Training Trainers for Human Rights Education with young people

Aims & objectives

A training for trainers course organized by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe.

AIM
To develop the competences of the participants in working with human rights education at national and regional level and to enable them to act as trainers or facilitators of human rights education activities with young people based on non-formal learning approaches.

OBJECTIVES
To deepen participants’ understanding of key concepts of human rights in Europe today.

To familiarise the participants with the approaches and activities of COMPASS (the manual on human rights education with young people) and with how best to use it and adapt it to local contexts and realities;

To explore current developments and new trends in human rights education throughout Europe;

To motivate participants to advocate for human rights education

To review and enhance participants’ competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) in working as trainers/facilitators with human rights education in non-formal learning settings;

To enable participants to develop activities and programmes for training multipliers in human rights education at national or local level, including national training courses and pilot-projects (supported by the European Youth Foundation);

To associate the participants and their organisations with the priorities of the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe related to human rights education.

To facilitate networking and further co-operation between participants and their organisations for human rights education across Europe.

To mainstream human rights education in youth work and non-formal learning.

To motivate and empower the participants to actively use information and communication technology as part of their own learning before, during and after the training course.

To support participants in further developing their potential as learners and facilitators/trainers in human rights education;

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

Youth trainers and human rights activists.

I run this training course with Dariusz Grzemny (PL), Sabine Clocker (AT), Darko Markovic (SR), Justina Pinkeviciute (LT) and Silvia Volpi (IT)

Training methods used & main activities

Group work, lecturettes, multimedia presentations, simulation exercises and debate exercises. COMPASS manual, constituted the core of the educational part of the training course.

Outcomes of the activity

Participants were prepared to deliver human rights education based activities in their localities (trainings, workshops, initiatives e.t.c) and from the post evaluation, we can be sure that this has happened to a good extend. Moreover, participants got acquianted with the idea and practice of e-learning and its benefits. We can safely assume that and informal network of human rights education practitioners have been created and works together in different projects.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

e-learning facilitator, sessions' designer, workshops' facilitator

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