From June 2019 to June 2021 The “Not Alone in Europe” project pursues the double aim of educating and training youth workers who are meeting young LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Initially, “Not Alone in Europe” will offer a train-the-trainer course for youth workers meeting young LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in order to make them more confident with intersectional approaches in their work and how to include LGBTQ+ perspectives in their work. The aim of the train-the-trainer course is to enable the participants to implement the “Not alone in Europe” workshops in their own cities. This will ultimately result in the creation of a network for support and visibility for young LGBTQ+migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In order to further disseminate the educational tools, a supporting online platform will be established. Objectives 1. To empower, engage, inspire and support young LGBTQI+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in European countries. 2. To develop training competencies and support youth workers, educators, community mediators and social workers who are meeting young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers on how to better include intersectionality and LGBTQI+ perspectives in their activities. 3. To generate synergies for networking and cooperation strategies among youth organisations working with young refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. 4. To create innovative youth work and intersectional methodological tools that can be disseminated to associated partners and other organisations in order to share the outputs and experiences of the project. Target groups 1. Youth workers, educators, community mediators, and social workers in Europe who are working with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and want to become "Not alone in Europe" workshop leaders. 2. Young LGBTQI+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (YLMRA) in Europe. Expected results 1. Thirty-four practitioners and YLMRA have developed training competencies in the Capacity Building (train-the-trainer course) as a certified multiplier of the "Not Alone in Europe" workshop. 2. Fourteen Multiplier events taking place in each partner country and 140 YLMRA reached by "Not Alone in Europe Workshop". 3. Intellectual Output on Intersectionality in youth work produced and ready to disseminate to the rest of the multiplier network and others. 4. Synergies for networking and cooperation strategy among the youth organisations working with young refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. Activities Preparation 1) "Not Alone in Europe" workshop for LGBTQI+ youth, train-the-trainer course for multipliers and create online tools for sharing documents and ongoing communication and follow-up webinars. Training activity 2 ) Arrange disseminate train-the-trainer course. The venuefor the training course will be provided by RFSL Ungdom as co-founders of the project. Multiplier events 3 ) The trainers from the partner organisations are carrying out the “Not alone in Europe” workshops in their cities, two workshops per organisation/country. The first workshop will be arranged by the whole coordinator group in one of the countries. Training activity 4 ) Innovation development training activity with exchange and evaluation of practices, and develop the Intellectual output with partners. Methodology and Methods: The course will take a Non-Formal education methodology, working methods will be varied and interactive in order to ensure a balance between theory and practice. The participants will be introduced to discourse and terms (LGBTQI+) that will be used in order to meet participants learning preferences and the training learning objectives. Opportunities: - Increase in Social Inclusion - Increase in Public Awareness - An increase of Youth Independence - An increase of LGBTQ+ Knowledge - An increase of Education for Youth Workers - Rich resources of information, Methods
As process leaders within BpE, RFSL Ungdom got an insight into how few actors in European civil society actually specialize in LGBTQI+ issues within the field of migration and asylum. As a result, we made it our goal to connect youth workers and organizations from different parts of Europe so they could better cooperate and learn from each other. Since most of them were unfamiliar with intersectionality and LGBTQI+ issues, the participating organizations wanted to gain more knowledge to work more effectively with YMRA. A key objective of ours was to: 1. To empower, engage, inspire and support LGBTQI+ YMRA in European countries. 2. To develop training competencies and support youth workers, educators, community mediators and social workers who are meeting LGBTQI+ YMRA on how to better include intersectionality and LGBTQI+ perspectives in their activities. 3. To generate synergies for networking and cooperation strategies among youth organizations working with LGBTQI+ YMRA in Europe. 4. To create innovative youth work and intersectional methodological tools that can be disseminated to associated partners and other organizations in order to share the outputs and experiences of the project.
LGBTQI+ young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (YMRA) constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in European society. It is not only harassment, displacement, and discrimination that the YMRA group faces, but also the risk of unfair legal judgments. A key objective of the "Not Alone in Europe" project was to support and empower LGBTQI+ YMRA and contribute to their social inclusion. We wanted to build upon our previous findings and continue where BpE (Becoming a part of Europe) left off by becoming the practical fulfillment of the BpE report's wishes. It was identified that more needs to be done in terms of professional competencies and sensitivity towards LGBTQI+ YMRAs to prevent situations of multiple discrimination, and harassment in the future. NAE was the opportunity to draft activities and create materials and guidelines to train youth workers, educators and community mediators. There were a few projects and initiatives on an institutional level like the EU, Council of Europe and the UN. Yet it was not yet fully understood by the grassroots level of civil society. With over three years of working with YMRA as a target group, we saw a double benefit from networking with other LGBTQIA+ organizations in Europe.