Training course: Social power and the fight against prejudices: integrating anti-bias methodology in youth work

Location: Ommen, Netherlands

Dates: 24 August – 1 September 2016

Number of participants: 26

Participating countries: Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Organizer: Jongeren voor Uitwisseling en Begrip

Apply here: application form

Deadline to apply: 25 July 2016

Date of Selection: 31 July 2016

Inquiries about this training course: Alex Jbeily: alexjbeily@gmail.com

For general Inquiries and consultation: Contact Here

Costs: This project is financed by the Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme. JUB will cover your stay 100%, including food and drinks;
• 80% of all travel costs (door to door, cheapest way, until the limits below) will be reimbursed afterwards, after receiving all relevant receipts, including boarding passes; Visa costs can be reimbursed in cooperation with the organizer; There is a participation fee, which will be deducted from the travel reimbursement, one time, for both trainings:
– Participants from EU countries: 50 euro
– Participants from non-EU countries: 25 euro

• Participants with fewer opportunities may be exempted from the fee.

Limits for travel costs (door to door, to be reimbursed for 80%):
Croatia 275
Romania 275
Estonia 275
Spain 275
Hungary 275
Sweden 275
Italy 275
Turkey 360
Netherlands 0

For the training in Istanbul, the same system applies, just with a view different numbers regarding the limits for travel costs (door to door, to be reimbursed for 80%):
Croatia 275
Romania 275
Estonia 360
Spain 360
Hungary 275
Sweden 360
Italy 275
Turkey 0
Netherlands 360

Social power and the fight against prejudices: integrating anti-bias methodology in youth work

The main goal of this project, with two connected training courses in the Netherlands and Turkey, is to integrate anti-bias methodology in youth work. Key-words: stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, power relations, awareness
Jongeren voor Uitwisseling en Begrip (JUB) is looking for participants for a 2 training course project called “Social power and the fight against prejudices: integrating anti-bias methodology in youth work”. The main goal is, as the title describes, to integrate anti-bias methodology in youth work.

First training: Ommen, the Netherlands, 24 August – 1 September 2016 (including travel days).
Second training: Istanbul, Turkey, 17 – 23 October 2016 (including travel days).

Discrimination is a worldwide social problem and a common ground for individuals without the recognition of social statuses. Generally, ethnicity, religion and opinions, age, disability, social sex identity and sexual preferences are the main kinds of discrimination types. The European Commission states that the increase of acceptance of differences in public sphere notwithstanding also underlines that there are still huge differences between countries in Europe (“Discrimination in the EU in 2012”, Eurobarometer). Even though, multiplicity of discrimination types change according to countries, constituent and underlying elements of every type of discrimination are fed by same sources: prejudices and social power.

According to the Anti-Bias approach, discrimination occurs when social power is used with prejudices against to the ‘other’. The most powerful tool to eliminate discrimination is to try to remove prejudices and to be aware of social power and power relations in the public sphere. One of the main aims of this training course is to build a base to raise this awareness. We want to take this Anti-Bias approach, which we want to use methodologically, as ‘youth work against discrimination’ for strengthening youth workers in national and international youth work, project managers, trainers and other multipliers and, for them to apply this method in their own working areas.

For this method, first we want to start with a self-reflection process, in which participants will develop their understanding of prejudices, power relations and discrimination. Afterwards, we aim to pursue with a training process in which they will use their own experiences to create perspectives for their working fields. To ensure the transfer of anti-bias approach to working fields and to participants’ private life is one of the other aims in this process. The objectives are:

– Enabling the actors who work in the field of youth work (participants) to gain methodological skills and knowledge about the anti-bias approach;
– Enabling participants to develop their own perspectives about discrimination, power relations and prejudices by experiencing;
– Enabling participants to work to fight against individual and institutional discrimination by integrating anti-bias approach into their working fields;
– Enabling participants to develop their own projects or/and support projects that are already applied by them;
– Enabling participants to reinforce the youngsters who work with them and make them raise awareness on discrimination by applying the anti-bias approach;
– Enabling participants to be informed about Youth Pass and Erasmus Plus and to use these tools in their working fields.

During the first training we will focus on Anti-bias approach and we will create project ideas by using anti-bias approach. After the first seminar the participants will implement anti-bias approach in their local projects.

And then the second training will happen in Istanbul in October in order to have more deep knowledge about anti-bias and we will evaluate the whole process.

Each partner organization will send 3 participants, making a total of 26 participants. Three professional trainers will guide the learning process. The methodology is based on non-formal education, with energizers, brainstorms, group work, discussions etc.

Organizers

JUB is a youth organization, founded in 2011, aiming to promote peace, understanding and co-operation between young people in the world. We aim to realize local and international youth activities, to promote tolerance between young people from different cultures and countries. Further, we hope to encourage active involvement in society, without any distinction because of race, social status, educational level or any other ‘disadvantage’. We work in a spirit of respect for human rights and we highly value sustainable development. Our projects are carried out by trained professionals, mostly based on non-formal education methods. It means we make use of several techniques, like brainstorming, discussions, presentations, role plays, simulations and expert inputs. The proverb ‘learning by doing’ is most suitable here. In short, we create a space for young people to develop themselves.

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