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Data: 18/04/2017
Call for Trainers: "Youth Workers for More Inclusive Europe"
Armenian Progressive Youth NGO is looking for 2
Application deadline: 01/05/2017
Description
Training Course "Youth Workers for More Inclusive Europe" will take place in Yerevan, Armenia between June 19 - 26, 2017. It will involve 20 youth workers from Armenia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Ukraine.
Aims & objectives:
A. To provide conceptual framework on the notions of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism to 20 youth workers from different European countries;
B. To analyse the emigration and immigration situation in participating countries and to find out the causes of migration, namely push and pull factors;
C. To discuss and analyse the current migration challenges in Europe and try to offer solutions from the perspective of youth work;
D. To foster tolerance, respect and open-mindedness towards migrants while working with young people as a target group;
E. To share experiences and best practices of integrating young migrants in youth organizations;
F. 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;
G. To create a network of NGOs willing to be involved in the migration management process and contribute to the refugee integration process.
Target group: The Training Course is intended for youth workers who are ready to actively fight against extremism, discrimination and intolerance against refugees and migrants in their countries and who want to transfer the knowledge they gained in the project to the youth in their organizations and countries. The Training Course targets mainly youth workers in order to equip them with competences and knowledge on this topic.
Number of participants: 20 participants.
Background information:
Civil society organizations can play an important role as a response to the crisis and radicalization that has become its consequence. In some cases already NGO’s and active citizens have gone beyond their capacities to fill the gap left by national and regional authorities and have proven they have got the will and the need to be heard. This positive cases must be multiplied and the role of civil society has to be expanded. Thus, creating network of civic organizations working or willing to work in the field of migration is essential. It is also very important to build the capacities of staff members, social workers, youth workers and human right activists in the field so they can provide adequate support to refugees and migrants in the areas of education, social services, linguistic or psychological support as well as social mentoring and integration processes. There is a clear need of empowering civil society organisations which are working with refugees and migrants so they become stronger and valuable actors in the current refugee crisis. They need to be better prepared to contribute to the resolution of the refugee crisis and to policies for the integration of refugees. This improvement and professionalization can result in providing both high quality support to the refugees and migrants as well as in supporting the EU and national policy making with valuable input.
Methodology:
Through Non Formal Education methods: exercises, discussions, presentation of examples of good practices, youth policies in the field of combating discrimination and promoting multiculturalism, we want to encourage peer learning and inspire youth workers to discuss follow-up and take action in their own countries following the Training Course. Developing skills and competencies of the participants that are needed when working with refugees and migrants, and empowering them to make real change in their local communities and societies should be in the focus while choosing the methods of the Course.
Requested trainer profile
All applicants should:
• Have a good understanding of emigration, immigration, integration and multiculturalism concepts, theories, practices and European policies;
• Have a good knowledge of current migration challenges in Europe and ability to doscuss those challenges from the perspective of youth work;
• Have a good overview and experience of best practices of integrating young migrants in youth organizations;
• Have an ability to design a educational curriculum that will 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;
• Have an experience of working with mixed and international groups of participants;
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