Building Bridges, Breaking the Walls: Managing Refugee Crisis in Europe

“Building Bridges, Breaking the Walls: Managing Refugee Crisis in Europe” is a long lerm project which is intended for 32 youth workers, youth educators, members of civil society organizations from 15 European Union and the Neighboring Partner countries who are ready to actively fight against radicalization, discrimination and intolerance against refugees and migrants in their countries and who want to transfer the knowledge they gained in the project to the youth in their organizations and countries.

Following the Training Course in Armenia, successsful participants will be invited to join a Study visit in Stockholm, Sweden in 2019. Attending both Training Course and Study Visit will ensure a long term impact of the project on 36 youth workers involved in the project. 

The Training Course (Armenia) and the Study Visit (Sweden) have the following main objectives:

• To provide conceptual framework on the notions of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism to 36 youth workers from different European countries;
• To analyze the emigration and immigration situation in participating countries and to find out the causes of migration, namely push and pull factors;
• To discuss and analyze the current refugee crisis migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions from the perspective of youth work;
• To foster tolerance, respect and open-mindedness towards migrants while working with young people as a target group;
• To share experiences and best practices of integrating young migrants in youth organizations;
• To equip youth workers with capacity to combat hate speech towards migrants, misinformation about refugees and xenophobic discourse;
• To create a network of NGO's willing to be involved in the migration management process and contribute to the refugee integration process in participating countries.