Plural Perspectives 2.0 - Promoting Diversity Awareness

Aims & objectives

Discrimination appears when people are treated unfairly or unjustly based on characteristics like ethnicity, age, gender, disability or other aspects. Young people facing discrimination often deal with uncertainties about their future due to political populism, social exclusion, and fake news. These challenges can make it hard for young people to find equal opportunities in education and jobs, and they might feel left out or unfairly judged. This can lead to feelings of isolation and a lack of confidence in society.

Political populism can make things worse by spreading divisive messages that target marginalized groups. This not only increases discrimination but also makes it seem acceptable to some, making it harder for young people to imagine a fair and equal future. Social exclusion further isolates young people, cutting them off from important resources and support. This can create a cycle of poverty and marginalization, making it even tougher to overcome discrimination.

Join our ErasmusPlus project to learn more about these issues and how to combat them through raise awareness campaigns! Together, we can create a more inclusive and supportive environment for all young people. Are you ready to make a difference? These are our proposed objectives:

1. Developing the competences of 30 youth workers to organize successful and efficient awareness campaigns aiming to promote tolerance through developing media literacy and critical thinking;

2. Enhancing the capacity of 10 NGOs to become active against hate speech and discrimination in their local communities and online by following the No Hate Speech Youth Campaign guidelines and methods;

3. Developing an efficient network of youth workers is by creating a sharing space, we can exchange good practices, efficient tools, and improve our services and internationalization, which will empower youth workers to better support young people facing discrimination.

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

The project gathered 26 participants, youth workers from Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain - Youth workers (long-term volunteers, social workers, educators, social pedagogues, community development facilitators, counsellors, trainers, facilitators, and other related staff implementing non-formal activities), who are actively involved in promoting tolerance and fighting discrimination.

Training methods used & main activities

Our daily program was divided in 4 - 1:30 hours sessions, 1 hours reflection/evaluation and inter-cultural evenings. In terms of NFE methods (indoor-outdoor), we have used in a holistic approach:
- Energisers before each session;
- Plenary inputs by trainers/experts;
- Guest speakers/study visits - opportunity to listen and observe how ‘others do it’;
- Presentations of participants;
- Digital content creation sessions (videos, posters, e-guide);
- Topic-related board games;
- Team-building, ice-breaking activities;
- One-to-one, group work based on discussion, debates, brainstorming, sharing ideas;
- Learning by doing - especially when testing the tools and undertaking practical exercises;
- Role-play, world-café, forum theater;
- Study cases, problem solving scenarios;
- Cultural awareness activities;
- Open spaces sessions where participants choose their topics of interests;
- Thematic board games;
- Daily reflection/evaluations of the learning process.

Outcomes of the activity

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Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the trainer.

I worked on this training for 9 days as a full time trainer.