CORE 2 - Challenging Europe

Aims & objectives

1. Provide Youth Workers with practical tools and experiential non-formal activities on conflict management, stereotypes and migration issues that they can use with youth in raising their
awareness on these issues;

2. Improve youth work quality and enhance the role of youth workers and NGOs as social facilitators spreading European values of a culture of peace vs. violence and xenophobia;

3. Enhance the participants attitude in transforming the conflict issues into learning opportunity and bring positive outcomes from these;

4. Share among youth workers and partners common concerns about these issues exchanging
visions and tools;

5. Enhance international cooperation attitude, bounds of trust between participants and
organisations;

6. Recognition of the educational value of NFE activities for building a peaceful European
awareness and citizenship skills- Recognition of these NFE experience through Youthpass and
different learning tools;

7. Creation of outcomes (a daily Blog and a booklet) to disseminate in order to give our
contribution to YW empowerment.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

All the participants are Youth Workers engaged in the Partner Organisations; their active
participation is empowered and ensured from the beginning through the common planning of the
project idea and shared needs, suggestions and task division.

21 participants (3 from each country) + 3 trainers and 2 staff persons- from 7 different countries: Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia.

Training methods used & main activities

I used my expertise on Theater of the Oppressed and all it's characteristics and different approaches as a tool for conflict management.

Used also Storytelling as a communication strategy for conflict resolution and awareness.

Gamification (through self-developed card game) working on stereotypes.

Outcomes of the activity

The training achieved the empowerment of the youth workers on the topics of empathy and conflict management towards conflict situations. The usage of theater of the oppressed and different kinds of gamification to create awareness was successfully achieved also.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Preparation and training for this workshop was a joined process between all trainers though the Theater of the Oppressed day and the activities using gamification where the ones I felt more responsible for.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.