Intercultural dialogue

Intercultural dialogue is a transversal element and objective embedded in all Euro-Med Youth activities.

Intercultural Dialogue is also a cross-cutting for the Council of Europe and the European Commission. Intercultural dialogue is meant to be an implicit part of all the Euro-Mediterranean activities, in the understand that intercultural dialogue is the concern of everyone. In parallel to this approach, the partnership has also undertaken two training courses on intercultural dialogue together with the Anna Lindh Foundation (focusing on human rights education and on conflict transformation). A third course is foreseen for 2009. The courses 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 the participants and supported by the Euro-Med youth programme or the Anna Lindh Foundation.

• 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 cooperation 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 Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe and the European Commission and in co-operation with the Anna Lindh Euro-Med Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures.
Presentation (EN - FR)        Programme (EN - FR)        List of participants

• 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 Partnership on Youth 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
  Presentation (EN - AR)       List of participants        Programme         Report
  

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 produced a series of innovative Euro-Med youth projects.