Youth Exchange “Come Out & Play!”
(funded by
Erasmus+)
Youthnet Hellas, in association with Youth
Movement of Edessa and the Environmental Education Centre of Edessa-Giannitsa, is organizing a youth exchange in Edessa (Greece) at 29.07.2015 – 05.08.2015, in the frame of the Erasmus+ program for
Youth.
38 youngsters from 7 European countries (Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Greece) will take part in this project
that mainly examines the issues of internet and on-line gaming addiction and
explores healthy ways of living.
The project “Come Out & Play!” has an
aim to outline the importance of outdoor activities and street games as means
of dealing with young people’s addiction to internet and the “videophilia”
phenomenon. This will be achieved with a very entertaining, participatory and
learning way.
The main idea of the project will be based
on the street games that are or were played in various countries, usually by
the older generations. The participant youngsters will leave their computers
and smart phones aside and they will get out to play with each other and with
the locals.
They will present the outdoor games that
are played in their countries, they will test and play them with the rest,
exercise, cooperate with each other and entertain themselves.
After the games, there will be discussions
and workshops, whereby the impressions from the experience of outdoor games
will be described, issues of addiction to internet and computers will be
examined and the importance of healthy behaviors and ways of living will be
analyzed. All activities and workshops will be realized in the frame of
non-formal and informal learning.
Some of the most important goals of the
project are the following:
• To encourage outdoor activities as means
of promoting healthy behaviors and ways of living and as a means of reinforcing
the mental, psychological and physical health of young people.
• To create intercultural learning and to
discover cultural elements and identities of participants and their countries
through the street games played today and in the past.
• The inclusion and active participation
in the project of young people with fewer opportunities.
• The intergenerational approach of
youngsters with older people.
• The development of social, personal,
group skills amongst participants and to reinforce their self esteem and self
confidence.
• To sensitize and provide knowledge about
the side-effects of modern technological means, about the dangers hidden in
getting addicted to internet and about the phenomenon of “videophilia”.
• To create a handbook (with a catalogue
of all games and detailed instructions) and a Mini Movie with all
outdoor games that were presented from the various countries of participants.
For more info, please contact us at: come.out.and.play.edessa@gmail.com
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