Partnership for the project “Side by Side – Living together in the globalizing world”
Description: Over past 7 decades, European countries have put lot of effort in shaping the new vision of our continent and its future development. Over the time, some values such as plurality, tolerance and human rights have been set as some of the most precious characteristics of the modern Europe. Still, difficult economical situation as well the fear of the new tendencies has created the atmosphere in many European countries, which fits increase of the right wing political movements. With its conservative and often aggressive political ideas, it’s becoming harder to reach the set goals. There is more and more discrimination within our societies, level of solidarity and compassion is decreasing and the impression we are getting is that youth is particularly strong affected by these changes. Therefore, we would like to bring young people from EU and its neighboring countries together and create a space together where we could more freely experience the diversity and plurality existing within their own countries and raise the level of mutual understanding among youngsters who are coming from different nations. Further more, we would also like to provide space for debating strategies of how to integrate those developments into the methods of international youth education.
Aim: “Side by Side” is a training course, which aims to support personal development of young people in encourage them to explore the world they live in, try to find the way to accept different cultures and encourage others to do so through education and volunteering.
Objectives:
- to raise awareness on plurality, culture, cohabitation and migration;
- to learn about migrations, their historical development and their impact on modern societies;
- introduce participants with the idea of volunteering and voluntary service and promote it as a tool for increasing of the tolerance and acceptance;
- sharing different visions and understandings of diversity;
- reflecting on the notion of European diversity and its underlying features, such as democracy, tolerance, plurality, human rights, global education;
- experiencing Diversity and Creativity in practice by simulations, cases and competences development.
Target group: young and active volunteers and members of your organization who have recently recently started getting involved in the field of youth work and work with other young people through different activities of voluntary service activities, such as workcamps, EVS, youth exchanges or did not have previous experience with non-formal education, but are willing to explore it; preferred age of participants: 18 – 35.
Time plan and venue:
Submission: February 4th, 2015
Date of the training: June 29 - July 4
Venue: Turkey
Duration: 6 working days (without travel days)
Finantial aspects: accommodation and lodging are 100% covered by the Erasmus +
Travel expenses are partially covered by Erasmus + (the amount depends of the route to the venue of the training)
For more information about this partnership activity, organised by YOUTHART Youth Art Research and Training Association, contact with bahadirulgen [at] gmail.com
