PBA - Partnership Building Activity is a program, activity, gathering people, engaging in Erasmus+. Engaging in non-formal learning, in tasks, getting to know each other, related to how to run our international project, learning cultural differences and getting a lot of good input on how to develop a project idea.
Well, the purpose of the project was a meeting between north and south of Europe: Norway with 6 southern countries in Europe to see and engage us in creating projects, north-south projects.
I've travelled to Portugal some quite a few times actually. I love the country and when I heard that this PBA we're going on in Portugal, there was no doubt about it. The project was held in Villa de Marmaleira, just outside of Lisbon. Fantastic village - we went there at night time, it was totally dark and we woke up in this beautiful small place the day after. And it was amazing as well to see how the project had a local impact and how the project involves the whole village with inviting us to eat dinner with the local community, and inhabitants. We met local people all the time.
Engaging in the PBA in Portugal and learning more about the Erasmus+ and non-formal learning activities opened totally new mind sets for us us on how we think, how we work and what we want to achieve. I mean we live in Norway, it's a small country in Europe, we are outside of the European Union and sometimes we have enough with ourselves. But at the same time it's so important for us and for our young people for the creativity of our region to engage in developing international projects.
For my own sake, I learnt so much meeting all these fantastic people from Portugal, from Spain, from Italy, from Croatia, from Cyprus and Malta. And with all their experiences, and backgrounds, and ideas, and creativity, and all the possibilities in all activities and what they do and how they think…I think there's no end to the possibilities what we can be able to put together and projects we can create together.
So this just started a process of thinking and developing ideas and I think it will be of great value for me personally, and for our organization in the future.
You know, when the PBA started in the Villa de Marmaleira and with the Jo Claeys, I was kind of skeptic in a start. It started with quite uh… you know, games. Walking around, you had to let yourself loose…You know I'm starting to become not an old man, but a grown up guy. But after the first day I started to see how this is related and connected. Just everything related to the work we were supposed to do later in finding partners, developing project ideas. It was really really helpful and I still now, we are in late April, and this is a half year ago and I still remember the exercises we did. I still go back to a lot of them and it's been really helpful in developing our timetable and schedule for our own projects and bringing, “hey, we can use this exercise or we can use this part of it!” So besides of being a project development, developing program, it's also really useful and helpful learning process for us as youth leaders in developing good projects.
I've been working with young people in our region for twenty years and I know when the public engages in their possibilities, in their interests, in all the variety of their lives, something happens! They wake up, they see, “Hey, someone is interested in what we do, we can do this!” And also as a youth worker is telling them when they come to me and ask, I can say, “Yes, you can! Come on, do it! Come with me, join this festival or engage in this filming group or theater group or whatever. It's worth it! It's what you do is important.”
And of course it's important for them to hear this. Not just adult people saying, “No, you can't!”, of course nothing happens, of course they are passive or sit down or don’t engage and things… Of course public bodies has to engage in their lives and their possibilities.
Well, the purpose of the project was a meeting between north and south of Europe: Norway with 6 southern countries in Europe to see and engage us in creating projects, north-south projects.
I've travelled to Portugal some quite a few times actually. I love the country and when I heard that this PBA we're going on in Portugal, there was no doubt about it. The project was held in Villa de Marmaleira, just outside of Lisbon. Fantastic village - we went there at night time, it was totally dark and we woke up in this beautiful small place the day after. And it was amazing as well to see how the project had a local impact and how the project involves the whole village with inviting us to eat dinner with the local community, and inhabitants. We met local people all the time.
Engaging in the PBA in Portugal and learning more about the Erasmus+ and non-formal learning activities opened totally new mind sets for us us on how we think, how we work and what we want to achieve. I mean we live in Norway, it's a small country in Europe, we are outside of the European Union and sometimes we have enough with ourselves. But at the same time it's so important for us and for our young people for the creativity of our region to engage in developing international projects.
For my own sake, I learnt so much meeting all these fantastic people from Portugal, from Spain, from Italy, from Croatia, from Cyprus and Malta. And with all their experiences, and backgrounds, and ideas, and creativity, and all the possibilities in all activities and what they do and how they think…I think there's no end to the possibilities what we can be able to put together and projects we can create together.
So this just started a process of thinking and developing ideas and I think it will be of great value for me personally, and for our organization in the future.
You know, when the PBA started in the Villa de Marmaleira and with the Jo Claeys, I was kind of skeptic in a start. It started with quite uh… you know, games. Walking around, you had to let yourself loose…You know I'm starting to become not an old man, but a grown up guy. But after the first day I started to see how this is related and connected. Just everything related to the work we were supposed to do later in finding partners, developing project ideas. It was really really helpful and I still now, we are in late April, and this is a half year ago and I still remember the exercises we did. I still go back to a lot of them and it's been really helpful in developing our timetable and schedule for our own projects and bringing, “hey, we can use this exercise or we can use this part of it!” So besides of being a project development, developing program, it's also really useful and helpful learning process for us as youth leaders in developing good projects.
I've been working with young people in our region for twenty years and I know when the public engages in their possibilities, in their interests, in all the variety of their lives, something happens! They wake up, they see, “Hey, someone is interested in what we do, we can do this!” And also as a youth worker is telling them when they come to me and ask, I can say, “Yes, you can! Come on, do it! Come with me, join this festival or engage in this filming group or theater group or whatever. It's worth it! It's what you do is important.”
And of course it's important for them to hear this. Not just adult people saying, “No, you can't!”, of course nothing happens, of course they are passive or sit down or don’t engage and things… Of course public bodies has to engage in their lives and their possibilities.
Making the difference: a North South PBA - Erasmus+
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March 23, 2018
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Reviewed by sdfdr
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March 23, 2018
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