Dates: September 9-19, 2016
Venue: Barbarolo, close to Bologna, Italy
What is it about?
The project “N8, just Sk8 on the road” is a youth exchange within the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 1. It will be running at the beginning of August for 11 days (travel days included) in Barbarolo close to Bologna, Italy. It will involve young people in sport activities, in particular with the tools: roller skate, skateboard, push scooter; for skating and parkour. Skaters say that this sport is a life style, a philosophy. It is a very attractive sport for young people and it can be combined with many other sports or activities (music, art, street-sports/art…). The project wants to reflect the skating culture, lifestyle and obstacles and joy connected with these sports. Skating is a challenging physical and mental activity where the barriers to improvement are almost entirely internal. Skating empowers youth through constant, self-adopted challenges which can be overcome through practice, dedication, and commitment. At the same time, this activity helps young people to fight against marginalisation, racism, xenophobia and promotes tolerance, mutual understanding and brotherhood among the group of people dedicated to this life-style. These traits, learned through skating, last a lifetime and are relevant to many environments and life situations. Normally skating is an underground sport and, in many countries, people are not allowed to skate on streets. Skating youths participate in this activity with or without dedicated skate spaces. As a result, in many communities without skate parks or with inadequate skate parks, skating youths recreate in the streets and other inappropriate areas. That can be a risk for the skaters but also for the others who can be injured.In areas where skate parks and skateboarding areas are plentiful and designed properly, skaters recreate in an appropriate space and are significantly less exposed to the risk. Skateboarding activity and culture struggles to be recognized by public agencies and the broader community, and thus the skaters may become marginalized members of the community. That’s why this project can have a big impact not only for participants directly involved but also at local level in the participants’ communities. During these intensive 11 days participants will have a chance to skate and rollerblade, improve their style, learn from the others or teach the others, learn about different skating cultures in other countries, the importance of sport, meet some skate experts and local organizations! And this all in a lovely atmoshpere of small italian village Barbarolo!
What is waiting for you there?
Sport activity, preparation and realization of sport exercises connected with skating and rollerblading, group sessions and discussions about skating culture and lifestyle, visits of local organizations, presentations, cultural visits.
Who can participate?
All young people up till 25 years old (30 for group leaders) that love to do skating in all its forms and that want to spend 10 days with similarly crazy people from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, and Romania.
How much will it cost you?
Food, accommodation and activities costs are 100 % covered by the project; the travel cost will be reimbursed up to 170 € for the international groups and up to 20 € for the Italian group after receiving all the travel documents.
Practical Information
Please, remember to keep all your travel tickets and invoices for the reimbursement of travel cost. It is strongly recommended to make copies of all your tickets and invoices in case some document gets lost.
Venue: Barbarolo, close to Bologna, Italy
What is it about?
The project “N8, just Sk8 on the road” is a youth exchange within the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 1. It will be running at the beginning of August for 11 days (travel days included) in Barbarolo close to Bologna, Italy. It will involve young people in sport activities, in particular with the tools: roller skate, skateboard, push scooter; for skating and parkour. Skaters say that this sport is a life style, a philosophy. It is a very attractive sport for young people and it can be combined with many other sports or activities (music, art, street-sports/art…). The project wants to reflect the skating culture, lifestyle and obstacles and joy connected with these sports. Skating is a challenging physical and mental activity where the barriers to improvement are almost entirely internal. Skating empowers youth through constant, self-adopted challenges which can be overcome through practice, dedication, and commitment. At the same time, this activity helps young people to fight against marginalisation, racism, xenophobia and promotes tolerance, mutual understanding and brotherhood among the group of people dedicated to this life-style. These traits, learned through skating, last a lifetime and are relevant to many environments and life situations. Normally skating is an underground sport and, in many countries, people are not allowed to skate on streets. Skating youths participate in this activity with or without dedicated skate spaces. As a result, in many communities without skate parks or with inadequate skate parks, skating youths recreate in the streets and other inappropriate areas. That can be a risk for the skaters but also for the others who can be injured.In areas where skate parks and skateboarding areas are plentiful and designed properly, skaters recreate in an appropriate space and are significantly less exposed to the risk. Skateboarding activity and culture struggles to be recognized by public agencies and the broader community, and thus the skaters may become marginalized members of the community. That’s why this project can have a big impact not only for participants directly involved but also at local level in the participants’ communities. During these intensive 11 days participants will have a chance to skate and rollerblade, improve their style, learn from the others or teach the others, learn about different skating cultures in other countries, the importance of sport, meet some skate experts and local organizations! And this all in a lovely atmoshpere of small italian village Barbarolo!
