YOUTH
IN CONTACT
Erasmus+ Training Course
26th October - 3rd November 2020 (including travel days)
Cherac, France
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the spontaneous communication between moving bodies that are in physical contact.
We will explore Contact Improvisation by practicing it, and find out how to use it in youth work to support personal and collective growth.
We will develop resources based on Contact Improvisation to be applied in youth organisations working with young people with fewer opportunities.
THIS PROJECT IS FOR YOU IF:
You are a youth worker or an educator working on a regular basis with a group of youngsters
You are willing to explore the possibilities of Contact Improvisation as an innovative tool in your daily work
You are officially resident of France, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia or Spain
You are able to work in English
You are open to listen to your body and let it be your guide
You are ready to connect with others in a different level
THE PROGRAM INCLUDES SESSIONS ON
From breathing to movement
Basic Technique in Contact Improvisation
Body-Mind Centering ®
Authentic Movement
Jam sessions
Space for developing resources based on CI applied to Youth Work
TEAM
Dancer and choreographer
MÉLODIE CECCHINI
Nourished from every interaction and contact,
she shares her playground
to never stop inventing and creating.
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS
This training course is co-funded through the Erasmus+ Programme, therefore accommodation, food, materials, the program and the travel costs up to the maximum allowed amount will be fully reimbursed.
Additionally, partner organisations from each country are entitled to ask for an internal fee,
which in all cases will need to be paid even if you found the training in SALTO.
PARTNERS
3 participants per country
Including maximum amount reimbursed for each country
LES SCHINI’S
France: 20€
YOUTH CONNECT
Italy: 275€
BRNO CONNECTED
Czech Republic: 275€
PST
Slovakia: 275€
ROOFTOP THEATRE
Cyprus: 360€
RISTI-RÄSTI
Estonia: 360€
MOAVE
Slovenia: 275€
ARA EN MOVIMENT
Spain: 275€
inspire.contact.improvisation
@gmail.com
REIMBURSEMENT CONDITIONS
You must travel in the most cost-efficient way available to you. Before attending the training course, you must provide details of your travel plans to us for verification and approval.
You must supply all the ORIGINAL travel documents (receipts, invoices, tickets and boarding passes) for BOTH of your journeys to and from the training course. Digital copies of travel documents are also very useful, so please also email these to us before you come to France at inspire.contact.improvisation@gmail.com.
You must attend all the sessions and commit yourself fully to the activities.
You must complete and sign a Reimbursement Form.
After coming back home, you should send the remaining ORIGINAL boarding passes and any other documents from your return journey by post to:
Melodie Cecchini
12 Rue De Lescure
33000 Bordeaux
France
We recommend that you ask for a confirmation of receipt when you post them. Also, before you post your tickets, please scan them and keep the scanned copy.
The process for receiving your reimbursement is as follows:
After you have successfully completed the training course and returned home, you will send any remaining ORIGINAL travel documents to us for validation.
Once we have approved all the documents of ALL the participants from a country, we will send the collective reimbursement money to our partner organisation in that country – we use a lump sum payment to keep bank fees as low as possible.
Our partner organisation will then divide the amount that remains after bank fees and transfer the corresponding amount of money to each individual participant from that country.
This whole process usually takes between 6 and 8 weeks – you can help us do it faster by submitting your documents quickly and correctly.
Our venue will be an old building
in Cherac (France)
It was converted to a space
prepared for hosting
dance meetings and retreats
It has a 200 squared meters dancefloor
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Covid measures, travel and Health Insurance
The training course will happen under the Covid safety measures of the space. However, this is a training about Contact Improvisation, so bear in mind that we will be in physical contact with all the participants.
In order to ensure the safety of everybody, we ask you to come only if you have NO SYMPTOMS during the 14 days before the training and also to have been with nobody who had symptoms in the 14 previous to coming to France. Here’s an article from the BBC to identify the symptoms https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54145299
Health insurance will NOT be provided or reimbursed by the mobility organisers. However, it is a mandatory requirement for all participants to provide your own health insurance. This should cover you for the full duration of your time in France. When you have arranged your insurance policy, please provide us with the details of it before you attend the training course, by sending us a scanned copy at inspire.contact.improvisation@gmail.com.
If you are an EU resident, you can use the free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) to allow you access to public hospital treatment. Having this card means you may be able to receive free medical treatment in the event of an emergency, but it is NOT guaranteed. Also please be aware that the EHIC is NOT a travel insurance policy, it will not cover private health care, non-emergency health costs, or being flown back to your home country. To learn more, please go to ehic.europa.eu/
General travel insurance to cover the safety of your possessions, lost luggage, delays to flights, etc is NOT a mandatory requirement, but it is advisable.
Dietary, health and other special requirements
The standard diet will be vegetarian. Please inform us as soon as possible if you have any food allergies or special dietary requirements so that we can inform the caterers and they can prepare meals that are suitable for you. If you have any other allergies, need to take regular medications or foresee a need for general medicines during your time in France (for example bug spray, headache tablets, travel sickness pills, etc) please arrange these yourself as we are unable to provide them for you.
Likewise, if you have any health conditions, disabilities or mobility issues that you feel we need to be aware of or that may affect your participation in the training course activities, then please let us know what they are and how best to assist you.
TIMEFRAME
TRAINING COURSE
Arrival day: 26th October from 17:00 to 18:30
Departure day: 3rd November until 10:00
You are allowed to arrive or depart max. 2 days before or 2 days after the mobility. In case you decide to use that extra time, bear in mind that it will NOT be supported with food or accommodation. Should your stay be longer than 2 days, we will NOT reimburse part of your travel costs.
“Inspiration is good,
but inspiration combined with action
is so much better”
Chris Guillebeau
ORGANISERS
CONTACT
Any questions related to the project shall be addressed
to the project coordinator Uma Maraval on inspire.contact.improvisation@gmail.com
