Invitation to an Armenian Cultural Project From Stepanavan Youth Center

Via Email

Dear Armenians,

Our organization, Stepanavan Youth Center (SYC) in Stepanavan, Armenia is looking for partners for our cultural project.

Only Armenian organizations and groups from European countries can join us, as we are going to apply to European Commission for financial support of the project.

The name of the project is "European Citizenship and Common Heritage" and will bring young Armenians from 6 European countries (3 EU countries and 3 Eastern European/Caucasus countries) to Armenia for 8 days next spring (2007).

Each partner organization will be represented by 6 young people (17-25 years old) and one leader.

70% of travel expenses will be reimbursed and 100% expenses related to stay and visa will be covered.

The languages of the exchange will be Armenian and English.

Type of the project- youth exchangeTopics- Armenian heritage, culture, history Youth participation

The project will incude workshops, discussions, study visits, excursions, cultural events, project design and implementation. Of course, we do not forget about national cuisine, dances and songs!
We are looking for 2 more EU countries and 1 Eastern European country to join. We will send necessary documents to fill in to organizations/groups interested.

Please feel free to forward this message to any person of group who you think will be interested to join us!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Lilit Simonyan
Stepanavan Youth Center NGO/Armenia

For More info. Contact lilit_simonyan@yahoo.com