TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Enrico Elefante
The project mainly focuses on promoting European values, such as respect to human dignity, freedom, equality, respect for human rights, including the rights of refugees and migrants. Through non formal education tools and professional capacity building training the Training will support the participants in the acquisition of competence that they can use back home to their local communities.
participate in fostering tolerance and solidarity towards refugees on both the local and the European levels. Most of the EU countries involved in this project have certain percentage of migrants and refugees as well as face the problems of radicalisation and extremism.
The objectives of the Training Course are the following:
To create a network of NGOs willing to be involved in the migration management process and contribute to the refugee integration process.
To equip youth workers with capacity to combat hate speech towards migrants, misinformation about refugees and xenophobic discourse by drawing attention of their local communities to positive contributions of refugees into Europe
To provide conceptual framework on the notions of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism to 30 youth workers from different European countries.
To analyse the emigration and immigration situation in participating countries and to find out
the causes of migration, namely push and pull factors.
To discuss and analyse the current migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions
from the perspective of youth work;
To foster tolerance, respect and open-mindedness towards migrants while working with
young people as a target group;
To share experiences and best practices of integrating young migrants in youth organizations.
Youth workers aged 18-35, coming from:
- Armenia Armenian Progressive Youth (Organizers)
- Belarus Ligadobrovolnogotrudamolodezhi;
- Czech Republic European Youth Center Breclav; - Denmark Danish Youth Team;
- Georgia International Center for peace and integration;
- Italy Identities;
- Poland INPRO;
- Portugal Experimentáculo Associação Cultural;
- Romania ASOCIATIA GEYC;
- Spain Consejo De La Juventud Valenciana;
- Ukraine Society Initiatives Institute.
All the training program has been based on Non Formal Education Activities based on the CoE - EU Framework of Human Rights Education EDC-HRE.
Every day there was a simple but meaningful evaluation activities focused on the objective
presented and expressed daily with a specific flipchart located in the activities room close to
the “program wall”, a big poster made by different parts and colours for every parts and
objectives of the program itself.
In the final activities of the program we provided the participants of different moments to
evaluate the entire project, with three specific activities, and namely a module to fulfill
provided by APY, a pizza-model where to address specific comments for the trainers and a
thermometer evaluation module that it has been used both for the mid term than for the final
evaluation, also to check specifically every single project objective. The general rate it has
been more than sufficient for the participants group characteristics and our expectations,
considered that the awareness about the topic it was very various for the participants and
the average result have been fitting our best expectations.
http://www.apy.am/news/youth-workers-for-more-inclusive-europe-training-course-in-yerevan/
Full Time Trainer and responsible of Training Activities, also in preparation and reporting phase.