Youth OpenStreetMap Community is a coordinator organization and cooperate with partners which are, Bulgarian Youth Assosiation, Gençlik Mevsimi Derneği, Poraka Negotino and Forum für interkulturellen Dialog e.V – have played an active role in planning, developing, and scheduling the activities for this youth exchange. The project 'ICT Tools for Social Inclusion' will begin at 01.05.2017 end at 28.02.2018. The duration of the youth exchange is 7 days plus 1 day for travel (14 – 21 October 2017).The venue of the youth exchange will be in Rimini, Italy.
There will be 27 participants from Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and Italy.
The overall aim of the project is to contribute social inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility and raise awareness of accessibility for people who have disability at the national and international level.
The specific non-formal educational objectives of this youth exchange include to create an accessible Bologna Map which shows accessible locations such as hospitals, schools, public transport, sport centers and restaurants using open sourced software, to increase the social accessibility and mobility of the citizens with disabilities, to encourage young people to volunteer for people who have disabilities and to increase awareness of disability rights between youth and local communities. During project, participants will have workshop with non formal education methods about accessibility of people who have disability. The methods will be team building, group dynamics, debates, outdoor activities, visits, role plays, challenges and fair etc.
The main activities are creating accessible map, Feel an empathy with disabled people: All of Us are Disabled, Visiting Rehabilitation Center for Person with Disabilities, Coffee Talks " disabled role model and making ramps workshop. Created accessible map will be published on internet with user also prepared report will be sent to related are of government and municipality.
The project aims to advance participants’ awareness of disability rights, understanding of being a volunteer, information about software technologies and ICT and basic information about mapping and understanding of mapping as solution tool for social responsibility projects. The youth exchange will be to contribute to the local community in Rimini by promoting the Rimini accessible map in overall the Italy. Once the participants complete the youth exchange and return to their local communities, they are likely to promote this volunteering project to create accessible map of Bologna. This map may contribute to increase inclusion and employability of people who have disability. Since the youth exchange will equip participants with practical tools and to create similar maps in their communities, so they will be able to disseminate the desired impact of the project among their local communities.
