Europe you are important for me

• Place: Madrid
• Age: 15 – 18 year old
• Project duration: 1^st July – 30^th October, 2011
• Exchange dates: 15 – 21^st August, 2011
• Participants: 24 school girls (12 from Lithuania, 12 from Spain)
• Partners: Asociación Belalcazar (Spain)
• Financing: 23.022 € from UE, 4.500 € for the Lithuanian group

Project aims:

• To exchange good practices about integration of foreign cultural groups into the local cultural environment through voluntary work activities.
• To make participants more aware of their European citizenship through activities that highlight the value of European history and the efforts our predecessors have made to reach a United Europe.
• To inspire participants to make long-lasting friendships with youth from other countries, who belong to different cultural and social groups.

This project revealed that:

• Youth can be really entrepreneurial when they are inspired and determined to face challenges and provide objective solutions without being carried away by opposing views.
• Youth are able to work in teams and out of this can learn valuable lessons for personal development.
• Youth are capable of overcoming barriers and opening themselves to other young people whose social background, culture and language differ from their own.
• Youth a great capacity to find common ground and positive synergy for joint pursuits.