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Introduction
What is Core2?
“CORE 2 –  Challenging Europe” was a Training Course on conflict management in
intercultural field  facing actual European challenges as migrants situation, stereotypes
and xenophobia and providing tools to fight these through cultural youthwork. It was the
follow-up of “CORE” TC held in Hungary  in May 2015 by the organisation HVSF, with
Associazione Agrado as one of the partners.

MOTIVATIONS
Everyday we see increasing challenges, like conflicts and massive migrations, that Europe
is called to face. Under the surface, Europe is living also the precarity and pressure of the
social and  economical situation (unemployment, less resources, …) and  all these factors
affect people and countries in different ways, sometimes leading to racist and xenophobic
behaviours and laws.
These factors increase the inner conflicts and spread them to outside, between youngsters
and the society, making the work of youth workers more complicated.
Furthermore the needs and issues our project is seeking to address are the lack of
competences  from organisations and youthworkers in dealing with these new waves of
refugees and the new xenophoby, racism, violence.
That’s why we explored the situation on migrants and xenophoby in the different
countries and promoted  Youthwork and NFE as tools and methods to fight the raising
attitude to racism and xenophoby in order to spread an European culture of peace.

OBJECTIVES
1. Provide Youth Workers with practical tools and experiential non-formal activities on
conflict  management, stereotypes and migration issues that they can use with youth in
raising their awareness on these issues;
2. Improve youth work quality and enhance the role of youth workers and NGOs as social
facilitators spreading European values of a culture of peace vs. violence and xenophobia;
3. Enhance the participants attitude in transforming the conflict issues into learning
opportunity and bring positive outcomes from these;