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Data: 13/06/2016
NR.: 181
DATA: 13/06/2016
TITOLO PROGETTO: Real intercultural learning in youth exchanges
RICHIESTA PROVENIENTE DA: Martynas (Lituania)
TIPOLOGIA: Training Course
ARGOMENTO: Overall aim of the training course is to reflect, explore and learn more about the topic of intercultural learning in European youth work, particularly during youth exchanges supported by the Erasmus+ programme.
PAESI PARTNER CHE HANNO GIÀ ADERITO: -
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Activity date: 8th -17rd of July 2016
Venue place, venue country: Daugirdiškes, Lithuania
Summary: Overall aim of the training course is to reflect, explore and learn more about the topic of intercultural learning in European youth work, particularly during youth exchanges supported by the Erasmus+ programme.
Target group: Youth workers, Youth leaders
For participants from: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovak Republic.
Group size: 29 participants.
Details:
Background of idea. Youth exchanges are one of the main, most demanded actions supported by “Erasmus+: youth in action” programme. Intercultural learning of young people is one of the main educational aspects within youth exchanges. Quality of intercultural learning process very much depends on the certain set of competencies group leaders should posses. However, very often we notice, that in “real” intercultural learning of young people isn’t supported and facilitated by group leaders, because of lack of the competencies. Very often intercultural learning is limited by presentations of participating cultures to each other, tasting national foods, drinks, playing games, singing songs…. Basically everything what you can see on “travel channel”… no need to organize a youth exchange…
Objectives:
• To reflect critically about personal and cultural identity.
• To better understand concepts which related to of the themes/topics of intercultural learning (stereotyping, prejudice, inclusion and exclusion etc.).
• To gain a greater understanding of cultural diversity in different local and national realities.
• To develop intercultural competences related to working with topic of diversity.
• To explore the qualities needed by young people to deal with diversity and intercultural encounters in everyday life, and how to encourage these.
• Explore the youth exchanges as a tool for improvement of intercultural competence of young people.
• To get inspired to carry out future international youth projects through Erasmus+ programme on the topics related to Cultural Diversity / Intercultural learning.
• To develop competence of working with group dynamics and using it as a tool for quality intercultural learning among young people.
• To develop methodological competence of using various non-formal education tools for supporting intercultural learning processes during international youth exchanges.
• To develop ability of a group leader to encourage and promote intercultural learning processes as a key factor for implementation of high quality youth exchanges.
Wanted participants: youth leaders or youth workers who are directly working with young people; youth workers / youth leaders who already acted as a group leader in an international youth exchange and faced challenges in facilitation of intercultural learning process; those who are clearly stating the need (showing their solid motivation) to improve intercultural competence and it's application in international youth exchanges; those who are aiming to involve young people with fewer opportunities into their educational activities.
In other words if you ever acted as a group leader in a youth exchange and you have experienced: tensions and conflicts within international team of group leaders (while doing a youth exchange); lack of competence to mediate conflicts within international youth groups and transfer them into a learning experience; lack of competence to facilitate a group dynamics process as a tool and base for quality intercultural learning; understanding that intercultural learning is a "taste and dance" process (which is much more); not knowing an appropriate tools for supporting and provoking intercultural learning.
Additional criteria for participants’ selection: able to participate in whole duration of the learning process; committed to disseminate project results in their local realities; opened for follow up of project: establishing a certain network of youth workers for sharing and exchanging information and practises on quality intercultural learning in youth exchanges; able to understand others talking and express themselves in English.
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