What is waiting for you there?
Sport activity, preparation and realization of sport exercises connected with skating and rollerblading, group sessions and discussions about skating culture and lifestyle, visits of local organizations, presentations, cultural visits.
Who can participate?
All young people up till 25 years old (30 for group leaders) that love to do skating in all its forms and that want to spend 10 days with similarly crazy people from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, and Romania.
How much will it cost you?
Food, accommodation and activities costs are 100 % covered by the project; the travel cost will be reimbursed up to 170 € for the international groups and up to 20 € for the Italian group after receiving all the travel documents.
Practical Information
Please, remember to keep all your travel tickets and invoices for the reimbursement of travel cost. It is strongly recommended to make copies of all your tickets and invoices in case some document gets lost.
Travel direction
As the activities will start on 4th August in the afternoon we kindly ask you to find a plane so you will arrive to Bologna in the morning. On 14th, the activities will end in the morning so we ask you will stay in Bologna until midday!!!!
From Bologna Airport to Bologna train station
The Airport is about 6 Km far from Bologna city centre. A shuttle bus links G.Marconi airport to Bologna railway station (Aerobus – BLQ Shuttle service). A one way ticket costs 6,00€ and can be bought directly into the bus or in the red machine near the bus stop. You should plan the exact sum in change. Departures from the airport are scheduled every 20 minutes. There are buses from 05.30 am until 00.15 from the airport to Bologna train station. There are buses from 05.00 am until 11.35 pm from the train station to the airport. The bus stop that you have to exit is the last stop: Bologna train station “stazione centrale”.You can consult the timetable here: http://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/VARIAZIONI/tper_Bo040_1.pdf
As the activities will start on 4th August in the afternoon we kindly ask you to find a plane so you will arrive to Bologna in the morning. On 14th, the activities will end in the morning so we ask you will stay in Bologna until midday!!!!
From Bologna Airport to Bologna train station
The Airport is about 6 Km far from Bologna city centre. A shuttle bus links G.Marconi airport to Bologna railway station (Aerobus – BLQ Shuttle service). A one way ticket costs 6,00€ and can be bought directly into the bus or in the red machine near the bus stop. You should plan the exact sum in change. Departures from the airport are scheduled every 20 minutes. There are buses from 05.30 am until 00.15 from the airport to Bologna train station. There are buses from 05.00 am until 11.35 pm from the train station to the airport. The bus stop that you have to exit is the last stop: Bologna train station “stazione centrale”.You can consult the timetable here: http://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/VARIAZIONI/tper_Bo040_1.pdf
The Meeting Point:
The meeting point will be in front of the main Bus station “autostazione” in Bologna at 13:15 PM. You can find the way from the Train Station to Bus station here http://goo.gl/XiFKRT . We will take a bus number 906 from the bus station to the village Barbarolo.
Here you can find the timetable of the bus 906.
The meeting point will be in front of the main Bus station “autostazione” in Bologna at 13:15 PM. You can find the way from the Train Station to Bus station here http://goo.gl/XiFKRT . We will take a bus number 906 from the bus station to the village Barbarolo.
Here you can find the timetable of the bus 906.
Living conditions
Accommodation
Participants will be accommodated in a Scout House. It is a really small town, in the middle of hills, without a lot of entertainments. We have chosen this kind of accommodation in order to make participants focus more on the themes and the group, in order to have less external distractions. You can find pictures of the accommodation in the project’s blog: https://no8justsk8.wordpress.com/ Please keep in mind that there are no blankets or pillows – Bring your own sleeping bags or bed sets!!
First floor: bedrooms (common bedrooms. Divsion: male/female) + WC + Showers
Ground floor: 2 activities rooms + 1 dinning room + 1 big kitchen
Outside: football field + 1 street and 1 square for skating
NO INTERNET CONNECTION! Keep in mind to upload all the material you need in an USB key.
