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GIVE MORE POWER TO YOUR ENGINE!<\/h1>
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Period:<\/strong>\u00a015-24 August 2013<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong>\u00a0Sovata, International Youth Center of Outward Bound Romania and Gurghiului Mountains, Mure\u0219 river<\/p>\n

Participants:<\/strong>\u00a0disadvantaged and\/or unemployed youth people<\/p>\n

Partners:<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Vecpiebalgas novada pa\u0161vald\u012bba (Latvia)<\/p>\n

-Citt\u00e0 di Torino \u2013 Servizio Centrale Attivit\u00e0 Internazionali e Giovent\u00f9 \u2013 Ufficio Scambi Internazionali (Italy)<\/p>\n

-Ment\u00e1l-mank\u00f3 Alap\u00edtv\u00e1ny (Hungary)<\/p>\n

-Active Ideas Foundation (Bulgaria)<\/p>\n

-InfoEck \u2013 Jugendinfo Tirol (Austria)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Financial support:<\/strong>\u00a0The Youth in Action Program of the European Commission<\/p>\n

The main goal of the project:\u00a0was to develop the self-esteem of the participants and help them to find a job easily after the program<\/p>\n

The main achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Personal development<\/p>\n

-Developing motivation<\/p>\n

-Project management skills<\/p>\n

-Development of entrepreneurship<\/p>\n

-Develop self-confidence<\/p>\n

-Developing initiatives<\/p>\n

-Development of creativity<\/p>\n

-Emphasize the importance of a healthy active lifestyle<\/p>\n

-Setting and achieving personal goals<\/p>\n

-Expanding the theoretical and practical knowledge related to employment<\/p>\n

-Awareness of the importance of volunteering<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The youth exchange entitled \u201d Give more power to your engine!\u201d \u00a0brought together 27 unemployed young people aged between 16-25 years, and 6 group leader from 6 \u00a0different European countries (Romania, Italy, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria) \u00a0to Sovata and Gurghiului Mountains, Romania. Our main goal was to help the participants to improve their self confidence, their active job seeking and also entrepreneurship skills. During the 9 days program participants experienced self- confidence building activities, worked on self-management. Besides the experienced technical skills, the exchange developed initiative taking, creativity, strategically thinking, self-esteem, responsibility, goal setting and achieving the set goals, and also the active participation. Another goal of the exchange was to contribute to the fight against unemployment, marginalization of underprivileged youth, to make possible young people to be active in the society, to foster their social inclusion and to empower them to have self-confidence for job seeking and\/or entrepreneurship. The exchange created participants also the possibility to learn about each other\u2019s country, about each other\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n

The methods we used are outdoor sports and experiential education. By having most of the activities interactive and in the outdoors, participants learnt also about healthy lifestyle, healthy behaviors.<\/p>\n

Main activities were:<\/strong>
\n– knowing each other activities
\n– teambuilding activities
\n– canoe expedition
\n– overnight expedition
\n– orienteering
\n– ropes course activities, trust building
\n– volunteering
\n– indoor simulation workshops about engagement
\n– cultural nights<\/p>\n

You can find photos about the program here:
\nhttps:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/110927979152780545744\/albums\/5916114094642992641?banner=pwa<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.665218903490173.1073741888.181330515212350&type=3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>