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Sailing boat exchange 2019

2019-1-FR02-KA105-0159252019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|IT|CZ|AM · Grant: €31,445.73
EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyHealth and wellbeingGender equality / equal opportunities

Objectives

This exchange of 12 days, including 7 in the open sea , with 4 habitable sailing boat will gather 36 teenagers aged 13 to 17 from 5 nations (France , Czech Republic, Arménia and Italy). These young with different culture and with very different knowledge about the marine environment and navigation competences will be supervised by a team of 4 professional skippers and 4 leaders for a total of 44 participants. It aims to : - Discover the high seas on different boats. We can discover the changes between the old ships and charter yachts large current comfort. - Discover or deepen participants' knowledge of the marine environment by practicing sail , marine cartography , steering , handling electronic equipment and the initiation of maritime code. - Discover the rich beauty of the islands , their history and their situation, focusing on their use and their strategic position during World War II . - Live a rich life experience collective conducive to the development of each individual and their accountability in a group, in a confined space such as sailboats. - Interact and communicate in different languages with youth and adults who made this exchange. - to make their points of view evolve on the image they have of the various cultures represented during this exchange by setting up workshops on stereotypes and prejudices. So we can discuss with them the different themes and learning every moment workshops , outings, navigation. This , based on the presentations : the situation in their country, videos, scheduled visits . But also by the contribution of supervisors of this meeting and professional skippers that frame navigation. We therefore consider that the youth have a real learning knowledge level of the marine environment , navigation , ecology marine environment. But also at the organizational and community life with a strong influence inter cultural causing them to have a significant personal reflection on their position and their future involvement in society, individually or collectively.

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