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Migrants Out the Loop

2022-1-PL01-KA153-YOU-0000545782022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: PL|GE|UA|EL|AM|MD|NL|ES · Grant: €21,837
Democracy and inclusive democratic participationPreventing racism and discriminationReception and integration of refugees and migrants

Objectives

The main project activity was the mobility of youth workers, which took place from 04/12/22 to 09/12/22 in Zakopane and was hosted by Szukamy Talentów. In the training took part 26 youth workers from Greece, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Armenia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The project is aimed to raise the awareness of youth workers about migration issues, develop their skills and competencies and strengthen their capacity to ensure better integration of young refugees and immigrants into local communities. The objectives were the following: -To increase youth workers’ knowledge about immigration types and processes, forms and main practices -To provide a deeper understanding of major sources of social exclusion such as stereotypes and labeling towards migrants with the explicit aim of eliminating hate speech against people with migrant background -To enhance youth workers’ knowledge about reasons behind migration and make them familiar with the main challenges migrants face in host communities -To explore the potential of youth work in preventing discriminative and radical behavior towards people with migrant background and to learn how youth workers can be active on the local level to foster the social integration of migrants -To raise professional capacities of workers by giving them specific methods and tools for migrant's empowerment and inclusion in their local communities; -To motivate and encourage the young people to initiate activities that would foster inclusion of migrants and refugees -To develop a concrete plan for follow-up projects and local activities focusing on promoting migrant and refugee integration -To establish a network of like-minded organizations and individuals who are interested in further exchange on the topic of promoting integration process

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