please talk peacefully Erasmus Project

Project Title

please talk peacefully

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Currently the society is being polarised on various geo-socio-political levels. Adding the emerging tendency of radicalization across Europe has put into danger human rights and especially those of various vulnerable target groups (minorities, LGBT+, gender, but also age related issues). This project will help to implement acrticle 2 in Treaty of European Union: “The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.” (TEU:17). From the experience of the organisations and research we know that educators might be aware of the term “human rights”, but there is still confusion or lack of clarity about what the term encompasses. Or some educators and youth workers might know about human rights, but they don’t have the skills to react to specific cases they may face in they work or have the tools to educate youth in this regard. Hence the overall objective of the project is to give the youth workers the tools to help to spread the values of human rights and EU, to combat radicalization and decrease human rights violations in the long term. As a result of the project the youth workers are better equipped to support the social inclusion of young people, promote democratic values, non-discrimination and respect among the youth they work with.
OBJECTIVES
There would be three sub-objectives on three levels:
1. Organisational level – the project serves as a capacity building tool for the participating organizations, as the current consortium comprises of partners that bring their various skills and experience together to support learning and skill-sharing.
2. Expertise of the youth workers connected with the organisations will rise – by the end of the project they will have increased knowledge about human rights and human rights education, and concrete tools of of non-violent communication and solution focused therapy to use in their everyday work.
3. Spreading the skills further – developing an e-course and audiovidual materials about human rights, human rights education, non-violent communication and solution focused approach, which will improve the quality of youth work profession in general and make thse topics more available for the people working with young people.
TARGET GROUP
Target group of the project is youth workers from the Estonia, Slovenia, Poland as well as all over Europe via the developed e-course. Indirect target group of the project are young people who are reached by the better equipped and more knowing youth educators. Directly will be connected 3 organisations, 24 youth workers, 135 participants from local communities and 200 people gone through the e-course and digital learning.
ACTIVITES
To reach the aim and sub-objectives of this project will be 2 learning teaching training activities, where one will be on the topic of human rights education and non-violent communication and second will be based on human rights education and solution focused approach. During the full partnership and learning teaching training activities will be done 3 intellectual outputs, 2 of them will be audiovisual materials based on the two methods of non-violent communication and solution focused approach and the third one will be a cimprehensive e-course integrating the audiovisual material, interactive tasks, case studies and other method suitable for digital education.
There will be 2 transnational meetings to ensure the cooperation between the coordinators and people responsible for intellectual outputs.
After the intellectual outputs have been put together, there will be local dissemination events based, which will aim to showvase the outputs of the project.
METHODOLOGY
Used methodology will be based on values of human rights, so freedom, tolerance and anti-discrimination. Project managment level the methodology used will be agile leadership concept and growth mindset, where feedback is important and challenges are seen as opportunities. Methodology for learning teaching training activities will be based on non-formal and experiential learning concepts.
RESULTS
Involved organisations, youth workers, people from local communities, stakeholders, participants from the e-course will have a better understanding of human rights, what are the values and have two concrete “tools” on how to address these issues or to bring into attention these aspects in their everyday work with young people or in their personal life. In the long-term how these activities and output will contribute to better quality youth work, better approach to young people, then a more respectful society on a larger scale and in the long term towards a more peacful and respectful country, region, world.

Project Website

http://maailmakool.ee/talkpeacefully/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 73436 Eur

Project Coordinator

MONDO MTU – NGO MONDO & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Institute Ribalon
• KOBIETY.LODZ.PL