Seminar: Samarbeid med Midtausten og Nord-Afrika, Paris 27. oktober - 5. november

Seminaret er det fjerde i rekka av seminar som ser nærmare på ulike aspekt ved dei tre kulturkretsene i Europa; islam, kristendom og jødedom.

AIM
To develop Euro Mediterranean cooperation, reinforcing the quality of the EuroMed YOUTH Programme within an intercultural context, increasing the participants' skills in EuroMed cultures (not cultural management) and their active participation in the Euro Mediterranean process.

OBJECTIVES
- To know EuroMed cultures and their relation with the Christianism, Islam and Judaism.
- To reflect on the participants' own cultural identity.
- To identify the common elements in relation with the other cultures.
- To reflect on the place of secularism in EuroMed societies.
- To be able to create together using the past to prepare a better future.
- To prepare the framework and prosjektlos the participants in the realisation of concrete partnerships within the EuroMed YOUTH Programme.

MAIN FEATURES
Intercultural activities will be organized using different techniques and methods linked to communication tools like: languages, arts forms, food, traditions, (advertising), as well as using the five senses.
Activities will be organized using different techniques and methods linked to verbal and non-verbal communication.

Each group will work in its own topic, in relations to the three cultures and the place of secularism. Each group will have to research, develop and deliver a two-hour non-formal education acitivity to the rest of the group, which has a transferable charachteristic to be later implemented practically with youth within the EuroMed region.

articipants will have to research about the topic, how it was in the past; and they will have to prepare and organise one active performance to provide these discoveries to other participants; each topic needs to be crossed by two themes: the place of the women and the religion, in each of these four topics in the past, in order to be used during a debriefing and to reflect on today's reality.

Kostnadar
Reise og opphald vert dekka, og deltakaren må sjøl betale 1000 kronar.

Profile of participants

The course is intended to be an opportunity for further training for youth workers and youth leaders who:

• are experienced in the Youth field and familiar with this topic;
• are open to enrich their knowledge and awareness regarding the other cultures;
• are committed to prepare themselves for the above-mentioned subjects, previous to their arrival and to do the remote work requested by the team in case of selection;
• are motivated to undergo training and able to attend the course for its full duration;
• are supported by their organisation and have green light for implementing a Euro-Med YOUTH project;
• are able to communicate and work in at least one of the two working languages of this training course (English and French)

Søknadsfrist: 21. september 2007.

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