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Click on this section and open the map. Use the + button at the bottom to the right and add your name and something about yourself.  It would be nice if you can also upload a picture of yourself! 

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Click on this section and open the map. Use the + button at the bottom to the right and add your name and something about yourself.  It would be nice if you can also upload a picture of yourself! 

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Task 1: Click on the + above this task and create a post about your group. Make a group picture, write a short introduction, share some anecdote,....

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Task 1: Click on the + above this task and create a post about your group. Make a group picture, write a short introduction, share some anecdote,....

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The BOLD youth exchange is funded by the Erasmus+ programme which offers different exchange opportunities for young people to connect with peers in Europe. Find more info on Erasmus+ in the youth portal! 

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The BOLD youth exchange is funded by the Erasmus+ programme which offers different exchange opportunities for young people to connect with peers in Europe. Find more info on Erasmus+ in the youth portal! 

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WELCOME ABOARD!

The European Youth Portal offers young people information on opportunities in Europe and beyond.

Explore initiatives to learn, work and volunteer.

Find ways to make your voice heard as a European citizen.

Read more about the Portal

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European Youth Portal | European Youth Portal

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The European Youth Portal offers young people information on opportunities in Europe and beyond. Explore initiatives to learn, work and volunteer. Find ways to make your voice heard as a European citizen. Read more about the Portal

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Shall we create a common music list? Share links to your favorite pieces of music. 

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Shall we create a common music list? Share links to your favorite pieces of music. 

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We are curious to know how you see cultural spaces for young people and what can be barriers for young people to participate in existing cultural spaces. As a warm-up we ask you to document the travel from your place to Kotor. So, leave us a picture, sound, drawing, video, text,....in this padlet and read the full instructions in the Shared Google drive. (link in comments below) 

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We are curious to know how you see cultural spaces for young people and what can be barriers for young people to participate in existing cultural spaces. As a warm-up we ask you to document the travel from your place to Kotor. So, leave us a picture, sound, drawing, video, text,....in this padlet and read the full instructions in the Shared Google drive. (link in comments below) 

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Want to share useful resources with the others. Use this space as our common library!

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Want to share useful resources with the others. Use this space as our common library!

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Next online meeting with all participants: August 26th from 2-4 PM Brussels time. 

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Next online meeting with all participants: August 26th from 2-4 PM Brussels time. 

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Your voice matters – hit record and be bold!

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Hello! 😊

We are a group from Latvia - Evija, Kate, Sanita, Krišjānis, and Rinalds! All of us are colleagues from the Riga Northern Cultural Association.

We really enjoy bringing culture to life and being young people in the cultural field. Even though our daily tasks are very different, only by working together can we bring culture to people the way we do - with joy, love, and a never-ending creative journey. As Latvians, we might look shy at first - basically, our small talk skills come fully loaded only after a few deep breaths.. 😃 Curious what it’s like to be a Latvian? Check out this funny clip: https://ej.uz/beinglatvian

We also like to joke about ourselves: https://ej.uz/aboutlatvianlastnames

Greetings from Latvia! We can’t wait to meet you all in Kotor! :)

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Meet the Czech Crew 🇨🇿

Our team is a colorful mix of talents, passions, and slightly chaotic energy that somehow always works out perfectly together:

Julie – the soul of an artist, who can turn every idea into a drawing, a film, or even a card game. She brings stories to life faster than others manage to open their laptops.

Sofia – the multilingual connector , always ready to organize, translate, and make everyone feel at home. She claims she’s “just coordinating events,” but secretly she’s building entire cultural universes.

Tereza – the storyteller of inclusion , who believes that words can change the world. With her, every discussion turns into something meaningful (and usually also funny).

Valeria – the poetic explorer, who dances between art, writing, and hosting. She has a talent for creating warm, magical spaces where everyone feels safe to share their voice.

Matěj – the hacker-teacher, who can explain IT security and edit a video in Adobe Premiere before the rest of us have even found the WiFi password.

Together we are like five very different instruments – but when we play, the melody is surprisingly in tune.

