YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME PARTNER REQUEST FORM ACTION 1.1 – YOUTH EXCHANGES Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS or TYPE in ENGLISH, FRENCH or GERMAN ORGANIZATION DETAILS NAME OF ORGANIZATION: MOVIMENTAZIONI ADDRESS:VIA QUARTO DEI MILLE, 27 TELEPHONE: +39 085 4429521 FAX: +39 085 2909363 E-MAIL: movimentazioni_pe@email.it NAME OF CONTACT PERSON: BARBARA MAGLIANI DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION/GROUP: “Movimentazioni” is a cultural, social promotion oriented, non profit association. It was born in 2003 with the idea to “enliven” the city of Pescara (Enliven in Italian is “movimentare”, and so “Movimentazioni”). The main fields of activities are: social promotion, youths and citizenship ( democracy, peace, involvment, cooperation, urban cultures and youth languages), culture (audiovisual, arts, cinema, publishing and book, indipendent music), communication and technoligical innovations, associative bookshop, children and childhood (creative and educational workshops, invitation to the reading, taly recitals). DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION/GROUP : The main activities in progress are: “Arte & Trash” that will be finished on August 2010. This project is financed by the action 1.2 of the program “Youth in Action” and Movimentazioni is acting as coordinator and tutor. “Casauria Nature Festival” that will take place for the first time on August 2010. This festival aim to promote the natural, artistical and cultural richness of the territory. “E-dotto - officina di creatività” workshops for children (6-10 years) are in progress. These workshops want to address children to reading, ecology and peace through plays and creative activities. The course in event organization and cultural journalism,in partnership with the association “Mentelocale”, and the Italian course for foreigners are about to finish. On March, May and June 2010 we organized the package tours to Naples for the exhibition Barok, to Rome for the Caravaggio’s exhibition, to the artistical town of Castel del Monte, Altamura e Matera. “Etnolab” a project for the diffusion of the african and balkan cultures ended on June 2010. This project was financed by the action 1.2 of the program “Youth in Action”. Since 2003 we have been realizing arts cinema festivals (“Vertigo”, “Gli imperdibili”) in a lot of Pescara cinemas, special projections and national previews with actors and directors. We also promote cinema in peripheral districts with public projections in peripheral squares and by promoting cinema with courses in the high schools. Since 2006 we have been managing a little associative bookshop of the circuit “Interno 4” realizing a lot of book-presentations with authors, experts and essayists of national and international relevance. Since 2004 we have been working as organizational and productional partner at the “Indie Rocket Festival”. It is an international festival for the promotion and the diffusion of independent rock music. In the various editions showed off a lot of young bands coming from all over the world. THE EXCHANGE PROJECT Please describe the young people who will comprise the group and the exchange activity CONTEST AND TARGET RANGE The project is addressed to young people who prove to have interacted with discriminated community and ethnic minorities. Furthermore, in every group,at least, one of the participants must be a member of these minorities. Each group must be made up of six members. Countries which take part in this project must make ready , previously the period of the exchange, dance performances, music , and they must know the main themes which will be treated during the exchange and included in our purposes. PURPOSES Analogies and differences of racial/religious/ethnic and sexual discriminations in each Country that will take part in this project. Analyse of the interaction between migrants and host countries, and research of a virtuous model of interaction. Comparison of the laws which rule the immigration policy (rights and duties of the immigrant). Analyse of the issue about the political refugee. Interaction between musical workshops which allow to know deeply far away and discriminated cultures such as the african and the balcanic . Engagement on the part of all participants to undertake initiatives of interaction , when the exchange will finish. ACTIVITY Total period: 8 days (14th - 22th september 2011) First day: ARRIVAL AND WELCOME DURING THE ENTIRE EXCHENGE: there will be musical labs and theme discussions ,included in the main purposes, with the respective expositions of the real experiences. All the expositions will be catalogued in a “dossier”, and we will try to make it public with a miniexhibition at the end of the exchange. A party on theme will be foreseen every night. Each Country will arrange a presentation of itself by music, folk dances, and tasting of tipical dishes. Two excursions: PROVINCE OF CHIETI / PROVINCE OF L’AQUILA The final day will be dedicated to the presentation of the activities performed during the exchange: setting up of the exhibition; presentation of the “dossier”; public performance of african and balcanic music. DEPARTURE Profile of the group (identity group in terms of the categories hereunder) Pupils X X Students Ethnic minorities Apprentices Young People with special needs Number of participants in the exchange group: Age range: Unemployed young people X Young workers Other (specify) Male: 3 From 16 To 30 Female: 3 TYPE OF EXCHANGE Bilateral Trilateral Preferred first leg activity: x Multilateral Hosting Working language of the project: Sending ENGLISH Thematic area of activity: ETHNIC CULTURE AND MUSIC Dates: 14 – 22 /09/2011 PARTNERS DETAILS Please indicate the country/countriesof the organization(s) sought for partnership: Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden UK Slovak Republic Poland Hungary Bulgaria Romania Czech Republic Cyprus Estonia Latvia Lithuania Slovenia Malta Turkey Any DATE UNTIL THE PARTNER RESEARCH IS VALID: 7/01/2011 I fully acknowledge and agree that the Italian National Agency will use and distribute the information contained herein, as required, in implementing their partner finding service. Date 22/10/2010 Signature This form should be sent to the Italian National Agency to the following email-address: info.gia@agenziagiovani.it