Dear Friends,
We have the pleasure to invite you to take part in the
International Youth Seminar:
All different - All Equal:
YOUNG PEOPLE BREAKING THE BARRIERS OF ABILISM
IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Bulgaria, 25th – 31th August 2007
with the support of the
European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and
The Central European Initiative
The project is initiated by young people with disabilities and will be run by and for young people with disabilities. It aims at organizing a 5 days training course on abilism in education and employment, within which 30 young abilism activists and youth with disabilities from the CEI countries will meet in order to discuss, analyse and develop, implement and multiply assistance tools and associative strategies for equality, participation, inclusive employment and education.
Objectives:
Ш To identify and review specific problems and discriminatory practices that disabled youth face in education and employment;
Ш To campaign against public attitudes leading to abilism;
Ш To strive for adequate public policy and service provision;
Ш To promote Human Rights, Independence, Dignity and Equality;
Ш To encourage participation and address social barriers to increase the educational and employment opportunities for CEI young people with disabilities;
Ш To enable participants in the youth seminar to understand and explore the concepts of Human Rights Education, participation and social inclusion as tools to combat abilism and achieve inclusive employment and education;
Ш To help participants in building their self-confidence and improve competences in addressing disability concerns to the public;
Ш To build partnerships and motivate participants to take concrete action against discrimination on local, regional, national and international levels;
Ш To multiply these tools and strategies in local communities and educational institutions, NGOs and in the workplace.
Methodology of the seminar:
Youth-friendly non-formal human rights education, based on the Council of Europe's Manual for Human Rights Education for Young People –"COMPASS". All methods will be chosen to be adequate and suitable for all participants with disabilities.
Participants should be:
v Primarily young people with disabilities aged from 18 to 30 who are actively working/volunteerin g in organizations on issues of disability; activists involved in work on disability issues.
v Interested in raising awareness about disability problems and concerns of youth with disabilities in Europe.
v Eager to improve social inclusion of disabled young people and their participation in the society.
v Motivated to multiply skills and knowledge obtained to develop projects on inclusive education and employment in their organisations/ communities after the course.
The participant selection process will be based on the above criteria, the application form and recommendation letter from the sending organization/ community, considering gender and geographical balance.
List of eligible Counties:
Ш Austria
Ш Albania
Ш Belarus
Ш Bosnia
Ш Bulgaria
Ш Croatia
Ш Check Republic
Ш Hungary - Andrea
Ш Italy
Ш Macedonia
Ш Moldova
Ш Montenegro
Ш Poland
Ш Romania
Ш Serbia
Ш Slovakia
Ш Slovenia
Ш Ukraine
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Katia Robova
Project Coordinator
cyberdiva999@yahoo.co.uk
[sursa e-nass]
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