Living Libraries for Dialogue
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Oct 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project "Living Libraries for Dialogue" wants to bring together a group of 25 youth workers and educators from communities around the Euro- Mediterranean area for a six days interactive training course that will explore the challenges of a meaningful intercultural dialogue and will develop youth work competences for preparing, implementing and evaluation Living Library actions in the public sphere thus promoting intercultural citizenship education.The project wants to mainstream intercultural dialogue and de-construct prejudices through the implementation of Living Library actions in order to encourage interaction and conversation bringing communities together. This is a “Library” which does not consist of actual books but of people ''human books' who are willing to share their stories and experiences with others, in order to fight prejudice and promote diversity. The purpose of bridging diverse communities as well as the importance to invest in the public sphere and to generate spaces where people can encounter diversity and de-construct fears and prejudices specially referring to migrants, refugees, and diverse minorities (cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious,...) is more necessary than ever. To do so, the project will bring together a group of “seeds” from communities around the Euro- Mediterranean area for an interactive training course to analyse the challenges of a meaningful intercultural dialogue and develop Living Library competences based on the principles of Intercultural Citizenship Education.The specific objectives the project wants to address are:To analyse the current challenges that intercultural dialogue faces in the Euro-Mediterranean context and explore the role of youth work in addressing prejudice and discrimination in our societies;To develop competences to prepare, implement and evaluate local actions based on Living Library methodologies in the public sphere;To draft guidelines supporting the preparation, implementation and the evaluation of Living Library events in the Euro-Mediterranean context;To increase the quality and develop strategies of cooperation within the Erasmus + Youth in Action programme, especially in the Euro-Mediterranean area, creating synergies and establish networks of cooperation between youth organizations that promote dialogue among cultures.
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