Project V.I.S.A. - Volunteering in Small Areas Fund: European Commission - “Youth in Action Programme” - Action 2: “European voluntary service” Starting date. 1st July 2013 Applicant: LDA of Verteneglio Partners: Association for democratic Prosperity – Zid (MNE), Association for Information and Education Mladiinfo – FEJS (MK), Concordia (UK), Giosef – Giovani Senza Frontiere (IT). For the 5th consecutive time, the LDA will host 4 young people coming from 4 different countries, 2 of them from the EU and the 2 others from not members countries (Italy, Great Britain, Macedonia, Montenegro. They will arrange and apply activities aimed to the local community for letting it have a contact with foreign culture and tradition. They will cooperate with local institutions and organizations: the Italian Elementary School “Edmondo De Amici” of Buie, the intermediate Italian School “Leonardo Da Vinci” of Buie, the Open University of Buie, the Italian Communities of Buie and Verteneglio, the touristic agency of Verteneglio, the agency for the rural development of Verteneglio, the kindergartens of Buie and Verteneglio and many others. The activities will consist in organizing events and seminars directed to the citizens, writing articles, realizing a brochure, arranging meetings with schools, offering foreign language classes, creating workshops in accordance their own interests. They will have free Croatian and Italian courses. They will write also a diary, collecting interviews to the previous volunteers in order to share the follow-ups of this experience. Aims of the project: ! Spreading in the local community and, particularly, among young people, the awareness of the opportunities offered them by the EU – mostly after Croatia has become a new member. ! Promoting the intercultural knowledge and understanding. ! Spreading knowledge over the role of the European Institutions ! Improving the skills and the competences of the volunteers. The role of the LDA: it's the host organization. It manages the volunteers, provides them with accommodation and money. Its tasks are: introducing them to the local community and institutions, arranging activities suitable with their interests and purposes. It gives them material and human support during all their living in Croatia. Adria 3 – “Strenghtening and development of the cooperation with Adriatic countries” Funding: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia Partners: INFORMEST (Centro di servizi e documentazione per la cooperazione economica internazionale) Gorizia, LDA of Verteneglio, NASME (Direkcijs Za Razvoj Malih i Srednjij Poduzeca) Podgorica, Associazione Paraplegici Speranza e Amore (Tirana), UNIONCAMERE FVG – Trieste, HATTIVA – s.c.s Onlus (Tavagnaccio – UD), Associazione Parco della Concordia (Muggia – TS), Regione Istria. Project description: the project aims to spread good practices among all the stakeholders of the three Eastern Adriatic areas Objectives: ! Safeguard of the biodiversity in Friuli Venezia Giulia and in Istria ! Scientific research directed to the protection of the bee ecotype present on the
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