Are you a youth or a youth worker and willing to learn and practice intercultural learning competencies, peacebuilding and anti-discrimination? Are you from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Romania or Poland? We invite you to apply for the capacity building training organised in Durres Albania, from 26 to 31 of March 2022.

The project “Reconnect, Reflect, Rebuild” aims to connect young people, youth workers, activists, and volunteers from across the continent in order to give them space to reflect and share their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The training will also explore the proliferation of hate-speech and disinformation online that seeks to distance us from each other and finally we will work together to rebuild from this difficult period by instilling a sense of hope and positivity for the future. In addition, it aims to build capacities of participants to give them an active role in building inner peace/well being and a more peaceful society.

The project is supported by the European Youth Foundation (EYF), implemented by PVN, Albania in partnership with 8 other partners from Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland and Romania.

The capacity building training will be based on non formal learning tools by an experienced team of trainers and facilitators. The training will have 4 sections a day, we start each day at 09:00 and finish at 18:00, plus the evening program.

The project stages, where we expect active contribution of participants are:

 

● International training for 27 youth workers, young people, youth workers, activists or volunteers, interested or actively involved in topics such as a) anti-discrimination, i.e. No Hate Speech b) Peace building and regional collaboration c) Interested in exploring their own experiences with others and working collaboratively with people of different backgrounds to create podcasts, online campaigns.

● Sharing project outputs online, including podcasts, social media posts, etc

● Follow up peer to peer workshops in 5 to 8 different countries conducted by training participants on the role of media /social media toward mental wellbeing and inner peace as a way to seed peace and combat discrimination and hate

● Share 3 weeks of online social media campaigns sharing messages of hope/ resilience, anti-discrimination and solidarity created by the participants of the training

 

● Be from 1 of 8 mentioned countries and partner organisations: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Poland or Romania

● Age from 18 to 30 (20 participants) and over 30 (7 participants)

● Be able to understand and speak English

● Be interested in the topics of peace, intercultural dialogue and regional collaboration

● Being able and motivated to organise follow up workshop in her/his own country

● Be active on sharing the project products podcasts, photos etc on social network / disseminate the project outputs

● Youth workers should have at least 1 year of experience working in the field of youth on topics such as anti-discrimination, voluntary work or intercultural dialogue.

If you are interested please fill this online form till 7th of February 2022