Activity Type: KA1 – Youth Exchange Project Title: “CUL-EIDOSCOPE – Cultural Kaleidoscope” Dates: 14-20.07.2020 (13.07 – arrival day; 21.07 – departure day) Venue: Marseille, France Participating countries: 5 Programme and 5 Partner countries Applicant and Hosting Organization: "Association MED13" (France) Partner Organizations: "PLANBE PLAN IT BE IT" (Cyprus), "Magie v soucasnem svete z.s." (Czech Republic),"Centro Studi di Cultura Europea" (Italy), “Asociatia idei si proiecte pentru tineri activi” (Romania), “FUTURE IN OUR HANDS NGO” (Armenia), "PROACTIVE GROUP GEORGIA" (Georgia), "Mentor ME" (Moldova), "Educatio" (Ukraine), “Youth Development Organization” (Lebanon) Number of participants: 50 participants (5 per partner organization) Participants age: 18-30 y.o., group leaders with no age limit Description of the project: The focus of the project will be made on elaborating the notion of interculturality as a similarity and uniformity of all the cultures on the basic core level of humanistic values, moral principles and ideas through the exploration of 3 main “cultural products”, in which the culture is being reflected and objectified - rituals/ceremonies, folklore (fairy-tales) and games from our childhood. We were carrying out the idea of this YE for a pretty long period of time, meanwhile investigating and exploring different cultures during our youth and social work in the frames of Erasmus+. At some point we realized that despite all the differences between such diverse and unique cultures all over the world, we’re all still human beings living in the same world on the same globe and by all this we’re very similar. Moreover, if to continue this logic, we’re all coming from the very diverse cultures, which means that we all have a unique cultural background and by this uniqueness we’re all equal – we all have smth to share, smth to teach, smth to amuse one another with. But that’s only the beginning of this deep investigation of the interculturality. Furthermore, we came up with the understanding and experiencing that despite all the cultural differences and varieties, which can be obviously seen on the surface, on the very deep and basic level all of our cultures are built up on the same backgrounds, on the same solid basis of the main humanistic values, core moral principles and ideas. Through absorbing the culture we are being shaped and developed as a human beings and personalities. This is the core idea of the cultural development of a personality. This is how our cultural identity is being formed. We strongly believe, that the culture is being reflected and objectified in at least 3 main “cultural products”, which are rituals/ceremonies, folklore (fairy-tales) and games from our childhood. Thus, following these reflections, we came up with the idea of this YE. The focus will be made on elaborating the notion of interculturality, which we understand as the similarity and uniformity of all the cultures on the basic core level despite all the diversity and variety of their visible surface part. To reach this aim, we’ll gather together youth from 10 countries with absolutely different historical and cultural background (to enrich the cultural diversity, we’ll invite to participate both Program and Partner countries). Within the YE we’ll deeply explore 3 main “cultural products”: rituals/ceremonies, folklore (fairy-tales) and games from our childhood. Starting in the mixed cultural groups with the differences and diversities of rituals/ceremonies, folklore (fairy-tales) and games from the childhood, we’ll step by step lead the participants to the deep reflections and in the end understanding, feeling and experiencing the similarities of all the cultures and to the development of the idea of interculturality as a uniformity of all the cultures on the basic core level of humanistic values, moral principles and ideas. The main aims and objectives: - To explore the roots, patterns and core concepts of each culture and their influence on personality and identity; - To provide methods for using ceremonies/rituals, folklore, and games as tools to address the cultural differences , similarities and origins; - To raise self, cultural and ethnic awareness through non-formal educational methods and peer education, as well as to reinforce understanding and interest in other cultures through intercultural learning; - To promote positive and respectful attitudes toward various cultures, people and their specialty; - To reflect on the differences that has occurred to the cultures, norms and values over the past years; - To promote human and European values, to share cultural values and to promote a deeper understanding of other cultures; - To elaborate the notion interculturality as a similarity and uniformity of all the cultures on the basic core level of humanistic values, moral principles and ideas.