For the Council of Europe, social cohesion is firmly based on human rights (as codified in the European Convention on Human Rights and the Revised European Social Charter), as well as an acceptance of shared responsibility for the welfare of all members of society, especially those who are at risk of poverty or exclusion. In line with this, the youth policy of the Council of Europe aims at providing young people with equal opportunities and experience which enable them to develop knowledge, skills and competencies to play a full part in all aspects of society.

The Youth Department of the Council of Europe has introduced the Enter! project to seek and highlight youth work response to violence, exclusion and discrimination affecting young people in Europe, notably in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. As a result of the project the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted in 2015 the Enter! Recommendation on access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights. The recommendation proposes the development on policies taking into consideration the specific situations and needs of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Such policies should aim at preventing and eradicating the poverty, discrimination, violence and exclusion faced by young people.

The implementation of Enter! is supported by a youth-friendly version of the recommendation, a guide for the implementation of the recommendation – Taking it Seriously, Dignityland, a game for learning game for learning about social rights with young people, examples of projects implemented in the first two phases of the project and various publications. Further educational resources can be found in Compass, the manual for human rights education with young people.

The Long-Term Training Course (LTTC) for youth workers will be at the core of Enter! in 2017-2018. The experiences of the course will have a particularly important role in informing other activities of the project, by bringing the direct input of youth workers and local and regional authorities and by bridging experiences from the local to the national and European levels.  The course is a complementary training for 30 youth workers to implement the Enter! Recommendation through projects in partnership with local authorities within a European and intercultural context provided by the European Youth Centres.

The Enter! Training for Youth Workers

The Long-Term Training Course (LTTC) for youth workers will be at the core of Enter! in 2017-2018. The experiences of the course will have a particularly important role in informing other activities of the project, by bringing the direct input of youth workers and local and regional authorities and by bridging experiences from the local to the national and European levels.  

The course is a complementary training for 30 youth workers to implement the Enter! Recommendation through projects in partnership with local authorities within a European and intercultural context provided by the European Youth Centres.

The objectives of the course are:

• To enable, motivate and support youth workers and local authorities to design youth work projects that address discrimination, or obstacles, in the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
• To develop youth workers understanding and knowledge of the human rights framework and the policy fields that are relevant to the situation of the young people they work with
• To explore and use the potential of the Enter! Recommendation on youth projects and policies supporting young people to know and access their social rights
• To train and support 30 youth workers in developing projects based on the Enter! recommendation and integrating an advocacy dimension based on human rights
• To support the professional development of youth workers and their ability to engage with decision-makers in the youth and social policy fields
• To strengthen participants competence in the fields of project development, management, implementation and evaluation in a European context
• To support youth work and youth policy responses which implement the Enter! Recommendation as examples of good practice
• To strengthen or extend European networks of youth workers and youth work providers and cooperation among local and national actors active in promoting the social rights of young people in the Council of Europe frameworks
• To collect experiences and information about the relevance of youth work and local youth policies in promoting Council of Europe human rights standards.

Methodology and calendar of the course

The LTTC is composed of four phases, which all participants are required to follow

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More information about the educational team you can find here

• Stefan Manevski – Educational Advisor, Council of Europe (stefan.manevski@coe.int)
• Rui Gomes - Head of Education and Training Unit, Council of Europe

Profile of participants

The course is open for youth workers and social workers – full or part time, employed or volunteers - working directly with young people, and who:

• carry out their activities in a non-governmental organisation (a youth or a human rights organisation, an organisation working on specific social rights or with specific target groups, etc.) or in a local authority (for example, local community centres, youth centres, municipal youth or education services, etc.)
• have some experience in projects with young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, or projects linked with some social rights
• are involved in planning and implementing the youth work provision of their organisation or service
• already have some experience in cooperation with local/regional authorities.

