YOW Blended mobility

Blended Mobility is an activity within the framework of the project YoW Youth of the World: Transformative Power of the Global Education. Future Worlds Center is one of 6 partners implementing this =18-month-long Key Action 2 project supported by Erasmus+ of the European Commission.

About YOW Blended Mobility

YOW Blended mobility gathered group of 24 young people and 6 facilitators from 6 countries: Cyprus, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Portugal and Ireland.

Blended Mobility consists of Virtual tasks and the final activity- Youth Exchange of 7 days in Florence, Italy during the Global Education Week in November 2018.

Virtual Tasks included 5 tasks that each national team had to prepare till the beginning of the Youth Exchange. These tasks helped participants to:

• find and present the values of their own countries and cultures;
• allowed them to explore cultures of other partner countries;
• encouraged discussions about global issues within their own communities.

Youth Exchange was the final 7 day long event of the YOW Blended Mobility. For this event, besides the virtual tasks, each national team had to prepare workshops about different topics:

• Italy - Sustainable Development Goals
• Cyprus - Sustainable Futures
• Ireland - Interdependence
• Greece - Development
• Portugal - Multicultural Learning
• Bulgaria - Identity-Diversity

FWC's Team Cyprus

Future Worlds Center created an open call to evaluate the motivation and availability of applicants and to select 4 participants that would be interested in global issues, the role of Global Education and other important topics during YOW Blended mobility activities.

Participants from Cyprus: Jordan Kent, Andri Christofides, Marios Patsali, Kyriacos Chimonis. Group leader and facilitator: Eliza Danenfelde Kirpe

Read more: Media:File:Team CY to explore the transformative power of the Global Education.pdf.ogg