“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
The overall aim of this partnership building seminar is to provide space and opportunity for youth workers, youth leaders from European and migrants’ communities to work together, to share their information and knowledge on migrants’ cultures, to break stereotypes and prejudices concerning migrants’ people and share experiences how to work with European and migrants’ young people together. To get familiar with the diverse migrants’ cultures and use it as positive tool in youth work. To establish partnerships and invent together youth exchanges in order to involve young people from European and migrants’ communities to act together and gain knowledge about migrants’ cultures.
Learning objectives of the partnership building seminar are:
- To share and explore together the different elements of migrants and refugees’ cultures in different countries;
- To find the impact on migrants’ culture in the mainstream culture in order to recognise the mutual intercultural learning between European and migrants and refugees’ communities;
- To share methods and techniques on working with European and migrants and refugees young people together in order to break the stereotypes and prejudices;
- To invent together youth exchanges in order to involve young people from European and migrants and refugees’ communities to act together and gain knowledge about migrants’ cultures;
- To build solid partnership among represented organisations.
The methodology of the partnership building seminar:
Experienced trainers will prepare the methods based on the expectations and needs of the participants. They will provide participatory and creative methods which will ensure the participation of experienced and less experienced participants. Some methods we will plan to use: individual, pair and mixed group work, drawings, montage/collage, group discussions, brainstorming, role play, methods’ market, preparing a booklet, visit to good practice project, idea and project development, etc.
Duration: 6 full working days.
