European friends project

August 4th, 2009Pontes Projects, Youth in Action 3 Comments

The “European friends” project take course between Mai 10’th and November 10’th 2009 being a youth exchange designed to increase the solidarity and tolerance between young people and to lay the basis for a solid European community which promotes multicultural values. The activities taken place between 18 and 27 July, 2009 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and include 4 partners from EU member states: (Bulgaria, Spain, Slovenia, and Romania (which organizes the meeting).  Each group had 5 members + one leader and the 5 participants included 4 persons with visual impairment or multiple disabilities and one person without disabilities. All the participants is aged 18 to 30. The project pursues the founding of an integrated community of young people with and without visual impairments. The project include a wide range of activities from interesting work-shops to sport, dance, manual abilities, etc. A special emphasis was laid on discussions regarding problems of social integration and accessible sport activities for visually impaired people.

3 Responses to “European friends project”

  1. micboy Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Hello from me! Just a little correction – the fourth partner promoter was Bulgaria, but not Italy. Anyway …
    I think the youth exchange, hosted in Cluj was a really pleasant and useful experience for all of us and we should be thankful for having the possibility to profit of this intercultural forum. Kindest regards to all cool guys and … keep in touch :)

  2. Carmen Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Ah, sorry. I have to recognize that I made coppy and paste from an old documents. This happened because at the begining Italy was one of our partners, but at the end, they let the place for Bulgaria, cause of missing the italian participants. So, the four partners participating to the “European friends” project was: Bulgaria, Slovenia, Spain, and Romania. But I have to remember that we had also 4 volunteers from Italy. They didn’t want to let us alone, and came in Romania for helping us to the management of the project. Thank you to everibody!!!

  3. Waterdrop Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    Hello also from Slovenia! After the project I needed some days to collect my thoughts. It was so nice and full of new experience. I am glad that I participated at this exchange with my group because we learnt so many new things and got new views on things. Before Romania was unknown country to me, I admit with a lot of shame, but now I discovered the beautiful and kind people. Thank you Pontes!!!

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