milan Mitrovic, and Stevan Petrovic – CDN Office Coordinator and Administrator will be with you all time of the Event. All Local Issue are done by our host Youth Movement REVOLT, which activist are highly participating in the preparations. CDN assures you that they are doing the best in order to make your stay as pleasant as possible. As it was mentioned in you ACCEPTANCE message, you will have to travel to Tuzla, where we will organize local transport which will take you to the Event place. If you do not have direct bus connection to Tuzla, please consider these options: - If you don’t need a visa for Serbia or Croatia: 1. You can arrive at Belgrade (Serbia), than take a bus to Tuzla. It will take you approx 3,5 . 2. You can arrive at Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and than take a bus to Tuzla. It will take you approx 3 hours. 3. You can arrive at Zagreb (Croatia) and than to take a Bus to Tuzla – it will take you approximately 4 hours. - If you need a visa for Serbia or Croatia, than please try to arrive at Sarajevo, and than take a bus to Tuzla. If your trip is much cheaper if you go via Belgrade, we will arange you Serbian visa also. When choosing your way of traveling, please try to make your trip as cheaper as possible. The most convenient option for the Organizer is, in case you don’t have a direct connection with Tuzla, if you travel over Belgrade as the CDN Office is located there. For EU Citizens: PLEASE BRING YOUR PASSPORT – you can`t enter to certain countries of Western Balkan using ID card. Visa Issue: As there are a lot of countries, especially in Caucasus region, which are not having Bosnian Embassy, there is a problem of getting Visa. We know that they are asking you to travel to far distanced cities and submit the request personally. That’s why our local host is trying to get the decision of Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to allow your entering without a visa, but only with Invitation Letter. Gordan will let you know more on this. Confirmation of participation: All participants who didn’t confirm the participation are kindly asked to do this before 29th of June! Please respect our efforts to have all well planned in advance and do the confirmation!
Documents CDN SC Bosnia 2008 – Prep team application form
CDN SC Bosnia 2008 - Participants application form CDN Summer Camp 2008 - Financial conditions CDN Summer Camp 2008 - List of participants draft 1
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