19/08/2025
As part of our Erasmus+ Youth Exchange โThink Globally, Act Locallyโ, each national team is committed to organizing local dissemination activities in their home countries. These activities aim to share the knowledge, skills, and methods gained during the exchange, while bringing a positive impact to local communities. ๐คธ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
Here is the follow-up report from the Georgian team, who implemented their activity within the Samegrelo Scout Organization:
"One week ago, we returned from the Erasmus+ youth exchange โThink Globally, Act Locallyโ in Hรธydal, Norway. As the Programs Leader of the Samegrelo Scout Organization, this experience was especially valuable for us, as it gave me practical tools and ideas that our Georgian team could immediately bring back to our community.
During the project, we learned a variety of icebreaker games, energizers, and interactive activities. Many of these we memorized and started using straight away in our scout camps in Georgia, making the activities more engaging, inclusive, and fun for the participants.
While in Norway, our Georgian group developed an environmental workshop idea, focusing on giving a โsecond lifeโ to different materials. We brought this idea home and implemented it during our scout camp in Anaklia, which gathered 40 participants aged 11โ17 and 10 scout leaders. Together with the children, we built separate waste bins for paper, plastic bottles, and metal. Throughout the camp, participants actively sorted their waste, making recycling a natural part of their daily routine.
In addition to the workshops and activities created by our Georgian team, we also implemented games and workshops originally organized by other country groups during the exchange. This enriched our camp program, introduced new perspectives, and kept the participants highly engaged.
We also conducted a training session for the camp participants, where we introduced Erasmus+ opportunities and discussed environmental protection, ecology, and recycling. These activities combined our own ideas with the diverse methods we learned from fellow participants in Norway.
The practices we learned abroad proved to be highly relevant and useful for our organization. This was not just a one-day activity โ the knowledge, games, and environmental methods gained will continue to shape our camps and programs in the future. I am deeply grateful for this opportunity, which has strengthened our skills as a team, broadened our perspectives, and helped us bring tangible change to our community".
Huge thanks to our Georgian partner, Green and Inclusive Future Association - GIFA, for partnership and amazing cooperation! ๐ซถ๐ป
