Quality interfaith and interreligious dialogue and acceptance through our youth work – IRDyw
The training course “Quality interfaith and interreligious dialogue and acceptance through our youth work” will be held in Mali Iđoš, Vojvodina, Serbia, 16-24. September 2017.
Aim of this training course is to promote interreligious dialogues and encounters in our youth work, through retrospective view of current refugee crises and islamophobia that is root of many xenophobic outbursts towards refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers.
Objectives of the project are:
– To raise competences of our youth workers to empower youngsters in our communities and raise their competences and motivation for critical review towards media and media reporting, when it comes to religious backgrounds
– To promote intercultural dialogue and acceptance among our youth workers and equipping them with tools and methods to further promote those among our beneficiaries
– Deconstruction of misapprehensions about different religions and alleged religious teaching about warmongering among youth workers and youngsters in our communities
The core activity of the project is – 8 days long training course. It will be organised in the beautiful guest house near Mali Iđoš in Vojvodina, Serbia (link to map), from 16th till 24th September 2017. Project will gather 32 participants, trainers and staff from 11 organisations and countries (DE, RS, HR, BA, MK, IT, GR, BG, TR, ME, XK).
The course is based on pedagogical understanding of Council of Europe and European Commission Partnership Programme and our own experience and expertise in project management and youth work for interreligious dialogue, inclusion and intercultural learning/acceptance. The course will follow the non-formal education approach, principles and methods and will be based on participants’ experience and exchange.
The language of the training course will be English.
Participants should fulfil the following criteria:
- Age above 18
- To be active youth workers willing to apply and multiply the knowledge received on this training course
- Willing to take action in the field of interfaith and interreligious dialogue and acceptance of diversity of immigrants, refugees and other youth with fewer opportunities, setting up the international and local NFE projects
- Willing to enter into partnerships with participants from different organisations and countries
- Willing to develop and implement Erasmus+ YiA projects for interreligious dialogue and accepting diversity in Europe when it comes to immigrants, refugees and other marginalised groups
- Able to work in English
- Able to attend the entire duration of the training course
Travel and visa costs reimbursement
Travel costs will be reimbursed only for the cheapest way of transport and preferably for the return tickets. Travel expenses are covered by the organizers 100% up to the maximum allowance per distance calculator and means of travel (for all the original tickets and ways of travel that are plane, bus, train or ferry, NOT taxi and NOT car).
Participants must keep all travel documents (tickets, travel agency invoices and boarding passes) as organizers are able to make any reimbursement only on the bases of presented documents!
The travel reimbursement will not be done on the spot, but after the return of the participants to their homes and after they send the ORIGINAL tickets and boarding passes to the organisers (and also after they fill in / submit / send us the evaluation forms from of the training course). When you are buying a ticket, ask for additional bill as well, if possible!
Please don’t buy your tickets before we approve them! When you will plan your trip and BEFORE buying your tickets, especially if your planned travel itineraries are different than 16th – 24th September, please inform us in advance, so we can approve your tickets and travel costs. Also, if you travel from elsewhere than your town and country, please, inform us, so we need to approve it as well. Thanks a lot in advance!
When planning your trip have in mind that there are some cheap flights to Belgrade airport, but you can also travel to Budapest airport as well, and from there take a minibus or train to Novi Sad.
We expect participants to arrive to the place of venue no later than 19:30 hrs on the 16th September 2017, so please do plan your flights accordingly.
For additional information, please be free to contact organizers. Like that we will avoid some uncomfortable situations in advance.
Participation fee:
NONE!
Accommodation, three meals and two coffee breaks are covered by the organisers.
Overview of the programme:
Please see the following link: IRDyw programme overview
Applications
Please note that the deadline for applications is 10th of July 2017 at midnight. We will contact only those applicants who have been selected to participate.
Selected participants will receive the detailed infosheet by 20th of July 2017.
Contacts:
Pavle Jevđić
E-mail: office@cjcd.org
Mobile phone: +381 65 818 1454