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List: ALBSA-Info[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfA: Youth Exchange in Skopje FYROM (Macedonia), 20-26.5.2002Agron Alibali aalibali at yahoo.comThu Feb 7 07:15:43 EST 2002
Florian Bieber <fbieber at yahoo.com> wrote: From Florian Bieber Fri Feb 1 07:03:34 2002 To: balkans at yahoogroups.com From: Florian Bieber Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:03:34 +0100 Subject: [balkans] CfA: Youth Exchange in Skopje FYROM (Macedonia), 20-26.5.2002 Please Forward this to any and all people you have on your mailing list that would be interested in this unique opportunity For more detailed information please log onto www.eyenetwork.org European Youth Exchange Seminar SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MINORITY BACKGROUND IN MACEDONIA 20th May 26th May 2002 Call for participants Hereby we would like to invite you to apply for participation in the European Youth Exchange seminar. The main objectives of the project are as follows: minorities and the majority; tolerance and democratic citizenship; work together towards a common objective. We will be working in this project from the basic of difference: seeing different viewpoints, ideas, values and behavior as the starting points from which we will work towards a common ground. Through the interaction of differences it is possible to reach new solutions, to arrive at new principles for action. They are based on the equality of dignity and rights for all. Such issue may appear clearer whenever we think about people from other societies or countries, but we also need to talk about what happens within our own geographical frontiers. We feel different those born and living in our country but whose cultures and ways of life differ somewhat from ours. Our big challenge is to discover how to live and interact with difference creatively and with the idea to define the priorities and principles in this field, we propose to organise a seminar aimed to consider the question of situation and perspectives for young people from minority backgrounds. SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MINORITY BACKGROUND IN MACEDONIA SEMINAR The context and the motivation Since 1998, our international coordination body (EYE Network) is organizing seminars to educate youth leaders to work with youngsters and children, at a local level, before running international exchanges. Some of the member organizations started to offer to young people in their country youth camps, leisure activities, etc. During the last statutory assembly (2000) several youth leaders from the involved partner organizations, met and offered to the governing bodies to organize a pilot project learning by doing , because after the training seminars there was no common work at the European level. This idea was accepted with the condition that one of the involved organizations had to coordinate the project. EYE Network - Austria was chosen. The majority of the partner organizations are the member sections of the European Youth Exchange Network and they maintain close working relations. The multicultural nature in Macedonia is deeply rooted in the history of her roots. National, ethnic, cultural and religious minorities are evidence of the often-turbulent past of Macedonia. They represent also the legacy of the coming together of different national and cultural upheavals, of political and of economical developments. All people in Macedonia are different in many ways and can be identified according to many criteria: a gender, age, and physical characteristics, personality, hobby, standard of living, believes In this pack we will focus on cultural, social and ethnical differences. We will be looking at the interaction between all nationalities in Macedonia and participants from other countries that are different, their live styles, values and cultures and relationships between majorities and minorities in our society. We will also need to talk about what will happen within our geographical frontiers. The preparation Each organization is asked to bring to Macedonia several materials from their country: information about their multicultural and intercultural societies (different cultures, national, ethnic, religious groups). We also ask for particular work about the other involved countries: what is each one thinking about them (written list) before and after the exchange? What are the prejudices, ethnocentrism, discrimination, intolerance and racism? What form of anti-Semitism exists nowadays? A lot of questions are actually being collected by each organization. The team will make a selection and all will be published in our web site and like this each partner can find immediately not only the Guide but also answers and opinions from the others. We also plan to interview (video) some politicians and university professors with a questionnaire that is elaborated by the partner organizations. The involvement of young people The easier thing is Young. We know that it has something to do with age. Someone born many years ago can be obviously young while somebody else in his or her early 20 years looks as a big oaktree. In any case people who we are speaking about want to know more about each other, they keep an open mind, are willing to listen and accept new ideas, they like to dream and tire to realize their dreams, they like good music, dancing, some like beer, some like chocolate, they fall in love, plan the future... we call them Young. But the problems are minority, majority, nationalism, racism, discrimination and intolerance this is something that would be difficult to define, and minority and intolerance are the main content, the keyword of this project. Minority and tolerance these are the things, which should go always together. But do they? However we notice certain problems in terms of young peoples demand for living in a multicultural and multiethnic Macedonia and theyre mutual involvement in the society in which they live. With this project we will try to solve this problem and to make better future for each and every citizen living in Macedonia. The beneficiaries > > 8-10 young people from each participating country (18-25 