The long term project includes a 10-month programme directed towards the capacity building and competence development of youth work professionals, youth leaders, community mediators and educators (from formal and non-formal sectors) that are directly working at the local level with groups of young people addressing extreme polarisation dynamics.
The Project supported youth workers and educators to:
- Develop competences to prevent polarisation based on the principles of intercultural democratic citizenship and human rights education;
- Analyse the role of youth work addressing the causes, consequences and dynamics of polarisation and exchanging practices and methodologies on how to prevent it;
- Prepare initiatives contributing to prevent polarisation in the local communities and develop cooperation strategies in the Euro-Mediterranean area.
The objectives of the meeting included to build the capacity of local teams from Tunisia, Lebanon, Spain and Estonia and equip them with tools and understanding about Polarisation phenomenon, de-polarisation through youth work and tools and practices we can use for that.
The Capacity Building project “EuroMed Youth work for Intercultural Democratic Citizenship Preventing Polarisation” appears as a reflection on the role of youth work in preventing extreme polarisation affecting our communities and specially involving young people.
The main phases of the project include:
Capacity Building course
Dates: from the 24th till the 30th March 2022 (arrival and departure days), in Tunis (Tunisia)
Local Initiatives development
Time for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of a local initiatives preventing polarisation in the community.
Best practices Seminar
Dates of the seminar, from the 30th September till the 6th October 2022 (arrival and departure days), in Coma-ruga (Tarragona)
