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ESC & Erasmus+ Networking Event
Partnership-building Activity
7-11 October 2024 | Stratoni, Aristotelis Municipality, Greece
USB has been implementing projects in various regions of Northern Greece apart from the city of Thessaloniki, which is its base, for many years. In this context, over the last years, USB has actively realised actions in rural communities in the region of Halkidiki, empowering the local youth and area and creating hubs for youth activization. Working in close cooperation with the local municipality and actors of the Aristotelis Municipality of Halkidiki, we have managed to identify crucial local needs and prospects for local development and support for youth of the area.
Thus, we have implemented large scale volunteering teams projects, as well as individual mobilities in the frame of European Solidarity Corps in the area over the past 5 years, with the participation of local youth as well. In addition, USB has realised dozens of youth mobility project, as part of Erasmus+, in the villages of the area during the same period.
The networking meeting will be hosted in this unique area. Participants will get the chance to experience the region and environment as part of their visit, in the same activity locations where the volunteering and trainings are organised. Local study visits are also integrated in the activity program, in order to provide participants with a complete perception of the area’s conditions, unique traits and information for the Aristotelis Municipality and the wider Halkidiki region.
A crucial part of the meet up will be the networking between participants and organizations active in the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+, exchange of good practices and exploration of collaboration prospects. Infopack of the activity with full information is provided below.
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Applications are closed
The application deadline was 11 September 2024.
Date of selection: 14 September 2024
Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/12667
This Partnership-building Activity is
for 15 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, youth organisation representatives
Working language(s):
English
United Societies of Balkans (Youth NGO)
United Societies of Balkans (USB) is a non-profit,
nongovernmental organization based in Thessaloniki,
Greece working in the field of youth mobility, participation and facilitating youth awareness about
social issues. It was founded in 2008 by the inception of a group of active young people who wanted to address the social issues which affect the youngsters in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Key areas of the organization’s activities concern the defence of human rights, the organization of youth related projects such as youth exchanges and training courses, and the organization of local interventions, seminars and multimedia productions, local and international volunteering projects. USB is active in ESC/EVS since 2008, and as part of its activity is running projects in Thessaloniki and marginalized rural areas of Northern Greece, as well as coordinates an active network of local hosting organisations.
Contact for questions:
Christos Leivaditis
E-Mail:
Phone: +302310215629
Costs
Participation fee
No participation fee is required for the event.
Accommodation and food
Accommodation and meals are provided by the program.
Travel reimbursement
Travel will be covered by the organisers for each participant, accordingly with Erasmus+ regulations, based on the distance brands foreseen.
Participants can calculate the category that corresponds to their travel through the Erasmus+ distance calculator tool (at https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/distance-calculator), where they add the location from where they start their travel for Thessaloniki-Greece and get the exact distance, corresponding to the normal travel cost. We also encourage the use of green travel if convenient for participants, in which case they also receive a higher maximum amount per distance brand. This includes all means of transport participants may use during their travel.
Maximum individual travel budget, for standard travel and green travel option, per km distance brand (Green travel not available in the first and last brands):
10–99 km :23 EUR
100–499 km :180 EUR / 210 EUR (Green Travel)
500–1999 km :275 EUR / 320 EUR (Green Travel)
2000–2999 km :360 EUR / 410 EUR (Green Travel)
3000–3999 km :530 EUR / 610 EUR (Green Travel)
4000–7999 km: 820 EUR