Armenian Progressive Youth NGO Youth-workers-against-extremism-and-xenophobia-Fin | Page 2

Description of the TC
The training course "Youth workers against extremism and xenophobia" will take place in
Austria and will involve youth workers from 6 Programme Countries. During the Training
course, we will explore the issues of extremism, intolerance and find solutions to act as youth
worker against extremism and xenophobia. The Training Course will support young people
and active youth workers to learn about the ways of living together, accepting differences and
fighting together against extremism and xenophobia in nowadays reality.
Our aim. With this Training course, we aim to empower youth workers and youth leaders
with skills, knowledge, and attitudes to develop a capacity for fighting extremism and
xenophobia. Our objectives are the following:
- To re-explore the key concepts, such as extremism and xenophobia and their
transformation in European reality
- To analyze what are the main reasons for the rise of Extremism and
Islamaphobia in different European countries
- To discover the right attitudes towards an intercultural society
- To promote active citizenship, tolerance and non-formal education
- To analyze the European values and how they can be used in contrasting those
phenomena.
- To develop new projects fighting extremism and xenophobia
On a long lasting perspective, as a result of the implementation of a greater number of
projects fighting extremism and xenophobia, we will see the wider respect to European
values; respect for rights of persons belonging to minorities, their freedom, and human
dignity. The project does its contribution to reaching this objective, with this fulfilling one of
the General objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme; the promotion of European values in
accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty.
Below you can find the timetable of the project. As you can see, we will have mainly 4
sessions a day. The timetable may be switched according to the needs of the participants in
order to contribute more to the objectives of the project.
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