GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN EUROPE - Partnership Building Activity (PBA) -

14th – 21st September, 2013

YEREVAN, ARMENIA

‘This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission

cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information

contained therein.’

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WHAT IS THIS PBA ABOUT?

The Partnership Building Activity will bring together 42 youth

workers, experts and youth leaders from organisations based

in EU, EECA, EFTA countries and Turkey interested in

developing new projects and partnerships on the topic of

Gender Equality.

The aim of our project is to bring together organisations and

groups from Europe in order to enhance their cooperation in

the field of gender and give them a platform to develop new

projects and ideas within possibilities given under Youth in

Action Programme.

It will be a unique opportunity for participants coming from 30 different organisations based in

different parts of Europe; Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and

Caucasus to share experiences of past projects on gender and exchange useful information, to

acquire knowledge about possibilities of cooperation on gender issues across Europe and to develop

new projects within Youth in Action Programme.

During 6 working days of PBA study visits will be organised to different NGOs working in the

respective field. NGO fair will be organised where other local NGO-s will have a chance to meet their

European partners and develop partnerships. Through workshops and informal networking the

emphasis and importance during the PBA will be placed on each participant’s own experiences and

individual skills.

DATES AND VENUE!

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VENUE: Project will last 6 days and will take place in Yerevan, Armenia. Yerevan is the capital and largest city

of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Yerevan is the administrative,

cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since 1918, the thirteenth in the

history of Armenia.

The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni

in 782 BC by king Argishti. The city expanded rapidly during the 20th century as Armenia became

one of the fifteen republics in the Soviet Union. In fifty years, Yerevan was transformed from a town

of a few thousand residents within the Russian Empire, to Armenia's principal cultural, artistic, and

industrial center, as well as becoming the seat of national government.

As of 2011 estimates, the population of Yerevan was 1,121,900 people making up to 34% of the total

population of Armenia. Yerevan was named the 2012 World Book Capital by UNESCO.

DATES: ARRIVAL DAY - 14th of September

DEPARTURE DAY – 21st of September

We expect you to participate in the whole program! (It means coming later or leaving earlier is not allowed!) If you arrive 1 day earlier or leave later, please arrange your own accommodation for the extra time. Trips to other touristic venues of Armenia are NOT part of the program.

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FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND TRAVEL COSTS

The Training Course will be implemented in the framework of EU Youth in Action Programme, the

accommodation, food, visa fees and materials will be covered fully. Insurance is obligatory and

should be arranged and covered by each participant.

According to rules of Youth in Action programme, 70% of the travel expenses will be reimbursed to

all participants after submitting necessary travel documents during the activity.

Please remember to use the cheapest means of transportation and economic/2nd class conditions.

Consult the options of tickets with us before buying them.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO COLLECT:

Tickets (there must be price and name of the person stated on it).

Boarding passes (in case of loss –please get a confirmation from the airlines, that the flight

was taken)

Invoices – yes, even if you have a ticket, our accounting still needs an invoice.

Without above mentioned documentation, reimbursement will not be possible. On the spot

participants will be also introduced to a REQUEST FOR REIMBURSMENT form, which is an obligatory

form to receive travel reimbursement, where the bank account is indicated and confirming

signatures are given.

PARTICIPATION FEE:

Participation fee for this PBA is 30 euro. Participation fee will cover an organized trip to Yerevan and

closest touristic venues.

INSURANCE:

Travel Insurance should be arranged individually. Insurance has to be covered by each participant on

his/her own expenses.

VISA: EU citizens as well as citizens of Georgia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine do not need visa to enter

Armenia. Citizens of Turkey can get the visa on the border and it costs about 6 euro for short stay

(21 days). The VISA costs for participants from Turkey will be reimbursed.

NOTICE! Participants from Turkey, who hold GREEN (DIPLOMATIC) passports, should contact us in

advance to make an Invitation Letter for them)!

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PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS, NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND TRAVEL LIMITS

Here you will find a list of partner organizations, number of participants from each partner

organization, travel routes and travel limits assigned to your organization.

