04.06.2022. The first day of the project

 Hello everybody! 04.06.2022. was the first day of the project "Startup4Youth". 

Latvian team was the first who arrived at the guest house early in the morning in order to prepare the place for the project activities and later to welcome a team from Poland and a team from Lithuania. 

The first day of the project was on-arrival day of all the participants. This day was devoted to getting to know each other, ice-breaking and team building activities and also in order to get energized for following days of the project! During the day the participants did different kind of energizers, name games, ice-breaking activities based on the methods of non-formal education. Moreover, got to know the territory of the project place, set up the rules and spoke about key competences, which are the part of the Youthpass.

At the end of the day the reflection and evaluation of the first day was organized (the method of 5 fingers). 

Finally, the participants organized ''Friends evening'' there all the participants learned different kind of dances (Belgium dance, Latvian dance and others). It was a great part of the day thanks to all participants of the project!

Activities:

• Energizer ''Tra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ra, Start-up-4-Youth!''
• "What's your name?", "Kā tevi sauc?" (in 4 languages: in English, in Latvian, in Polish, in Lithuanian)
• Energizer "Juice"
• "Eartquake"
• "Dragon, samuray, princess"
• ''4 seasons''
• Name game - ABC on a rope

The project is very creative. It has its own currency - Startupiki. The idea is that each participant being active and showing initiative can earn Startupik. At the end of the project he/she can use earned money.