Name: “Lingua Franca” Dates: APV – 9 November, Youth Exchange – July 2020 Type: Erasmus+ (KA1 – Youth Mobility) Participants needed: 1 participant for the APV who would also need to attend the Youth Exchange in July 2020 as a group leader Age: 18+ Location: Aljustel, Portugal Costs: Travel costs covered up to a limit of €275. Food and accommodation 100% free. Membership fee of €5 for non-members. Participation fee Malta - €10. Host Organisation: Buinho Creative Hub Countries Participating: Portugal, Poland, Greece, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria Sending Organisation: Malta UNESCO Youth Association Project Description: Lingua Franca is a project that brings together maker-spaces and UNESCO youth clubs with the purpose of providing high quality educational contents to disadvantaged young people while promoting the Erasmus and UNESCO goals of inter-religious dialogue, tolerance and safeguard of human rights. Some of the planned activities for the Youth Exchange include: - learn how to use 3D printing and 3D modelling to enable their concepts and creations to become real; - learn electronics and build your own scientific equipment to run experiments; - learn the fundamentals in biohacking, microbiology and biotechnology - participate in playful, fun, and exciting workshops which involve making art with bacteria’s and other microorganisms, and with the project’s bio artist special guest resident; - opportunity to work with other young people from different nationalities in exciting and engaging projects, and present the final results in a public exhibition; - learn about the local costumes and rich traditions of the mining town Aljustrel, Messejana, and overall Alentejo’s southern region; - opportunity to visit the “Military Road” project in Lisbon’s and Sao Luis Cultivamos Cultura, two amazing projects related either with migrations/postcolonialism and bioart/biotechnology; - an opportunity also to make new friends and bring home unique shared experiences and stories. Interested applicants are to fill the participation form here by the 18th of October 2019. |