Europe meets in Erzurum for people with fewer opportunities

ATTENTION: We are missing applicants from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Turkey but the course will take place with participants from Bulgaria, Crotia, Spain, Latvia, Romania, Greece and Turkey. 'Engelleri aşalım Erzurum'da buluşalım - Europe meets in Erzurum for people with fewer opportunities’ is a training course under Erasmus + programme, Training of youth workers. The projects brings together 30 people who work for the disabled people in their local societies. At least ¼ of the participants consists of disabled people themselves. The activities takes place in Erzurum, Turkiye within the dates: 15-20 April 2015 The main theme of the project is disabilities and cities. The training course aims to create an awareness among participants about the lives of disabled people and challenges they face in their daily life. To overcome these challenges, the project offers to create a report defining how a disabled-friendly city should be like. The training will use non formal education tools such as presentations, team building, flash mob activity, field visits, theatre, music and drawing, group work, panel, brainstorming, dabates, sports and role play. These tools will allow the participants not only understand the difficulties of disabled people but also to experience to be a person with wheelchair, a deaf or blind person. The report will be disseminated to 500 municipalities and NGOs in Turkey and partner organisations’ countries. The partner organisations are public bodies and NGOs from Bulgaria, Crotia, Spain( municipality), Latvia, Romania, Greece, Turkey ( Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality) is the hosting country.