Intercultural Facilitation for Preventing Discrimination: European Youth Foundation

The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial support for European youth activities. Its purpose is to encourage co-operation among young people in Europe by providing financial support to such European youth activities which serve the promotion of peace, understanding and co-operation in a spirit of respect for the Council of Europe's fundamental values such as human rights, democracy, tolerance and solidarity (http://www.coe.int).

About Project

The project aim is to prevent discrimination and conflicts caused by intercultural misunderstanding towards national minorities particularly through intercultural facilitation.The project participants: youth leaders from the boarder regions of Ukraine (national minorities as well), representatives of the

neighboring countries of Ukraine: Poland, Moldova, Romania, Russia and Belarus. The project goals: increase the awareness on the necessity of preventing discrimination and prejudice of intercultural conflicts among youth from 6 countries; train 24 youth workers from 6 countries in method of intercultural facilitation that will contribute to the use and dissemination of

this technique in the future; break stereotypes, improve attitude towards national minorities through initiatives conducted by the project participants in their communities; establish communication and further cooperation between

representatives of organizations from the project countries, planning future projects. The project is implemented by Center for European Initiatives (Sumy, Ukraine) in partnership with Happy Childhood Foundation (Lublin, Poland) with the support of European Youth Foundation of Council of Europe.

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