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Increasing Intercultural Competences and Awareness of Youth Workers

2021-2-AT01-KA153-YOU-0000386752021Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: AT|TR|RS|BG|FR|EL|RO|MK|IT|ES · Grant: €28,481
Key competences developmentBridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divide

Objectives

The project ‘Increasing Intercultural Competences and Awareness of Youth Workers’ aimed to develop the competencies of youth workers needed to deliver activities in international settings as well as to increase the capacities of involved organizations to work internationally. We set the following project objectives ‘Increasing Intercultural Competences and Awareness of Youth Workers’: -to raise knowledge of directly involved participants, youth workers, on several theoretical approaches to intercultural learning, including ‘Model of Intercultural Sensitivity’, ‘Dimensions’ of Cultures’; -to develop skills to practically apply these approaches at their work with young people with the aim to increase their intercultural competencies and awareness; -to analyze the challenges, and obstacles of delivering youth work activities in intercultural settings and to equip the participants with skills needed to address them; -to provide the participants an opportunity to experience tools, and methods, especially based on using creative writing and storytelling, and encourage them to apply these methods and tools at their work with young people and develop their intercultural competencies; -to facilitate the exchange of good practices in the field of intercultural learning, development of intercultural competencies and awareness; -to increase participant’s knowledge of the Erasmus + Programme and to support the participants to develop new project ideas tackling the issues and elements of intercultural learning; -to mainstream lessons learned on intercultural learning through visibility and dissemination activities targeting youth workers, and educators, not directly involved in the activity; -to prepare video tutorials carrying the lessons learned and targeting youth workers, educators, not directly involved in the activity; -to prepare a description of work activities, identified by the directly involved participants as the most useful in their learning process, and published them in the booklet and online on their social media channels. -to make live story on Facebook or Instagram during or in the follow–up period to present the project acivitties or results --to organize follow-up training / workshop in the organisation

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