Training Course for Leaders of Minority Youth Organizations on Human Rights Education and Intercultural Learning

About thirty youth leaders and activists from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan participated in the training course. The main themes of the meeting were human rights education, intercultural learning and minority youth work.

The aims of the activity were as follows:

• To train the participants in methods of Human Rights education and intercultural learning;
• to develop access to educational tools in Human Rights education and intercultural learning;
• to enable youth leaders act as multipliers

The programme of the training course included different elements like:

• lectures and workshops devoted to Human Rights and Human Rights Education;
• lectures about Council of Europe and European Union;
• workshops “Intercultural learning”, “Project management”, “PR in non-governmental sector”, etc.;
• exchange of experience, discussions and presentations of organizations and countries;
• games from “Compass” and “Education Pack”;
• tests, intercultural evenings, visits, etc.;
• discussion of future plans