All participants must also:

• demonstrate motivation and capacity to develop projects for and with young people on access to social rights
• have an interest to work in partnerships with local authorities on enhancing dialogue for improving access of young people to social rights
• be active in some specific areas of social rights on which they will focus their work and possibly their youth project
• be motivated to learn and to develop their professional and personal competences;
• intend to remain active in their organisation/institution for the next 2 years and multiply their learning in their organisation/institution and community
• be aged between 18 and 35 years, with exceptions possible
• be resident in a country signatory of the European Cultural Convention
• be able to work in English or French
• be available for the full participation in all the phases of the course
• be supported by their organisation for the full duration of the course. This implies that:
  • the candidates present a support letter from their organisation in the application phase, and a specific letter of commitment in the pre-selection stage
  • the candidates are allowed and supported by their sending organisation to attend the residential seminars, the e-learning modules and mentoring and to develop and implement a project within the framework of the organisation
  • there should be a priority among the organisation’s work plan on developing partnerships with local authorities or, respectively, civil society organisations (for candidates working in the public sector)
  • the organisation will provide input and visibility to the project(s) developed by the participants (in turn, the Council of Europe will acknowledge and provide institutional visibility to the sending organisations)
  • the sending organisations have developed or are in a position to develop partnerships with local and regional authorities/civil society for the implementation of the Enter! Recommendation.
• Selected candidates should be supported by a local or regional authority.

List of participants

ALBANIA                                             

DERMANI Suhida
Beyond the Barriers  Association

Armenia                                             

Grigoryan Ashkhen                   
Public Diplomacy Charitable NGO,

PAPIKYAN Hripsime                       
Mandate of Future- Youth NGO

Azerbaijan                                         

Alizada Mirhabib                          
National Youth Council of Azerbaijan – NAYORA

AIESEC

Belgium                                              

Musmikiwabo-Karangwa Marie-Pierre        
Shift and Twist Association

Bulgaria

Georgiev Georgi                           
Future to all

FRANCE                                               

TANOVAN Kenny                            
CSC Neuhof

DURTESTE Eddy                                               
Urban Vibrations School

FEIST Julia                                           
D'Antilles et D'Ailleurs

Georgia                                               

Antia Nato                       
Youth Social rights Network

GERMANY                                         

Martinez Ramon          
DARE Network

Sytnyk Olena                   
AWO - Migration service

Hungary                                              

Sonyak-Nikovics Andrea        
Family-and Child Welfare Center of Nyíregyháza

Ireland                                

Delap John                       
Future Voices Ireland

Italy                                      

Coppola Alessandra    
APICE - Agenzia di Promozione Integrata per i Cittadini in Europa

Kosovo*                                             

Sharku Bejtullah           
Inciativa Pozitive

Djordjevic Petar                          
Mlada Aktivna Gracanica

Luxembourg                                     

Mribah Mehdi                
4motion absl

"former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"                                        

Ceban Elena                     
DYPALL Network

Malta                                   

Vella Valerie                   
Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco

Moldova                                             

Ivancioglo Victoria    
NGO Perspectiva

Norway                                               

Toth Elisabeth Victoria             
Baerum Community centre

Portugal                                              

Salas Corrigan Monica                           
Rede Jovens CPLP - Bué Fixe Youth Association

Romania                                             

Oancea              Raluca                  
ADAPTO

Russian Federation                                        

SIRIUKOVA Iana                              
Institute of Youth, Tatarstan

Slovakia                                              

Shebanova Olga                           
People in Need

SPAIN                                  

Fuente Rodriguez Raul            
Asociación Auryn

The Netherlands                                             

Jansen Lenno                 
Stichting Menswel

Turkey                                 

Polat Basak                     
Support for contemporary living

Ukraine                                               

Mukoseieva Lesia        
State institute for family and youth policy

This long term training course was an innovative complementary training for youth workers that are active in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The main rationale for the course was to prepare youth workers to work with young people on tackling questions on unequal opportunities, discrimination, exclusion and violence, by promoting more access to social rights.

Aim of the course

This long term training course aimed at developing the competences of youth workers/youth leaders to contribute to combating the social exclusion of young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods through the development of concrete projects.

