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Humans for Humanity

2022-1-LV02-KA153-YOU-0000634262022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: LV|RO|EL|GE|AM · Grant: €51,060.35
Reception and integration of refugees and migrantsPhysical and mental health, well-beingPreventing racism and discrimination

Objectives

The goal of the implemented project was to equip youth workers with skills that they could use in their personal lives and to improve their social work and engagement with youngsters, specifically those with fewer opportunities. The project aimed to support youth workers with specific training in personal development, empathic communication, peace building skills, tackling issues on the refugee crisis, coaching, communication between different cultures and religions, inclusion, integration and conflict management. The project also aimed to develop practical and theoretical knowledge and skills in working with individuals and groups in the development of key competencies combating hate and finding ways to appreciate the richness of diversity.Also the overall goal was to enhance social cohesion, fight discrimination, and enhance inclusion, and to support vulnerable young people who were negatively impacted by the pandemic. Main objectives of the project were: - To increase employability and participation of youth workers, develop their professional skills and increase their efficiency; - To give tools of coaching and supporting the youngsters in own communities; - To give tools of empathic communication and conflict transformation for their daily life and work; - To raise participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and religions; - To develop awareness about personal concepts and believes one has about diversity, different cultures and religions and habitual ways to communicate and to react to the conflict; - To stimulate the self-development process of the participants; - To equip youth workers with knowledge and tools for dialogue, conflict transformation and creating connection; - To develop training skills, communication skills, and organizational skills; - To gain insight about refugees’ life and experience in working with refugees by implementing workshops for them; - To gain theoretical and practical knowledge of how to build a workshop and debrief it, how to work with migrants; - To develop creativity and international collaboration; - To get intercultural experience by meeting with the representatives of different countries, cultures, backgrounds, religions, practice tolerance and break stereotypes & prejudices; - To build partnership and future cooperation on the basis of this project under Erasmus+ and improve the quality of local and international youth work.

Project partners (5)