Riga, Latvia 26 July – 02 August 2011
The aim of the project was to promote social inclusion of minority youth by means of training of youth workers on inclusion and participation of young people. Representatives of non-governmental organizations, youth workers, activists and volunteers from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Georgia, Poland, UK and Germany have taken part in the training course.
During the training course participants:
- received a broad picture of minorities in Europe.They have designated the issues of minorities in Europe from participants’ personal and professional realities. Young people discussed issues of immigrants, refugees, language issues, definition of “national minority”, exchanged experience about minorities in their countries;
- received a lot of practical information and skills about ways and effective methods of inclusion of such young people and fostering of their participation through sport activities, multimedia, street art and music events and theatre;
- discussed principles of youth work; competences and responsibilities of youth worker; typical youth activities; realities of youth work in participants’ countries; strong and weak sides of youth work, perspectives and opportunities of youth work for participants; youth work in multicultural environments;
After the training course, participants are very motivated and enabled to use received knowledge and experience, to contribute to activity of their organizations and act as multipliers, to work with young people with fewer opportunities.
The project was supported by European Youth Foundation.