YOW Blended mobility

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Blended Mobility is an activity within the framework of the project YoW Youth of the World: Transformative Power of the Global Education. Future Worlds Center is one of 6 partners implementing this 18-month-long Key Action 2 project supported by Erasmus+ of the European Commission.

About YOW Blended Mobility

Participants of the YoW Blended Mobility from Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland and Bulgaria

YOW Blended mobility gathered group of 24 young people and 6 facilitators from 6 countries: Cyprus, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Portugal and Ireland.

Blended Mobility consists of Virtual tasks and the final activity- Youth Exchange of 7 days in Florence, Italy during the Global Education Week in November 2018.

Participants improving their creative skills while "building bridges"

Virtual Tasks included 5 tasks that each national team had to prepare till the beginning of the Youth Exchange. These tasks helped participants to:

  • find and present the values of their own countries and cultures;
  • allowed them to explore cultures of other partner countries;
  • encouraged discussions about global issues within their own communities.

Youth Exchange was the final 7 day long event of the YOW Blended Mobility. For this event, besides the virtual tasks, each national team had to prepare workshops about different topics:

  • Italy - Sustainable Development Goals
  • Cyprus - Sustainable Futures
  • Ireland - Interdependence
  • Greece - Development
  • Portugal - Multicultural Learning
  • Bulgaria - Identity-Diversity
Participants finding connections between Sustainable Development Goals

FWC's Team Cyprus

Future Worlds Center created an open call to evaluate the motivation and availability of applicants and to select 4 participants that would be interested in global issues, the role of Global Education and other important topics during YOW Blended mobility activities.

Team Cyprus-participating in the campaign to raise awareness on the prevention and elimination of Gender Based Violence (GBV)

Participants from Cyprus: Jordan Kent, Andri Christofides, Marios Patsali, Kyriacos Chimonis. Group leader and facilitator: Eliza Danenfelde Kirpe

More Information about YoW and other project's activities