CALL FOR PROJECT PARTNERS International Youth Exchange (project line “Youth for Heritage”) “Die Erfindung der Nation – die Erfindung Europas? // The invention of nation – the invention of Europe?” European Youth Meeting and Education Centre EJBW, Weimar (GERMANY) August 2015 Dear colleagues, partners and friends, We, the European Youth Meeting and Education Centre in Weimar are inviting you to become a partner in the International Youth Exchange “The invention of nation – the invention of Europe?” which will be applied within Erasmus+ within the next deadline and will take place in August 2015 in Weimar. About the project: The present project proposal is based on the results of the implemented Youth Exchange “Youth for Heritage” which took place in August 2014 in Weimar. The main part of the project was the work on the theme national memories in the context of European identity. Using the central statement It does not matter whether a society is aware of its history, but how it done we discussed questions as “How do we remember?”, “What do societies remember?”, “Who defines or determines what to remember?”, “To whom this memory is addressed?”, “And for what purpose we do remember?”, “How is memory staged? What is the role of literature and public spaces?”, “In other words, how is the past represented in the socio-political context?” Within the planned follow-up project as part of the project line “Youth for Heritage” titled “Die Erfindung der Nation – die Erfindung Europas? // The invention of nation – the invention of Europe?” we will focus on the role of culture and remembrance within the process of construction nations and the question about the construction and need of a cultural identity (group building processes, identity formation, images of threat, heroes, martyrs and victims). What does this in consequence mean for the European project, the concept of European citizenship, European identity or even a so-called “European Nation”? The translation of discussed themes takes place in various creative workshops. The aim is that insights and ideas, which grew out of joint work will be expressed using artistic means such as theatre, design as well as performance. Joint leisure activities and excursions support the intercultural exchange of the participants. The project will take place in August 2015 in Weimar, Germany under the roof of the European Youth Education and Meeting Centre (EJBW), co-initiated and supported by „Weimar-Jena-Akademie“ and „Klassik Stiftung Weimar“ in cooperation with project partners from EU28 and EECA. IMPORTANT: The planned Youth Exchange will consists in total out of three meetings: A) Advanced Planning Visit (duration 3-4 days) B) Youth Exchange (8-10 days) C) Evaluation Meeting (2-3 days) All future partners are invited to join all three events (event A and C leaders, event B participants and leaders). Further, in order to strengthen the impact and cooperation between NGOs and public bodies from each country TWO organizations are invited to join the events and to create the group of participants. One partner from the field of NGOs, initiatives of young people etc.; another partner from the field of public bodies at local, regional or national level (as e.g. museums). Costs and conditions: The project is planned to be realized with approx. 30 young participants in the age between 18 and 25 as well as group leaders (one per partner/country) in total. Travel costs are covered on the basis of the cheapest possibilities, e.g. second class railway tickets, APEX-flights etc., accompanied by the receipt of complete and original tickets, invoices, bills, receipts, boarding cards etc. upon a certain “contribution to the travel costs of participants, from their place of origin to the venue of the activity and return”. This contribution is “based on the travel distance per participant. Travel distances must be calculated using the distance calculator supported by the European Commission”. Accommodation, board and activities are covered. We would like to inform all potential partners already in advance that a participation fee in the amount of EUR 50 max. is taken to cover expenses which are not covered by the E+ grant (extra technical support, additional speakers, publications, give away articles). Details are communicated after approval. All applied methods and activities are based on experiences made in several years of youth work practice on local, regional, national & international level. For more information please check our site ejbweimar.de. Who is eligible to become a partner? The project will be realized with participants from programme countries from EU28, EECA, EFTA + pre-accession countries. Therefore the present call is open for NGOs, European Youth NGOs, social enterprises, public bodies at local level, groups of young people active in youth work as well as public bodies at regional or national level; associations of regions and profit-making bodies active in Corporate Social Responsibility from EU28, EECA, EFTA + pre-accession countries. How to become a partner? All organisations, who are participating in the Erasmus+ programme (as applicant as well as partner) must be registered. Means you are asked to register for a so called “PIC”. Here you can find the link for the registration: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas/eim/external/register.cgi. Please send us your PIC number after registration. In the attachment you will find two documents as follows: 1) Partner Identification form: in order to be able to fill the application form for the German National Agency we need some details from you. Please fill the attached form (word) and send it back as word doc to us so we can copy the data in the final application form. A scan, pdf or signed version is NOT NEEDED. 2) Mandate: please find attached the “Mandate form”. Please fill in the respective fields and send us back page 2 & 3 by Email (scanned, pdf, picture) ASAP. Further info: [email protected]
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