The Basque Government Youth Directorate, organized by the Basque Government's Youth Program, will offer 170 places, divided into three territories. In the year 201, there will be 8 schools, all of them in 15-day shifts, except for the Lekeitio district, which will have 2 shifts. Three of them were from the international area and 5 from the state. The registration period is open from April 16 to 24, and a form must be completed online at www.gazteaukera.euskadi.eus.

 

"Through this program, approximately 170 young people from the age of 18 to 26 in the Basque Country will be able to participate in the Basque Country, other autonomous regions and foreign centers," said Agurtzane Llano, Basque Government Director of Youth. In exchange for places, 100 young people from other communities and 50 young people from other countries are expected to participate in Basque country schools. Next summer, those participating in the Basque Country's farms will take part in various activities; These include: recovering a wetland at Agurain, conducting an archeological excavation at Maeztun, adapting the Villamordones area to Gaubean, enabling a path at the Support Center, energizing elderly people in Bergara and Lekeitio residences, restoring trenches and memory in Lemona, and helping Zamudia with nutritional deficiencies.

 

Agurain, Gaubea and Lemoa neighborhoods will be international in scope, with foreigners; their reference language will be English. In the rest of the districts, young people from different autonomous communities will participate, and the reference languages ​​will be Basque and Spanish.

In addition, as every year, squares will be offered for the rest of the autonomous communities and for the residential districts abroad. Overseas countries: Germany, Armenia, Estonia, France, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Nepal, the Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan and Turkey.

 

Through foster care, certain values ​​are promoted, including coexistence, tolerance, solidarity, participation, cross-cultural learning, etc., ”Llano said.

 

Young people from the boarding schools gather in many places, without receiving anything of their own free will and pay, in order to live together and participate in a project related to the whole society.

 

 

- Rules: A place for everyone to get involved, collaborate and make friends. To do this, however, some rules will have to be respected.

- Surroundings: How to get to know the surroundings of the courtyard and how to join it (through various activities, walks and excursions).

- Experience: Stop doing the same things daily and pave the way for new experiences.

- Work: Active and inter-active participation, working for the community in which the neighborhood is built.

- Animation: Do creative and collaborative activities, ignoring conventional entertainment.

- Values: Take on the experience of living in a group. Each one is able to get out of his or her individuality and take on the values ​​of team life. The incorporation of the values ​​of society (tolerance, solidarity, ...).

- Attitude: A group of participants who plan to live in a group, work in a group and have fun in the group, each adapting to the group.

- Nature: Leaving the usual routes, getting to know the rural surroundings.

- Meeting point: Meeting place for people from different countries to exchange their cultures and customs.

- Attitude: Everything, a place for everyone.

 

These are the aims of the Barrister's program: Firstly, to bring together and get to know young people from different social backgrounds through a unified voluntary experience that helps them overcome their prejudices.

 

And secondly, to contribute to a work that will benefit the community in terms of its projection in society, in the field of environment, solidarity and cooperation, as well as in other areas.

 

The Youth Directorate organizes neighborhoods in the Basque Autonomous Community, but also includes young people in the rest of the Autonomous Communities and young people abroad. It also offers young people in the Basque Autonomous Community a place to take part in other autonomous regions and foreign districts.

 

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