TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Vitalii Volodchenko
The training course "Youth workers against extremism and xenophobia" will took place in Austria and involved youth workers from 6 Programme Countries. During the Training course, we explore the issues of extremism, intolerance and find solutions to act as youth worker against extremism and xenophobia. The Training Course support young people and active youth workers to learn about the ways of living together, accepting differences and fighting together against extremism and xenophobia in nowadays reality.
Our aim. With this Training course, we aim to empower youth workers and youth leaders with skills, knowledge, and attitudes to develop a capacity for fighting extremism and xenophobia. Our objectives are the following:
- To re-explore the key concepts, such as extremism and xenophobia and their transformation in European reality
- To analyze what are the main reasons for the rise of Extremism and
Islamaphobia in different European countries
- To discover the right attitudes towards an intercultural society
- To promote active citizenship, tolerance and non-formal education
- To analyze the European values and how they can be used in contrasting those phenomena.
- To develop new projects fighting extremism and xenophobia
Target group of this training course is youth workers from Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands
Project based on non-formal education methods, like ice breaking and team-building activities, workshops on communication, simulations, theater, daily evaluations, working groups, trips, NGO fair, field visits and other creative activities.
The youth workers also contributed to the project with their input by preparing recommendations for NGO-s, Youngsters and the oppressed. The recommendations will be spread in their countries. This will contribute to the spreading of Tolerance and understanding in Europe. The participants also developed several international projects. The topics of the projects are diverse.
One of the outcomes of the project is video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWKXiwKUNWo
Full time preparation and leading the training course sessions with an amazing co-trainer