Programs of events in Warsaw and in Ukraine are available in this post Read the rest of this entry »

(Open call for a trainer among the Intercultural Navigators from Ukraine)

You’re Ukrainian, who’ve been the participant of the Intercultural Navigators program of the British Council? You like the methodology of Appreciation Inquiry and would like to use it for conducting you own trainings? You would like to try yourself as an intercultural trainer and develop your own short training course? If YES, so we would be glad to invite you to apply for the trainer of the “Europe inside” intercultural training in Warsaw (6th – 9th May, 2010).

What is Europe Inside?

“Europe inside” is the big part of the international youth project “Eurobus3. Activating community. The EU to Ukraine”, which is aimed to activate rural youth in Ukraine through the intercultural communication and cooperation. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe because of the picturesque hills of the Holodny Yar, which can fascinate and attract you forever? Or maybe because of the daily urban routine, which bothers people in feeling happy. The answers for these questions Eurobus crew and the local youth will try to find in Mel’nyky village in Cherkasy region. Yes, the dialogue with local eco-settlers will become a part of Eurobus events program in Chyhyryn area. Read the rest of this entry »

In Petrykivka it turned out that the main problem o our program is the lack of time, as there are so many sights in the town. Locals are really proud of them, so they’re eager to show all of them to the Eurobus crew. Here ou can find a horse farm, an old church and, of course, the famous workshops of Petrykivka paintings taught here from the very childhood. It is also interesting that Petrykivka goes along with modern technologies – the town develops green tourism. Read the rest of this entry »

And it happened in the Agricultural technical school of Illicha village, which is located not far from Kostyantynivka town in Donets’k region. Read the rest of this entry »

The train Sumy-Luhans’k took us from Trostyanets’ right to the town of Kreminna – the northern point of Donbass. It’s 3 AM: we leave the train, take a taxi and stumble through on an earth road to the home of Kharkiv FRI cell member – Misha Merkulov. Misha has been trying to attract Eurobus to his native town, so in 2010 he finally succeeded in that. Despite it being 3 AM Misha’s mom is not sleeping – she’s waiting for her son and for the guests. Okroshka, tea and 2 hours of extra sleep till the sunrise, and we set for the meeting with local authorities. Local coordinators invited all the government in the area: everybody knows the general project info already but yet we introduce it to the local government and to the mayor of the town. Everybody is ready to help… Read the rest of this entry »

Do good authorities exist? At least yesterday I could definitely answer this question: “NO”. Now it turns out that I was mistaken. Read the rest of this entry »

And Eurobus team, local secondary school pupils and authorities are ready to create it. So, the visit to Zhevtneve turned out to be really efficient! Which is Zhovtneve in its dwellers’ dreams? We were looking for the answer during the training. It turned out that local youth wants to repair the roads, to reconstruct the stadium, to open a cinema, to open a big youth centre and… to make a place for kisses

How can Eurobus help the implementation of young dreams? It was a topic for a meeting with local authorities next morning. We decided to carry out the seminars and trainings with foreigners in the forest, to make a big night fire with dances of different nations in the evening, and during the next day to make competitions for the best Varenyky (Ukrainian national food) maker and the Zhovtneve’s got Talent contest.

Local project coordinator – Alina Poznans’ka, the head of Sumy FRI cell, will actively work to unite the active youth of Zhovtneve and to make in their native village a powerfull cell of FRI. So, Eurobus will become a great stimulus for the young people and a chance for them to become initiative people responsible for their deeds and for positive changes in the society.

P.S. Besides, young leaders from Zhovtneve dream of alcohol sales prohibition for youth.

These ideas of mini-projects for Eurobus events were developed by the initiative youth in Ovruch. On March 16, on the basis of the local technical school #35 a training was held for the local youth. The training’s name was “Be a realist! Do the impossible!” During the training we found out that most active young people from Ovruch town and Ignatpil and Hoshiv villages dream of getting good education, to become well-off or even rich. 16-18-year-old boys dream of getting married and creating a family within the future 10 years. But dreams come true only if the person is strong and if he or she are ready to take responsibility at least for their life – that was the main message of the training.

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Open call for crew members

Some places aboard the Eurobus are still vacant –

extended deadline – 31th March, 2010

What is Eurobus?

In May 2010 for the third time, a group of about fifteen fearless passionate young Europeans will be heading for a two weeks tour through rural Ukraine.

• Seminars at local schools will be the first face-to-face contact with Europe for about 6,000 young Ukrainians and a base for vivid discussions to be continued (www.eurobus.org.ua/seminars).
• Mentoring sessions for selected regional initiatives will be a special formate for intercultural learning and development (www.eurobus.org.ua/initiatives).
• Joint actions, concerts, celebrations, parties round the program off, offering plenty of space for non-formal communication and making friends. We’ll provide you with business cards, as you’ll need them!

For further information feel free to check out the „about us“ section of our website (http://eurobus.org.ua/about-us)!

Who can apply?

• Highly motivated young people, who would like to participate in face-to-face intercultural dialogue and civic development and share their experience with Ukrainian rural youth.
• You should be between 18 – 35 years old.
• You should have spare time from May 6 to May 26 2010.
• The working language is English. As in rural Ukraine speaking English is sometimes possible only to a very limited extent, at least a basic knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian is strongly recommended.
• You should be outgoing, communicative, easy to get into contact, to exchange and to work together with lots of young people.
• You should have experiences in fields like project management, political, social or cultural commitment, cultural diplomacy, youth activism, teaching, group-leading.
• You should be ready for a challenging and sometimes adventurous journey!
• We don’t influence you in any way concerning your attitude towards an eventual Eurointegration of Ukraine. Meaning, you can be strictly against a EU membership of Ukraine, as long as you are willing to contribute to Euro-Ukrainian partnership and civic commitment within Ukraine!
• For logistical reasons, residents of Germany or Poland will be given a preference towards equally qualified applicants from farther EU-countries.

Terms and conditions:

• Eurobus will provide you both with accommodation (partly in host Ukrainian families, partly in hostels) and food.
• Eurobus will cover the travelling costs from your home-place to Warsaw and back at least to a certain extent.
• The project starts on May 6^th in Warsaw with a preparatory meeting, which will end with Schuman parade on May 8^th, 2010; the journey through Ukraine will last from May 9^th to May 26^th .
• After the tour, you will be a member of the Eurobus community and, if you want, be our active cooperation partner at conferences, meetings and other follow-up activities.
• A certificate of participation will be issued.

How to apply?

Please, fill in the application form and send it to the e-mail  eurobus3@jugend-bewegt-europa.de till March 15^th , 2010

Why to apply?

• You might have no other chance to see Ukraine with all its beauty and contradictory lifestyles: starting with the old forests of the Ovruch region (the town suffered from the Chornobyl catastrophe), ecological settlements of Ukrainian city-dwellers on the amazing banks of the Dnipro river and finishing with Donbas – the Ukrainian industrial region and the country of origin of the new Ukrainian president.
• This journey will become for you a door to a rather unknown world and to friends from whole Ukraine.
• Usually people survive Eurobus

You would like to know more?

Go ahead – the documentary film about Eurobus 2009, the report of the Eurobus 2009 written by the project participant Aneka Flamm and more material are available on the project webpage – www.eurobus.org.ua/media-2

For any questions, feel free to contact us at any time at eurobus3@jugend-bewegt-europa.de.

Download the application form.