Raising the Bar: Euromed A Way Forward
31st March – 6 April 2014

Introduction
This Training Course will offer an opportunity to the partners involved to reflect on issues which are common
to all countries coming from the EU/Meda region. The training course will thus focus mainly on three issue;
1. Inter-cultural dialogue enhanced through intercultural communication
2. Inclusion and young people in EU / Meda region within a European context
3. Project Management and active participation of young people in an innovative and creative way
This training will result in opportunities to actively participate; thus stimulating initiative, innovation and
entrepreneurship. Therefore, the event shall generate an environment to support partner’s capacity building in
the region on topics of inclusion and intercultural communication. It will be run over 5 days and will see 30
participants coming from 10 different countries from all over the Mediterranean namely; Malta, Greece, Croatia,
Spain, Italy, Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey and Morocco
Simulation, role- playing, Workshops, discussion and hand on / practical session will be taking place during the
training course.

For whom is this Training course?
This training course is targeted for youth workers, youth leaders and young people (18+) that are interested to
learn more about intercultural dialogue and inclusion.

Profile of Participants
The training course is designed for those who are directly involved in their organization on a local level and
would like to start networking on an international level. The characteristics needed for the selected
participants are;
- Interested to know more about intercultural learning
- Have the capabilities to apply what he/she learns in the local organization
- Interested to work on the network created during the training course
- Interested to create project within ERASMUS+ framework
- Open minded
- Young at heart

Aims and Objectives
The main aims and objectives of this training course are to;
1) Promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular
2) develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social
cohesion in the European Union
3) foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries; The training will tackle
Intercultural learning on an individual and group level to ensure that the participants will go into
depth in the subject

4) contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of
civil society organizations in the youth field; As individual participants will learn more about
intercultural communications, how to deal with conflict, how to improve the quality of youth work
implemented on a National and European level. All this will increase the capabilities of the individuals