CULTURE CRASH 5.6-7.6.2013!

5.6-7.6 är det dags för Culture Crash i Raseborg.
Evenemanget riktar sig till ungdomar i 13 års ålder uppåt och är i workshopsformat.
Det går ut på att ungdomarna väljer en workshop som de jobbar intensivt med i 3 dagars tid som dras av  professionella handledare som har anknytning till Raseborg.
Deltagaravgiften för detta evenemang kommer att vara 30 euro/pers. Där ingår Lunch alla tre dagar, busstransport från Karis-Ekenäs och tillbaka alla evenemangs dagar och eventuellt en t-skjorta med evenemangets logo på. Under Fredag kvällen kommer vi att avsluta hela evenemanget med en Fest där deltagarna får visa upp vad de lärt sig och umgås tillsammans.
Projektgruppen består av Ian Granström från Anl. Noving, Elin Sundell från team React och vi samarbetar även med olika ungdomsorganisationer och kulturarbetare från Raseborg.

Vår samarbetsgrupp består av Anna Packalén, Otto Metsämäki,
Melinda Lönnberg, Sara Avdi och Andreas Kåll.
Vi samarbetar även med Raseborgs ungdomsfullmäktige och kulturbyrån i Raseborg.

Vi erbjuder olika workshops för deltagarna
Bland annat:

Capoeira
Beatbox
Konst
Hantverk
Bänd/Sång 
Parkour
Dj
Foto
Poetry slam

 Vi ordnar detta evenemang för att erbjuda ungdomar i Raseborg ett tillfälle att testa på olika aktiviteter som inte är så kända bland de unga i kommunen just nu. Även att synliggöra den kunskap och de kompetenser som våra workshop dragare har.Vi har även en vision av att ordna detta projekt som ett kontinuerligt evenemang i kommunen. Vi tycker att det är viktigt att satsa på verksamhet för ungdomarna i vår kommun.

Vi håller som bäst på att pussla ihop ett program som lockar så många ungdomar som möjligt och har även fullt upp med marknadsföringen och kontaktar eventuella sponsorer för detta projekt.

Kontakta oss gärna ifall ni har eventuella frågor eller ideér.
Vi tar emot alla idéer och hjälp vi får.

<3,
Sofia Haglund
Projektledare 

WAR Novia, Roparnäs

Hello guys,

The title WAR, is not a war between the campuses in Novia, no. It is for Week Against Racism. 

A little about the week itself. Ofcourse as the name says, it's against racism and this week is mostly noticed by Red Cross. So our team wanted to make projects during this week, to make a point about it - about what racism and what discrimination is and also make it a yearly event. There are many in our team that are going to do projects around the subject this week, but you can read about that week 12, when the week falls on :)

I wanted to cooperate with the campus in Roparnäs. I know that they are speaking English there, since the Nursing students are a multicultural group, with students from Africa, Asia and actually not that many from Finland.

Brainstorming to the project

The project group- Minerva, Julia, Veronika and Martin and me, had a brainstorming about it and decided that the project's content will be communication, human rights and project work and teambuilding :)


They are having a course in Project work and teambuilding in their studies, so what could be better than us teaching them, since it's our daily studies. They are doing their project to the International Nurses day, in May and we are going to work as their coaches.

We will go there week 13, Monday and Tuesday. And as a jackpot, we're also going to Korsholms gymnasium at Wednesday and have a workshop with them about communication and human rights :) 

I am happy for this project and I am lucky to have this project group with me, and I am greatful to be a part of Noving.

Have a nice week
julle

MEU mingel!

Hejssan!

(Kort uppdatering på svenska:)

Ronja Roms presenterar sitt arbete som ungdomssekreterare i Pargas kommun

I dag har Noving minglat! MEU r.f., vår ämnesförening, ordnade nämligen ett tillfälle för alla team och  alumner att presentera sig själv och lära känna varandra - ett s.k. Meumingel. Konceptet är helt nytt och ordnades för första gången denna förmiddag. Resultatet var lyckat och för mig var det verkligen givande och inspirerande att höra om vilken mångfald av möjligheter som väntar oss ute i arbetslivet!  Ungdomssekreterare i Pargas, pedagogisk handledare i Folkhälsans eftisverksamhet, projektarbetare i diverse olika projekt och en som arbetar på barnhem - våra alumner har alla valt sin egen väg och är praktexempel på hur bred arbetsbild en samhällspedagog har. I slutändan handlar det bara om att målmedvetet plöja sig fram och varje dag bevisa för arbetsmarknaden att det är just en samhällspedagog de behöver, med alla de kompetenser som gör just oss unika. 

Julle och Ninnu presenterar Noving! <3

Noving önskar er alla ett skönt veckoslut! Ta det lugnt, samla krafter och var beredda på att få höra om en fartfylld kommande vecka i Pargas!


xoxo

Ada

What brought us this week

Hello everyone,

My name is Veronika and I´m from Czech Republic. I am an exchange student in Novia, University of Applied Sciences. .

I study Social education and Leisure at Masaryk University in Brno. So the content of the study is very similar study of Noving team.

Why I decided to come to Finland?

At first it was a rash decision. I never liked winter, snow and frost. But I wanted to try something new and Finland for me was something absolutely unknown. So I said to myself, why not exactly Finland? And now, I am here :)

Of course, I did not expect that I would love to be here so much. But it happened. And I'm really grateful for this opportunity to be here. With a clear conscience I can say that this study program is one of my most beautiful moments in my life.

Speaking about the study. 

This week I was honored to be a Week Manger.

