08-14/09/2018 - Training Course | Diversity in Changing Europe (Κόσοβο)

Would you like to go on a six months creative journey with a dynamic community of learners?

Would you like to try your hand at slow youth work in a world that is changing rapidly?

Join us for EUtopia? Diversity in a Changing Europe - a long-term creative lab for rethinking approaches to diversity in youth work.

It is designed for critical thinkers, who work with young people and are not afraid of opening controversial questions and questioning concepts.

It is for the very experienced among us, who sometimes feel tired of thinking, and the very fresh ones, who sometimes feel lost as to where to even begin.

The aim of the lab is to provide youth field professionals with an opportunity 1) to explore the complex and diverse realities of young people in a changing Europe and 2) to prepare to better respond to those realities by applying values-based perspective of diversity and reshaping their youth work practices.

The objectives of the lab are:

• to create a community of learners ready to engage in a challenging, self-reflective, long term, dynamic learning process;
• to identify the relevant socio-political and cultural conditions that influence the lives of young people on local and European level;
• to explore the contexts in which young people grow up today, and critically evaluate the current youth work responses to them;
• to understand reasoning and motivation behind young people’s views and attitudes, discover how opinions are formed and encourage critical thinking;
• to challenge/ radicalize the concept of diversity, exploring it based on a values-based, rather than from a normative policy perspective;
• to develop the most relevant competences for reconsidering and reshaping youth work practices that fit the current challenges;
• to incorporate principles of slow youth work in diversity related practices;
• to discover opportunities to incorporate values- based approach to diversity within Erasmus+ activities and to support international cooperation among participants.

The call is open to all people working professionally with young people. Any previous involvement with diversity topics will be an advantage.

The selected participants are requested to take part in all parts of the Lab.

Being selected for this course, all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered by the NAs or SALTO involved in this project - except a participation fee which varies from call to call and country to country.

This training activity is funded by: The Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

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