Filming Racism
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: Mar 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Training course aim to create a documentary with actors of different ethnicities and backgrounds in order to promote social cohesion and diversity.
Moreover the training course is about effective work with young people on a European and international level, in the framework of Erasmus Plus Program and encouraging more young people from rural areas. Training course will develop capacities of young people in the field of intercultural youth work and to improve the quality of new projects by strengthening participants' awareness of cultural diversity and their ability to successfully work with intercultural youth groups, by developing knowledge on the formation of identity and the impact of different cultural values, by providing a platform to share experiences and knowledge, by giving methodology and methods on how to stimulate a fruitful effect out of cultural diversity for youth and surrounding society and to manage conflicts arising from cultural diversity. During the process of this project young people from different countries will experience living and working together and realize different workshops about identities, conflict management, diversity and harmony. We will use methods of Non formal education such as experiential learning, simulation, peer to peer education, groups and individual works. Meanwhile implementing cultural nights we will be create a space to learn about other cultures.
It takes place from December 9th to 16th in Kars, Turkey. Youth leaders and volunteers and activist from different countries will explore the roots of their identities, diversity and sense of living in harmony and learn how to deal effectively with cultural diversity in youth projects.
Expected outcomes: We will have documentary that will promote diversity and social cohesion. We are expecting to invite youth from local area to show movie in local cinema and then have debate of understanding of identity and diversity in the frame of tolerance, mutual understanding and respect. Partner countries are: Macedonia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Tunisia, Netherlands, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Georgia and Turkey.