ERASMUS+, Key action 1: youth exchange
Dates: 2—12 June 2025
Venue: Wernsdorf, Germany
Czech team: 5 participants + 1 group leader
Please read the info-pack.
Hosting organisation: LernLabor Berlin
Project report:
2.6.2025 was the day our Czech group’s journey began in Wernsdorf, on the outskirts of Germany’s vibrant capital, Berlin. After our arrival, we were pleased to discover all the amenities our accommodation at the local community centre had to offer. These included a beautiful green garden with seating areas, two meadows with the option to camp on one of them (brave Phuong, Eliška, and Alex took advantage of this), a campfire with benches around it, a theatre stage, a billiard room, and a community room. In the following days, we also discovered a dense forest perfect for walks and a nearby lake.
We quickly got to know each other and formed a great team. We also met and befriended many wonderful, kind, funny, and most importantly, creative international participants from countries such as Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary, and Germany.
The program focused on unlocking creativity, creative expression, and using creativity as a tool for personal development and social change. It was incredible. We gave new life and meaning to pictures from old newspapers through personal collages and used the articles for blackout poetry (a technique in which you create a poem by selecting only certain words and blacking out the rest). We also developed our writing skills by crafting stories based on childhood memories and later adding a fantasy twist. Other workshops involved acting in different genres or creating music using only our bodies. Some sessions helped us improve existing skills, while others introduced us to completely new ones, but one thing is certain: everyone had a great time.
We are incredibly grateful to the organisers, Hanga and Nita, who prepared the program, facilitated the activities, and were always available to help whenever we needed it. Some participants, like Martin and Sorka, even prepared their own workshops for us. Many thanks to them also.
The meals during the project were vegetarian, which was a bit unusual for some of us, but they were all delicious, so no one had any complaints. Each day, a small group of around five people cooked for everyone. All of us had a chance to cook at least once during our stay. We also had a cleaning team and a community team, who organized small games and took photos.
At the end, we split into several groups and created art pieces that were meant to present various social or personal issues. Some people made collages, others acted, and some sang. A wide range of topics was presented from self-development to sexual violence.
To sum it up, it was a fantastic project that gave us so much and taught us even more. We made many new friends and connections that we will cherish for a long time.
Adam B.