We come from a country where beer is cheaper than water, dumplings are considered a national treasure, and people disappear into forests every autumn to hunt mushrooms like it’s a national sport. If you ever visit us, don’t be surprised to meet a carp living in someone’s bathtub before Christmas dinner.

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You might have heard some stuff about Czech people. That they complain about everything that's happening around them, a lot of them drink more beer than water, they are professionals (and rank themselves) in hunting mushrooms and they have PTSD from communism (probably not the only ones here).

Well, I can only confirm these as 100% true.

As dark as that might seem, I will personally make sure that it will be fun having us around, even if there could be some collateral damage.

Regards,

Julka, Sofia, Tereza, Valeria and Matěj from the Czech team

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Hello from Italy!
We are a group of girls and boys (Giuseppe, Pasquale, Daria, Valeria, Daniele) from the rural area of the Campania region in southern Italy, between the provinces of Avellino and Benevento. We are all connected through the Interzona association, which is dedicated to revitalizing rural areas around the world through study, music, and art.
We can’t wait to meet you, get in touch, and discover Kotor!

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Is it possible to stay an extra night or arrive earlier? 

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Is it possible to stay an extra night or arrive earlier? 

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We checked this with the E+ agency and they allow this if you have better connection or cheaper travel arriving earlier or leaving later. BUT you will need to arrange your own accommodation for those extra nights!

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How widely available is public Wi-Fi in Kotor? Will we have free internet access in our workshop places?

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In the working spaces we will have free wifi connection. 

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Welcome everybody! After arranging all your travel, get ready to discover KOTOR. This beautiful city, also a World Heritage Site, will host us for the next week. On the arrival day we'll have time get settled in the hostel, explore the neighbourhood and we'll all have dinner together in the hostel. More info on the hostel: https://share.google/IEFS8JFAScyayNvv3

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Sunday Sept 14th 2025: Getting started! 

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Sunday Sept 14th 2025: Getting started! 

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Ready to dive into our topic of inclusive cultural spaces? Today we'll work on creating our safe space and understanding better our own role in making this week a really collaborative and safe space for all.

We'll also reflect on how this youth exchange can support our own learning process and which tools Erasmus+ has to facilitate this.

And of course, in the evening more time to explore KOTOR in a fun and intercultural way.

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Monday Sept 15th 2025. My personal journey

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Monday Sept 15th 2025. My personal journey

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In the morning it's time to bring together all our travel observations and let our creativity flourish! Andrea will guide us through this process but make sure you have all your observations at hand!

In the afternoon Manos and Miki have prepared an activity in which we'll take a closer look at diversity and inclusion. And of course, some good examples of all of us can help us understand better how we can make cultural spaces more inclusive.

And be ready for a nice intercultural game in the evening!

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Tuesday Sept 16th 2025  : our workshop! 

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Tuesday Sept 16th 2025  : our workshop! 

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On September the 18th we'll be doing a workshop with cultural workers and policy makers to make them more aware of the need to listen to young people. So, in the morning, let's together think of a creative way of making our voice heard!

In the afternoon we'll continue "our journey" observations!

And of course as every day, we"ll have a moment of reflection (youth pass) to see how our own learning process is taking shape.

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Here we are! Show time! We'll be bringing our messages to the cultural workers who are attending the Against the Tide conference!

In the afternoon, we'll discover more interesting examples of how cultural can be a tool for inclusion and/or go deeper into our own experiences and try to identify steps we can take to change something!

Of course as every day we'll have a moment of reflection and looking at our own learning journey.

In the evening we're invited to a concert!

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Wednesday Sept 17th 2025 : more workshops! 

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Wednesday Sept 17th 2025 : more workshops! 

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We'll have more time to prepare our action on the 18th in the morning while in the afternoon we'll attend different workshops that can inspire us.

The key question will be "Safe Spaces in practice. How can cultural centres create authentic, inclusive environments—especially for young people, LGBTQIA+ groups, and racial/ethnic minorities?

