{"id":2019,"date":"2019-12-19T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternativa.lv\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:15:14","slug":"challenge-diversity-georgia-16-22-nov-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativa.lv\/en\/challenge-diversity-georgia-16-22-nov-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Diversity (Georgia, 16-22 Nov 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In November 16-23, 2019, 42\nparticipants from six countries: Georgia, Hungary,\nArmenia, Italy, Ukraine, Latvia had a unique chance to participate in the Erasmus+ youth exchange project “Challenge diversity”\norganised by Civil\nDevelopment and Research Institute and Youth Bridges Budapest. The project took place in Tbilisi, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main goal of  \u201cChallenge\nDiversity\u201d was to make youngsters of various cultural, ethnic, religious and\nlinguistic background gather and interchange ideas to support developing of\ndemocratic and inclusive society. The duration of the program was seven days, which provided various opportunities\nto develop key\ncompetences: Communication in foreign languages, Learning to learn, Social and\ncivic competences, Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and Cultural\nawareness and expression. Besides participants improved time management and decision making skills by\nestablishing variety of indoor and outdoor activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal was not only gaining knowledge, but also developing\nsocial skills, such as critical thinking, group working and problem solving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nCsenge Kolozsvari, president of the Youth Bridges Budapestshared her thoughts\nabout the program: \u201cI’ve participated in a lot of\nErasmus+ programs before, but this is the first leading\nexperience. The results are even better than expected due to motivated working\nof all the groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armenian Group leader Karen Ghazaryan noted the\nimportance of the program was that the participants were free to interact with\neach other. The friendly and tolerant\natmosphere which started from the first day and lasted until the end\nwascrucial. As he said: \u201cThe main achievement for me,\nbesides gaining new ideas, was to start to get to know other cultures closer. Huge benefit of the\nproject was that I made good friends from\ndifferent countries.The effectiveness of any program can be\nmeasured after the end of the project, I consider Challenge Diversity\nsuccessful because I keep in touch with many of the participants up to\ndate and we plan to work together to\norganize a new project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The main difficulty the participants might encounter throughout this kind of projects, could be the distinct classification of the tasks and responsibilities. As the  project participants noted,this project was different from many other ones,because it did not have any problems and obstacles. The activities were divided in advance between national groups according to days, so that all international and national teams were very well integrated, coordinated and cooperative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cchallenge diversity\u201d gave me a huge\nexperience and a lot of positive emotions. I\nmet new people from Italy, Armenia, Latvia, Hungary and Ukraine. We shared our\nknowledge and information about our countries and traditions. Out of\nmany interesting activities I would distinguished one that aimed to\nunderstand the idea of tolerance and how different people from\ndifferent cultures have very diverse understanding of it.\nDespite so many differences, in the end of the project we became one big\nfamily. That was an amazing experience,\u201d- Tamar\nTsiklauri Georgian participant told us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nAccording to Sandra Varju(Youth Bridges Budapest), this\nproject was significant by the fact that you could not find\ngroups separated by their nationalities. During both\nthe indoor and outdoor activities including organizing open space activities, the groups were formed on the\nmulticultural basis.
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Aslan Mikeladze (participant, CDRI) the project was an opportunity to gain\nknowledge and skill in intercutural dialogue, tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness.\nParticipants enhanced their knowledge about different cultures, traditions\nthrough Cultural Evenings organized by the national teams. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aslan Artmeladze a\nrepresentative of Civil development and Research Institute highlights the\nimportance of Erasmus+ youth exchange programs. \u201cIt is a huge motivation for young people to develop inter-cultural\nskills and get to know different ideas from different people – which is huge\nencouragement for youth economic and social development,\u201d- he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the project, we broadened horizon for bringing positive changes\nwithing the societies. Except the planned agenda, we had extra curricula\nactivities: teams of journalists, experts, social media managers, paparazzi\nwere working during breaks to gather maximum possible outcome from the project.\nWe also discussed future cooperation in terms of planning and implementing\nother youth projects and create more opportunities for youth to actively\nparticipate in shaping our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Taking into account opinions and ideas shared by the participants and organizers we can surely come up with the statement, that Challenge Diversity was successfully implemented project. This kind of Erasmus+ programs are important in developing individuals from different parts of the world as confident and open-minded members of the society, who are ready to face challenge diversity and contribute to the formation of the society which respects values of democracy, tolerance and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n