Project Reference: 2022-3-DE04-KA152-YOU-000094657
Topics: European Identity And Values – Preventing Radicalisation
Action Type: Mobility of young people
Countries Covered: 🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇱 Poland
Summary
Objectives
The main goal of the exchange ‘Building Bridges through Interreligious Dialogue ’ is to create a space where young people from Germany, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Poland and Spain can explore religious diversity and intercultural dialogue as a means to fight religious discrimination. Moreover, the exchange is intended to serve the promotion of non-formal education concepts in in the countries represented in the exchange.
To sum up it approaches the topic in three aspects: the right of religion as a human right, the diversity of religions and participation of young people in fighting religious discrimination.
Objectives of youth exchange ‘Building Bridges through Interreligious Dialogue ’:
-to open the topic of interreligious dialogue, to explore the religious diversity in participating countries;
-to create a safe space to discuss the roots of religious discrimination, hate speech strongly present in all participating countries;
-to look for ways of creating more open and inclusive societies and communities respecting people coming from the different religious backgrounds;
-to develop participant’s competences such as communication, teamwork and provide them an opportunity to fully benefit from the Erasmus + Programme internationally youth activity;
-to create inspiring environment and to support brainstorming ideas for future projects in the international field;
-to create a short movie – key project result with the aim to bring the topic of interreligious dialogue closer to young people in participating communities;
-to organize movie projections in participating countries with the aim to open the topic of interreligious dialogue and to present Erasmus + Programme to wider audience.
Activities
Youth Exchange ‘Building Bridges through Interreligious Dialogue ’ will connect 49 participants, 6 young people and 7 group leaders from 7 countries (Germany, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Poland and Spain).
Talking about the background of the groups we want to stress out that the primary focus of the future participating organizations is not interreligious dialogue but the organizations decided to take part in this youth exchange because young people involved in their local activities expressed strong interest in the topic, that is occupying their public and media space.
Besides an interest in the topic the characteristics of the future participants will be:
-aged 18 to 30 years old (there will be no age limit for the group leaders);
-participants must be citizens or residents of partner countries;
-be able to fully attend the youth exchange and take part in all preparatory and follow up tasks anticipated with this Youth exchange;
-openness to work in an international environment, communicative level of English. Youth exchange will be open for newcomers – young people involved in the local activities of participating organizations thus no need to have prior knowledge of the topic;
-belong to the category of young people with fewer opportunities, 4 participants per national team will belong to this category and will be actively supported by the participants to fully take part in the activity.
Profile of groups leaders:
-experience youth leaders, workers, ready to facilitate learning process of young people, including young people with fewer opportunities at the international level;
-with experiences in using methods, tools of non-formal education, covering issues tackle by youth exchange: interreligious dialogue, discrimination, hate speech, Erasmus + Programme, and/or with skills in the digital field, making a movie;
-ready to take part in the preparatory and follow-up activities;
-good level of English, no age limit.
Impact
We expect that youth exchange ‘Building Bridges through Interreligious Dialogue ’ to have following impact:
Young people directly participating in the activity will: increase their understanding of the term: interreligious dialogue and their knowledge in this area; become more aware of religious diversity in participating countries; explore the roots of religious discrimination and hate speech and develop their competences such as communication in English, ability to work in multicultural environment, to present ideas in front of the group, to set learning goals and follow on them. Moreover, they will increase their knowledge of the Erasmus + programme and motivation to be active, to take part in youth activities.
For participating organizations the project will be an opportunity to offer their young people a chance to take part in international activity. And they will benefit from the fact that group of their young people will develop their competencies, from new tools and methods, from the opportunity to strengthen their partner network and to increase their capacities to cooperate at the international level.
Besides directly involved participants and participating organizations, we expect that the project will have an impact especially on people from hosting local community Eskisehir, Turkey.
It is a student city in Turkey and with a lot of young people, many of them unaware of Erasmus+ and opportunities it offers. This project will be for them an opportunity to get to know Erasmus + Programme and to interact with young people coming from other countries. Besides having an impact on the hosting community, we believe that the project will have an impact also on the communities of participating countries because we plan to organize follow-up activities with the main aim to present the key result of the project, the short movie on interreligious cooperation, created directly by the participants to wider audience from all participating communities.
