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FLOW - Facilitating, Learning, Organising and Welcoming! A critical Training of Trainers

2020-2-BE05-KA105-0030102020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: BE|TR|UK|CZ|PT|GE|IT|RO|PS|RS|UA|RU|DE|ES|JO|IE|EE|HU|SI|BG · Grant: €7,194
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningPedagogy and didacticsGender equality / equal opportunities

Objectives

Youth and peace education are core elements of the peace movement and of European youth work. Through seminars, training activities, youth exchanges and other educational projects, the current challenges of Europe in a globalised world are discussed in an international youth environment. Challenges such as the climate crisis; promotion of tolerance; respect for human rights; transcultural exchange and religious dialogue; global power structures; migration; remembrance work,and many more. There was and is a need for well qualified trainers who are sensitive to many of these issues, who intersect them in their work, who think critically and who can ensure and provide a high quality of youth projects in Europe. Educational work gets more and more important for the peace and voluntary movement. Many training activities, seminars and exchanges help to nurture the values of SCI and its partners, such as human rights, social justice, activism, climate justice, global justice, etc. There are many activists within the peace movement who want to become active as trainers and organisers of educational projects that contribute to promote a culture of peace among volunteers and young people in general. This is why SCI organized this Training of Trainers, with a special focus on peace education. The objectives of the project were: - to empower people to give trainings in peace education - to provide (future) youth workers with skills, methods, inspirations and new perspectives for peace education to get in a good flow while initiating, organising and managing educational projects - to provide (future) youth workers with skills to moderate group dynamics in its different stages as well as to create safer spaces in trainings, seminars and youth exchanges - to provide (future) youth workers with skills to involve youth with fewer opportunities in their activities and to design non formal education for youth with fewer opportunities - to share approaches and institutional structures for developing and organising new peace education projects based on the needs of its youth participants (including Project Management and EU fundings) - to increase the understanding of intersectional perspectives when facilitating and organising youth projects (global justice, gender, class, race, inclusion, climate justice) - to reflect on how power structures can be reproduced in the organisation of projects and how we could integrate the values of the peace movement on all levels of organising educational projects - to sensibilise for inclusive, diverse and less discriminating projects regarding human rights and other fundamental and common values of our society - to improve the quality of NFE instruments that can be used in future events, projects, training courses, seminars and general meetings - to build on experiences on topics and target groups that the partners work with - to create more and stronger alliances and solidarity in the peace and volunteering movement, especially between the organisations involved in the project. - to come up with new international peace-education projects - to establish networks for future cooperation and projects - to strengthen European identity and upgrade cultural and intercultural awareness and expression The objectives of our project were also in line with the Erasmus+ programme to provide youth organisations and youth workers with training and cooperation opportunities as well as to develop their professionalism. The European dimension of youth work will also lead to implementing NFE activities of better quality on the local level, thus enhancing the competences of youth as well as their active citizenship. The training itself will focus on European values and provide skills and information for participants on how to integrate these values and perspectives in their future projects.

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