The overall aim of this project is to train youth workers, youth leaders to be capable for preparing, implementing, and evaluating workshops on cultural diversity in local level and within youth exchanges as part of preventing radicalization of young people. We live in multicultural, cross-cultural and intercultural societies. Our local communities are not homogeneous anymore thanks to the free European mobility, the open borders and markets for European citizens, and hosting refugees and migrants from other parts of the world. It is not all the time easy to handle intercultural challenges, to understand the communication codes of different culturality young people, to treat appropriately diverse values, norms and schemes on intercultural behaviours, to face with stereotypes and prejudices coming from young people towards each other without really knowing what they are afraid of and why they become more and more xenophobic. Feeling in our skins, we need to improve our youth work competences through intercultural education in order to be able offering such types of youth work activities locally and European level where young people with different cultural background can cooperate together and handle their cultural diversity as added value of their common activities.
General objectives of the training course are:
To raise awareness on cultural diversity and to develop competences for using cultural diversity as a positive and powerful tool within local and European youth work.
To understand and develop different ways of active participation of young people within cultural diversity projects.
To make youth workers aware of the importance of cultural diversity in local, regional and international level and to develop skills and attitudes to motivate and actively involve the young people in human rights, youth projects as preventing radicalisation of young people.
The methodology of the training course:
Generally, the working methods are rather non-formal and participative. Methods planned to use e.g. individual work, pair work, organisational work, mixed group work, field activity, light theatre method, theatre of oppressed, Dixit card exercise, montages, interviews, statutes, debate, aquarium discussion, etc. E-booklet on youth work goes intercultural for public use.
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