Plural Perspectives: Promoting diversity awareness

Aims & objectives

The project aimed to tackle the socio-cultural obstacles to achieving equal rights and non-discriminatory values, promoting EU values among young people, especially among those at risk of discrimination and social exclusion, and improve the level of success of spreading the message "tolerance towards diversity" in local communities by increasing the capacity of all stakeholders from EU to organize successful and efficient local awareness campaigns aiming to promote tolerance and combat discrimination.

Objectives:
- Developing the competences of 28 youth workers to organize successful and efficient awareness campaigns aiming to promote tolerance through developing media literacy and critical thinking;
- Enhancing the capacity of 9 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;
- Developing an efficient network of 9 NGOs by creating a sharing space meant to exchange good practices, efficient tools and improve their services and internationalitation.

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

The project gathered 28 participants, youth workers from Romania, Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary and France, from the partner NGOs' staff pool (long-term volunteers, social workers, educators, social pedagogues, community development facilitators,
counselors, trainers, facilitators, and other related staff implementing non-formal activities), who are actively involved in promoting the 'Tolerance for Diversity' values.

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

Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556115245666

Booklet - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_2G4RKpGoXYNhde99Z_GP4zznHHBEIRE/view?usp=drive_link

Campaign Videos:
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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.