The overall aim of the training course is to train youth workers, youth leaders being able to set up youth social enterprises based on The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its 4 principles such as survival, protection, development and participation in order to support the cooperation among young people with refugees/migrants background and local young people. To strengthen and support coherent approaches to unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the frame of youth work and European cooperation.
Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To get familiar participants with the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
- To foster capacity of youth workers to guarantee rights and protection of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the European context;
- To equip youth workers from European countries with knowledge, key competences and employable tools related to child rights programming;
- To developed cross-cultural understanding of different youth work experiences related to unaccompanied migrant children and young people’ protection and development from European countries;
- To increase transnational cooperation and exchange of good practices between youth workers and different organizations from EU countries;
- To invent social enterprises based on the needs and interest of young refugees/migrants through The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its 4 principles such as survival, protection, development and participation;
- To invent new local and international youth projects on child rights programming according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme.
The methodology of the training course:
The project will be based on non-formal educational methodology. It will be learner centred and participatory. It will be really practical, that means participants will put their gained competences into practice already during the project and the training course itself. Participants Through a non-formal, intercultural and creative learning process, the training course will equip participants with knowledge and practical tools to undertake a child rights situation analysis and design community-based projects through child rights-based approach, analytical steps & logical framework planning. In an initial part, participants will analyse rights violations for this target group, the root causes and obstacles preventing the fulfilment of children’s rights. In a final part, participants will be engaged to work together by coplanning and designing projects that responds to children community’s needs. Experienced trainers’ team will prepare the programme flow based on the needs and expectations of the partner organisations and their participants. The project will impact on the social and civic competences, sense of initiatives and entrepreneurship and cultural awareness and expression of participants, and it will make an impact on the partner organisations’ youth work activities with new youth work methods cooperating with young people with different cultural background. We plan to use the following methods: cooperative learning, experiential learning, montage, theatre of oppressed, creating a jigsaw, etc.
Theoretical part of the training:
- The Convention of the Rights of the Child by UNICEF;
- Youth work and child protection in European context;
- Non-formal education, peer and cooperative learning;
- Project Cycle Management (EU Commission);
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (P. Freire);
- Forum theatre (A. Boal);
- The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (D. Dolci);
- The UNESCO's Four Pillars of Education “Learning to live together, Learning to be, Learning to do, Learning to Know”.
Practical part of the training:
- How to undertake a “child right based analysis”;
- How to co-plan and design community-based projects through child rights-based approach, analytical steps and logical framework planning;
- Inventing local and European youth projects according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme;
- Establishing a European platform for cooperation among youth organisations in order to fight against xenophobia and racism towards refugees and immigrants.
Duration: 7 full working days.
The Training course was inspired by Experiential Lab: Child rights programming and nonviolent community development Manual made by Prism - Promozione Internazionale Sicilia-Mondo.