years old). They are members of the 6 partner organizations. Several participants belong to minorities. Albanians, Serbians and Gypsies will constitute for instance in Macedonia the national group. We ask that each national group try to do the same. The follow-up and evaluation The general educational approach of this seminar is built upon the experiences of the different training courses and study sessions organized in the EYE Network. This approach, which takes intercultural learning as one of the fundamental principles, implies: - A good level of active participation in the course, participants are not only consumers, they must be also actors and contribute to the daily program (in working groups and workshops, trough regular evaluations, by taking on task, etc.). - Promoting critical awareness about themes of the course and about the course itself. This is also a way to assure commitment to the learning process and motivate further learning. On another level, the course being experience in informal education, the participants ought to be able to draw conclusions which best suit the reality in their countries and especially in Macedonia and organizations rather than taking the course as a ready-made recipe which could be reproduced any way in the same form. - The use of active methods which suit the different ways of learning and go beyond the natural communication and language barriers of an international group. These methods are also best to stimulate learning by doing and understanding rather that simple transmission of information. The Team Leaders will be asking the participants: - What happened during activity and how they felt? - What is development and who sets the criteria about that? - What is the different between a migrant, a refugee and a displaced person? - What types of rights could/should minorities have? - What is multicultural and intercultural society and what is the difference between them? - If there is a different culture in one country; does this mean that someone is better then the other? - What are the most important things, which make up your identity? - Is a nation a culture? - When do you think that it is the right to be intolerant? - What form of anti-Semitism exist nowadays? - Have you ever heard about these phenomena: Discrimination, Xenophobia, Intolerance, Anti-Semitism and Racism? - How can you more forward and use what you have learned? CONTENTS OF THE PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS: The program reflected this general approach and objectives. The methodology will be as follows: 1. Knowing each other - Pre-condition for working together and build the basic for cooperation and communication. Exchange about being a minority in Macedonia. Understand how power relations influence the self-perception and social identity of minorities. 2. Intercultural learning - Understanding the difference, the different notions of minority and majority working about the origins of racism, intolerance and discrimination. 3. Case study - Confront what we know and what we learn with a concrete multicultural reality Macedonia where different minorities coexist. Accepting that the social environment in which it takes place also shapes the course. 4. Macedonia and nationalism - Perceptions of hopes and fears of Macedonia. Understanding and knowing the institutions and structures of Macedonian Youth campaign against terrorism, work for tolerance and respect of minorities. 5. Workshops - The workshops provide basic skills, training necessary for minority youth leaders. They provide self confidence and knowledge for youth work beyond the local level. 6. Project and networks - Participants shape now their future actions and will try to integrate what they have learned with their common aspirations and needs for follow up. Starting of the multiplying effect. 7. Evaluation - Consolidation and validation of the learning experience. Bring feedback to the trainers about the course. Checking what has been achieved and what was missing and why. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS Applicants for the seminar ideally would fulfill the following criteria: and about European institutions (Council of Europe, European Union). in the seminar. TECHNICAL INFORMATION Venue of the Seminar: Hotel Vergina Skupi b.b., 1000 SKOPjE Macedonia Dates of Seminar: 20th may 26th may 2002 Preparatory team: Damon Bock President of (Verien f Exchange Network) ABIGAIL SiGUENZA EVS/Volunteer (European Youth Exchange Network - EYE Network) Maja Stojanovska Vice/President (Zdrava l Kreativna Mladina CHY) Participation Fee: The participation fee is free for every member of EYE Network or our partner organisations. Travel: Travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the grant (Most Likely 50%). CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS Only complete applications received by April 31st (24:00 CET) will be taken into account. Applications should be preferably sent in electronic version from this site: Application form, or faxed (find attached the application form). Or log onto to www.eyenetwork.org and use the Online Application Forms link to the left side of the start page. (Please note that the online version of this form should be working from the 1st February, please wait till then to apply) Receipt of applications will be confirmed. SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS Participants will be selected by the preparatory team; the selection process will be based on the range of countries nominated to participate in this project (Austria, Greece, Poland, Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, Macedonia) and according to the criteria as described above (see: profile of participants). All applicants shall be informed of the results of the selection by 7th of May 2001. A maximum of 10 participants per country will be selected. