This publication was developed by young youth workers, volunteers and activists from the member organizations MO’s of Youth for Exchange and Understanding International (YEU). The project as a whole came under the project called The Wonderful Wizards of Youth Work, funded by the European Youth Foundation (EYF) of the Council of Europe (CoE) within the format of the annual workplan.
This publication is the outcome of the project ‘Variety is the spice of life’ which was implemented by Youth for Exchange and Understanding and funded by Erasmus Plus through BIJ – Le Bureau International Jeunesse, French Speaking National Agency of Belgium. This publication is for youth workers, young people and youth organisations. The publication was written and produced by participants and the trainers’ team of the Variety is the spice of Life training course held in November 2019 in Brussels, Belgium and short term mobility held in December 2019-January 2020.
Welcome to our ToTO publication! You are about to embark on the short journey with us, participants and the team who implemented the training course ToTO – Empowering Trainers and Organisers from 06th to 14th of December 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. In this journey, we will share with you our learning adventure on the way to become trainers and organisers, tips and tricks on good cooperation we compiled after some interesting experiences we had while trying to form a team, useful theories, models and tools that helped us to understand and build our capacities to do our best to make a training a quality and meaningful experience for young people.
‘Variety is Spice of Life’ was a one-year project that consisted of several different steps. During the one-year process, the concept was to build the capacities of the youth workers in order to enable them to work towards achieving this vision. This was done by exploring intercultural dialogue and gender diversity as a subject for their everyday work, the participants engaged in questioning current and promoting new practices by (re)thinking and (de) constructing cultural and gender concepts.
Europe has become more cosmopolitan due to constant migration within the borders of a country or from abroad for many reasons. People sometimes get the false opinions of certain people or groups from unchecked media tools, and they tend to commit hate crimes or bias/hate incidents. When prejudice-motivated adults raise children, they inevitably turn into harsh bullies who cause discomfort and injury to their peers just because they belong to different ethnicity, language, race, nationality,
religions, physical appearance, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The aim of the project was to equip youth workers and educators with a set of competencies to provide support and work with young people who have faced hate and bullying for their empowerment and re-integration as active stakeholders in the fight against human rights, tolerance and understanding.
This booklet is an outcome of the project “Youth work empowers youth to work” which was implemented by Youth for Exchange and Understanding and was funded by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. This booklet is about youth work, youth unemployment and youth empowerment. It outlines how youth work can play a key role in empowering youth to get employed.
Eurogames is a booklet that offers around 80 activities designed with an inclusive approach, focusing on the abilities of young people rather than their disabilities. The activities are marked with symbols defining their level of accessibility by participants with different abilities, including speaking, listening, sight, mental (emotional, behavior and learning), as well as physical difabilities. Seven main types of activities are available to be delivered, recreated, further developed and combined. These categories include ice breakers, energizers, group building, thematic, role play, simulations and evaluation methods.
This manual aims to provide us with practical information and specific tips on how to reduce our environmental impact. As youth organizations, we continuously organize educational activities, youth exchanges, training courses, conferences, etc. Yet, all these events have significant environmental consequences and potentially harmful effects. The environmental impact is usually not put as a priority when organizing our events. This is expected since the curricula of our activities might have nothing to do with environmental issues. Yet, it is time to pay attention to them and try to organize activities based on the values of social responsibility.
This guide has been developed by a partnership of former youth workers active in international and intercultural projects. After moving to the labor market, they recognized a competence gap in the field of intercultural communication skills among business people. Typically, progress towards the negotiation of economically beneficial contracts was often frustrated by mistakes in communication and a failure to understand the different cultures of trading partners. This was visible in many countries. Seeing this, the project team decided to prepare a guide and share practical knowledge and experience with business representatives.
In this handbook, we are going to use the term DIFABILITY, (which is the outcome of a project Eurogaming2010) instead of DISABILITY. The term comes from putting together the words: different + abilities. Our intention is to emphasize the abilities that these persons possess, not the lack of certain abilities. The purpose of the handbook is to increase knowledge and awareness about the different types of difabilities and how youngsters affected by them can be involved in projects.
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