Greetings, my name is Rafal, I’m writing this article to share the wonderful experience I had while participating in an international Erasmus+ project – “Planet 1st!”. It all started when one of the lecturers in my college, announced that there is an opportunity to participate in a project. After a few days, we arranged a meeting, where we signed our contracts. And then it started. Firstly, our group from Lithuania c

I don‘t even know from what I have to start to talk about this project. Firstly it was a great opportunity to see Poland in a different way like not a tourist, but be a part of Poland. This project was my first, but all I can say that it is also not the last. So before I start I want to thank VsI Inovacijų biuras (Innovation Office) for this opportunity to travel to Poland, that I was involved in this Planet 1st. Vol

Poland, Poronin 2015 21st of April it was the day I joined project “Planet 1st! – Vol. 2”, it is the second part of great project, which gathered people who cares about environmental problems. Here came people from six different countries – Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Italy. People had a clear mind that they don’t like what is happening with our Earth and understanding that we need to rise

Everything began from the offer which I got from my lecturer – to take part in the project in Poland. The subject of project was Environmental protection. Me and five my colleagues got this suggestion from Innovation Office. I am a student of Vilnius University of Applied Sciences and I study landscape design, so I decided to take part in this project because it would be useful for me. We left Vilnius in the la

Erasmus+ is a great programme for people who want to know more about the world and improve themselves in different fields. This spring I had an opportunity to participate in one of Erasmus+ Training courses as well. Trainings were called “Euroma Cafeteria” and took place in Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania from 2nd till 10th of April. The main topic of trainings was Roma people, their culture, traditions, lifestyle and their

In the beginning of April, 32 youngsters from 11 countries gathered in Sfintu Gheorghe, Romania to discuss on initiating entrepreneurship to preserve and use the potential of Roma culture, traditions and nature in rural areas through youth work activities. Like in the other training courses, the activities started with introduction games and team building activities which laid the foundations for a beautiful team and

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