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact Damon Bock, Project Manager for EYE Network: Email: eye at eyenetwork.org --------------------------------------------------------------- La poiana daca vrei, aduna prieteni trei si mergeti gratis, ok? http://www.mymail.ro/oferta.htm Please Forward this to any and all people you have on your mailing list that would be interested in this unique opportunity For more detailed information please log onto www.eyenetwork.org European Youth Exchange Seminar SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MINORITY BACKGROUND IN MACEDONIA 20th May – 26th May 2002 Call for participants Hereby we would like to invite you to apply for participation in the European Youth Exchange seminar. The main objectives of the project are as follows: § To foster relations between majority and minority groups >; § To promote mutual acquaintance and peaceful co-existence between minorities and the majority; § To facilitate intercultural learning, education for human rights, tolerance and democratic citizenship; § To provide opportunities for people from different communities to work together towards a common objective. We will be working in this project from the basic of difference: seeing different viewpoints, ideas, values and behavior as the starting points from which we will work towards a common ground. Through the interaction of differences it is possible to reach new solutions, to arrive at new principles for action. They are based on the equality of dignity and rights for all. Such issue may appear clearer whenever we think about people from other societies or countries, but we also need to talk about what happens within our own geographical frontiers. We feel different those born and living in our country but whose cultures and ways of life differ somewhat from ours. Our big challenge is to discover how to live and interact with difference creatively and with the idea to define the priorities and principles in this field, we propose to organise a seminar aimed to consider the question of situation and perspectives for young people from minority backgrounds. “SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MINORITY BACKGROUND IN MACEDONIA” SEMINAR The context and the motivation Since 1998, our international coordination body (EYE Network) is organizing seminars to educate youth leaders to work with youngsters and children, at a local level, before running international exchanges. Some of the member organizations started to offer to young people in their country youth camps, leisure activities, etc. During the last statutory assembly (2000) several youth leaders from the involved partner organizations, met and offered to the governing bodies to organize a pilot project “ learning by doing “, because after the training seminars there was no common work at the European level. This idea was accepted with the condition that one of the involved organizations had to coordinate the project. EYE Network - Austria was chosen. The majority of the partner organizations are the member sections of the European Youth Exchange Network and they maintain close working relations. The multicultural nature in Macedonia is deeply rooted in the history of her roots. National, ethnic, cultural and religious minorities are evidence of the often-turbulent past of Macedonia. They represent also the legacy of the coming together of different national and cultural upheavals, of political and of economical developments. All people in Macedonia are different in many ways and can be identified according to many criteria: a gender, age, and physical characteristics, personality, hobby, standard of living, believes… In this pack we will focus on cultural, social and ethnical differences. We will be looking at the interaction between all nationalities in Macedonia and participants from other countries that are different, their live styles, values and cultures and relationships between majorities and minorities in our society. We will also need to talk about what will happen within our geographical frontiers. The preparation Each organization is asked to bring to Macedonia several materials from their country: information about their multicultural and intercultural societies (different cultures, national, ethnic, religious groups). We also ask for particular work about the other involved countries: what is each one thinking about them (written list) before and after the exchange? What are the prejudices, ethnocentrism, discrimination, intolerance and racism? What form of anti-Semitism exists nowadays? A lot of questions are actually being collected by each organization. The team will make a selection and all will be published in our web site and like this each partner can find immediately not only the “ Guide “ but also answers and opinions from the others. We also plan to interview (video) some politicians and university professors with a questionnaire that is elaborated by the partner organizations. The involvement of young people The easier thing is “Young”. We know that it has something to do with age. Someone born many years ago can be obviously young while somebody else in his or her early 20 years looks as a big oak–tree. In any case people who we are speaking about want to know more about each other, they keep an open mind, are willing to listen and accept new ideas, they like to dream and tire to realize their dreams, they like good music, dancing, some like beer, some like chocolate, they fall in love, plan the future... we call them Young. But the problems are minority, majority, nationalism, racism, discrimination and intolerance – this is something that would be difficult to define, and minority and intolerance are the main content, the keyword of this project. Minority and tolerance – these are the things, which should go always together. But do they? However we notice certain problems in terms of young people’s demand for living in a multicultural and multiethnic Macedonia and they’re mutual involvement in the society in which they live. With this project we will try to solve this problem and to make better future for each and every citizen living in Macedonia. The beneficiaries > > 8-10 young people from each participating country (18-25 years old). They are members of the 6 partner organizations. Several participants belong to minorities. Albanians, Serbians and Gypsies will constitute for instance in Macedonia the “national” group. We ask that each “national” group try to do the same. The follow-up and evaluation The general