Youth4Remembrance

Aims & objectives

1. to share and improve non-formal education methods, best practices and awareness-raising methods for making young people interested in remembrance, developing their skills in critical analysis of history and its connections to the present as well as enabling them to increase their active citizenship around remembrance
2. to train and share experiences among peace and remembrance organisations in using online approaches in addition to their offline peace and remembrance work
3. to train organisations focused on social media in working with remembrance
4. to create a toolkit on tools for remembrance for youth workers
5. to network between the organisations involved in this application

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

The group consisted of 30 participants from 8 countries (Russia, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Armenia, France, Israel, Moldova), some of them coming from conflict regions and all of them working on peace-building and remembrance as activists, educators and youth workers. My co-trainer was also from Germany.

Training methods used & main activities

Some examples:
- Newspaper theater: method from Theater of the Oppressed by August Boal for storytelling
- Silent Discussion
- Open Space
- Mouse-Head game to introduce discussion on multiperspectivity

Outcomes of the activity

The main outcome of the project is an online toolkit with best practices, non-formal education methods and guidelines for youth projects around remembering critical history such as wars, genocides, displacement, occupations, colonialism etc.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was involved in creating the concept, the application, finding the location, the didactic methodology and implementation as well as editing the toolkit.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.