Call for partners
European Youth Foundation – Council of Europe
Deadline: 1st April
http://www.eyf.coe.int/fej/portal

Priorities addressed

Project N°1: “Human rights and democracy: youth policy and youth work promoting the core values of the Council of Europe”

  • To further develop and disseminate existing tools and resources on human rights education with young people and children, with a view to supporting the role of youth work and youth NGOs in this area and promoting the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education.

Project N° 2: “Living together in diverse societies: youth policy and youth work promoting intercultural dialogue”

  • To develop tools and resources with a view to supporting intercultural youth work in multicultural environments, involving in particular young migrants, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons.
  • To support youth work in combating discrimination, racism, xenophobia, hate speech and hate crimes.
  • To support the role of youth work and youth NGOs in addressing situations of exclusion and discrimination of Roma young people.

Project title
Human library – As a tool to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Themes:

  1. Tools for HRE and fight against discrimination
  2. Anti-discrimination
  3. Inclusion
  4. Diversity
  5. Sexual orientation and gender identity

Aim and Objectives
Aim: To combat discrimination and exclusion based on gender and sexual orientation of people, in order to contribute to create a more inclusive society where diversity is seen as richness and where equality in human rights and dignity of minorities is a reality, by means of empowering youth NGOs to take action through human library tool.

Objectives:

  1. To prepare a group of 22 youth workers to use the human library tool.
  2. To address human library tool for combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
  3. To foster knowledge on minority issues, specifically on sexual orientation and gender identification, among participants.
  4. To create a network of organizations actively engaged in human library activities.
  5. To organize an European event of human libraries (around 15 at the same time) against discrimination of minorities.
  6. To boost dialogue and understanding among “minorities” and “mainstream society” (outreach of 600 people).
  7. To contribute to overcome stereotypes and prejudices.
  8. To increase knowledge in the local community on HR violations and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and foster empathy/solidarity.

Activities
The main activities will be a training course on the project themes (1st phase) and an event of human libraries around Europe (2nd phase).

Dates of implementation

Training course – April 2013
Human libraries European event – June 2013

Financial conditions
During the training course and the Euro-Mediterranean event accommodation and food will be 100% covered by the project. In addition to these, 2/3 of travel expenses will be reimbursed.
There will be a participation fee of 50€.

How to be a partner?
The project foresees 2 types of partners:

  1. Core team partners – these partners will be involved in the preparation of the training and will have an active role in running the working programme
  2. Sending partners – these partners will only send participants to the training

All partners will be requested to develop the project follow up and to take part in the European event of human libraries.

If you are interested to be a partner please write to Senem Kalafat – senem.kalafat@turkiye.ceipes.org – until the 30th of March (Friday)!

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