Promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding - training στο Brashov, Ρουμανία, 17-23/6/2011

Τίτλος: Promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding
Ημερομηνίες: 17 έως 23 Ιουνίου 2011.
Τόπος: Ρουμανία, Brashov

Συμμετέχοντες: 3 άτομα 18-30 ετών.
Καλύπτονται το 50% των αεροπορικών εισιτηρίων και το 100% διαμονής διατροφής.
Συμμετοχή 30€.
Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής μέχρι Παρασκευή 29 Απριλίου στο programs@youthnet.gr αποστέλλοντας συμπληρωμένη την αίτηση συμμετοχής (δείτε και τον οδηγό συμμετοχής).

Training course - Promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding

17-23.06.2011, Brashov, Romania

Aim: The main aim of the training course "Promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding" is to exchange practices of interreligious dialogue by young people, their organisations and local, national and international authorities and to propose ways through which interreligious and intercultural dialogue can be further sustained through and as a result of the “all different-all equal” campaign and other relevant initiatives.

Objectives: The following objectives have been set in order to reach the aims as described above:

• To exchange practices, methodologies and approaches of youth work on intercultural and inter-religious dialogue
• To identify follow-up projects and priorities in intercultural and inter-religious dialogue with young people
• To identify concrete steps to be taken to improve intercultural and interreligious youth work
• To discuss and formulate key principles and guidelines for intercultural and interreligious dialogue in youth work and youth policy
• To address and identify the main issues and challenges faced by young people in a Europe marked by religious and cultural diversity
• To value, acknowledge and learn from the experiences of promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding
• To deepen the understanding and relevance of Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue in relation to Human Rights, Participation and Diversity.

Methodology: Methodological guidelines the course will be based on the principles and practise of non-formal education in youth worker and youth leader training.

The programme will seek to reflect and achieve the objectives outlined above, while considering also:

• The need to give visibility to discrimination issues and how they affect young people today
• Concrete and diverse examples of youth work practice in addressing discrimination and dealing with challenges posed to diversity on a regular basis
• The possibility to take advantage of the cultural and religious patrimony of Europe
• The need to address general matters, while deepening specific issues and concerns.

The programme will, therefore, rely heavily on the experiences of the participants, to be shared and discussed in thematic working groups. Plenary sessions will serve to communicate results and feed-back from the groups, as well as to present guest speakers’ reflections and proposals, especially on culture and on religion. The programme should be creative – an experience in diversity of cultures and religions! The Preparatory Group is committed to make the all the possible necessary arrangements participants may need for their religious practice during the seminar in as far as possible.

Results: One of the main functions of the TC will be to address issues related to the Intercultural Dialogue and the youth work and educational responses required. Besides this, the TC should also:

• Produce a statement affirming the key values, principles and purpose of intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue (according to the participants)
• Result in a set of guidelines for the (good) practice for promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding
• Be an opportunity to develop contacts and partnership between participants and organisations represented.

The participants will be encouraged to come up new project ideas. The follow up project and activities will be planed. A manual with course materials and recommendations will be published.

Participants: Number of participants: 30

Profile of participants in the training course "Promoting tolerance and greater interreligious understanding" - In General all the participants in the training courses should be:

• youth workers/leaders directly working with groups of young people in their own communities
• having/willing to have educational aims in their activities to develop skills of young people for active citizenship
• motivated to improve their skills in citizenship education through experiential learning
• ready to learn from their own experience and be fully involved in training activities during the entire course

Participants selection criteria: All candidates must apply by using the enclosed application form. Applications should be sent to the IDA. The training team will try as far as possible to ensure a balance between geo-graphical origin, different types of experience, cultural backgrounds and organisations, gender, institutions or projects as well as different concepts of citizenship and consequently try to compose a group of participants that represents the diversity and richness of a multicultural Europe. Participants having the possibility within their organization (green light from their hierarchy/colleagues!) to set up projects and cooperation activities within the Youth In Action programme after the training course.

Eligible countries:
Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania

Financial conditions:
IDA Network will provide board, lodging and programme costs during entire training course. 50% of travel costs will be covered by organisers of the course.
We ask for your contribution to this training course, which is: 50% of your travel costs;

Draft Programme outline

• Day 1

Arrival and registration of the participants

• Day 2

10:00 Opening of the seminar
11:30 Keynote speech on Religious and Cultural Diversity in Europe
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Keynote speech on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue in Europe
16:00 Working groups on common issues, challenges and expectations related to the seminar
19:00 Dinner
21:00 Cultural programme

• Day 3

09:15 Feed-back from the groups of the previous day
10:00 Keynote speech on the role of religion and spirituality among young people
11:30 Thematic working groups, with a focus on:
The role of local authorities in working on interreligious and intercultural dialogue
The consequences of terrorism on interreligious and intercultural dialogue
Religion, culture and gender
Secularism and atheism
Islamophobia
Antisemitism
Christian phobia and other forms of religious discrimination
The Alliance of Civilisations Initiative
Religion and Human Rights (and human rights education)
The role of and working with the media
Racism and discrimination
Faith-based youth work
Education for interreligious and intercultural dialogue
Migration
The impact of globalisation
Identity and culture
Armed conflict and intercultural youth work for conflict transformation
Defining intercultural dialogue and intercultural learning

NB: The Preparatory Group envisages a maximum of 12 thematic groups. The final
choice of themes will be made on the preferences and experiences of the participants

13:00 Lunch
14:30 Thematic working groups continued
19:00 Dinner
Free evening

• Day 4

09:15 Presentation of projects and initiatives for interreligious and intercultural dialogue
The White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue
The European Year for Intercultural Dialogue
The Alliance of Civilisations youth initiative
11:00 Thematic working group continued
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Thematic working group continued
19:00 Dinner
21:00 Cultural evening

• Day 5

10:30 Presentation of the conclusions of the thematic working groups
13:00 Evaluation of the sseminar
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Closing session
19:00 End of the programme
21:00 Optional cultural programme

• Day 6

Departure of participants.