Time for Diversity! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Time for Diversity!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue

Project Summary

“Teaching to others has taught me a lot about myself. I had the chance to learn a lot about myself thanks to the interaction, discussions and activities realized with the youth during the workshops. An unforgettable experience, I will continue doing it.” (Trainer)
“We are not all the same, but that does not matter. Enough that we respect each other and that everybody tries to understand why somebody things differently.”( Boy, 16 years)
“Today I understood that not everybody in the class room thinks that I am a bad person, just because I am a Muslim.” (Girl, 15 years)
Talking about migrants and role-play them allowed us to better understand their situation. I was surprised to learn that no European country was in the top 5 of countries hosting migrants. We’re told about migrants as if their arrival was a catastroiphe, but it is much worse in other places. This activity made us think about the preconceptions we have about migrants and all other people. Why would taking the train with a former inmate be dangerous? We consider the worse very quickly, but maybe it had nothing to do with the reason they went to jail. (pupil)

Involved partners: Estyes Estonia, Link Italy, JAVVA Belgium, IBG Germany and Grenzenlos as coordinator in Austria
Trained trainers: 34 within the included training, additional facilitators trained in national events
136 local workshops held in Austria, Italy, Estonia, Belgium, Germany for overall 2142 pupils in 2 universities, 5 primary schools, 88 secondary schools and 41 social institutions.
The strategic partnership was ment to foster quality improvements of youth work and to create a work space for LINK, JAVVA, IBG, EstYes and Grenzenlos to work on linking non formal working methods within a school setting. The frame of this project allowed us to develop innovative approaches for addressing the target groups and increase the quality of education and training and youth work in Europe and beyond through trained trainers for local workshops and mostly important the publication of a handbook.
To transmit the developed methods of the handbook on a local level all partners started local workshops.‘Time for diversity’ brought gained experiences on an international level and helped all involved partners to start a network of trainers and institutions that are willing to support on the one hand intercultural learning and on the other hand to promote the link between formal and non formal education possibilities.

Project activities:
+O1: Development of a handbook with intercultural learning methods for pupils, teacher, social workers,…

+ M1 Kick-Off-meeting hosted by IBG Germany (Stuttgart): Official start of the project

+ C1 Training of trainers hosted by Grenzenlos Austria: Training for already 20 active trainers per partner organisation who were later implementing local workshops in their home country.

+ A1 Local workshops at schools, social institutions and universities, Phase I (Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Estonia) run by the trained trainers

+ C2 Mid-term evaluation hosted by LINK Italy: Evaluation of the project phase and a second possibility to share experiences among the trainers and to work on the handbook

+ A2 Local workshops at schools, social institutions and universities, Phase II (Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Estonia) run by the trained trainers after the evaluation feedback

+ M2 and Multiplier Event Final evaluation meeting and presentation of the handbook hosted by JAVVA in Brussels within the final evaluation meeting we presented the results of our partnership. We invited local and European politicians, the local municipalities and local partners to show our work we did in the last months. Furthermore discussed about how we can continue working together and how we can spread the idea through our European and local partners.
One of our biggest highlights for the final meeting was the presentation of the handbook in front of 60 external guests and multipliers

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99750 Eur

Project Coordinator

GRENZENLOS – INTERKULTURELLER AUSTAUSCH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE LINK
• MTÜ NOORTEVAHETUSE ARENGU ÜHING ESTYES
• INTERNATIONALE BEGEGNUNG IN GEMEINSCHAFTSDIENSTEN
• JEUNES ACTIFS DANS LE VOLUNTARIAT ET LES VOYAGES ALTERNATIFS