In case you would like to use any other means of transportation, not mentioned next to your

organization, please consult us directly to e-mail: grigoryeritsyan@apy.am as all the changes have to

be consulted with EACEA. If not done, EACEA can refuse to reimburse the costs. Be aware that you

will be reimbursed ONLY 70% of travel costs!

In the grant we received a certain amount of money for this purpose, which we are not allowed to

exceed. These amounts are based on the costs our partner organizations told us when we wrote the

application. Amounts given are for your round trip tickets between your place of living and Yerevan.

COUNTRY ORGANIZATION NUMBER OF PAX

Maximum 100% travel costs in €

perperson

Maximum 70% travel costs in €

perperson

ARMENIA Armenian Progressive Youth 4 0 0

ARMENIA PINK Armenia 1 0 0

ARMENIA Society Without Violence 2 0 0

GEORGIA Anti-Violence Network Georgia 2 50 35

GEORGIA ICPI 1 50 35

BELARUS AlterEDU 3 400 280

MOLDOVA MilleniuM 1 450 315

MOLDOVA CREATORII 1 450 315

UKRAINE Foundation of Regional Initiatives 2 350 245

UKRAINE Institute of Ukrainian Studies 1 400 280

BULGARIA Bulgarian Gender Research Found. 1 450 315

BULGARIA IYAC Bulgaria 1 450 315

CZECH REP EYCB 2 350 245

HUNGARY MOSTART 1 450 315

ITALY Chieti Resiste 1 450 315

ITALY Vicolocorto 1 450 315

LATVIA Humana People to People in Latvia 1 450 315

LATVIA Baltic Regional Fund 1 450 315

LITHUANIA EurogemsLT 1 465 325

MALTA Genista Research Foundation 1 500 350

POLAND Centrum Inicjatyw UNESCO 1 450 315

PORTUGAL ALINHAS? 1 600 420

ROMANIA D.G.T 1 500 350

SLOVAKIA ESTRA 1 500 350

SLOVENIA POVOD 1 500 350

NORWAY Intermezzo Ungdom 2 425 297

ESTONIA Youth for Society 1 400 280

DENMARK Dansk Rumaensk Forening 2 390 275

UK Youth Pioneers 1 500 350

TURKEY Turkey Europe Foundation 2 300 210

NOTE! In case you send 2 participants – IT’S OBLIGATORY to insure gender equality (1 male + 1 female)!

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APPLYING – SELECTION – CONFIRMATION:

Deadline:

1st of August, 2013: Send your application form to the following address: grigoryeritsyan@apy.am

(Dear Partner organizations, please send us filled application forms of your selected participants

untill 1st of August). Afterwards, we will launch an open call for the counytries, from we we’ll be still

looking foor participants.

2nd of August: Selection letter and confirmation will be sent.

10th of August: Participants have to purchase their tickets till 10th of August.

Do not buy your tickets till you get the confirmation letter! If you are selected for the training you will receive a confirmation letter. If you have received this

letter you can start arranging your travel. After you received the confirmation letter you can arrange

your travel. Your registration is final when you arranged your travel and send us your arrival and

departure times for the training.

Take care that you arrive before the start and leave after the end of the program. Arrival or

departure after or before the program times of the training is not accepted. The training is a whole,

start and closing .

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANT:

+18

youth workers, NGO workers and youth leaders

able to communicate in English

interested in the topic

motivated to develop and design new projects

allowed to act on behalf of sending organization

TRAVEL DETAILS: The best and cheapest way to come to Armenia from is to take a flight to Yerevan (Armenia) or

Tbilisi (Georgia). We can help you with transportation from Tbilisi to Yerevan and can arrange a bus

if there are more than 10 participants arriving to Tbilisi. A bus costs about 15 euro one way.

IF YOU ARRIVE TO YEREVAN AIRPORT:

The participants landing in Yerevan will be picked up by the organizers.

IF YOU ARRIVE TO TBILISI AIRPORT:

We can arrange a bus for you from the airport to Yerevan. It depends how many people will travel to Tbilisi. Otherwise, there is also public transport to Yerevan.

