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Participants develop different short on experience that will be captured in a film about volunteerism and global education that will be presented in 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival

Councilman of Education of the City of Lorca, Augustine Flames, has announced a new share exchange with the participation 5 young Lorca traveling between 22 and 28 February in New Delhi, India.

The mayor said that "in addition to what Lorca, in this exchange involved 35 young people aged between 18 and 30 years from European countries like Lithuania, Greece and Portugal in addition to Spain, and Asian youth from Vietnam, the Philippines, China and India. This initiative was coordinated by the International Mobility Office City of Lorca. "

The mayor said that "this youth exchange is the second phase of a larger project Intercultural Cazalla, through the Office of Mobility International Youth Council, is developing since early this year and further comprising a training course Global Education to be held in Lorca during the month of September for young people of these countries, and local conferences on global education in the eight partner countries ".

The project, called "ESIA - Volunteer for Global Understanding and Education", is funded by the European Commission under the European Youth in Action Programme.

Among the objectives of the exchange are to build a space to share experiences and the opportunity to acquire new knowledge of film and media.

"Young people will participate," announced Flames, "in workshops taught by professionals from the film, who will help them develop their own history and represent it through a short. Simultaneously address issues of intercultural learning and global education. The aim is to become a transformative learning tools you need to bring all youth understand in depth the features of each culture, and promote the transformation of individualism towards a partnership based on dialogue and mutual cooperation. "

Councilman Youth stated that "the result of the exchange in India will be eight 15-minute short that together form a single film on volunteering and global education. Prestigious Under the guidance of Bolywood director Abhijeet Kumar, this film will be presented in 2014 at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as well as other important film festivals in Europe and around the world. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca