Association for Nature and Environment Conservation and Sustainable Development ARGONAUTA Pijaca Drutva seoske izobraenosti bb 22243

MURTER Croatia www.argonauta.hr mail@argonauta.hr

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BACK TO THE ANCIENT EUROPE2

Association for Nature and Environment Conservation and Sustainable Development "ARGONAUTA"
Youth in Action Programme

PROJECT Back to the Ancient Europe

The Back to ancient Europe 2 EVS project aims at promoting Archaeological site Colentum as valuable part of Europes cultural heritage. Project will take place in Murter (Murter Island, Croatia) during three months period. The objective of the project is to improve knowledge and raise awareness about values of cultural/archaeological heritage as common European value and its potential in terms of sustainable development of rural communities. The five young participants from Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Bulgaria will help hosting organization doing online research for best practices in sustainable development of Archaeological Sites in their own countries forming live network of organizations around this project. Also volunteers will use their creativity to present this project and European cultural heritage of Colentum to local children using mascot Quint and story about this character. Furthermore volunteers will assist in administration of web page colentum.info, clean up actions, different presentations of the site, Info days, assist to researchers in Archaeological Research etc. All of these activities will contribute in improving Strategic Action Plan for development of Colentum. Volunteers will organize different activities to get local/regional community and visitors aware of a values and potentials of a cultural/archaeological value. The aims of project activities is to encourage participation of young people in sustainable development, to motivate local/regional young people for active participation in order to ensure them working place (in community based local business) and to raise awareness about local resources that are still not recognized as economic development factors. We also want to present EVS and Youth in Action programme as an efficient tool for development of European common interest such cultural heritage. More information about hosting country you can find on this website: www.croatia.hr The project hosting country is Croatia.

When and where?

The project hosting city will be MURTER, CROATIA Implementation period: 7 of February 2014 as service start date, till the 6 of May 2014 as a service end date.

Short project description:

The objective of the project is to improve knowledge and raise awareness about values of cultural/archaeological heritage as common European value and its potential in terms of sustainable development of rural communities, to make the voluntary work and benefits more visible for the community, and inform local youth of the different opportunities of YIA. The chance to host a volunteer from other country will continue to promote the understanding and tolerance between participants from different countries, cultures and background, as well as will raise the awareness of our own cultural heritage. Including young people from five different EU countries actively working on awareness rising of cultural heritage (which is recognized as an important factor in economic development on a European level) will encourage local/regional young people for a similar action in order to contribute to a conservation of European cultural heritage in general. This project will promote European values of tolerance among young people from different background and multicultural society in a way that this big European team of volunteer will work together without prejudice.

Its extremely relevant for our organization to promote the active participation of young people for European important topics such cultural heritage is and to include them (in improving Strategic Action Plan Design) into building even better European environment. With raising awareness of the cultural diversity of European citizens (national evenings, presentation for children) will fight against xenophobia and racism etc. Positive experiences from volunteers during their 3 months long work and life in Croatia and sharing to their communities will contribute to combat prejudice and xenophobia toward Croatia as new member state. Furthermore, Back to the Ancient Europe2 project will continue to encourage our youngsters (one of our target groups) to have direct contact with other EU youngsters, become actively involved in the local civic networks as well as in cooperation in a European level. This collaboration will bring us the opportunity to open future perspectives (cooperation, non formal education, professional opportunities) to our youngsters on abroad.

Priority for becoming a EVS volunteer in Back to the Ancient Europe2 project will have youngsters with a fewer opportunities (economic problems - unemployed young people). Therefore they will have the opportunity to get the international experience, improve language and communication skills. In this way the project will contribute to their inclusion and be a example of good practice to other organisations. Due to huge potential of cultural heritage for economic development of the community, project will influence to young local people offering them new perspectives in ensuring existence in future. That is how project will contribute to annual priority Youth Unemployment. Argonauta as a hosting organization has by now collected a certain experience in EVS projects (hosted 4 long term and 5 short term EVS volunteers). We are strongly motivated to continue with EVS projects - improve its quality for the volunteers and broaden influence to the local youth. .

The role of the volunteer will be to assist in all activities of the organization concerning archaeological site Colentum and also to be helpful in day to day work of the organization in general. The tasks and activities of the volunteers will be: -to assist in a finding data about European Archaeological Sites from their own countries and produce a paper as a result of it -to assist in creating workshops for children where we will promote the history of Colentum to the youngest generation; according to the plot Story of Quint volunteers will write short educational stories about young Quint. -to assist in administration of Colentum.Info web site (add new content, translate existing content to volunteer`s mother tongue, update accompanied social network profiles etc.) -to assist in archaeological recognition - field work; -to improve GPS walking tour add QR codes to the marked locations; -to assist in creating sign post on the top of the Gradina hill showing Antic cities in volunteers countries; -to participate in weekly clean-up actions on Archaeological Site; to develop BLOG about their EVS experience on this project; -to present its country (culture, values, tradition,) and volunteering experience in local primary school;

-to create Colentums flag; -to create series of radio shows about Colentum writing synopsis etc; -to create 5 proposal of the original Colentums souvenirs (one volunteer each); -to present their work on the project in Island Sustainability Education Centre for local stakeholders and general public and organize outdoor INFO day (dealing leaflets and questionnaires for locals and talk to them about the project); Volunteers will have a task to record with camera the implementation of the project and in the end to create engaged video clip that will in short and funny way represent the project and EVS experience.

Volunteers would have the opportunity to learn and adopt the following skills: knowledge and skills of cultural/historical heritage language skills awareness of living in a rural community knowledge on non-profit sector in Croatia teamwork skills organizational and creativity skills PC skills

Youth pass will be issued on a completion of the EVS. We will use Youth pass as a support tool that will help us to maximise the impact, the outcomes and the learning processes within our EVS project.

More informations about archeological site Colentum you can find at: http://www.facebook.com/Colentum http://prezi.com/fqbljsaykuil/colentum/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqr8MXis0NE If you have any questions please write to : luka.jezina@argonauta.hr. Bests, Argonauta Team