Objectives

• To develop participants’ competences in developing and running a youth project for social inclusion based on intercultural learning, human rights education and participation;
• To familiarise participants with European youth programmes and policies (Council of Europe and European Commission) and the values, mission, structure and ways of working of the Council of Europe and in particular the Directorate of Youth and Sport;
• To concretely address situations of conflict and exclusion of young people living in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods through non-formal education and youth work projects by the course participants;
• To explore and develop conceptual and practical means of translating intercultural dialogue into the realities of youth work;
• To identify and try out criteria for innovative youth work projects with young people at risk of exclusion and violence;
• To initiate, support and evaluate up to thirty five innovative pilot projects with a high multiplier effect across Europe;
• To share knowledge and experiences on challenges to human and social rights faced by young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Europe;
• To support the implementation of cross-sectorial and interdisciplinary youth work and youth policy by associating local authorities, youth research and youth policy development to youth work;
• To contribute to the recognition of youth work and non-formal education at local and national levels;
• To support the implementation of the objectives of the Agenda 2020 of the Council of Europe in relation to the social inclusion of young people.

• Pre-seminar online phase– 15 July- 20 September 2009
• First Residential seminar – 20 September (arrival) - 1^st October 2009 (departure day)
• First project phase and e-learning – October 2009- September 2010
• Second residential seminar– 26 September 2010 (arrival) - 6th October 2010 (departure day)
• Second project phase and e-learning– October 2010 - Spring 2011
• Evaluation seminar – Spring 2011

The team of trainers responsible for preparing, implementing and evaluating the course consisted of:

• Pieter- Jan Uyttersprot – Belgium
• Athanasios Krezios – Greece
• Matteo Fornaca – Italy
• Alexandra Raykova – Bulgaria
• Nadine Lyamouri-Bajja – Educational Advisor, Council of Europe
• Rui Gomes - Head of Education and Training Unit, Council of Europe

Documentalist: Tony Geudens (Belgium)

Evaluator: Yael Ohana Forbrig (Germany)

There were 31 participants selected from 24 countries of the Council of Europe and 1 from the Kingdom of Morocco. Each participant in the course is expected to develop a concrete project with young people, based on active participation, intercultural learning and human rights education. The projects of the participants should serve as a basis for a policy recommendation on the access of young people to social rights.

Suzana Kaplanovic (Serbia)

I have a strong wish to improve my knowledge, to learn more and more and to exchange experience. Suzana (Serbia)

Project: Let’s play for humanity

Organization Red Cross Belgrade

 

Alexandra Boudia (France)

"Ma participation à ce stage permettrait une prise en charge différente des jeunes et mener à bien les projets de mon organisation avec ce public particulier issus de ces quartiers difficiles". Alexandra (France)

Project: EUROdépayse toi!

Organization Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France

 

Elez Bislim (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

"This course will teach me about social rights and how to access them and to raise the living standards of the Roma people in Topaana". Elez (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

Project: Inclusion of Young Roma People (Rroma Youth Infomation Club)

Organization Association of Citizens Sumnal

 

Rifat Demalija (Albania)

"During this course I will develop my competences in combating social exclusion of youngsters". Rifat (Albania)

Project: From social exclusion to opportunities

Organization 'Youth in Free Initiative' organisation

 

Samiuela Elone (Finland)

Taking part in this course i will learn new tools for working with disadvantaged young people and skills on project development. Samiuela (Finland)

Project: Intercultural Learning, Youth Participation and Youth Access to Social Rights

Organization City of Helsinki Youth Department, Vuosaari Youth Work Unit (Vuny).

 

Fransua Tulikunkiko (Russian Federation)

L'échange de bonnes pratiques avec d'autres participants me permettrons de collecter et réaliser des idées novatrices parmi les jeunes de ma région qui restent défavorisés. Fransua (Russian Federation)

Project: Promoting socio-economic rights of youth living in rural areas of the Russia’s North-West Region

Organization Organisation humanitaire de la Region de Pskov "Heureuse Enfance"

 

Marco Paulo Laranjeira dos Santos (Estonia)

In this course we will approach new methods working on an issue that is the base of our daily activities. Marco (Estonia)

Project: Sailors on the CitizenShip – Harbors of CitizenShip

Organization Eesti Erinoorsootöö Ühing noOR

 

