Inclusive Europe Project

The training activity took place

in Vilnus, Lithuania

organised by Youth to Youth Initiative

3-10 September 2017

Aims & objectives

We aim to share good practices and tools on refugees and migrants integration processes, to create a recommendation paper on how to work with migrant youth and to build the capacity of youth workers to combat hate speech

The project involves ca 36 participants from 16 European countries: Lithuania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Armenia, Belarus, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine.

During the activities we will discuss and analyze the current migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions from the perspective of youth work.

The Training Course (Lithuania)has the following main objectives:

A. To provide conceptual framework on the notions of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism to 36 youth workers from different European countries;

B. To analyze the emigration and immigration situation in participating countries and to find out the causes of migration, namely push and pull factors;

C. To discuss and analyze the current migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions from the perspective of youth work;

D. To foster tolerance, respect and open-mindedness towards migrants while working with young people as a target group;

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

International Youth to Youth Initiative (Y2Y) is an umbrella non-prot organization which aims to foster change and to construct an eective
environment for youth participation in the decision making process and community development worldwide.

Training methods used & main activities

TeamBuilding
Peace Education Energizers
Trust Games
Information Games
World Cafés
Focus Groups
Cultural Simulations
Cultural Role Plays
Project Campaign
Mindfulness Sessions

Outcomes of the activity

With the project we aim to share good practices and tools on refugees and migrants integration processes, to create a recommendation paper on how to work with migrant youth, to build the capacity of youth workers to combat hate speech towards migrants, misinformation about refugees and xenophobic discourse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5ZJYnHbic

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was in charge as the main Trainer of Sessions ran in representation of the Berlin Organization TeachSurfing on the topic of inclusion, peace dialogue and refugee empowerment.