24 - 30 August 2002, Jurmala, Latvia
About twenty young people, representatives of minority youth organizations from Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Ukraine taken part in six-days training devoted to minority issues, human rights and work with minority young people.
Aims of the training course:
- To familiarise youth leaders and activists with human rights;
- To train the participants in methods of human rights education;
- To empower minority leaders to effectively deal with conflict situation from an intercultural dimension, especially in minority-majority relations;
- To exchange experience and realities of individual minority groups concerning minority rights observance, cases of racism and intolerance;
- To empower and motivate minority youth leaders in their work;
- To raise the profile of minority youth work at local and regional levels;
- To facilitate process of development of local organizations and communities;
- To discuss future plans and perspectives of common work.
Elements of the programme for the training course:
- Welcome evening
- Presentation and exspectations of the participants.
- Youth work and work in the team.
- International evening.
- Parallel workshops: “Project management” and “Time management”.
- Parallel workshops: “Intercultural learning” and “Conflict resolution”
- Video training
- Quiz show “Brain ring”
- Human Rights and Human Rights Education.
- Educational programmes for minority young people of Youth Directorate and European Youth Centres of Council of Europe.
- Workshop “Racism and intolerance”
- Workshop “Evaluation” Follow-up plans.
Working methods used:
- Lectures.
- Discussions.
- Workshops
- Exchange of experience.
- Energisers and ice-breakers.
- Interactive activities and games.
Results of the training course:
- Minority youth leaders, representatives of non-governmental organization from Latvia, Germany, Estonia and Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia were trained in methods of youth work and Human Rights education.
- They get useful information and knowledge about Human Rights, intercultural learning, voluntary work, combating racism.
- Participants have improved their professional and leader skills knew new methods of work with young people.
- They were empowered to actively work in their organizations.
- Participants made new contacts, exchanged experience and ideas, worked out future common projects.