Sabir on Board

CALL FOR PARTNERS

Partnership Building Activity project in the youth field - mobility of youth workers
Sicily, Italy September 2019


Who are we?

Associazione Centro Koros was founded in 2008 to ​​propose a space for the promotion and protection of the well-being of the person, from a psychological, legal and educational point of view. Main target group of the organisations are young people with fewer opportunities, women, families. Since 2013 it has promoted paths of "social inclusion" on a sailing boat for Young offenders and for those who live in a condition of social malaise. It is Member of Unione Italiana Vela Solidale since 2012.

For more information please visit: https://www.centrokoros.it/

Eterotopia Laboratorio Navigante was founded in 2014 with the aim of spreading the seafaring culture and care for the marine environment by using the boat as an educational tool, a space of aggregation and social inclusion especially for young people. Member of the Unione Italiana Vela Solidale since 2015.

For more information please visit: http://web.eterotopia.it/

Theme of the project

Not a class to teach a language for everybody but the adventure of “building together an everybody's language”, made by the most beautiful, expressive and meaningfull words brought by every crew member from their own language and shared with all the others. As Pessoa said, “Our homeland is our language”, and so welcoming other people's words into our language means welcoming other people as bringers of meaning, emotions, and expressivity, it makes us richer and is the founding of a union of peoples where diversity and multitude turn into essential values.
Sabir, the old Mediterranean lingua franca, restored in every sailor the sense of belonging to a people joined by the Mediterranean Sea. The sharing of words, prayers and colourful characteristic expressions is at the heart of the union among people, that is why every person who passed onboard learnt a name, a verse but also left a word.
Thinking today about Europe as a union of diverse peoples starts once again from the creation of a new language, a mutual hosting exchange.
Aboard a crew formed by youth workers from different parts of Europe can live the extraordinary experience of sailing together in the South of their continent, meeting local communities, listening to stories and telling the story of their own world, making the effort to use a new language made from the useful and more revealing words from the different languages spoken onboard. At the same time the group of youth workers will work on creating and developing new project ideas addressed to young people with fewer opportunities, using the ship as the first vehicle of dissemination of knowledge, of sharing and personal development of young people.

Main elements of the the project

Topic:
Thinking today about Europe as an union of diverse people starts once again from the creation of a new language, a mutual hosting exchange. Inspired by Sabir we can create this new way of communication, our “upside down language” to discover unconventional connection between a group of youth workers motivated in working in a innovative way with young people with fewer opportunities.

Activities foreseen
5 days Partnership Building Activity (PBA) to be held in Sicily in September 2019 (dates to be agreed). The activity will take place on a sailing boat in the sicilian sea following the “Neo Sabir” methodology as a tool to create future partnerships for the realization of projects (such youth exchanges) involving young people. The project will be submitted within Erasmus + -Key Action 1 Youth workers mobility programme at 30th April 2019 deadline.

Methodology of the PBA
Sailing is the main tool: a sailboat is a small floating community, which requires clear and shared rules to work properly. Everyone has to challenge ourselves as individual and as part of a group: trying to leave on land mental habits to experiment a new way of staying together, made of new words, different rules and habits, sharing and trust. This atmosphere will help to build trust as pre-condition for the development of new partnerships.

Participants profile:
Youth workers representatives of organizations active in the youth field with a special focus on the work on human welfare or with young people with fewer opportunities (i.e. young offenders or at risk to offend, young asylum seekers and young migrants including young people from migrant background)

We’re looking for partners from 4 different Erasmus + programme countries (max 2 from each) interested in working on the topic of the activity during the 5 days in Sicily in order to build future projects in 2020 using the methodology of sailing as educational tool (i.e. International Youth exchanges- youth mobility experiences within Erasmus + programme)

To show your interest to be partner in the project:
Fill up the form https://forms.gle/PappaUxKA9M827E47
below to show the interest of your organization by 13th April 2019

Centro Koros and Eterotopia Laboratorio Navigante will contact organizations selected as partners of this project by 20 April 2019

For any questions don’t hesitate to contact us :

segreteria@eterotopia.it
+393388895508