TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Grigor Yeritsyan
- To analyse today’s multicultural society in different countries;
- To gain knowledge on key concepts, such as stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination, extremism, intolerance;
- To understand the causes of extremism and where it develops;
- To analyse the European values and how they can be used in contrasting those phenomena.
- To promote active citizenship, international dialogue and non-formal education.
- To overview the European programs that can be used to address the topic, develop future cooperation and new projects.
Youth Workers and Youth leaders from Armenia, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey and Ukraine.
The activities were implemented with the support of non-formal education methods and tools (exercises, group presentations, workshops, debates, role plays, forum theater, open space, open cafe, outdoor activities, team building).
The Training Course supported young people and active youth workers to learn about the ways of living together, accepting differences and fighting together against prejudice and xenophobia. During the Training Course will looked deeper into the problems of discrimination, extremism, nationalism, intolerance and intercultural misunderstandings. It was highly important to discuss the questions of multicultural society, inter-religious and intercultural tolerance as well as to think about some practical tools how to fight discrimination and combat extremism, which nowadays threatens democracies all over the world.
Together with my 4 co-trainers I was mainly responsible for designing and implementing the program, content of the Training Course and thematic sessions. I was also supporting participants in networking and developing their own projects.