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The main objective is to let our Erasmus students discover the city in a different way, getting to know Lecce as a local rather than just a visitor or a random tourist.
They got to know the city, while doing fun activities and spending time with other international erasmus and getting to know each other. At the same time, they discovered Lecce from a different point of view, while learning essential information for their stay in the city. We believe this also has more impact than just the typical city tour and allow our volunteers to create a stronger bond with our international students.
As part of our Welcome Days, which are organized at the beginning of each semester to accompany international students in their first weeks in the city with several activities taking place in order to guide, support, and integrate students into the university and the culture of the host country; we organized this activity around the city of Lecce that aims to introduce the culture and places of interest to our newly arrived international students through competition of the "treasure hunt" style.
This activity's main goal was: winning the specific challenges that were linked to each one of the tasks that allow the participants to advance in the game and go to the next geographical location. Additionally, the groups are given a clue at each one of the task points about the treasure's final location.
The activity takes place in different emblematic points of the historical center of Lecce.
The groups had a maximum of 4 people, to adapt to the COVID-19 restrictions established by our national government, and wearing a face mask was compulsory throughout the whole activity.
