Human rights education among young people in local voluntary projects

• Event: Training in Austria

• Contact person: Barbara Eglitis
• Organisation: Grenzenlos
• Location: Vienna, Austria
• Deadline: 05/09/2016
• Start: 04/06/2017
• End: 10/06/2017
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  Grenzenlos is running international projects and exchanges since several years. In 2014 and 2015 we were running 3 training courses on civil courage and noticed that the words “human rights” are well known but not what it means for individuals and for the daily life.
  
  According to our experiences we decided to organize a 5-day training course on how to promote and teach human rights among young people who are active in local voluntary projects. Grenzenlos is planning to involve local volunteers, who are active in the implementation of projects (workcamps, local refugee projects etc.) and who will furthermore pass their skills on.
  
  Aims and Objectives
  
  + To promote and learn about Human Righst among young people
  + To promote peace and fight against anti-hate speeches
  + To empower young Human Rights activists with skills, knowledge and necessary competences to implement good quality projects on HR & Peace
  + To raise awareness on human right violations in our societies
  + To promote human rights within local and international voluntary projects
  + to help young people develop their initiatives on Human Rights
  + To give youth organisations methods on how to promote human rights within their existing projects
  + to have fruitful debates and learning about HR & Peace projects among young people from all over Europe
  1. We are currently looking for partner organisations, which are willing to implement the training course with us and send us co-trainers/interns. This can be a youth NGO as well as a University or any other training organisation running trainings in the sector of human rights.
  
  AND/OR
  
  2. Organisations willing to send participants to the training course
  
  We are looking for participants who are active in your youth organization (volunteers, staff, mentors ...)
  Note that possible participants should
  
  + be between 18-30 years old
  + If you send 2 participants please take care about about Gender balance
  + Involved in the work of your organisation (as a volunteer and/or worker)
  + Able to attend the whole duration of the course
  + Able to work in English
  + Interested in human rights as such
  + Ready to pass the knowledge on
  
  The main working language will be English.
  
  As all our activities are as inclusive as possible, we strongly encourage organisations to send participants with a physical disability to the training course.

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Themes: Equal opportunities, Anti-racism/xenophobia, Social exclusion (in general), Youth policies, European awareness

Targets: Disabled people, Migrants, Local Community