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NOTICE! NO TICKET CAN BE BOUGHT BEFORE 1st OF APRIL!

!!! Note: Reimbursement will be done in EUR, regardless of the currency indicated on the ticket and

receipt/invoice. Any tickets purchased in a local currency other than EUR, will then be converted and

calculated according to the exchange rate of the month when the grant agreement for this project

will be signed by the EACEA, as stated in the official European Commission web-site at:

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?Language=en

!!!! Note: Please check travel budget limits above. If travel costs exceed the amount budgeted in the

project, the organizers will only be able to reimburse participants 70% of the maximum travel costs

indicated in the travel budget. Participants are therefore strongly advised to book trip travel well in

advance.

CONDITIONS OF REIMBURSEMENT: Please make sure that you read and understand the conditions

and the procedure.

- Only if you participate in the whole program can you get the reimbursement.

- Save your original tickets and receipts, invoices and all related documents, because you can

only get reimbursement for costs of which you can prove the amounts with original tickets

and receipts.

- Only the amount written on the ticket will be reimbursed – that is, if you want your return

ticket to be reimbursed, you have to give it to us. We cannot reimburse anything that you

buy after the training.

ALL the following ORIGINAL documents will be needed:

- All your tickets and boarding passes

- Invoices of buying your tickets described below

- Passport

What is an invoice?

This is a document, signed and stamped by the seller. The invoice of flight ticket must contain your

name, the starting and finishing place and the date of the journey and the price of the ticket.

Whatever official is your paper, if these data are not on it, you can not get it reimbursed!!! Use your

name from your passport, no nicknames!

E-tickets:

An e-ticket is NOT an invoice! If necessary, call the airline/train company/etc, explain them the

situation and ask them to give you a receipt/invoice with the data given above. If you buy tickets

online, take care that you tick the box indicating that you want an invoice, and you fill in the address

of Armenian Progressive Youth NGO where the invoice has to be sent by the airline company.

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PREPARATION:

We kindly ask all participants to bring some national drinks, snacks and music from their home

countries, as a contribution to the intercultural evening.

NGO FAIR:

NGO fair will be organised where other local NGO-s will have a chance ro meet their European

partners and develop partnerships. Please bring with you:

- Flyers, photos, brochures of your organizations,

- Movies, clips made by your organizations,

- Presentations, publications,

- Everything else, which can represent your organization.

LANGUAGE:

Langauge of the Partnership Building Activity will be ENGLISH.

FACEBOOK GROUP:

After you are confirmed as the participant please join our group on Facebook, where participants

can get to know each other and arrange their travel together:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/180971132073928/

WEATHER IN ARMENIA:

Armenia is usually referred to as a sunny country. Its climate ranges from dry subtropical to cold. The

mountain peaks are covered with eternal snow, while their slopes are lined by alpine meadows. The

best time to visit Armenia is spring or autumn. You are lucky :)

You can check the weather before coming - http://www.meteo.am

CURRENCY:

Armenian national currency is the Dram. There are banknotes of 1000, 5000, 20000, 50000 Dram. There are also coins of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 Dram. Foreign currency (USD, Euro, Canadian Dollar, Japanese Yen, Russian Ruble, etc.) can be exchanged in banks and currency exchange offices throughout the country. The approximate exchange rate is: 1 USD - 407 AMD 1 EUR - 530 AMD 1 RUB - 12.77 AMD 1 GBP - 639 AMD

You can always check the exchange rate at: www.cba.am

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HOSTING ORGANIZATION: Armenian Progressive Youth (APY) is a non-

governmental youth organization based in Yerevan,

Armenia. Organization was founded in 2009 by a group

of enthusiastic young people in order to support young

people, involve them in different civic processes and

work. Today APY unites many local and international

volunteers, organizers youth exchanges, workshops,

training courses and campaigns. It promotes environmental protection, intercultural learning, youth

activism, healthy lifestyle, peace and volunteerism.

Website: www.apy.am

‘This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission

cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information

contained therein.’