We BELIEVE in Unity Together! is a training course for youth leaders and youth workers and it aimed to promote tolerance and mutual understanding among youth of different communities and religions and was held in Prishtina (Kosovo) from 12-19 May 2014. With this project we looked forward to shed light on the growing importance of dialogue and mutual understanding of persons living together in a multi-religious community. The project took place in Pristina, Kosovo, and foresee 7 days of activities, excluding the travel days. 30 participants from 10 different countries were involved and a mixture of youth leaders/youth workers coming from countries of the European Union and the South East Europe Region participated. This diversity of backgrounds enhanced the mixture of ideas and experiences in a multi-cultural/multi-religious environment, for a better learning process of both the participants as well as the trainers. This course gave to participants the opportunity to improve and increase their understanding and knowledge of the diversity of religions and aimed to increase their problem – solving skills on the basis of non-formal, equality and human rights education, when confronted with prejudices, stereotypes and racism in the multi-religious community we live in. Non formal education methods like as team building activities, workshops, role playing, group discussions, brainstorming, study visits were used. Our goal through this project was also to create a real cooperation among participants, in order to build future projects. Youth 4 Society organisation was happy to be represented in this activity with 3 participants, which were satisfied with the outcomes of the training. As well Youth 4 Society put new contacts for future cooperation.

Action 3.1 Training Course for Human Rights Education with Children took place in Durres, Albania from 10-17 March 2011 and was implemented from Youth 4 Society organisation. The training gathered 23 participants from Programme Countries and South – East Europe and topic was dedicated to human rights education for children and promotion of Compassito- manual of human rights education for children. Aim of training was that participants improve their competencies related to human rights education with children and increase their personal and social development through different activities. In the training trainers team worked in three dimensions: giving knowledge, changing attitudes in positive way and improving skills of youth workers in human rights education for children.

Objectives of the project were:

1. to develop competencies of 24 youth workers/ leaders in key concepts of human rights education with children
2. to promote Compasito (manual of human rights education for children) and to familiarize the participants with its approaches and activities in order to use it and adapt in local realities
3. to review and address essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for youth workers working in human rights education for children and to offer to then practical tools how to work with children on human rights education
4. to promote non formal education among youth leader who are working with children
5. to develop future partnership among youth leaders in activity in order to set up  a pan European network of youth workers working in human rights education with children
6. To promote Youth in Action programme as a tool for promoting children rights and peer to peer education

The methodology was based in non formal education approach, lot of communication based methods, activity based methods, socially focused methods and self directing methods were used.

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