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On September 1 – 10, in Sfantu Gheorghe (Romania) Erasmus+ training course was held called “Service vs. Learning = Volunteering”. I had the opportunity to participate in this project as one of the three representatives of Lithuania and I discovered more things that I was actually expecting. The most difficult part for me was working with the people I don‘t really know. There were participants from all ove

Albert Calles is a 31 years old Catalan from Barcelona who since January 2016 lives in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he works as a Spanish and Catalan teacher. I thought it would be interesting to know the experiences of a Catalan living in Lithuania, which is such a different country from Spain. Here is where Albert teaches, at the Ñ VIVA Vilnius languages academy I asked him for an interview and we met on Thursday 14 S

Just almost a week ago we attended a really intense and interesting training about cultural differences and xenophobia called H(youth)manity, which was held in a context of a recent refugee and immigration problem in Europe. The Project took place in a lovely Romanian town called Sfantu Gheorghe which is situated in a valley between two sets of mountains in a historical Transylvania region. 9 countries have been unit

Recently there are more and more projects focused on youth development, preparation for the labour market in the Europe. Lithuanian organisation Knowledge Code together with partners from UK, Italy, Poland, Spain, Cyprus and Romania is implementing Erasmus+ Vocational Educational Training Strategic Partnership Project “Apprentice Training Preparation – New Approaches in Managing the Transition from Educat

When we went out of the bus, we walked 20-30 minutes to the entrance. We saw rules that we can’t ride bicycle, smoke and walk dogs. After few minutes break, when we were all together, we started walking in the Tatra mountains. The view was amazing, you could see trees and mountains anywhere you look, wild nature was fantastic. There was a lot of rivers, that always were near to us. Also, we saw a waterfall. Whe

On May 05-11 group of young people from Lithuania, Italy and Albania went to the small mountain village Serra San Quirico (Italy) for Erasmus+ project (youth exchange) ”OFFICINA EUROPA”. Professional theatre educators taught us the ability to listen each other, to create dialogue and to be creative. This project involved young Europeans in fostering mutual understanding, integration and solidarity among young people

I have always been a social and an adventure seeking person, so this May I dived in an adventure which will probably stay in my mind for my whole life. So, me and other 7 Lithuanian girls went to Italy for an Erasmus+ youth exchange programme.  It was an astonishing week, full of best impressions and unique moments. For the whole week we tried to overcome our fears of being on stage every time we stepped in it.  Desp

Action begins on 4th April 2017 when participants from Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Malta, Cyprus, Croatia, Slovakia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, FYROM, Spain, Lithuania, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland arrived to Uzana in Bulgaria with purpose to be TOTALLY trained at TOTAL Lab within Erasmus+ project “Training of Trainers and Active Leaders”.   We woke up to a beautiful place! Some snow still in shady parts, hiding betwe

This winter I have been in Erasmus+ youth exchange “Bees Inspired: A Hive for Female Entrepreneurs’’. The project was for girls and young women who want to set up their own business. We spent together 10 days in small town Ommen in the Netherlands. I have never seen such many inspiring and wonderful women in one place. Every day we did a lot of interesting tasks, lisent inspiring stories and developed our busin

New Year started thinking of how to become more advance leader. I was excited when I had got an invitation from organization Innovation Office (VšĮ Inovacijų biuras) to participate in Erasmus+ training course ,,Total Advance“ in Krzyzowa for the second time. It is the second part of the project ,,Training of trainers and active leaders“ (TOTAL). This TOTAL meeting was dedicated to trainers with an average experience