Each group is expected to organize a dissemination activity once they return to their communities. The purpose of this activity is to spread the results of the project among other people. By deciding to take part in this project, the participants are assuming the responsibility of organizing the dissemination activity in their community. More detailed information about this will be provided during a dedicated session, in one of the activity days.

The participants are required by Erasmus+ program to have valid travel insurance that covers liability to third parties, lost or stolen luggage and heath for the whole period of the projects including the travel days. Supplementary, we also recommend our participants get the European health insurance card. You are free to choose your insurance.

Note: Travel insurance is mandatory, and without we cannot accept the participation in the project.

How to buy insurance?

Just google travel insurance and get the one which you like the most. Prices are around 10 EUR per insurance.

✰ Weather conditions: in the area of Paradfurdo, the average temperature at the end of April, beginning of May is between 6 °C and 20 °C. Please check accuweather.com for more updated information about the weather.

✰ Dress code: Casual comfortable sportswear, slippers or sneakers for indoor and comfortable shoes for outdoor activities. According to the meteorological release, it may be rainy, so please pack warm clothes and waterproof jackets and shoes. 

✰Intercultural evenings: each country is expected to prepare a short program to present their culture and eventually to bring some typical local drinks and snacks. The intercultural evening is the time when participants will present their country but also have the opportunity to get to know each other’s culture better in an informal context. We encourage the participants to be as creative as possible in presenting their culture, to use theatre, dances or live presentations. We do not provide a video projector for this event and any kind of promotional video or PowerPoint presentation will be presented exclusively in spare time.

✰ Meals: we will provide you with three meals/day and two coffee breaks. The meals will take into account all the participant's dietary aspects such as allergies, intolerance, and preferences according to the application form. If you have any special requirements regarding food (allergies, intolerances, vegetarian, vegan, etc.) you are obliged to mention them in the application form. Otherwise, we might not be able to accommodate your requirements.

To minimize the risk of covid-19 infections we will hold as many activities as possible outside and accommodation will be done at a maximum of 60% of capacity. The whole accommodation unit will be rented only for the purpose of our project, without foreign guests.

Our budget does not cover the potential cost of covid-19 tests or other quarantine costs. We highly recommend you to get a Covid-19 vaccine to minimize even more any risk connected to covid. To ensure the safety of the whole group vaccinated applicants will have priority in the selection process.

Please check with your Embassy whether or not you are required to have a covid negative test result to enter Hungary and to go back to your country without restrictions. If necessary, we will help you to get tested in a centre before departure from the project.

No participant can arrive later than the arrival day or depart earlier than the day of departure. Skipping activity days is also prohibited. We actively support you during the process of buying the tickets. 

Arrival: 27 April 2022.

Departure: 6 May 2022.

Before buying or booking any travel ticket please consult with us and obtain our written approval so you make sure you will be reimbursed.

The participant has to be on the project for the whole duration and has to attend all the sessions in order to be eligible for reimbursement.

If you need extra information, we are happy to offer our assistance to choose the best travel, you can reach us at info@legaramlat.eu or via Telegram.

Each participant will be reimbursed up to a maximum limit, based on justificative documents (plane ticket, boarding passes, or train/bus ticket).

Examples of ineligible transportation: personal car/gas ticket, priority boarding, seat reservation, additional luggage bought after the flight, business class tickets, plane tickets on longer routes, plane tickets with stops for one night or more, taxi, rented cars, private transport companies, travel starting or ending in a different country than the sending organization’s country, etc.

The sums that are not used by one participant will not be transferred to other participants who exceeded the travel budget/person.

All the travel tickets, inclusively the ones for return must be bought before the project starts (date to be set). We will not accept any tickets bought after this date.

For electronic ticket/receipt/invoice, the document has to be delivered in PDF format. If it’s on a website, it has to be saved as PDF or printed into PDF(CTRL+P). Screenshots or forwarded emails are not accepted, exception making only boarding passes.

The participant has to consult with us before buying the ticket and obtain our written confirmation that we agree on the chosen transportation means and route before buying any travel tickets. We will only reimburse approved tickets.

Note: reimbursement will be done in EURO, regardless of the currency indicated on your ticket and receipt/invoice. If the ticket is bought in local currency, we will calculate your travel costs in EURO based on the exchange rates required by Erasmus+ programme, usually the date when the contract was signed. Each country will be reimbursed in a maximum of 30 days after we obtain all the necessary transport documents from all the participants from that specific country and after the realization of the dissemination activities.

For each country, we will make one bank transfer to the bank account of the partner organisation. The partner organisation will further divide the money among participants in cash or by bank transfer.

In order to be reimbursed each participant has to have the following:

For plane tickets:

-Electronic ticket or invoice in PDF format. Usually, this is the confirmation e-mail you receive from the website where you make the booking. Make sure it has your name, the dates of travel, the route and the price on it.

-Keep your boarding pass, we need it ☺. All the boarding passes are in the original or electronic in PDF version. This is the smaller document that you receive when you do the check-in. When you are doing the check-in online usually it comes as a PDF in your mailbox or on the phone app of the airline. The boarding pass is the document that has your seat number on it and it is scanned at the gate.

For bus or train tickets bought online:

-Electronic ticket or invoice in PDF format. Usually, this is the confirmation e-mail you receive from the website where you make the booking. Make sure it has your name, the dates of travel, the route and the price on it.

