Anti-racism and Equity in youth work and peace education? Best practices from Northern Finland

Do you want to strengthen your knowledge of anti-racism, inclusion, and equality in the field of youth work? Are you looking forward to building new sustainable and engaging partnerships? Do you want to learn and share your methods of the listed topics? Are you ready to contemplate and assess your work and youth work practices critically and challenge yourself to learn more?  

The objectives of the training course:  

We aim to provide a collective opportunity to share and strengthen understanding of racism, inequality, and power structures in the youth work field as well as a phenomenon in societal structures. The content also covers critical reflection and introduces anti-racist and inclusive activities and methods to the participants. We aim to enable opportunities for impactful discussions, reflection, study visits and the exchange of the best practices among participants. We aim to increase awareness on the topics of racism, inequality and their structural impact, and to build strong, engaging partnerships for future co-operation.

The participants will gain knowledge and strengthen their key competences in anti-racist youth work and inclusion.  

Target group:  

We require the representatives from the organizations to be actively working in the youth field and dealing with the topics of anti-racism, inclusion, and equality.  

You are eligible to apply, if you are currently living in any program country that is taking part in Erasmus+ program, and are sent by an executive organization with Erasmus + OID-code.    

The program is designed to be based on active participation, self-reflection and is activity oriented. The trainers have experience in youth work, diversity & inclusion, anti-racism, and gender equality. We enable an opportunity, not only to listen and learn, but also to contribute and discuss the covered topics.   

We warmly welcome newcomers of international cooperation and from Erasmus+ projects to the event. We are committed to organise the event as widely accessible as possible, taking into account on top of physical accessibility also social accessibility.

Preliminary information about the program: We start our day working days with a breakfast before 9 a.m. We work from 9 a.m. latest until 5 p.m. See draft program as attachment.

Oulu is the largest and oldest city of Northern Finland. Oulu has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture 2026.    

The Peace Education Institute's all activities and events are based on the principles of Safer Space Guidelines. We do not accept discriminatory language nor behavior in our events, and all participants must follow mutually agreed principles and guidelines to build a safer space for all.  

The call for application is open between 6-26 of June 2022.

Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/9DzmFQNybt

Everyone who applied will be contacted by early July 2022.