Nomination for the Award Apple of quality for Grundtvig project Young

Dear friends and partners,

EPEKA is nominated for award Apple of quality for Grundtvig project Young
and Adults for a better life.
We are in top three nominated projects of 2011-2013 Grundtvig projects.
Already this is a great result.
Thank you everybody once again.
I wish you Merry Christmans and happy 2014.

Štefan Simončič

Final products and dissemination in Italy

In order to make easier finding our final products and the last work referred to Dissemination (a Radio interview in Italian), we invite all visitors to enter the following web page:

http://wikizambigse.wikispaces.com/Young+and+adults+for+a+better+life

The Site of the Project

Please visit the site of the project.
I am sure you will like it.

The last day of our project

Dear friends,

 Here we are at the end of our wonderful project.

 I must confess I was very happy when many of you said that this project was  the best project you had  ever been in  and  I was also  happy that you liked  the way the project was coordinated.

The success   of our project is the result of our fruitful international cooperation.

All of you did wonderful things in and for the project.

We managed  to produce together valuable materials such as  the brochure  of good practices, the  surveys on self-esteem, the questionnaire   and the survey on the generation gap, the debates, workshops, interviews, role-play, computing or English lessons,..., all these activities involving  more than 2500 people from  our 11 European countries aged 16-80.

7669 people have visited the Blog so far.

38157 people have visited the site.

We can also add the people who read the newspaper articles or who attended the conferences meant to present our project to a very large audience.

And also, the fact that 2012 was the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations it was  a good opportunity  for us  to bring our  direct  contribution to the  topic  with the activities of  our project dedicated exactly  to the cooperation between "young"  and  "adults".

Both the project reunions and the activities in which we managed to involve young people and old people together proved that we can all share and learn one from another.

We spent delightful and inspiring moments together and managed to build a very friendly community.

 

I am pretty sure we will manage to continue our  cooperation  even if this project came to an end.

 We will now begin to put together all our gains in the Final Report.

 Thank you all for your dedication and  hard  work.

 Mariana

Viorica Parja- Graiul Maramuresului

Interview taken by Viorica Parja related  to the visit  to Sweden

Czech short movie on Generation gap

During last few months Czech team was working on a short documentary movie called Generation Gap. This movie was created as a testimony of exhibition "Roma People are also Godly" but also as an individual final product of Grundtvig project Young and Adults for a Better Life.

In the movie you can see pictures from the exhibition including accompanying program - traditional Roma dances performed by girls and a short skit performed by Roma youth in cooperation with elderly clients of organization "Our World" taking care of people with health and mental diseases. Film brings also interviews with different people on the topic of generation gap.
Whole movie is in Czech language with English subtitles.

Film can be seen here.

I wish you an inspirational experience.

Veronika Schwarzová
Diocesan Caritas Ostrava-Opava

24th June, 2013

It is about a week that we have been back in Hungary but we are still full of new experiences, thoughts about our stay in Sweden.

Sweden for me first of all meant security, peace and lack of stress. It seems to be a country where things happen without a glitch, where people are for providing assistance and help to the individual when needed - instead of causing frustration and even humiliation.

We learnt about Sweden back many years ago that it is a country of social security – and this came back to me several times when walking in the streets of Stockholm, when talking to people in the parks, when watching the sun-bathers in the middle of a metropolitan at the side of a water front (I never knew whether it was the Baltic Sea or a lake) with clean water that is suitable for bathing in the middle of a city (here in Hungary we cannot bathe in the Danube due to pollution in the countryside either!).

We learnt why there are so many children and pregnant women in the parks (whereas the population of Hungary is diminishing each day), why the pensioners look so carefree while walking towards the museums for a guided tour and a light lunch with their friends, we learnt that there is no such thing as cold weather only not proper clothing for the external circumstances.

We enjoyed the large extension of the parks and green areas as well as the water reflecting the buildings and bridges running at different heights all over Stockholm.

We saw the colourful bunches of flowers, flags and presents greeting the school-leavers who arrived by boat to the embankment to celebrate the great day in the circle of their family and friends, we met the tourists visiting the sights and palaces, we even had a glimpse at the royal couple on their way to the festivities on the National Day on 6th June.

We talked to Hungarians having arrived in Sweden some 30 years ago and Italians married in Sweden and living here as Swedish citizens, we met families with coloured children whose cousins were convinced that they were „white” like themselves, we were explained how the Swedish state ensures that cleaning women of different origins did not do „black labour”.

We learned some basic pronounciation rules of the language and some words but of course everybody we contacted spoke English (and in most cases a good English).

We experienced the high level of prices and tasted the typical Swedish dishes, examined the richness of the goods on the shelves of the supermarket and did not buy anything – besides transport passes and entry tickets – and we realised there are certain occasions when it is positive to belong to the „older generation”:  senior tickets are usually 70-80% of the original cost.

We are really grateful that we had this occasion to visit Stockholm and the countryside – without EU funding we would probably never have been able to afford such a trip.

Now we at least have some ideas how positive state policy can influence the individual s life, how society  can be humanistic, how the individual behavour can be positively effected by common welfare.

It was clear that we, Hungarians still have a long way to go...

Kate Fazekas

Hungarian coordinator