One year ago, young people from Brazil, Hungary and the UK gathered together in Rio for a youth exchange as part of the Olympic Games 2016 and our project Olympic Legacy. To celebrate the 1st anniversary of this project we produced a video with all the highlights of this incredible week in Rio. Here’s the video LIKE it, SHARE it!
Youth Exchange
Day 4 – Budapest City Quest
“On the fourth day of the Evaluation Seminar in Hungary, we travelled into the City of Budapest to complete a ‘Budapest City Quest’. When we arrived in the City centre, each nationality were handed a booklet, in which had several pages of instructions of activities we had to complete in order to receive information about something which would earn us points. …
Day 1 – Evaluation Seminar arrivals
“On our day of arrival, we arrived at the camp late, but were still met with energy and happiness. When I got out of the car, I saw all my old friends from last year’s Youth Exchange in Rio. There were lots of joyful faces and hugging. Rather than feeling we had been gone for almost one whole year, it …
D-1 Evaluation Seminar – The Brazilians participants have arrived!
Our Olympic Legacy’s #Evaluation Seminar starts tomorrow. The participants from @acerbrasil have arrived! @EUErasmusPlus https://t.co/Eqrq3qyN9b pic.twitter.com/nf0zM6Gay7 — EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) July 23, 2017
D-6: Olympic Legacy Evaluation Seminar – July 24-28 Budapest, Hungary
As the closing event of the Olympic Legacy project, over 20 young people and youth workers will come together in Hungary. The event is realized on the margins of two major sport events taking place in the last weeks of July. The European Youth Olympic Festival 2017 hosted by Győr, between 23 and 30 July is the most important youth …
Journey back home – Last Day
That’s it. It’s the end of our #olympiclegacy2016 Youth Exchange! A BIG thank you to Fundação Gol de Letra for this amazing week! Participants took an early coach to Sao Paulo, while participants from Rio said goodbye to the other. Last goodbye in Sao Paulo to the participants from this big city, before the participants from Hungary and the UK …
Celebration day at the Olympic Park – Seventh Day
On the last day of the Youth Exchange, the young participants went to the Olympic park were they had the chance to see some waterpolo matches and look around. This was such a great way to celebrate this busy week. At their return, we organised a evaluation meeting, where each participants had the chance to hold the Olympic torch given …
Creating new olympic sports – Sixth Day
Today, the young participants had to create their own olympic games. They had to spend some times in group to find and test some new inovative ideas. They seemed very motivated to find something original. They then spent some time to learn each other new sport and test it. This was such a great way to learn the Olympic Games …
Visit of the Olympic Boulevard – fifth day
8:00 – 15 participants left Gold de Letra to watch the Judo 10:00 – The other participants visited the Museum of Art of Rio (MAR) 13:00 – Free time at the Olympic Boulevard 16:00 – Joined by the 15 participants who went to the judo we then went on a tour around the Olympic Boulevard. 20:00 – Gol de Letra …
Interview for BBC York radio
During the project two of our UK participants Joe and Wanipa recorded an interview for BBC York radio.