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Training Course
Combating Discrimination against Migrant and Roma Minorities
September 18-28, 2012 – Strasbourg, France
OVERVIEW:
The purpose of the project is to train and equip youth leaders and community leaders of
skills, attitudes, knowledge and values related to the conduct of intercultural youth projects
promoting inclusion of migrant and Roma minorities in Europe. This is achieved through non-
formal educational methods that create comfortable, confident, respectful and empathetic
spaces for exchange. The participants will exchange their views and share their ideas and
experiences on the theme of discrimination against the Roma and migrant minorities in their
different social realities in the European, Oriental Europe and Caucasus, Mediterranean and
Balkans regions. The awareness of non-respected rights of migrant and Roma minorities and
the promotion of their inclusion will be facilitated by inputs of experts, exchange of best
practices, and the development of recommendations. These ideas will then be used to
develop new quality partnerships, as well as sustainable multilateral projects on the individual
and collective level of the development of new partnerships with quality and sustainable
multilateral projects. This training will focus on the inclusion of minorities in Europe, in
particular, the discrimination against the Roma and migrant minorities resulting from
prejudices, stereotypes and ignorance of the ways of life and realities of these minorities. This
training will be held for 10 days, in September 2012 and will bring 36 young youth workers,
from EU and neighboring partner countries (Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Caucasus).
OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
To train and to empower community leaders, volunteers, youth and social workers, as well as
leaders of youth projects of knowledge and related tools to conduct intercultural projects,
fostering the understanding and analysis of the realities and practices on the issue of
discrimination against minorities, in particular migrant and Roma, in trans-European (EU,
Eastern Europe and Caucasus) and Mediterranean countries. In addition, allow participants to
raise awareness to combat stereotypes and prejudices towards minorities, promote the
inclusion of young people from minorities in Europe and encourage social cohesion and living
together.
OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
To identify, analyze and understand the concepts of "minorities", "migrant",
"discrimination", "inclusion" and "Roma, Gypsies, people of travel", together with the
participant learners;
To exchange and compare experiences, perceptions and emotions experienced by the
participants from non-minority and minority background, in their professional or
personal practices in terms of discrimination and exclusion;
To allow learners to raise awareness of rights relating to the status of minorities and
the forms of discrimination they suffer, to be at their turn true multipliers in their local
reality;
To explore situations of exclusion and discrimination against minorities, including
Roma, by pedagogical and simulation activities;
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To support, develop and improve the competences of partner organizations and that
of youth leaders, in the field of management of intercultural projects fostering the
promotion of the rights and the inclusion of young people from migrant or Roma
minorities, in the trans-European and Mediterranean contexts with educational tools
and new methods of non-formal education;
To encourage empathy and solidarity of the young participants to the other in terms of
justice, respect for equality and diversity work on facilitating a positive evaluation of
the differences;
To create new projects in the inclusion of young people from minorities background
area, promoting social cohesion and living together;
To familiarize participants with the socio-cultural and administrative areas (legislation,
insurance, Visa, residence permit) of youth mobility projects in trans-European and
Mediterranean contexts;
To improve the knowledge and control of the European youth in Action Program
explaining the roles of the different structures, actors and materials that exist
(Executive Agency, national agencies, SALTO, unit Euromed, etc.);
To raise awareness amongst youth workers about the challenges and discrimination
minorities face in Europe, through voluntary actions so that they can act locally to
extinguish inequality;
To give learners the opportunity to acquire new skills and tools for the design and
management of projects that promote respect and inclusion of migrant and Roma
minorities in the EU, Eastern Europe and Caucasus and the Mediterranean countries.
WORKING METHODS:
Methods will be based on tools that facilitate intercultural learning in a trans-European,
Caucasus and Mediterranean context. It will be participatory and experiential in order to
promote active involvement amongst participants, who are considered as resources for
learning and the development of the group. Special attention will be given to the analysis of
the experience of all participants and the analysis to the issues and their causes, so as to to
plan and coordinate actions of cooperation. Some of the working methods may include:
Icebreakers;
Presentations;
Conference;
Discussions, exchange and confrontation of experiences;
Activities from educational textbooks with case studies;
Individual and group exercises;
Workshops to create projects;
Workshops for skills development;
Group reflections;
Meetings of associational and institutional players;
Immersion into local realities
Working languages: French and English
