Summary

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The project ''Innovative Conflict Resolution Approaches for Youth Workers Through Non Formal Education" is a shared project idea among partner organizations. The main idea came as a result of several months discussions with relevant to the youthfield stakeholders, project managers' reflections, interviews from youth workers and youths and analysis of results and impact from other TC under YiA and E+. All 7 partners organizations (Turkey, Lithuania, Spain, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy) face within their organizations daily important issues. In a more specific context youth workers of partner organizations work in environments where they observed often and deal with acts of non desirable and non easy managing attitudes. They observe that some of their youngsters behave irresponsible to their obligations and duties moreover two refugees as members of the organization and in general of the local communities. Moreover the youthworkers mention that they would like to be more competent to face issues of conflict and anger management that happening in their organizations and centers. They are often referring to their personal and professional lack of skills and innovating methods to approach youngsters in order to confront several unexpected acts that happen in often basis. The refugee youngsters are observed to be less active citizens for their community welfare, easy attracted to acts of conflicts, xenophobia and discrimination. Additionally youth workers recognize that some of their youngsters are non very cooperative with them. Youthworkers admit that the main reason might be the methods/approaches that sometimes/often they use in their organizations/centers.  Looking through these issues all partner organizations came to the conclusion that there is a serious need of designing a project to support our youthworkers to develop themselves professionally and personally. We want to provide means, methods, examples, practices and share ideas through joyful learning using non formal approaches in order to empower both their youngesters and refugee youngesters with the development of their basic key competences and with the increase their self confidence  In other words we will implement a project and a training course using non formal approaches for supporting our youthworkers to acquire elements and keys for their improvement in order to facilitate them to: - empower the implementation of successful practices of conflict resolution that may observed within their organizations; - promote Social (and Gender) Equity, - assist youngsters within their society to turn into more persistent in building their future in the framework of innovation and entrepreneurhsip.

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Objectives  :
 
1. To share and suggest practices of conflict resolution and management especially between European Union Citizens and refugees from Syria and other middle east countries; 2. To develop youthworkers confidence on how to resolve unexpected conflicts and acts of discrimination within their practice on refugees; 3. To increase awareness on the importance of the implementation of social inclusion practices in the youthwork as a ally to conflict management; 4. To train youth workers in the planning and implementing of practices for empowering solidarity and social inclusion; 5. To develop further participants social and personal skills through experiential and participatory learning; 6. To develop basic and transversal skills in all fields of youth work and training, using innovative and youngsters centred pedagogical and non formal approaches; 7. To improve the level of key competences and skills, with particular regard to their relevance for the labour market and their contribution to a cohesive society; 8. To create new future cooperation and increase the visibility of the results of Erasmus+;