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Intercultural dialogue

Intercultural dialogue is a feature and fundamental objective of all Euro-Medieterranean youth activities. Intercultural dialogue is also a cross-cutting theme for the Council of Europe and the European Commission and is meant to be an implicit part of all the Euro-Mediterranean activities, since intercultural dialogue is a matter of each and everyone one of us. In line with this approach, the EU-CoE youth partnership also organised two training courses on intercultural dialogue jointly with the Anna Lindh Foundation (focusing on human rights education and on conflict transformation), followed by a third course in 2009. The course have succeeded in creating a better understanding of intercultural dialogue and how it relates to Euro-Mediterranean youth work, and have resulted in several projects undertaken by participants and supported by the Euro-Med youth programme or the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Euro-Mediterranean seminar "Indicators for Intercultural Dialogue in Non-formal Education Activities" 
Mollina, Spain, 22-24 September 2011.  In the framework of the 12th University on Youth and Development

The seminar brought together twenty five youth workers, trainers in non-formal education, educational experts and researchers, stakeholders, and youth policy experts from the Euro-Mediterranean region, and aimed to discuss the relevance, feasibility and practical implementation of the project on indicators for intercultural dialogue for non-formal education activities.

As one of the outcomes of the seminar, the next steps of the work on Intercultural Dialogue indicators and criteria have been agreed upon. After the consolidation of the draft version of the document presented in Mollina - which may take the form of “guidelines”, a test phase will take place from February to June 2012. The process will be two-fold: the list of indicators and criteria will serve as a check-list for organisers of activities focusing, tackling or including ICD, and the indicators as such may be adjusted to support evaluation processes and tools (evaluation forms, ex-ante and ex-post evaluations). The test phase will include participants from the seminar ‘Indicators for Intercultural Dialogue in Non-formal Education Activities’ but will also take into account other actors such as those actively involved in adult education, in Erasmus, in publications linked to intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue such as the T-Kit on Intercultural Learning (currently under a revision process) or in international organisations such as UNESCO or the Alliance of Civilizations, to name a few. A second seminar may then be organised in the Fall 2012 to look at the outcomes of the test phase and thoroughly examine the revised version of the “guidelines” and list of criteria and indicators.

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Experts' group on indicators for intercultural dialogue in non-formal education activities 
European Youth Centre Budapest, 19-21 May 2010

Intercultural dialogue is, implicitly or explicitly, a common objective and purpose for all the partners concerned by international youth cooperation and, particularly, those involved in Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. including the European Commission, the Coumncil of Europe and the Anna Lindh Foundatuion, for example. While there is a vast field of practice of intercultural dialogue and intercultural learning in the programmes of these organisations, much less has been developed as conceptual and practical indicators about the results and impact of the activities.  In this framework, following a feasibility study, the experts meeting at the European Youth Centre Budapest had the objectives to review existing practices and tools for defining objectives and evaluating results in intercultural dialogue activities, particularly in the European and Mediterranean contexts, and:
- to discuss the relevance and feasibility of a common project on indicators for intercultural dialogue for non-formal education activities in the broader Euro-Mediterranean cooperation framework
- to make proposals for the conceptual and practical guidelines of such a project or, in alternative, of the ways through which the quality and standards for intercultural dialogue (youth activities) can be pursued.

 Report of the meeting

 

Euro-Mediterranean Training Course for multipliers active in human rights education and intercultural dialogue with young people in South East Europe and in the Euro-Mediterranean co-operation context: “Human Rights Education for Enhancing Intercultural Dialogue with Young People”
European Youth Centre Budapest, 16-22 April 2007

The course was organised in the framework of the EU-CoE youth partnership and in co-operation with the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures.

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University on Youth and Development - Seminar on Diversity, human rights and participation in the framework of Euro-Mediterranean youth cooperation
Mollina, Spain, 1-8 October 2006

A joint activity of the EU-CoE youth partnership and the European Youth Forum that particularly addressed common issues related to youth participation, human rights and diversity in the framework of youth policy development. It  also was a way to integrate the Euro-Med dimension into the more global perspective of the University on Youth and Development.

Presentation and application form     More about the UYD and report of the 2006 edition

 

Intercultural learning and human rights education in the Mediterranean
Mollina, Spain, May 2003 in co-operation with the Spanish Youth Institute

This inter-regional training course provided an opportunity to share good practice and develop the skills and competences of youth workers in the fields of intercultural learning and human rights education. The course also gave rise to a number of innovative Euro-Med youth projects.

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