European Digital Youth Summit #EDYS24 Seminar

The seminar will serve as the tool of sharing best practices among youth workers, educators & youths to enhance youth participation in three directions - green, social and digital. It will include: thematic workshops & study visits and a one-day summit.

Description

This seminar will take place in Romania, between the 16th and the 21st of July’24 (16th and 21st being travel dates).

The seminar will serve as the tool of sharing best practices among youths, educators & youth workers to enhance youth participation and engagement in three directions - green, social and digital. 

The seminar will include:

• parallel thematic workshops (green, social, digital)
• 3 parallel study visits in Bucharest (green, social, digital)
• the European Digital Youth Summit 24,  a one-day event which will bring together approx. 100 youths and stakeholders, in order to facilitate a meaningful dialogue around youth participation and empower youths to have their say in creating a positive change in their communities. Previous editions were organised under the High Patronage of the European Parliament.
• The agenda can be consulted here.

Participants profile

For this seminar, we are looking for:

• young people looking for becoming more  active in their own communities, youth workers, educators
• strong motivation towards the objective of enhancing youth participation and the three focus directions (digital, green, social)
• able to carry-out dissemination actions during and after the seminar
• with a good command of English
• able to share good practices and examples of youth participation innitiatives
• aged 18+
• we aim that at least 1/3 of the spots will be given to participants with fewer opportunities (e.g. economic difficulties, geographical obstacles, migrant/refugee/minority background obstacles)

Check the infopack here.

The seminar is carried out in the frame of the Erasmus+ accreditation activities 2023-1-RO01-KA151-YOU-000138290 carried out by GEYC. Find out more about GEYC here.

Accommodation and food

For the selected participants, accommodation will be organized for the nights of the 16-20th of July (16th and 21st of July are travel days) in shared rooms in Bucharest, Romania. 

If you want to spend some extra time in Romania, there is a possibility to book your flights max.2 nights prior to OR stay max. 2 days after the event, with the full expenses of these at your own cost. 

Meals will be provided as follows: 

• 16th of July: Welcome dinner
• 17-20th of July: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 
• 21st of July: Breakfast 

Participating countries

Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU

Working language

English

Participation fee

Overall, participation is free of charge for ALL the selected and confirmed participants.

Travel reimbursement

For the selected participants, we will provide a travel subvention. This is calculated from your home location (place of legal residency) to Bucharest, Romania based on the distance calculator (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/resources/distance-calculator_en).

As stated above, if you want to spend some extra time in Romania, there is a possibility to book your flights max.2 nights prior to OR stay max. 2 days after the event, with the full expenses of these at your own cost. 

Please note that:

• Only cabin luggage will be reimbursed
• No private transport (taxi, etc) or 1st class tickets will be reimbursed
• Booking flight tickets directly from the airline websites is mandatory
• As we have a no-paper policy, please proceed to buy your tickets online and check-in online whenever possible.
• Travel costs will be reimbursed within 2 months after the seminar, based on the dissemination, the reimbursement form filled with the travelling arrangaments and the travel documents (tickets,  boarding passes, invoices).

Before booking any ticket, consult for validation from our side - diana.ionita@geyc.ro - the tickets that are not validated by us will not be reimbursed. 

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