So now it is my duty as well as reward briefly inform you about the events of this week.

On Monday we started a new topic Integration, Refugees and Immigration. 

During the training, we had a very interesting and productive discussion.

On Tuesday we continued...... Ida from the Spark team has prepared for us really interesting workshop on the topic refugees and immigrants. 

Thursday morning we started with a visitor from the Åbo Akademi.

Steve has prepared for us workshop on the topic refugee law and International humanitarian law.

On this link you can look into the issue, which we have been involved with.

International refugee law - http://www.geneva-academy.ch/RULAC/international_refugee_law.php

International humanitarian law - http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/what_is_ihl.pdf

During the whole week we had a lot of meetings for our projects and did a lot of work. Thus, we are on a very good way to realize these projects and I am very proud of our team.

I think this week can be considered very successful and beneficial for all of us.

So...... have a nice weekend :)

Sincerely and with smile, 

your Veronika 

International project in Inkoo

I'm giving you a short description about the project that's going to take place between 6-8.9.2013.

Nordic countries including Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark have so called twin towns with Inkoo and every year this event takes place in a different country.

What is the event then?

 Each twin town gets to design an over-weekend event where youngsters between 13-18 years old can participate in all the different activities the twin town has to offer.

What's my job in all this?

I was selected project leader for the whole project by the group of people representing Inkoo town. We are totally a group of five people that work on this project, all the others come from Inkoo town and I as a student from Novia.

 Inkoo harbour

At the moment we have four different packages from where the youngsters can select which event they most wan't to participate in. The packages are; shooting (paintball, air rifle) excercise (all kinds), adrenaline (containing rally etc) and a field day (fishing, survival type of thing). 

We have a meeting again tomorrow and hopefully we have confirmed more volunteers to help out during the weekend.

Over and out,

Max

A new world- a better world?

The opprtunity of a lifetime: pick whatever- and whoever you want to take with you, and create a continent of your own. You dont have to pay any attention of the old laws and rules.

In the new society I created, everyone's equal, no matter where you're from, what your ethnic background is. Water and air is clean. School is optional and learning happens by creating and innovating. Theres no money as a payment; instead we exchange food, clothes, books and other items. We grow our own food and can marry (IF it even excists a instituion of marriage) who ever we want. Only ones actions towards others have a meaning in defining wether you are a good person or not.      

Well, as you may allready have quessed, this is a hypotethical scene. Actually, it is a method out of a workshop that had refuge and human rights as a subject.
The idea behind it is to better understand, what goes on in peoples minds when they have to leave their homes and homecountries.
It is, in fact, something that we western people have a hard time imgeining at all. And on the other hand, that's just what we should be able to do in order to help others in need.
During this method excercise, we had the opportunity to choose the ten most important things we want to take with us. And that we did: we chose Coke and Hamburgers instead of democracy, warm clothes instead socialworkers. In a real situation, those we chose are not even options.

We are so used to comfortability, stability, peace and equality that I'm afraid we've lost a big part of  our empathy scills. How can we see the violations of human rights if all we have here is opporunities?

We, in the western countries are NOT responsible of other peoples crimes and violations, but we ARE responsible to take care of eachother. In fact i think that the right to solidarity and being helped when your in need, should be added to the UN convention human rights.

We talk a lot of marginalisation here in Finland allso. By opening our eyes first here in our own country, we could allso create a new kind of inner caring ability and willingnes.
Then maybe, just maybe, we did'nt have to create a whole new continent, but instead make this world a better one for all of us with small steps. Starting from You.

So why wait until tomorrow? Open your eyes today, and see that the grass seems no greener on the other side if you take care of your own.

With solidarity and optimism, Ninnu

Hello!

Much has happened since the semester started and Noving's been quite busy - we apologise for the long silence!

We kicked off the new year with a lot of zeal and immediately got down to business with a number of different projects. The Week against Racism (week 12) will be one of the highlights of this semester for us, and we've planned a lot of interesting activities that we'll reveal soon enough! Despite the fact that we've got a lot of stuff going on, we did have time to participate in the annual Clientweek (week 5), and even though we didn't win, we were all pretty proud over our accomplishment for the week. We contacted over 20 different clients, which was really stepping out of our comfort zone for us! So, the Clientweek was a success and sort of a milestone for us, because of the commitment of the team and the results it brought us.

Yesterday was also an interesting day for Noving. At 7 AM we climbed aboard a buss and started our journey towards Nakkila, where a mixed group of Teampreneurs from all over the world gathered to take part of the second-ever Friendleadership day, arranged by Tiimiakatemia Learning Network and Partus. There were participants from Novia, Proakatemia, and Tiimiakatemia Mondragon (Spain), as well as many exchange students. We worked the whole day in mixed, multiprofessional groups, first reflecting on the meaning of Friendleadership, and in the afternoon, taking part of a small birthgiving that resulted in a wide range of different kinds of presentations. It was fantastic to work with people from so many different cultures, and the biggest surprise for me was how alike our thoughts were. My group was on the same page from the beginning, and the discussions were easy and flowing. The task itself was perhaps a bit too easy, and it would've been nice to have more time to discuss the problems and possibilities all of us have encountered in this way of studying, but overall, the concept was fantastic. 

And oh - if you're wondering why the blog is suddenly in English, we have the honor of housing two exchange students from the Czech Republic in our team! So, Noving is speaking English the whole semester. Gotta love challenges.
I wish you all a terrific weekend, and we promise you'll hear from us soon again!
Hugs and kisses,
Ada.