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We’ve been in a project about racism and discrimination. It was located in Poronin, Poland. There were people from three different countries – Poland, Turkey and Lithuania. The next day as we came there, we started playing games about racism and discrimination, later we’ve got more serious and took pencils in our hands. We kept learning about racism and discrimination. We started creating groups and

I will explain about my experience in Vilnius for 5 weeks. I can say “it has been brief but intense”. When I arrived, I could see a capital, different one than others that I´ve seen: the buildings and constructions of the Soviet period, trolleybuses, weather often with clouds and rain, the food, the people etc. During my travel, I lived in a routine. I need to work and after I usually visit different plac

My name is Eglė, and I‘m from Lithuania, Klaipėda. In the end of September till 07 of October, I had the opportunity to participate in Polish-Lithuanian youth exchange project “Create The Unity” as one of the 12 representatives of Lithuania and I discovered more things that I was actually expecting. The main goal of the project „Create The Unity” was to familiarize participants with the meaning of t

Training course “Service vs. Learning = Volunteering” was held on September 1-10 in Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania. I had an opportunity to participate in this project as one of the three representatives of Lithuania and it gave me a lot of new and useful experience. Sfantu Gheorghe There were three participants from each of these countries: Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Malta, Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Norway

I’m Inga from Lithuania. My volunteering experiences are more than 10 years. But I don’t call myself so. It’s my lifestyle. In the middle of August, I participated in a project, which was dedicated to refugees, stereotypes, xenophobia, cultural differences and things like that. The project took place in Romania town Sfantu Gheorgia. There were people from 9 countries: Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Es

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