Erasmus Plus Training
Some group photos
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Program of Training Seminar for Youth Workers: Non Formal Environmental Education Trainers: Nikolas Nikolaou,Magdalena Szewczyk,George Zittis |
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Day 1, Monday 6th of July |
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Action |
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Until 19.00 |
Arrival of the Participants. The participants will take the bus from the airport to Limassol, to the hotel |
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19.30 |
Dinner |
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20.00 |
Meeting each other through an interactive game – Ice Breaking |
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21.00 |
Introduction to the training. |
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21.30 |
Welcoming Drink – un opportunity to meet each other. |
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Day 2, Tuesday 7th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer games |
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09.40 |
Green Energy and entrepreneurship Representation of Renewable energy and how we can use them easily in our own life. Smart ideas and how people make their own business from the Environment. Protecting environment in all times means protecting myself and my work. Ideas from participants and what are they thinking about environment. Smart ideas with creativity and entrepreneurship maybe they will be workable in next sessions. |
| 11.10 |
Break |
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11.30 |
Creating my Green Company or Green Youth Project (Group Work 1): Participants will try to find partners for common projects or company’s which they have to do with environment and green energy. All the ideas will represent to all participants from the participants so to decide what they want to do and built their teams (5 persons maximum in each team, teams can be also 3 or 4 persons). Creations of 6 to 10 teams which they will built their one project or plan or business which has to do with environment and green energy |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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5.30 |
Calculate your personal ecological footprint Calculate your average carbon footprint of each of the participants of each organization. Human activities consume resources and produce waste, and as our populations grow and global consumption increases, it is essential that we measure nature’s capacity to meet these demands. The Ecological Footprint has emerged as one of the world’s leading measures of human demand on nature. Simply put, Ecological Footprint Accounting addresses whether the planet is large enough to keep up the demands of humanity. |
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17.00 |
Break |
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. Debate – Monoculture vs. Organic Farming The participants will be able to:
In the debate, some of the participants will take on certain roles Web of life In this activity, people brainstorm links in a global food web. They explore: - The interdependency of living and non-living things and - The inevitable impact of all human activity on the environment, and the consequences. Discussion |
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19.00 |
Reflection time (questions about the agenda, what they have learned in that day, how the knowledge earned, is going to be used) |
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20.00 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Cyprus Night: A night especially for Cyprus, Traditional music, drinks food and dances from Cyprus. |
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Day 3, Wednesday 8th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer Games |
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09.40 |
Let Every Voice to Be Heard (Group Work) This is a discussion exercise in small groups and plenary, working with the issues of:
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11.10 |
Break |
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11.40 |
Building my Green Company or Green Youth Project (Group Work 2): Groups now they have to built activities actions that they will do as a company or due to the project, they have to make plans about investments how they invest, how they will built their company in the internet or anywhere else, how they can be global and not local. Also for project they have to built the projects with all activities and what they have to do in these activities. |
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13.30 |
Lunch |
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15.30 |
Global Warming 1: Reality or Fake? Is Global warming and Climate Change a reality? Global Warming and Climate Changes, is truth or not? |
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17.00 |
Break |
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17.30 |
Global Warming 2: Reality or Fake? Group Activity: 3 groups will support reality for Global Warming and Climate Change, 3 groups will support the different opinion with trainers, with arguments and preparing a representation in A2 papers. Also they will represent their work to all of them with discussion. |
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19.00 |
Reflection time (questions about the agenda, what they have learned in that day, how the knowledge earned, is going to be used) |
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20.00 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Organizations night: Each organization will represent their work to other participants. Common activities with other organizations |
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Day 4, Thursday 9th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer |
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09.40 |
Cyprus Island: Year 39 after the Energy Destruction (1) Game activity: Participants consider the variety of different energy options available to communities living on Cyprus Island and select the most appropriate technology. Renewable energy fact cards, a map of the island, and information on the different communities and their needs are all resources designed to help them. Exciting game activity with a lot of science fiction and renewable energy sources
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11.10 |
Break |
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11.40 |
