Development of new Inter-religious tools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Development of new Inter-religious tools

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 : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)

Project Summary

We are all aware of constant raise of cultural and religious diversity in Europe. But we are also witnessing the raising of bigotry towards differences, especially when it comes to religion. Last events in connection to Islam showed how big are the gap of understanding, how it’s easy to destroy the peace and create massive events that disturb societies and contribute to build barriers. As members of NGOs, Youth Workers and Youth Leaders working with youngsters, we tried to discuss and tackle this and other topics in a safe environment, while opening young minds using non formal learning methods, workshops from manuals and toolkits. But when dealing with a highly sensitive topic, as interreligious dialogue, especially with young people involved, tools to use for this were very limited. As Youth Workers, we felt the need to work more on this issue. With joined strengths, and strong will, together with our respective and experienced partners, we wanted to find creative methods for introducing interreligious dialogue to youngsters, but also a tool for promoting it. Many experienced textbook and methodology manuals writers have argued that games are not just time-filling activities but have a great educational value. Therefore, we came to an idea to create and as well created board games, card games, specified for this topic which will be used in Non-formal learning.The main aim of the project was:- creating and developing new Interreligious Dialogue – IRD tools/board games for development of youth works and trainers Objectives:- Developing competences of youth workers, leaders and trainers needed for working in intercultural and inter-religious European societies.- Sharing good practices in the field of IRD and ICD and using tools and methods for establishing and maintaining IRD in heterogenic religious communities- Capacity building of partner organizations for implementing IRD activities in different contexts in order to improve state of pluralism of IRD and promoting diversity concept- Exploring, creating and sharing relevant and effective tools working in a field of IRD as well providing opportunity for testing these methods in practice- Developing new Board Games for IRD used to familiarize with other religions and promoting religious understanding and tolerance.- Creating a network of multipliers of new Tools/Board Games related to IRD through EuropeThe project had two main components: 1) Learning through non-formal Education; 2) Practicing by taking concrete actions. The logical flow of the project was:1 seminar where was started creation of tools2 youth worker went back home and started to work for tool and reached the development of a beta version3 training meeting with youth worker where the games were tested4 the final version of developed games was used at local level with young people5 an evaluation seminar was organized with youth worker involved in the process and revised the process they developed recommendation for policy makers

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121954 Eur

Project Coordinator

IUVENTA NEVLADINA ORGANIZACIJA UDRUZENJE & Country: RS

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION INTERCULTURA
• OPCINSKE ORGANIZACIJE CRVENI KRIZ NOVO SARAJEVO
• PERTEJ BARRIERAVE
• BE – EDUCATION, EQUALITY, SUSTAINABILITY(BESS)(SEI – BILDUNG, GLEICHHEIT, NACHHALTIGKEIT)
• BETTER LIFE IN KOSOVA
• BATMAN FEN LISESI MEZUNLARI DERNEGI
• FORENINGEN FRAMTIDSTAGET