The overall aim of the training course is to train youth workers, youth leaders is being able to set up youth voluntary activities in order to support the cooperation among young people with refugees and migrants background and local young people. To provide possibility to understand the reasons behind becoming a refugee or migrant through cooperating together and digital story telling. To fight against xenophobia and racism towards refugees and migrants families through youth work activities and adapting the Convention on the Rights of the Child by UNICEF.
Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To explore the Convention of the Rights of the Child by UNICEF and how it is respected regarding to young people with refugees, migrants and immigrants’ background;
- To get to know the personal life history of refugees and immigrants in order to understand the reasons to become refuges, get to know their life conditions and situations they are in;
- To get acquainted with the laws regarding to refugees, migrants and immigrants in the participated countries and specifically of EU;
- To fight against xenophobia and racism through youth work activities locally among young people;
- To learn to use the technique called digital story telling in order to provide realistic view from the current situation of refugees;
- To initiate local and European youth projects according to the proposals of Erasmus+ programme;
- To establish a European platform for cooperation among youth organisations in order to fight against xenophobia and racism towards refugees and immigrants.
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 have to make a research locally before they participate in the training, and share their experiences with each others during the training course. 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 and using digital story telling techniques in order to fight against xenophobia and racism towards refugees and immigrants. We plan to use the following methods: cooperative learning, experiential learning, montage, theatre of oppressed, creating a jigsaw, digital story telling, etc.
Theoretical part of the training:
- National and European laws towards refugees, immigrants and migrants;
- Reasons of ignoring, generating fears from immigrants, and becoming racists connected to immigration in the participated countries;
- The Convention of the Rights of the Child by UNICEF;
- Non-formal educational methods for cooperation among young people with different cultural background in order to fight against xenophobia and racism;
- Theories of digital story telling.
Practical part of the training:
- Preparing, running and evaluating of voluntary youth activities together with refuges and working on the digital story telling together;
- Presenting and disseminating digital stories of refugees’ families locally and European level in order to fight against xenophobia and racism;
- Inventing local and European youth voluntary activities and 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: 6 full working days.
The training course is based on The Convention of the Rights of the Child by UNICEF.