educational approach of this seminar is built upon the experiences of the different training courses and study sessions organized in the EYE Network. This approach, which takes intercultural learning as one of the fundamental principles, implies: - A good level of active participation in the course, participants are not only consumers, they must be also actors and contribute to the daily program (in working groups and workshops, trough regular evaluations, by taking on task, etc.). - Promoting critical awareness about themes of the course and about the course itself. This is also a way to assure commitment to the learning process and motivate further learning. On another level, the course being experience in informal education, the participants ought to be able to draw conclusions which best suit the reality in their countries and especially in Macedonia and organizations rather than taking the course as a ready-made recipe which could be reproduced any way in the same form. - The use of active methods which suit the different ways of learning and go beyond the natural communication and language barriers of an international group. These methods are also best to stimulate learning by doing and understanding rather that simple transmission of information. The Team Leaders will be asking the participants: - What happened during activity and how they felt? - What is “development” and who sets the criteria about that? - What is the different between “a migrant”, “a refugee” and “a displaced person”? - What types of rights could/should minorities have? - What is multicultural and intercultural society and what is the difference between them? - If there is a different culture in one country; does this mean that someone is better then the other? - What are the most important things, which make up your identity? - Is a nation a culture? - When do you think that it is the right to be intolerant? - What form of anti-Semitism exist nowadays? - Have you ever heard about these phenomena: Discrimination, Xenophobia, Intolerance, Anti-Semitism and Racism? - How can you more forward and use what you have learned? CONTENTS OF THE PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS: The program reflected this general approach and objectives. The methodology will be as follows: 1. Knowing each other - Pre-condition for working together and build the basic for cooperation and communication. Exchange about being a minority in Macedonia. Understand how power relations influence the self-perception and social identity of minorities. 2. Intercultural learning - Understanding the difference, the different notions of minority and majority working about the origins of racism, intolerance and discrimination. 3. Case study - Confront what we know and what we learn with a concrete multicultural reality – Macedonia – where different minorities coexist. Accepting that the social environment in which it takes place also shapes the course. 4. Macedonia and nationalism - Perceptions of hopes and fears of Macedonia. Understanding and knowing the institutions and structures of Macedonian Youth campaign against terrorism, work for tolerance and respect of minorities. 5. Workshops - The workshops provide basic skills, training necessary for minority youth leaders. They provide self – confidence and knowledge for youth work beyond the local level. 6. Project and networks - Participants shape now their future actions and will try to integrate what they have learned with their common aspirations and needs for follow – up. Starting of the multiplying effect. 7. Evaluation - Consolidation and validation of the learning experience. Bring feedback to the trainers about the course. Checking what has been achieved and what was missing and why. PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS Applicants for the seminar ideally would fulfill the following criteria: Þ Be active Þ Have a background in formal and/or non-formal education. Þ Have at least basic knowledge about the youth exchanges in your town and about European institutions (Council of Europe, European Union). Þ Be willing and capable to pass on knowledge and experience acquired in the seminar. Þ Be able to fully participate in the entire seminar. Þ Be able to work in English this is a must. Þ Be less than 25 years of age and older than 17. TECHNICAL INFORMATION Venue of the Seminar: Hotel Vergina Skupi b.b., 1000 SKOPjE Macedonia Dates of Seminar: 20th may – 26th may 2002 Preparatory team: Damon Bock President of (Verien für Jugendaustausch EYE Network – European Youth Exchange Network) ABIGAIL SiGUENZA EVS/Volunteer (European Youth Exchange Network - EYE Network) Maja Stojanovska Vice/President (Zdrava l Kreativna Mladina – CHY) Participation Fee: The participation fee is free for every member of EYE Network or our partner organisations. Travel: Travel expenses will be reimbursed according to the grant (Most Likely 50%). CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS Only complete applications received by April 31st (24:00 CET) will be taken into account. Applications should be preferably sent in electronic version from this site: Application form, or faxed (find attached the application form). Or log onto to www.eyenetwork.org and use the Online Application Forms link to the left side of the start page. (Please note that the online version of this form should be working from the 1st February, please wait till then to apply) Receipt of applications will be confirmed. SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS Participants will be selected by the preparatory team; the selection process will be based on the range of countries nominated to participate in this project (Austria, Greece, Poland, Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, Macedonia) and according to the criteria as described above (see: „profile of participants“). All applicants shall be informed of the results of the selection by 7th of May 2001. A maximum of 10 participants per country will be selected. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact Damon Bock, Project Manager for EYE Network: Email: eye at eyenetwork.org Phone: +43 1 91 43 671 Yahoo! 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