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Prevention of radicalization and terorizm among youth by non-formal education
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project was created as the outcome of the workshop, organized in the frames of Tool Fair X in Budapest, December, 2015, where the majority of partners were involved as participants. There partners discussed the issues of "youthfication" of radicalism and terrorism, as outcomes of nationalizm and extremism what more and more young people are following.The aim of the project is to equip youth workers with set of competences and tools making them able to use non-formal education as a measure of prevention of youth radicalism and terrorism.The objective of the project are:1) to explore theoretical background of terrorism and radicalism and it's influence to concious of young people, to raise awareness about capacities of non-formal education in order to prevent such negative social phenomenons2) to learn good practices and tool from all over the world, presenting potential of non-formal education in the project' sphere3) to develop competences of youth workers necessary to deal with the issue of radicalizm and terrorism4) to work off the common Action Plan on prevention of radicalisma nd terrorism by non-formal education settings, with a special focus to youth, affected by assulym seekers crysis and conflicts.The 7-days training will be led by 2 professional trainers for the group of 25 l participants presenting countries, where the level of radicalisation is quite low and which expereinced peace division of territories (Czech republic and Slovakia), countries where youth lives in a very diverse environment (the Netherlands and the UK), contries affected by a very hign bumber of refugees (Macedonia and Ukraine) and countries affected nowadays by conflicts and hign level of radicalization (Turkey, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Palestine). Such a diversity of partners guarantee wide and objective view on the topic of the project as well as relevance of the outcomes of the training to different context.Learning outcomes of the project are strictly related to the objectives of the project. Besides, following key competences will be developed:- communication in mother tonque, as all of them will be asked to translate outcomes of the training into their languages, and they will also post news from the seminar in their social networks, on web-sites and will prepare news releases for their organizations- communication in foreign language, in order to explain themselves and communicate successfully in English- digitacl competences, in the shere of participation in No Hate Speech Momevent On-line, management platforms to share common projects, visualization thinking platforms, creation of TEDex conferences, using of Learning Badges- social and civic competences: understanding of capacities of non-formal education, motivation to take an acive civic position in dealing the the hardest social challenges in youth work, effective communication in the teams- cultural experssion: ability to present the culture of your country, region, community at the international level, readiness and curiosity to get to know other cultures- learning to learn: ability to learn from the sessions, trainers and other participants, as well as from practices of other organizations presented on the trainingThe project directly contrubite achievement of the specific objectives of Erasmus plus program:• improve the level of key competences and skills, with particular regard to their contribution to a cohesive society, in particular through increased opportunities for learning mobility and through strengthened cooperation in the world of education and training• foster quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalisation at the level of education and training institutions, in particular through enhanced transnational cooperation between education and training providers and other stakeholdersAs well, as support reaching of the current priorities: equipping youth workers with competences and methods needed for transferring the common fundamental values of our society particularly to the hard to reach young people and preventing violent radicalisation of young people.There are following impacts are expecting on the local, regional and national level:1) involvement of more youth into nnon-formal education and providing youth with better possibilities to escape radicalisation on involvement into extremists groups2) increasing of motivation and capacities of organizations involved to implement projects aiming prevention radicalisation and terrorism among youth3) increasing the level of informing of local community activists and young people directly about non-formal education programs and it's effect for the lifelong learning of young people and prevention radicalisation and terrorism among youth4) equipping youth NGOs with tools enable to deal with prevention radicalisation and terrorism among youth
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