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All equal - aber wie? Wirkungsvolle Anti-Diskriminierungsarbeit für/mit jungen Menschen in einem diversen Europa

2022-1-AT01-KA153-YOU-0000672162022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: AT|IT|BE|LI · Grant: €10,135
Inclusion of marginalised young peoplePreventing racism and discriminationDemocracy and inclusive democratic participation

Objectives

In this mobility of youth workers, we gathered to improve our work in the field of Anti-Discrimination for and with young people. Our European society has always been quite divers, but unfortunately it goes with structural discrimination of people, that don’t seem to fit into the „norm“, due to color of skin, social status, disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, religion, etc We as youth workers in this mobility, wanted to promote Equality - within the frame of the European Youth Goals, our focus developed into two fields, we took a closer look at: Anti-Racism Work and the field of young people as part of the LGBTIQ+ community. We organized impulses from activists in both fields, to be up to date with current developements. We had space to learn from each other, how we work -in this context- with young people, how we takle structural challenges, what kind of campaigns or public activities we are involved in, that have the objective to stand up against discrimination and engage for Diversity and Equality. We achieved this in various fields: We had Input on what research has found out on how discrimination effects young people (session with Kenan Güngör), what current date and facts are available on this subject, what does it mean for the lives of young people? To get more/better tools for our work, we took a look at each other good practice (Living Library, Anti-Sexism Campaign, Anti-Racism-Network), but also invited guest of specific fields (Black Voices Activists Chantal Bamgbala and Camila Schmid, LGBTIQ+ activist Anton Cornelia Wittman), to get to know their ways of working, their experience and also their demands for change. We also worked on our own attitudes and reflected on them in a „Anti-Bias“ workshop with Monika Pink, ans some reflexion sessions. This is also important, when wanting to be caring and powerful partners to young people. We tried to translate our learnings into action plans, that will support us in follow up activities after the mobility in our own communities and our organization. We took time fo reflection to deepen our learning. We presented our results at a public event in a local youth center in Salzburg, IGLU. Some politicians and employees of the City of Salzburg & University joined and discussed with us. All partners participated in most phases of our project: Already in the phase of writing the application, partners gave inputs and feedback. In June (and also in August) we had an online meeting to get to know each other better and to update our plans for the mobility, that took place October 4-8, 2022. We made sure, the developed programs meets our expectations and some adaption took place according to our needs. After the mobility, many of us implemented new activities in their work, startet new networks, reflected their way of working and set new paths. We shared some of this in an online meeting in December 2022, and we are determined to keep in touch for future projects, some connections have been made already.

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