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Creative methods for Intercultural learning in youth work

2020-2-LT02-KA105-0068912020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LT|CZ|FR|IT|ES|RO|EE|HU|TR|EL · Grant: €19,240
Migrants' issuesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Creativity and culture

Objectives

The prevention of terrorism and the fight against radicalization are just two uses for intercultural learning. In a human rights context, intercultural learning principles reject any hierarchy of cultures or categorization of persons, as well as tokenistic messages. Intercultural learning is more important than ever in equipping students with the critical thinking abilities they need to engage in discussion and debate on contentious issues, find accurate information, and deconstruct misinformation presented in the media or in public discourse. We have examined our working environments with foreign partners, and we believe that the abilities of youth workers, professionals, and volunteers in the area of intercultural learning need to be strengthened. The bulk of the partners were from small towns or rural areas, where intercultural competence should be strengthened because more foreigners are moving to these places (volunteers, tourists, foreigners based on a family basis, etc.). Furthermore, we saw from the case of Lithuania that many Lithuanians from other countries relocate there. Due to this, we set out to conduct a project for youth workers, specialists/ volunteers that would focus on enhancing the capacities, expertise, and knowledge of youth workers and specialist/volunteers in the area of intercultural youth work through innovative creative methods. Project objectives were: 1. To provide participants with creative methods and tools to make different identities and cultural diversity a fruitful experience; 2. To provide youth workers/specialists/volunteers with concrete ideas to motivate, engage and involve young people to take action for tolerance and understanding in their environment as well as on an international level by achieving “multiplying effect”; 3. To integrate accumulated experience in intercultural and non-formal education; 4. To improve youth workers/specialists/volunteers' knowledge, skills on intercultural learning, diversity, and EU values; 5. To promote intercultural dialogue and co-operation; 6. To improve the quality of Erasmus+ projects by strengthening participants’ awareness of cultural diversity.

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