INFO-PACK – Training Course 2: E+ Youth-Activizenship – Volume 2
CONTEXT
The KA1 Erasmus+ project E+ Youth-Activizenship aims to enhance youth participation in 10 communities in
Europe. Participation is key for inclusion and resilience of youth in our society that is becoming more fragmented
and complex. We clustered 4 major constraints to youth participation: 1) participation and legal status;
2) participation and gender; 3) participation and educational background; 4) participation and religion.
Based on the 4 clusters, the project improves competences/methods/tools of participants thus increasing the
involved NGOs' capacities to reach out and empower youth not engaging in social and political life.
GOALS
• To further professionalise youth workers by making them experience and reflect on innovative methods and tools
which they can acquire and use to foster youth participation in their respective communities;
• To foster the bottom-up development of youth participation action plans based on evidence and experience of
participants using four thematic clusters of participation as a theoretical framework.
METHODOLOGIES & SCHEDULE
• The project is extensively built on non-formal education principles and methodologies. The TC schedule has 4
daily sessions 10:00 -11:30, 12:00-13:30, 15:00 -16:30, 17:00-18:30; one morning study visit; one free afternoon.
TARGET GROUP
• 30 youth workers, young leaders and trainers from HU, RO, BG, CZ, GR, ES, BE, LT, IT and DE.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The project E+ Youth-Activizenship comprises two training courses (abbreviation TC): Volume I & Volume II.
TC 1: E+ Youth-Activizenship – Volume I TC 2: E+ Youth-Activizenship – Volume II
• Dates: 27.07.2019 – 04.08.2019. • Dates: 08.11.2019 – 16.11.2019.
• Duration: 9 days including 2 travel days. • Duration: 9 days including 2 travel days.
• Venue: Rovereto, Italy (see). • Venue: Baitz, Germany (see).
• For both TCs accommodation and board are fully covered, travel expenses reimbursed in line with the Erasmus+
rules, participants are provided with basic insurances at no charge, and there is no participation fee.
SECOND TRAINING COURSE: ORGANISATION & LOGISTICS
• The venue of the second TC is the village of Baitz 37km away from Brandenburg and 63km away from Berlin in
north-eastern Germany. Note, one TC day will be organised in Berlin including the free afternoon.
• The weather in November in Baitz is cold: max. 7° - min. 2°.
Connection Baitz – Berlin - Baitz
• On 08.11.2019 you will fly to one of the major airports of Berlin and you will be accommodated at the MEININGER
Hotel Berlin Central Station in Berlin and no activities are foreseen for the day.
• You can check-in at the MEININGER Hotel anytime from 15:00 and breakfast for the morning after is included.
• On 08.11.2019 there is no organised dinner and for that you will get a 10€ flat reimbursement on the last TC.
• On 09.11.2019 we will gather at the entrance of the MEININGER Hotel at 09:15 and we will together leave for
Baitz, where we will be accommodated at the seminar house/Tagungshaus Baitz.
• On 16.11.2019 no activities are foreseen for the day and you can leave anytime. The first train connection
Baitz - Berlin Central Station is at 05:48 - 06:44, every hour one train leaves for Berlin Hbf and takes one hour.
How to reach Berlin by plane
• We kindly advise to search flight connections from your closest airport to one of the following ones:
- Berlin-Tegel (TXL); - Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF).
• We kindly advise to search flight connections with airline companies such as Ryanair, EasyJet and Wizzair, as these
operate between your countries’ major cities and the above listed airports.
• Local public transport connects both airports to the MEININGER Hotel Berlin Central Station where you will
overnight on 08.11.2019. Please consult here for Berlin-Tegel (TXL) and here for Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF).
How to reach Berlin by train/bus
• Berlin’s train and bus stations are well-connected with the main European routes and we kindly advise to search
train connections at Deutsche Bahn – DB or for bus connections at Flixbus or Eurolines,.
• We discourage to use the car to reach Berlin.
