INFO PACK
FOR THE TRAINING COURSE
“Social Inclusion of Minority Young
People through HRE”
Date: 02-10 of March 2014
Venue: Macedonia
Short summary
Minority are victims of numerous and varied human rights violation. There is a need to go
beyond anti-discrimination policies/strategies designed to prevent unequal treatment of
young people and to get opportunity of minority young people for future and better
inclusion in the society.
Effective human rights education not only provides knowledge about human rights and the
mechanisms that protect them, but also develops the skills needed to promote, defend and
apply human rights in daily life. Human rights education also fosters the attitudes and
behaviors needed to uphold human rights for all members of society.
The
Aim
of the project is to increase participant’s knowledge and raise awareness about:
HRE, social exclusion and inter-cultural dialogue in youth work with minority young people
by initiating concrete activities bringing positive social change into the local context.
Objectives:
 To increase participants knowledge and raise awareness about: HRE, social exclusion,
intercultural dialogue and tolerance in youth work with minority people by initiating
concrete actions bringing positive social change into the local communities;
 To develop practical competencies in Non Formal Education-specifically in HRE
methods with minority people;
 To experience human rights and social inclusion education activities and explore how
to adapt them at local context;
 To enable the participants to act as HRE multipliers in the benefit of minority young
people affected by Human Rights violations;
 To develop a strong network and possibly plan for future cooperation project.
Methodology
The TC tends to raise the participant’s awareness in the field of human rights of minority
young people and develop their competencies in advocacy for minority HRE at local and
national level and ability to transfer the theoretical knowledge in concrete actions bringing
positive social change into the local context. The training course will have 4 different parts
including personal development, workshop facilitation, tools and methods, action planning
and closing. it will be developing new ideas for projects that can be applied under YiA.
The method we will use is Human Rights Education using manuals such as COMPASS (new
edition), T-Kit-Social Inclusion etc. Groups work, brainstorming, wall writing, association
game, discussion, fish bowl, debate, case studies, drama, role playing, simulation, audiovisual
techniques, forum theatre are the methods which will be use. Two points will be emphasized:
firstly, to equip participants with the skills of appreciating but not necessarily agreeing with
different point of view about an issue, and secondly, to help them to develop skills of finding
mutually agreeable solutions to problems.
Participation
This TC is looking for INTERESTED, MOTIVATED, CREATIVE, young people coming from:
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Turkey;
Slovenia;
Romania;
Portugal;
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Italy;
Croatia;
Bulgaria;
Georgia;
Azerbaijan;
Serbia;
Kosovo;
Albania.
Costs
The hosting organization will cover full board and lodging costs, and 70% of travel costs,
after providing original invoices, tickets, boarding passes…
Participation fee: 20 €
Accommodation: additionally will be announced.
How to apply
All you need to do is to be INTERESTED, MOTIVAED and to send us your application form
on the following e-mail:
contact.youthhope@yahoo.com
no later than 30th January 2014.
After reweaving all received application forms, the selection team of the project will selects
and inform all selected applicants by e-mail