The overall aim of the project is to train youth workers, youth leaders on being able to multiply human rights in the youth field emphasis on cultural diversity with active participation of young people using non formal methodology and cross community cooperation. To raise awareness and develop attitudes in connection with cultural diversity, to develop understanding and skills towards using non formal methods within human rights education in local, regional and international level. To focus on mainly respecting cultural diversity and cross community cooperation in all over Europe and even more widen area. Cultural diversities are within lifestyles, traditions, histories, gender, education, minorities as traditional, sexual and new minorities, refugees, migrants, etc. of young people. To build a human rights multiply network among EU countries with youth leaders and youth workers who establish and implement human rights youth projects emphasis on cultural diversity in local and regional level and to cooperate together in international level.
Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To enable youth workers and young people for recognising prejudgements, prejudices among nationalities inside and outside different countries;
- To identify and define different and similar aspects of different cultures and stereotypes related with them;
- To identify and define the roots and origins of prejudices;
- To develop critical way of thinking;
- To accept and tolerant cultural diversity;
- To make youth workers capable for motivating young people being active participants in a process of acceptance and respectful cultural diversity;
- To prepare, run and evaluate local, regional and international youth projects by young people for accept and tolerance cultural diversity inside and outside different countries;
- To build cooperation among youth workers among EU countries.
Duration: 8 full working days.
Learning objectives of the evaluation seminar are:
- During implementation of projects and activities some problems and conflicts might come up within youth groups. Getting to know conflict resolutions and other solutions in order to handle them with positive pedagogical approaches;
- To improve knowledge on understanding of cultural diversity concept and develop new ideas in order to put the concept into practice;
- To raise awareness on prejudices, stereotypes, xenophobia, racism as special aspects of cultural diversity and to share experiences in order to fight against radicalisation of young people through youth work activities locally and European level;
- To develop competencies of multipliers of cultural diversity;
- To strengthen the cooperation of multipliers of cultural diversity;
- To build a strong multipliers network among EU countries.
Duration: 6 full working days.
The methodology of the project:
The course will be based on the principles and practise of non formal education taking account participants needs, motivations and previous experiences as starting point of the programme.
- Active methods for group dynamics
- Work in mixed groups
- Learner – centred and based on the experiences of participants
- Based on a personal responsibility for learning, supported by a strong group dimension and a collective approach;
- Enabling participants to apply and transfer what they learnt to their youth work practise
- Taking into account the needs and motivations of participants and be open to regular feedback and evaluation
- learning in/from community
- mutual learning
- meta-level – adaptation of topics, facts - global reality (awareness)
- using diversity of peer groups for the learning
- open, space environment – learning at ease
The training course and evaluation seminar are based on T-Kit Intercultural learning by European Commission, and COMPASS, the human rights manual of Council of Europe.