ACCOMMODATION, BOARD & TRAINING FACILITIES
• The seminar house/Tagungshaus Baitz provides lodging, boarding as well as the seminar room for the training
course activities. This facility is not a hotel but rather a wide residence in the nature with large floors and spacious
bedrooms for several persons split by gender.
• The project lead partners CRISP and East-West Lab already organised training courses in this location and our
participants were very satisfied.
• Accommodation and board are fully covered.
• Please, remind us about your food preferences (not vegetarian/vegetarian/vegan), intolerances/allergies, special
diets as well as about other special needs (e.g. special medical treatments, limited mobility etc.)
TRAVEL EXPENSES GUIDELINES
• Participants are entitled to the reimbursement of the following costs:
- outward journey – from their ordinary place of residence to Berlin;
- return journey – from Berlin – back to their ordinary place of residence.
• Note: taxi fares are NOT eligible for reimbursement!
• Please, propose the most appropriate and convenient means of transport – which may be bus, train, or
economy class flight tickets – and contact the project staff at
[email protected] to agree
on the details of the route and expenses eligible for reimbursement.
• Travel expenses are reimbursed according to the Distance Calculator of the Erasmus+ Programme, participants
from Spain can be reimbursed up to 360€, from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium,
Lithuania, Italy up to 275 Eur and Germany up to 180 Eur.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
• Note: in your travel proposal do not include the connections Berlin/Baitz (09.11.2019) and Baitz/Berlin
(16.11.2019) as we will take care of both transfers.
To purchase your bus / train / flight tickets you are kindly asked to:
1. send to [email protected] a travel proposal of your outward and return journey, from
your place of departure to the TC venue, with dates / departure & arrival time, the names of bus / train / airline
companies you would travel with and current costs for the tickets.
Please, follow the example below:
• Outward Journey (08.11.2019): departure place Milan city, bus to the airport Milan-Malpensa (ticket cost 5€),
flight from airport Milan-Malpensa to the airport Berlin-Tegel with the airline Ryanair (ticket cost: ca. 50€);
• Return journey (16.11.2019): flight from airport Berlin-Tegel to the airport Milan-Malpensa with the airline
Ryanair (ticket cost: ca. 70€); train from Milan-Malpensa to Milan city (ticket cost 10€).
2. wait for our feedback, we either confirm your travel proposal or send you a change request.
3. upon our confirmation, you shall purchase the bus / train / flight tickets.
4. send to [email protected] the travel e-ticket(s), as this is the final confirmation of your
participation in the TC.
• Please send us ASAP your travel proposal and wait for our feedback!
REQUEST FOR REIMBURSEMENT
Travel expenses are reimbursed upon the presentation of all the original supporting documents:
• Original bus / train / flight tickets / original boarding passes; in case of electronic boarding passes, printouts
for both routes are acceptable.
• Original invoices or receipts of bus / train / flight tickets; in case of online bookings, printouts of the e-ticket
receipt are acceptable.
• The documents supplied must show the paid amount, category/class, date and time of travel!
• Please conserve all the original bus / train / flight tickets!
• Participant hand over the original supporting documents to the project staff over the course of the TC.
• We will reimburse your eligible travel expenses on your bank account latest 4 weeks after the TC!
VARIOUS IMPORTANT ISSUES
• Insurance and EU Health Insurance Card: participants are provided for free with a basic insurance throughout
the entire the training course. Please, take your European Health Insurance Card with you!
• VISA Arrangement: Should you not hold a valid ID card or passport from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Lithuania, Germany and Italy, please inform us immediately so as to verify if
additional visa procedures should be considered. Please, inform us in case you hold two citizenships!
• Currency exchange: We kindly suggest exchanging your national currency to EURO prior to the TC so as not to be
charged with higher fees at the airport. There are no currency exchange offices in Baitz! Please, make sure that you
can withdraw EURO from ATMs in Italy using your credit card!
CONTACT PERSONS & PROJECT LEAD PARTNERS
• Tommaso Galli & Giacomo Dossi:
[email protected]• CRISP acts as coordinating organisation and host organisation for the TC in Germany.
• East-West Lab acts as host organisation for the TC in Italy.