Cyprus Island: Year 39 after the Energy Destruction (2) Continue of the group work and representations of groups |
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13.30 |
Lunch |
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15.30 |
Living in a perfect world This activity starts with a quiz on proverbs and wise sayings that reflect different aspects of being at peace, and goes on to let participants reflect on:
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17.00 |
Break |
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17.30 |
Finalizing my Green Company or Green Youth Project (Group Work 3): Groups they have to finalize their company or their project in certain things for each one either company either Youth Project |
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19.00 |
Reflection time (questions about the agenda, what they have learned in that day, how the knowledge earned, is going to be used) |
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20.00 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Intercultural night: Music, traditional dances and culture from the countries of the organizations that taking part in the training
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Day 5, Friday 10th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer |
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09.40 |
Front Page: From Local to Global. We care about Environment. (1) Group Activity: You are a group of journalist. Each one of you has certain role in the group. You will have to make groups of 4 to 5 persons. We will make 6 groups to work so at last you will make the Front Page of the newspaper that you are working. |
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11.10 |
Break |
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11.40 |
Front Page: From Local to Global. We care about Environment. (2) Discussion activity which will reinforce participants' understanding of the meaning of our environment and Global dimension of the Environment. |
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13.30 |
Lunch |
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15.00. Outside Evening. |
Excursion to Kourion, we will visit a photovoltaic park in Pissouri and an environmental greenhouse in Kourion. Also we will go to ancient places in Kourion and we will have time to explore Kourion beach and have a bath at the beach. |
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20.00 |
Way back to hotel |
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21.30 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Free night for exploring Pissouri village |
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Day 6, Saturday 11th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer |
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09.40 |
Take a Step forward We are all equal, but some are more equal than others. In this activity participants experience what it is like to be someone else in their society. The issues addressed include:
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11.00 |
Break |
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11.30 |
Representing my Green Company or Green Youth Project (Group Work 4): Groups will represent their ideas for business or project with environment. Discussion and questions in each idea (10 to 15 minutes in each group is depending of the number of the groups. |
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13.30 |
Lunch |
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15.30 |
Participants will discover the characteristics of local forested areas, which may include woodlands, urban forests, schoolyard trees, and /or Tree Farms, and compare these characteristics to the forested areas of another region. |
| 17.00 |
Break |
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The Biodiversity of Life: Exploring the Outdoors The point of this activity is to look carefully for organisms in the world around students. Later they will work cooperatively in groups to create a master list of organisms found in the sample area. Each individual is responsible for finding as many organisms as possible and they must represent at least 3 different kingdoms. The work of the groups of participants will be presented at the end in a poster |
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19.00 |
Reflection time (questions about the agenda, what they have learned in that day, how the knowledge earned, is going to be used) |
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20.00 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Free night |
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Day 7, Sunday 12th of July |
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08.30 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Energizer |
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09.40 |
Acting about environment 1 What can you do to protect biodiversity? What can you do about Climate Change? What you think about renewable energy? How do you prefer education to be involved In environment? Participants divided to groups will develop the topic in 3 ways: drama, art, ICT to make people more aware the role of biodiversity, reneable energy, environment, climate change … and protection of it. |
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11.10 |
Break |
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11.30 |
Acting about environment 2 Group representations about environment |
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13.30 |
Lunch |
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15.30 |
Youth Pass and Young People. Self-assessment (completing the self-assessment form) |
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17.00 |
Brake |
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17.30 |
Evaluation of the Youth Exchange Program. An evaluation from all the participants about the actions that took place in Youth Exchange. The results of the evaluation will be post in our web page. |
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19.00 |
Giving Youth Pass to Participants |
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20.00 |
Dinner |
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21.00 |
Farewell Party organized by participants |
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Day 8, Monday 13th od July |
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08.00 |
Breakfast |
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09.30 |
Departure of the participants |
Group photos