We'll meet with

• Hamish McIntosh from New Zealand who is dancer and researcher;

• Patrick Krebs (theatre maker from Slovakia – Divadlo bez domova who work with homeless people;

• Kaća Dimitrijević who is an artist from Serbia;

Amin Srasra, co-initiator of Qace, a community-based network focused on empowering marginalised voices through art and activism.

These encounters can help us understand better what it means to create really inclusive spaces for all young people.

We'll have dinner in the hostel and some free time to discover the surroundings.

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We'll be working on our how to translate our experiences in this common journey into some digital stories.

And in the afternoon we'll go on a boat tour!

Relaxing evening and enjoying the time together!

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Time to think about how we are going to bring this back to our organisations. What can we do to share our experiences with our friends, family, cultural centres and organisations we're involved in?

We'll look together at how we can learn from this experience and give feedback on how things can be improved in the future. You're Youth Pass is waiting for you!

And of course, a good farewell party (Manu Chao is in town!!) to close our week together in Kotor!

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Check-out and leaving the hostel! Please remember to leave the hostel before 9 AM. They have to clean the rooms for the students that will arrive on Sunday afternoon. You can leave your luggage at the reception.

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We'll have breakfast in the hostel between 8:00 and 9:00 AM. So that we can start every day at 9:30!

Lunch will be brought by an external catering service. So, we'll have a packed lunch which makes it easy for us to go outside or to be flexible!

Dinner will be in hostel, except on Sundays and normally is between 18:30 -19:30.

Before the dinner we'll always have a moment of getting together and looking back at the day!

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Youth Hostel Spasic-Masera https://share.google/XIcg5cbMNrxurntql

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✨ Youth Exchange Programme – Day 1 ✨

Today we kicked off this amazing experience! The first day was all about getting to know each other, planning the week ahead, and ending with a guided tour through the charming Old Town of Kotor 🏰🌊. The perfect start to what’s coming next!

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We started working on the creative task which started during our journey! We were divided in skills groups and then made cross-sectorial skills group so that each team had different disciplines in the house. Each group had to produce a one minute video compiling the different impressions each of us had recorded during the journey.

And after dinner found a nice place near the water where we shared with the rest of the group some fun facts about our countries. And guess what...the Latvian group had brought some nice candies and drinks to share! A perfect closure of the day!

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First brainstorm for possible workshops we want to offer to the conference participants to explain them about our project and our views on cultural centres and young people. Feeling a bit scared to be in front of such an audience....

And of course we also had to organise a birthday party! Happy birthday Matej! Your love for mountains and nature has definitely inspired all of us for exploring more the beautiful surrounding here in Kotor.

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And we're getting ready for presenting our workshops tomorrow! Doing our small creative video projects helped us to think outside the box and hopefully bring new perspectives!! Working till late at night to get it all ready...Thanks all for the hard work!

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The big day! Presentation of our project in front of a full auditorium and then hands-on workshops led by us! Such positive feedback! All participants were so collaborative and really engaged with the activity. We didn't have time to do all because there was so much discussion. Exhausted! While some of us enjoyed the workshops offered in the afternoon, other went for a swim. 

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While we were still super tired from the previous day, we had the opportunity to join some workshops during the conference and afterwards the closing panel debate. A very full morning which was followed by a boat tour! Something we all had been looking forward to during the whole week. While enjoying the beautiful surrounding our group of the Youth Exchange started a karaoke which was the cherry on the cake! Thanks Lucia for insisting on the Karaoke;

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Today we were allowed to start later! After such an intensive week, it was needed to sleep in and be ready for the final sessions: what next and the final evaluation. Bojana also did a sprint editing to finalise the Fanzine. The participants of the conference really enjoyed the methodology to create this together and they really wanted to see the outcome! In the afternoon there was time for a swim and finally we were so lucky to attend the free concert of Manu Chao in Kotor! An unforgettable experience!!

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Please do add the songs from you country you want to share with the others.

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Which songs do you remember from the concert? Add them!

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The video we produced for our workshop! 

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The video we produced for our workshop! 

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Our workshop "VIDEO FORUM" used this video to create a dialogue on young people and Cultural Centres. Although just a short video, it sparked a very interesting discussion!