Background:
Reaching groups of young people that are excluded, isolated, discriminated, building a tolerant and healthy divers community is always a hard, challenging and difficult task. Streets have a huge potential in terms of informing, making awareness, including and building a community therefore specific methods designed for street work are highly recommended in this field and specially in times when they are not so widely applied.
The main goal of the project is to develop competencies among youth workers to contribute to a cohesive society though alternative street animation and campaigning methods.
More specific objectives are:
- To increase the knowledge level of young people and youth workers in topics like: global interdependencies, MDG-s, social and global
justice, social exclusion
- To create pro-active attitudes towards social exclusion and global issues;
- To encourage participation and involvement of young people in social processes;
to develop sense of common responsibility for the future of their local communities from a global and social perspective;
- To develop practical skills in street animation and campaigning methods (street theatre, clowning, joggling, flash mobs, animation, etc);
- To stimulate the participants to act as “social exclusion fighters” in their own organization and regions;
Eligibility
The target audience are youth workers (aged 18 and above) that are active in community development field and need to develop multiplying skills in alternative methods as street animation and campaigning in order to reach more target groups in their communities.
Previous experience in local projects aiming at community development or/and social intervention is desired.
There will be 24 participants in total and youth workers from following countries are invited to apply: Albania, Kosovo, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Turkey.
Venue
The training will be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, between 26 May and 3 June 2012.
Deadline: 12 May 2012
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