TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Enrico Elefante
This project aimed to educate young generations to be able to make good relations with migrants and in general with the most disadvantaged groups, taking a new perspective aimed to increase the sense of friendship and solidarity, breaking prejudices and stereotypes, which clearly lead to social tensions.
Through non-formal education workshops and activities focused on the theme of multiculturalism, conceived as richness and not as a threat, participants had the opportunity to experience different moments of shared reflection on this theme so that they will have the chance to express their opinions, ideas, fears.
25 Participants aged 18-30 (included 1 leader) from each country: Spain, France, Greece, Romania, Italy.
Through meetings, debates and round tables in which will also participate resident migrants, or by visiting and working in a shelter for migrants in Palermo, participants had the opportunity to come into direct contact with the reality of immigration in the area, where landings are frequent. This project also aimed to create a cultural space of exchange and dialogue in which all associations shared their experiences, describing the migrants’ situation in their countries.
Different activities allowed the participants to be strictly in contact with the immigrants living in Palermo, to which they did some interviews to understand the reasons that led them to leave their country coming in Europe. These interviews, together with the main activities of the exchange were filmed, so that at the end the group created a video useful to spread the activities during the dissemination phase.
Coordinator of the implementation of training process and general facilitator of the exchange.