Cycle up: Methodologies and tools for quality Project Management and Human Rights Education

At the core of our vision lies a firm conviction: multidisciplinary teams reach their full potential only when their members possess a holistic understanding of the projects they lead. This principle is the cornerstone of our upcoming training program.

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Are you an aspiring organizer planning your own training course? Or perhaps a youth worker looking to expand your horizons and master new professional tools? If so, this experience is designed specifically for you.

In the field of Human Rights Education (HRE), youth organizations often operate with limited resources, which frequently prevents the luxury of having specialized teams for every task. More often than not, the same group of trainers must balance the creative art of facilitation with the rigorous demands of project management and administration. This reality demands a new generation of professionals: versatile leaders with a comprehensive 360° perspective.

“Cycle up” invites you to dive deep into the intricacies of project management, advanced facilitation, and holistic leadership. Together, we will bridge the gap between administrative excellence and educational impact, equipping you with the tools necessary to navigate modern challenges and maximize the reach of your initiatives in today’s evolving landscape.

We look forward to welcoming you to this transformative journey.

AIM

To equip 25 youth workers, leaders, and trainers with the advanced competencies in project management and facilitation required to elevate the quality of Human Rights Education (HRE).

Objectives:

• To gain a better understanding of the concepts of Human Rights, Peace, diverse forms of violence, conflict, non-violence and conflict transformation with the approach to serve as a conceptual framework for HRE activities.
• To empower participants to join the HRE practitioner’s community by proposing new activities at the local, regional or European levels.
• To understand the basics of Non-formal education based on the experiential learning cycle.
• To build the interdisciplinary framework of competencies of trainers, facilitators and project managers.
• To learn and practice how to design a project, an educational program and session outlines.
• To explore the digital suit needed to manage the administrative, logistics, education and evaluation of a training course.
• To gain knowledge about the basic educational methods of non-formal education including those structuring general activities, reflection groups and evaluation.
• To facilitate the process of designing at least 6 follow-up educational activities aiming to transform local conflicts by using the conclusions and techniques acquired during the training
• To create a sustainable network of cooperation of trainers, project managers and facilitators at the European level motivated to work together and as actors of the HRE community.

Profile of participants

• People who are looking to become a trainer and organise their own training course in Human Rights Education.
• Experienced trainers looking to improve their skills and gain a holistic approach to project management and use digital tools that will help in your work.
• Managers of youth organizations and/or training activities who are willing to gain a pedagogical perspective and learn educational methods.
• People interested in the field of peace, human rights, non-formal education and youth work.
• Available to take part in the whole duration of the project.
• Interested in creating a community where we will debate, ask ourselves and others, think, learn and unlearn from each other.

How do we work?

The training course will be based on the principles of non-formal education: it will have a planned programme of personal and social education for young people designed to improve a range of skills and competencies, outside the formal educational curriculum.

We will implement the essential elements of non-formal education, such as the education being voluntary, organized with educational objectives, participatory and learner-centred, about learning life skills and preparing for active citizenship, based on involving both individual and group learning with a collective approach, holistic and process-oriented, as well as based on experience and action (we will plan the follow-up activities) and starts from the needs of the participants.

COSTS

Education is a right that we have as human beings, even if sometimes we have to pay for it. This is why we are happy and grateful to tell you that this training is for FREE and everything is covered by Erasmus +

We will be able to reimburse you for your travel to Madrid with limits covered by Erasmus+