Ihar Zahumionau (Belarus)

This course will enhance the capacity of my organisation to initiate and lead youth activities. Ihar (Belarus)

Project: Capacity Building for local authorities (LA) and non-state actors (NSA) cooperation on social inclusion and empowerment of disadvantaged young people in Belarus communities

Organization SCAF Youth Center

 

Agshin Asgarov (Azerbaijan)

I hope this course will increase possibilities of our organisation to set up new projects with young people. Agshin (Azerbaijan)

Project: Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans

Organization Human Rights in the XXI Century

 

Alex Collop (United Kingdom)

My participation in this course will help us enormously in our committment to ensure that young people are nurtured adequately to make positive choices in the future. Alex (UK)

Project: My future, social enterprise for young people in youth work

Organization Muirhouse Youth Development Group

 

Tania Tisheva (Bulgaria)

This course could broaden the perspective for implementation of new methods for youth work that will improve our approach with young people from marginalised communities in Bulgaria. Tania (Bulgaria)

Project: Promotion of the access to social rights and the right to education of disadvantaged youth in Sofia, Dimitrovgrad and Bourgas through HRE – mission possible

Organization Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation

 

Biljana Vasilevska (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

My participation in this course will improve the capacity of my organisation and develop our work. Biljana (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

Project: HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in Bitola - Get more knowledge and skills

Organization Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola

 

Rami Al-khamisi (Sweden)

I want to learn how to use participatory exercises, all elements of running and organising a project. Rami (Sweden)

Project: The Megaphone

Organization Megafonen

 

Fiona Joyce (Ireland)

I believe that this course will also make me better equipped to combat the issues of conflict and exclusion currently facing our community. Fiona (Ireland)

Project: Social Rights – An Issue for YOUth

Organization Canal Communities Regional Youth Service

 

Karen Mkhitaryan (Armenia)

I expect to gain competences in developing and running a youth project for social inclusion. Karen (Armenia)

Project: Training Course " Development and Implementation of Participation Projects at Local and Regional Level"

Organization Caucasian Institute for Peace Problems Research - CIPPR

 

Lysiane Schmitz (Belgium)

Ce stage pourrait apporter une dimension internationale à la connaissance d'autres réalités de quartiers. Lysiane (Belgium)

Project: Act’heure (Act’hour)

Organization Ville de Namur

 

Mary Drosopoulos (Greece)

My aim is to educate and sensitize young people and this course would be a wonderful opportunity to explore new possibilities. Mary(Greece)

Project: EMIS for social cohesion

Organization Institute for European and Mediterranean Studies

 

Mohammed Marfoq (Italy)

Ce stage va offrir la possibilité de continuer et de renforcer un travail qui est déja réalisé dans les quartiers défavorisés, comme il offre aussi un champs d'échange d'éxpériences et des outils de travail. Mohammed (Morocco)

Project: Sourire

Organization Liberitutti

 

Sean Pettis (United Kingdom)

The aims and objectives of this course are deeply related to our mission statement of ‘building democratic communities together’. Sean (UK)

Project: Social Rights for All

Organization Public Achievement

 

Danijela Lovric (Croatia)

By my participation in this course we will be able to work to provide opportunities for our volunteers to participate on activities that interests them, enabling them to grow and learn. Danijela (Croatia)

Project: Change factory

Organization Youth Centre for non-formal education-Creators, not consumers

 

Dynka Amorim (Portugal)

My participation in this course could be important and useful, because we promote peer education initiatives, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion. Dynka (Portugal)

Project: Youth Media to promote the Access of Young People Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods to Social Rights

Organization Citizens of the World/Bué Fixe

 

Sintija Lase

I hope this training course could give us more tools to work more effectively with youngsters with fewer opportunities. Sintija (Latvia)

Project: When you don’t go to Europe, Europe comes to you

Organization RED - Creative Effects' Workshop

 

Eleonora Poposka (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

With the knowledge I'll acquire and experiences I'll gather through this course, I will be able to help improving the life of young people. Eleonora (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

Project: Better access to social rights and social services for the young Roma people

Organization Journalists for children and women rights and environmental protection

 

Abdenour Ladji

Ce stage se situé comme passeur d’informations et connaissances auprès des acteurs socioculturels et des institutions sur les droits humains. Abdenour (France)

Project: Colonie internationale des jeunes.

