During the time, when in Lithuania its half day raining and half day sunny, 34 young people gathered in a beautiful ski resort in Zakopane, Poland. To start with, I have to mention, that Lithuanian team really enjoyed the trip to the place. We got this nice communication flowing between us and I have a feeling, that this the-further-the-sunnier weather was our main enthusiasm generator. During the project, we had som

In one of the most beautiful towns of Romania Sfantu Gheorghe, Roma and non – Roma youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, social workers and other who are directly working with Roma and non – Roma young peoplemet each other. The aim of the training course – to train participants to support rural youth on recognition of their Roma cultural values such as traditions and nature. Participants from 11 countries sta

When winter ends and spring begins I had an opportunity to be in Poland, Zakopane. There was a project held for environmental problems. It was an international project, which involved several countries: Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Croatia and Romania. Project members had to perform all kinds of activities related to solving environmental problems. Firstly, all project countries introduced themselves and their main envi

I had great opportunity to celebrate Easter in Sweden. Luckily I had Swedish friends and they told for me a lot about old traditions, and we celebrated it in a traditional way. So now I want to share experience not about that how great and fun it was, but want to give you information, what I learned about Easter in Sweden. Easter in Sweden is devoid of its’ religious connotations and is mostly looked upon as an

For Earth day I want to share my experiences about recycling in Sweden. Sweden is one of the countries where really good recycling system is created. Many countries have a lot of to learn from Sweden. I studied as Erasmus student in Sweden and I had a task to create video connected with Sweden and the first mind that came to my head was recycling. Because, as I already mentioned, in Sweden they have really good recyc

Erasmus+ project ‘Planet 1st’ took part in Zakopane (Poland), 24 February – 3 March, 2015. There were 30 people from 5 different countries: Poland, Romania, Croatia, Italy and Lithuania. Participants were discussing how young people can support environmental protection and how to take advantage of values that nature gives us without destructive influence on it. As well we were raising environmental awareness through

Romania’s’ stunning mountains and friendly people – this is what I will remember each time I think about our trip. But let’s talk about everything from the start. I Margarita Trociukaitė and three social work students Brigita Kuraitė, Modesta Petukaitė and Laura Rimgailaitė got proposal from Innovation Office to go to Erasmus+ project ‘AHA – Active Healthy Attitude’ training course in one of the oldest ci

Sofia is capital of Bulgaria situated in western part of the country. I had opportunity to visit this city 4 times and I really would like to visit it not one time. In the beginning I had a little bit different opinion about Sofia. It was a city I didn’t felt in love from the first sight, maybe even from the second. But now sincerely I want to come back there. The first thing what get scared me a lot – homeless dogs,

Extract from interview with Sarah Hanselin, Erasmus student from Colorado (the United States), sharing her experience in Lithuania. I came to Lithuania because of my Erasmus studies, I had to choose country and I choose Lithuania. I did it for a lot of reasons, but the biggest ones probably would be that Lithuania is such a unique place to go. A lot of American students when they choose to student abroad to go to pla