Through the strategic partnership project and organizing activities in Poland, Bulgaria and Germany, we exchanged the experiences of other employees of the organization, their ways and methods of working with youth through non-formal education, whose main goal is learning through practice. Participants not only improved their knowledge of tolerance and anti-discrimination in their country and Europe but also gained new hard and soft skills.
The project was submitted because the need to educate society about non-heteronormative and refugee people was noticed in order to better integrate these groups and build mutual understanding. According to the CBOS survey "Poles' attitude towards homosexual relationships", every fourth Pole believes that homosexuality is abnormal and cannot be tolerated. According to a survey conducted in 2013 by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 47% of respondents experienced discrimination on the grounds of belonging to the LGBT+ community. As many as 59% of them indicated that they had been attacked. When it comes to immigrants, in 2018 as many as 60% of Poles had a negative attitude towards foreigners. For these reasons, the idea of submitting the project was born, the aim of which was to explore the subject of the situation of non-heteronormative and refugee people in Poland, Bulgaria and Germany.