“According to archaeologists, almost all the people on the Earth are migrants, as humanity originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and then spread all over the world – to Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. … Nowadays there are about 200 million migrants in the world, and the problems and opportunities related to migration are fiercely debated by politicians and ordinary people all over the globe. … We could name the 21st century ‘the age of migrants’.” Boris Altner, journalist
The overall aim of the training course is to equip youth workers, youth leaders with the appropriate competences for implementing high quality workshops in local youth work activities and international youth exchange projects within the frame of human rights education in order to prevent radicalisation of young people. Participants will be aware of the topic of migration and practice activities for protection of human rights of young people, and foster the critical way of thinking. To enable them multiply human rights in their settings and local environments by using COMPASS Manual of Council of Europe.
Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To provide information about the COMPASS Human Rights Educational Manual of Council of Europe, especially about mission of it, to enable using it in practise based on the needs of different target groups in order to prevent radicalism of young people and promote human rights of young people, especially young people with refugees and/or immigrants background;
- To develop an understanding of the educational approach in human rights projects regarding to the topic of migration;
- To develop an understanding about aspects of active youth participation and critical way of thinking through methods of non formal education offered by COMPASS Human Rights Educational Manual of Council of Europe;
- To develop the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes of youth workers, youth leaders to prepare, run and evaluate human rights workshops locally and during international youth exchanges on migration in order to prevent radicalisation of young people;
- To offer the opportunity to meet partner groups and develop concrete ideas for future projects within human rights education with special focus on migration and prevent radicalisation of young people.
The methodology of the training course:
The project will be based on human rights education, methods will be used from COMPASS Human Rights Manual of Council of Europe and adapted to the needs and experiences of participants. All methods will be learner –centred and participatory. Experienced international trainers’ team will provide experiential learning and cooperative learning methods for participants and participants will get a chance to prepare, run and evaluate human rights workshops on preventing radicalisation of their target groups. Through that, they will improve their youth workers’ skills and learn more about the topic of migration.
Theoretical parts of the training course will be:
- Introduction of COMPASS Human Rights Manual of Council of Europe and other educational resources from the Partnership and Council of Europe;
- Reasons and types of migration;
- Identification of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people (IDPs);
- Protecting of human rights of migrants: international instruments and mechanism;
- Youth exchanges according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme.
Practical parts of the training course will be:
- Preparing, running and evaluating human rights workshops on preventing radicalisation of young people locally and European level;
- Inventing youth exchanges on migration issues and preventing radicalisation of young people.
Duration: 6 full working days.
The training course is based on the COMPASS, human rights manual published by Council of Europe.
