Dear applicants,

in less than a month you will participate in the training “The map of European Citizenship” in Ukraine. Before you are coming over we would like to inform you about a few things. Be careful that the total amounts of your travel tickets (train/plane/bus) are not more than 500 euro. If you spend more than 500 euro than this will be on your own account. To ensure that your travel cost fit in the budget we strongly advice you to fly to Kiev (airport Boryspil). From there you can take the night train to Slavyansk, what is the nearest train stop to the location.

How to get there …...

From the airport, there are 2 buses per hour that brings you to the train station in Kiev. If you arrive earlier in the train station, there are some places where you can leave your luggage and you can go to the city centre of the Ukrainian capital.

If you feel insecure and uncomfortable and not able to find your way to the train station, than you can call one of our participants: Anna Zubenko. Anna is from Kiev and is willing to meet you at the airport. Her phone: 00380979291207 and e-mail: go2anna@gmail.com. Anna will also help you to buy your train tickets.

All participants should be at the HALL OF THE MAIN STATION OF KIEV at 17:40h on Thursday, May 14th.

KIEV to SLAVYANSK: The train departure from Kiev to Slavyansk at 18:24h. You will be sleeping in a comfortable coupe of 4 persons. After arriving in Slavyansk, a bus will take you to the hotel. After arriving in the hotel you can refresh yourself, meet your new roommate, have a (beauty) sleep and maybe discover the beautiful surrounding

SLAVYANSK TO KIEV: After the training, on Wednesday the 20th of May, you will leave Slavyansk by train at 20:50h and you arrive at Kiev Station at 8:06am on the 21st of May.

So please book your flight: arriving 14 May – departure 21 May.

For those that travel with a visa. Please make sure that you have the invitation letter from EURC “Social Partnership” with you. Maybe you need to show this at the border. Unfortunately we cannot refund your insurance and visa costs back since the Council of Europe doesn’t finance these cost.

The location:

We will stay in a location far away from Donetsk. Too far for a city tour, but we have plan other nice free time activities in the surrounding. For the digital junkies, there is Internet connection.

The hotel is called Zeleni

http://www.zeleniy-gay.dn.ua/contact.html


You can take a look at the website!
Even if it’s in Ukrainian language…

General information of what is good to know before departure:

We send you the complete list of applicants. Please check your information and something is not correct than inform us about it.
You will share a room with an other persons.


Earplugs will be good options to bring along >>>>>>>>>>>

No need to bring a sleeping bag or towels with you. Although the hostel provide bed linen, blankets and towels, we advice you to bring an extra towel with you.

Bring 2 copies of your passport (main page including photo and passport details)
Food and drinks: the hotel served 3 meals a day as well the daily coffee/tea break. These are free of charge. Other drinks are for your own account.

We have plan a cultural evening and we want to ask you to bring some typical (folklorist, drinks, food, shinny, kitschy stuff) gifts from your country to the training. To make the other (in) formal evenings attractive we challenge you to bring folk and country music with you.

Presentation of your organization:

In the attachment you find the day-by-day program and as you can see, we only have a short time to realize a lot things. Therefore we suggest that we work efficiently without losing precious time.

In the real world we often have only 5 minutes to explain our work to policy makers, to youngsters and others. Sometimes it’s difficult to explain quickly the objectives of your work, or to give in short terms a description of your target group or to explain in short terms what is so unique in your work and what the priorities are.

To practice this kind of situation we want to challenge you to
prepare at home a 5 minutes presentation of your organization. So leave the power points, the promo videos and other materials at home.

The topics you should speak about are:
- your organization, with a special focus on the involvement in the programYouth in Action in combination with youth work, ideas for cooperation, starting new project, seeking for partners, network;
- your personal background to work with the program Youth
in Action in combination youth work.

Keep it interesting and interactive!!!!.

Refunding the 70% travel cost:

In order to refund you in a proper way, we kindly ask you to copy your ticket and bring the invoice of the payment with you. During the training we will reimbursement on the spot once you have provide us with:
a) invoice from travel agency's
(or printed invoice in case of e-ticket)
b) your boarding passes
c) your tickets

For those who have booked by Internet - we also need a payment receipt (in a lot of cases a copy of your bank note). If you cannot hand over this information, then we cannot refund you. The Council of Europe demands them from us and if it’s not completed than we do not get our money back. No exception can be made.

We kindly ask you to send already the price of your tickets. In this way we can make already the calculation of your cost and during the training we can smoothly refund you

Partners:

The key partners in the delivery of the training will be U-GO, Richter and EURC “Social Partnership”. They will provide experienced trainers and staff of EURC “Social Partnership” will be responsible for accommodation, food, study visits and arranging local transport.

In case that you need as you can call:

Elena - 00380506545621

Peter - 0031615302319



See you all soon in Ukraine.