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We organized a 2-working day APV from 19th to 22nd September 2022 to determine the necessary tasks and requirements including the preparation of training materials, the details of the youth work activities, the selection of participants, arranging the venue and food for our participants together with safeguarding for participants with fewer opportunities, promotion of the project and the ERASMUS+ program face to face.

As youth workers, youth leaders we work directly with young people and of course, we cannot know all the details as family life, religion, cultural background, etc. of our target group. So, several times we don’t want and we can hurt. We can hurt with an innocent joke; we can discriminate with a look, a phrase, an unconscious behaviour. Nowadays, working with immigrants, Roma people, members of different ethnic groups, or only with a young person simple, we cannot know which issue can be really sensitive, as e.g. showing a funny short movie about religion or women can be really discriminative towards someone and we even don’t know about it. We don’t know that we discriminate.
By our project we aim to make people aware of their subculture, their behaviour towards differences, raise awareness on their stereotypes and prejudices and spotlight when they discriminate others even unconsciously. Foster understanding how media effect their perspectives towards each other, how a joke can be discriminative even without knowing it. Then as next step, turn it upside down, use media as tool against discrimination. Use the popular tools what young people like nowadays for the sake of anti-discrimination and even invent projects and build partnership around the topic as anti-discrimination by the tool as media devices.

The overall aim of the training course:
To train youth workers and youth leaders on using media (jokes, short movies and advertisements) as tools on anti-discrimination. To make them aware of their own cultural background, and how it influences them towards different cultures. To foster understanding the reasons behind their reaction, stereotypes and prejudices, and to recognise discriminations around and by them. To learn usage of new media technology on anti-discrimination with for and by young people they work with.

Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To raise awareness on culture, cultural diversity and own cultural identity;
- To explore and adapt the 3rd Youth Goal “Inclusive societies” of European Youth Strategy “Investing,
Connecting and Empowering young people” to youth work context;
- To make assessment on stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination in general and self –
assessment in personal and professional level in particular;
- To improve competences as usage of new modern technologies as tools for anti-discrimination;
- To be able to prepare, realise and evaluate jokes, short movies and advertisements on antidiscrimination;
- To create new partner network among organisations and invent together future projects.

Partner organizations: Asociatia Clubul Tinerilor din Sfantu Gheorghe - Szentgyörgyi
Ifjúsági Klub – Romania, YOPA - FIATALOK AZ ÁLLAMPOLGÁRI RÉSZVÉTELÉRT
KÖZHASZNÚ EGYESÜLET - Hungary, Association FOR YOU - Bulgaria, EVROPSKE
CENTRUM MLADEZE BRECLAV EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BRECLAV Z. S. - Czech
Republic, Avatud Ühiskond MTÜ - Estonia, Comité UFCV de la Loire - France, VSI PASAULIO
PILIECIU AKADEMIJA - Lithuania, Stowarzyszenie LEVEL UP - Poland, ASSOCIACAO
CHECK-IN - COOPERACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO – Portugal, Región bez hraníc - Slovakia.

Participants: 4/Italy and 3/other countries

Official working language: English

Financial conditions:
The food and accommodation were provided and paid by the organizers. Travels costs were counted by distance calculator provided by European Commission and reimbursed by bank transfer after the course (in Euros €).

Hosting Town:
Tortolì is a Municipality of around 12,000 inhabitants and is located in the central east cost of Sardinia in the Ogliastra area. Ogliastra county is famous for its beautiful beaches, landscapes and high quality of life.
Tortolì is the main town in the area where schools, shops and services are located. The TC took place in Arbatax that is part of the city, next to the port and sea. Arbatax is well known for a particular natural
monument called the Red Rocks.