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Breaking Bias: understanding and countering anti-Arab racism in Europe

Training Course

11-17 February 2026 | Torino, Italy

Breaking Bias is a training course that aims to promote understanding and inclusion by countering anti-Arab and anti-Arab/Muslim bias, stereotypes, and discrimination within the European educational context.

The training course aimed to promote understanding and inclusion by countering anti-Arab and anti-Arab/Muslim bias, stereotypes, and discrimination within theEuropean educational context.

Specific Objectives:

  • To raise awareness among youth workers, educators and teachers about stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Arab and Arab/Muslim communities.
  • To encourage critical self-reflection on personal biases, prejudices, and everyday practices that cause exclusion or discrimination.
  • To deconstruct invisible and normalized forms of racism against Arabs and Arab/Muslims through youth work and intercultural learning.
  • To explore the historical and geopolitical roots of anti-Arab and anti-Arab/Muslim sentiments and their social consequences in contemporary Europe.

The Young Muslim Association of Italy will be involved, and several field visits are planned as well.

Several field visit are foreseen, including a a field visit to the Hammam: bring your swimming suit with you if you want to enjoy the entire experience.

The project is funded by Erasmus Plus Youth Accreditation.

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Training overview

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14225

This Training Course is

for 21 participants

from Austria, Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth project managers, Youth coaches, This Training course is for people working regularly in the youth field at local and/or international level.

Accessibility info:

This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Giosef Torino Marti Gianello Guida APS (Youth NGO)

Founded in 2004, Giosef Torino - Marti Gianello Guida APS is an association of social promotion.
Giosef Torino is actively working with NonFormal Education, LLL and intercultural learning. Our work is based on our certainty that new educational paradigms are needed in order to promote social cohesion among Euromediterranean societies, and we deeply believe young people can be the strength to overcome barriers to foreseen social justice; we completely agree with the key concept in Audre Lorde’s work: “there is no such thing as single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives”.

The core objectives are:
YOUTH WORK AND NONFORMAL EDUCATION: to produce social change through NonFormal Education on Human Rights;
INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH: to promote an anti-sexist, anti-racist culture all forms of discrimination through an intersectional perspective;
INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION: to promote participation and active citizenship of young people to counter social exclusion and to promote human, civil and social rights;
EUROMEDITERRENEAN COOPERATION: to promote the cooperation between European and Partner Countries from the South Mediterranean regions for fostering social cohesion in Mediterranean area;
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY: to promote international mobility and intercultural learning among youth.


https://lnx.aps.gioseftorino.eu/

Contact for questions:

Annamaria Simeone

E-Mail:

Phone: 0039 011 532824

Costs

Participation fee

No fee is requested; however the dinner of the free afternoon will not be covered by Giosef Torino, participants are requested to cover themselves.

Accommodation and food

Board and lodging for the training course will be provided by Giosef Torino for the entire duration of the mentioned period. 

Please note that only the dinner on the free afternoon will not be covered by Giosef Torino; however, a list of nearby restaurants will be shared.

The group will be hosted at Open011, A hostel managed by the municipality of Torino, and is located in Corso Venezia 11.

The participants will be hosted in a shared rooms of 3 to 4 people, each room having a bathroom inside. The hostel provides towels and sheets, but not shampoo and shower gel, so it's batter that you bring with you - or buying here - the necessary for the bathroom.

Travel reimbursement

Costs The travel will be REIMBURSED after the activity, after receiving all related documents: invoice receipt and boarding pass, according to the distance calculator supported by the European Commission.

Please note that the expenses will be covered only if all rules and regulations outlined in the provided link are strictly followed. Participants must submit an invoice, proof of payment, original receipts, a self attandancy declaration and boarding passes. If any of these documents are missing or not obtained, Giosef Torino will not be able to reimburse the expenses.

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

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