Empowering Youth Promoting Tolerance

Project Aim and Objectives

The project aims to promote peace in a diverse community by promoting tolerance by fighting and breaking negative stereotypes such as hatred, discrimination, exclusion by training young people and engaging them to take an important role in empowering themselves and their community. theirs.

Specifically, this project aims to:

To engage at least 25 young people directly by training them through non-formal education methods in relation to the process of building peace and tolerance, equipping them with appropriate skills and knowledge, as well as competences to combat stereotypes negative in their community.
To empower young people and the community in the process of building peace and tolerance on the one hand and on the other hand in highlighting the negative effects of stereotypes such as hatred, discrimination, exclusion, etc.
To promote and increase awareness for peace and tolerance in the community and for combating negative stereotypes such as hatred, discrimination, exclusion, etc. through awareness and information activities.

Project Aim and Objectives

Training of 25 young people – This phase consists of a 5-day training that will bring together 25 participants and aims to empower young people by training them through non-formal education methods in relation to the process of building peace and tolerance as and equipping them with appropriate skills and knowledge to combat negative stereotypes in their community.

At the end of the training, participants will be provided with a Certificate of Participation if they have attended at least 87% of the training.

Follow-Up – In this phase, the trained participants will engage in their community in order to promote peace and tolerance and share their personal experiences as well as to ensure the wide dissemination of project results to the young people.

Participants will have space and support to interact and carry out their activities with other young people and with their community, such as in schools, universities, youth organizations, youth clubs and forums, etc. This will be achieved mainly through the online campaign and community meetings/workshops. Participants will also have the opportunity to carry out their own activities that they can come up with and prepare during the training in the second phase.

Participants will share materials prepared during the training and work closely with young people from the community in order to change negative stereotypes about tolerance as well as to raise awareness among community members for a diverse and peaceful society by promoting tolerance for the community as an opportunity for development and positive experience for young people. For this purpose, a well-designed online and offline awareness campaign will be implemented.

At the end of this phase, engaged participants will be provided with a participation certificate attached with a report acknowledging their engagement.

Training Days

Day 1

We started the 5-day training for young people in the framework of the project "Empowering Youth, Promoting Tolerance" a Pilot Activity project supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durres. On the first day of the training programme, participants had the space and the opportunity to: Get to know each-other and introduce themselves in groups through interactive exercises Get to know to the Council of Europe and the European Youth Foundation as supporters of this project. Get to know the project in more details through a specific presentation of the aim, objectives, phases, action plan and training programme. To be introduced to the topic of youth empowerment, to promote tolerance and to express their role in the community. On the first day of the training programme, participants had the space and the opportunity to: Get to know each-other and introduce themselves in groups through interactive exercises Get to know to the Council of Europe and the European Youth Foundation as supporters of this project Get to know the project topic and details such as: aim, objectives, phases, action plan and training programme

Day 2

The 2-nd of the 5 days training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Empowering Youth, Promoting Tolerance" a Pilot Activity project supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durres. The training program today was very productive and interactive for the participants where specifically the participants worked in groups on topics such as: Tolerance as a concept! Human rights, gender perspective, diversity and inclusion. Current situation, needs and challenges of the community where we live. Young people as key actors for peace. The training program today was very productive and interactive for the participants where specifically the participants worked in groups on topics such as: Effect of digital media in our community Digital media, addiction or a powerful and useful tool Human Rights in the digital environment Addressing social issues through digital media

Day 3

The 3️-rd day of the 5 days training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Empowering Youth, Promoting Tolerance" a Pilot Activity project supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durres. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Learned more about the meaning of negative stereotypes that are found in the community where we live. Learned more about the negative effects of these stereotypes on our community. Had the opportunity to give their creative ideas on methods on how to fight negative stereotypes in the community. Also had the space to simulate cases through immersive theater and to understand the target groups that contribute negatively to intolerance as well as the target groups that are most affected. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Got informed with facts and stats about the usage of digital media Get to know digital media tools Learned how to make an impact using digital media Learned how to tackle human rights through digital media

Day 4

The 4-th day of the 5 days training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Empowering Youth, Promoting Tolerance" a Pilot Activity project supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durres. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: They had the opportunity to reflect on themselves and understand what their role is in the community and what they can do to promote peace and tolerance by combating negative stereotypes. They had the space and opportunity to reflect on themselves and to understand how they can contribute to their community about the peacebuilding process by combating negative stereotypes. Learned about ways and methods of conducting online awareness campaigns. Developed their ideas to campaign for the promotion of peace and tolerance. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Prepared follow-up activities in community Learned how to make an online campaign Learned about volunteering through digital media

Day 5

The 5-th and the last day of the 5 day training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media" a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Planned follow-up activities in community Gave feedback on the training Certificate ceremony

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Workshops

Workshop - Hate speech

Participants learnt about hate speech and how it affects everyone’s life. They were introduced to forms of hate speech and how to avoid it.

Workshop - Discrimination

Participants learned that Discrimination is considered any form of exclusion, restriction or any preference, with the intent to deny equal rights.

Workshop - Say no to cyberbullying

Participants learned that cyberbullying is a unique form of bullying that can be combined with other forms of bullying using digital technology. It can be used to bully others verbally, psychologically or through social media.