Meals
All meals are covered by the project from 4th evening until 14th morning. Please it is strongly recommended that if you have any particular need about food you shall inform us before the beginning of the youth exchange. We will use as self-management so the participants will be divided in groups to cook and to clean. These groups (in rotation) will be responsible to cook and clean the spaces EVERY DAY. Please note that Net in Action will not provide any additional accommodation for your stay in Italy outside the dates of the youth exchange.
What should you bring
Skateboards, rollers, and other boardsport materials in particular security equipment, cameras, laptop, typical food from your country for international evenings, good mood, sleeping bags, bed sets, games for playing in the free time, … Don´t forget to prepare materials, pictures, videos, documents about skating and skating culture in your country or city.
Language
The language of the exchange will be English.
Here you can find some expressions in Italian:
Yes/ No – Si/No Thank you – Grazie You´re welcome – prego
excuse me – mi scusi please – per favore good morning – buon giorno
good afternoon – buon pomeriggio good night – buona notte hi – ciao
How much is it? – Quanto costa? Where? – Dove? When- Quando?
yesterday – ieri today – oggi tomorrow -domani left/right – destra/sinistra
street – via/strada ticket – biglietto I don´t understand -non capisco
I don´t speak Italian – Non parlo Italiano Hot/cold – caldo/freddo no problem – nessun problema
In Italian every written letter is pronounced. You should remember this useful rule and, without thinking, in a while you’ll be speaking Italian😉
Useful contacts
For more info please contact us on [email protected] ; +39 380 869 8725
Accommodation
Participants will be accommodated in a Scout House. It is a really small town, in the middle of hills, without a lot of entertainments. We have chosen this kind of accommodation in order to make participants focus more on the themes and the group, in order to have less external distractions. You can find pictures of the accommodation in the project’s blog: https://no8justsk8.wordpress.com/ Please keep in mind that there are no blankets or pillows – Bring your own sleeping bags or bed sets!!
First floor: bedrooms (common bedrooms. Divsion: male/female) + WC + Showers
Ground floor: 2 activities rooms + 1 dinning room + 1 big kitchen
Outside: football field + 1 street and 1 square for skating
NO INTERNET CONNECTION! Keep in mind to upload all the material you need in an USB key.
Meals
All meals are covered by the project from 4th evening until 14th morning. Please it is strongly recommended that if you have any particular need about food you shall inform us before the beginning of the youth exchange. We will use as self-management so the participants will be divided in groups to cook and to clean. These groups (in rotation) will be responsible to cook and clean the spaces EVERY DAY. Please note that Net in Action will not provide any additional accommodation for your stay in Italy outside the dates of the youth exchange.
What should you bring
Skateboards, rollers, and other boardsport materials in particular security equipment, cameras, laptop, typical food from your country for international evenings, good mood, sleeping bags, bed sets, games for playing in the free time, … Don´t forget to prepare materials, pictures, videos, documents about skating and skating culture in your country or city.
Language
The language of the exchange will be English.
Here you can find some expressions in Italian:
Yes/ No – Si/No Thank you – Grazie You´re welcome – prego
excuse me – mi scusi please – per favore good morning – buon giorno
good afternoon – buon pomeriggio good night – buona notte hi – ciao
How much is it? – Quanto costa? Where? – Dove? When- Quando?
yesterday – ieri today – oggi tomorrow -domani left/right – destra/sinistra
street – via/strada ticket – biglietto I don´t understand -non capisco
I don´t speak Italian – Non parlo Italiano Hot/cold – caldo/freddo no problem – nessun problema
In Italian every written letter is pronounced. You should remember this useful rule and, without thinking, in a while you’ll be speaking Italian😉
Useful contacts
For more info please contact us on [email protected] ; +39 380 869 8725
Emergency numbers
European emergency number : 112
Police Department : 113
Fire Department : 115
Medical Emergencies : 118
European emergency number : 112
Police Department : 113
Fire Department : 115
Medical Emergencies : 118
We are looking forward for meeting each of you … Have a safe trip …
Net in Action Team
Net in Action Team