For bus or train tickets bought with cash:

-Ticket or invoice containing the dates, route and price in the original.

All the participants will have to provide the organizer with proof of the travel insurance and proof of the dissemination activities implemented by them.

Dissemination of the project results

Each group is expected to organize a dissemination activity once they return to their communities. The purpose of this activity is to spread the results of the project among other people. By deciding to take part in this project, the participants are assuming the responsibility of organizing the dissemination activity in their community. More detailed information about this will be provided during a dedicated session, on one of the activity days.

After you apply, a member of our team will get in touch with you to help and support book your tickets. The process goes as follow:

1. You will show us what tickets you want to buy.

2. Our team member will approve the tickets or help you find better options at better prices and times.

3. You will buy your travel tickets up to the amount listed in the table below.

4. All the tickets bought online will be sent to us by e-mail in PDF format. If you buy the tickets from the train station please send us pictures and give us the original ticket during the project. All the tickets must be bought before the project starts.

Tickets bought online and sent in other formats than PDF or bought after 27 of April cannot be reimbursed.

5. You will be reimbursed for your travel once the project has ended after signing a reimbursement agreement.

Please send your tickets to info@legaramlat.eu.

Engaging young people in non-formal learning activities and finding innovative approaches that motivate them to get involved have become very important for all youth organizations. In the era of information and images, youths are getting very easily distracted and have a hard way of channelling down their focus towards a common goal. Exploring their hobbies and getting disconnected from time to time from all their digital devices creates space for them to be more present and engage in real social interaction. An activity that contributes to improving focus and clarity is represented by volunteering. 

Also, according to a Linkedin survey, 41% of LinkedIn members (HR talent scouts) consider volunteer work equally as valuable as paid work experience when evaluating candidates. We consulted with our partners and advised them to consult with their youths, as we wanted to develop a project that can put to value all the things we achieved in working with youths each of us as organizations in the past years and made a very simple survey with 3 questions, on a group of 80 youths (20/each country) that helped us draw the conclusions above. Main goal: increase the access of 136 young people (48 direct participants in an international youth exchange and 80 beneficiaries of follow-up activities) to engaging on a career path suitable to their education, needs and skills sets, by raising awareness of the benefits of volunteering and involving them in activities that boost the skills that employers are searching for on today’s labour market, during a nine months project that will include a youth exchange in Mezobereny, Hungary and various local activities and meetings.

The partner organisations aimed with this project to facilitate a transnational context for young people in which they can learn from each other and feel connected by working towards a common goal, and exploring their opportunities to volunteer. The project addressed also the needs of the partner NGOs by creating projects that foster the inclusion of youths, finding innovative non-formal methods to engage youth in educational activities, increasing their capacities in implementing E+ projects and creating a space for sharing good practices with org. from other three countries. 

The specific objectives achieved by the end of the project are:

• O1. Raise awareness of 136 young people, the local community and other stakeholders on the importance of volunteering in educating the young generations;

• O2. Build and enhance skills required in today's labour market of 48 participants in the youth exchange organised as part of the project, so that they have a more stable career path.

• O3. Promote volunteering as an alternative and additional educational resource for the young people participating directly in the project activities and help them integrate their volunteering experiences in their CVs and during interviews and discussions with potential employers as well as on different social media profiles and descriptions.

We had a focus group in August 2020 with a group of 20 volunteers, aged 18 to 30 years old, participants in previous E+ projects:

• - they think companies care too little about the individual needs of employers, focus on exploiting people’s potential and not enough back, and managers are too rigid;

• -those who volunteer, have better skills in dealing with new people, and new contexts and have abilities in changing, influencing, debating and contributing than does who do not volunteer;

• - many times youths feel they can change anything so they just leave their workplaces; those who have been engaged in volunteering activities have gained skills that proved useful in the labour market and made it easier for them to get employed as they could share at the interviews with their employers diversified experiences, told them what they did as volunteers, unlike their peers who have done only studies and fun;

• - 65 % of youths aged 20 to 30 years old from our own communities changed on average 4 workplaces in the last 3 years and had periods of unemployment in between that ranged from a few months to half a year.

All participants have unfolded dissemination activities within their schools and the local community. They shared with their peers and colleagues their personal experience in this project, as well as they promoted the Erasmus+ programme and its opportunities. 

The participants developed through our project trans-disciplinary competencies. They increased their problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, teamwork competencies, and concentration ability which lead to a boost in their self-confidence. The competencies acquired help them in their personal and professional lives, being more capable to adapt to different social contexts and interacting with new people. They are more aware of how to use volunteering to develop portofolio. Being an intercultural environment reuniting 3 countries participants learned about other cultures, becoming more culturally aware and understanding. In addition. Through the sessions planned the young people developed their social and cultural awareness; learned how to interact in a nonformal context with other youths from a different country; found out how they can benefit in the future from the opportunities that emerged after this YE. The Youthpass certificates reflect their learning outcomes.

As a result of the promotion of E+ during the project, the participants became aware of how they and their peers could benefit from other opportunities of the E+. Our project encouraged a positive attitude of the participants towards cultural diversity. We encouraged our participants to engage and contribute to the creation of other E+ projects, in the medium term. Our project significantly influences our participants’ openness towards other cultures. 

The project contributed to the development of the operational capacity of the partner organisations to apply, implement and participate in other KA1 YE projects. This YE helped us test an innovative non-formal education method among our target group and according to the evaluation results it was highly appreciated by the young people.