Organization Accoord

 

Federico Tsucalas

Through this course I will get the competences to develop a concrete project with young people and involve them in every single step of the activities. Federico (Italy)

Project: Action to promote and improve the social integration of young asylum seekers and refugees living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Ferrara

Organization Cooperativa Sociale Camelot

 

Julie Mercier

Ce stage permettra échanger avec d’autres personnes travaillant avec un public venant de quartiers défavorisés, pour enrichir notre propre travail. Julie (France)

Project: Être scolarisé ne veut pas forcément dire être intégré!

Organization ARPOMT

 

Badia Loukili-Raihani

Renforcer mes compétences comme je suis nouvelle médiatrice au quartier, et que surtout je veux mener un projet avec les jeunes de ce quartier surtout les filles. Badia (France)

Project: La gazette: les dires et les écrits jeunes

Organization Au-delà des Ponts

 

Sandra Rabbow

This course would be very valuable to gain new knowledge about human and social rights and their possible applications. Sandra (Germany)

Project: JugendtheaterBüro Berlin - Das Unternehmen "Freedom Festival" (Youth Theatre Office Berlin)

Organization Initiative Grenzen-Los!

 

Balázs Lettner

I am interested in cross-boarder, regional development in order to develop international partnerships. Balázs (Hungary)

Project: Tátorján project: increasing the dialogue between minority and majority through social voluntary work

Organization Pro-Cserehát Association

 

Ozlem Yavuzkan

Project: Insertion des jeunes dans la société par le sport.

Organization ACCOORD

 

The experiences of the training course will have a particularly important role in informing other activities of the project, by bringing the direct input of youth workers and young people and by bridging experiences from the European to the local level. This is a complementary training offering youth workers who undertake activities with young people that experience disadvantage the opportunity:

• to gain insights into how the European level and engagement with policy actors can support their efforts to empower young people, and,

• to promote access to social rights for young people, in an effort of overcoming the disadvantage young people face due to exclusion, violence and discrimination.

The LTTC is a European level complementary training for youth workers, which aims to develop their competences in designing and implementing responses, projects, partnerships in support of youth-led initiatives that promote access to social rights and overcome discrimination, exclusion and violence.

The objectives of the course were:

• To introduce participants to evidence based needs analysis, to socio-educational project designing, management, implementation and evaluation
• To support participants to develop socio-educational projects with young people that promote access to social rights and overcome discrimination, exclusion and violence
• To develop participants’ understanding and knowledge of the human rights framework and the policy fields and mechanisms that are relevant to the situation of young people with whom they work, from the local to the European level;
• To support participants in using human rights based approaches and human rights education in their youth work
• To develop participants’ competence and confidence for engaging with policy makers and other actors in the youth and social policy fields for improving access to social rights for young people;
• To contribute to the social and educational recognition of youth work and non-formal education in participants’ realities and at European level. 

Throughout the course and as a result of its educational process, participants :

• Improved their core competences in the areas related to the course curriculum;
• Followed an experiential learning cycle, from needs assessment to evaluation of learning;
• Designed, implemented and evaluated socio-educational projects with young people that promote access to social rights and overcome discrimination, exclusion and violence;
• Received institutional and educational support to develop projects with young people, as increased visibility for their youth work activities;
• Increased their organisations’ capacity on the topic of improving access to social rights for young people within and with the resources of their local community;
• Developed dialogue and partnership with local and regional authorities and with civic society organisations;
• Exchanged practices with other youth workers from different contexts and networks among each other, for instance in international projects on access to social rights for young people.

Trainers

Council of Europe

The course evaluation was carried out in 2 main ways:

- a constant monitoring and evaluation of participants' learning by the team of trainers and organisers of the course

- an impact study on the value of the Enter! project interventions for the promotion of access to social rights for young people.