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No words?! Communication without Language
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project 'No Words?!’ is a 4-day seminar for 27 youth workers that will take place in the Bildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein in Werftpfuhl from May, 5 to May, 8 2016, with the official follow-up ending September 2016. The project partners will meet again during an international summer camp in Germany in summer 2016 to evaluate the first months of implementing the newly gained knowledge and developed methods. The aim of the seminar is to empower youth leaders to overcome the language barrier in non-formal education projects with young refugees.The planned project is a training event for youth workers to exchange best practice in the area of youth work that includes young refugees and to learn and develop methods for nonformal education without a common language.Objectives- To motivate and empower youth leaders to include young refugees in their activities.- To share experiences with intercultural communication and consider how to overcome common challenges.- To explore nonverbal nonformal education methodology as a tool for social inclusion.- To practice nonverbal nonformal education methodology and adapt methods for participants’ contexts.It is founded on the interest of our partners to include young refugees in their work that is often targeting at young people with fewer opportunities and in their democratic structures.The seminar will be based on nonformal education methodology, and will put a strong emphasis on using nonverbal methods so that the participants learn from the methodology used throughout the three days. Sharing of experiences will be another important feature of the methodology, as our partners regularly evaluate the sharing part of international seminars in our network as the most useful way to learn together. Envisaged results and benefits: - Participating youth leaders and their organisations motivated and empowered to include young refugees in their activities and democratic structures- European network of youth workers working with young refugees in a nonformal education setting- New expertise in nonverbal communication methods for nonformal education as a tool for inclusive youth work- In autumn 2016, based on practical experiences resulting from the seminar, we aim to publish a manual on nonverbal methodology for nonformal education- Young people less afraid of communicating with people from other countries, which will lead to increased mobility of young people and higher interest in learning other European languages

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