I-Dare Newsletter... Nov. 2013 – April 2014 | 1 |
Sawa Ben3ish ( | )سوا بنعيشSpreading the Culture of Dialogue | Developing & using pedagogical board games as tools to spread the culture of dialogue We spent a great week learning, exchanging, playing, creating, and adapting simulation and board games. Non-formal education methodologies has always proved it is efficacy and full engagement to the ones participating in the learning process / game. I am not able to list the things that we can learn through playing. What, I know for sure, if when I was at school I got the chance to play Fair or Not Fair Simulation Game then I would be the most successful social entrepreneur, the most amazing strategic thinker, a fantastic planner, and even my mathematical skills would have been much better.
"The Other" Online Wiki Toolbox Human Rights Education
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The overall aim is to promote intercultural dialogue and human rights education for youngsters through alternative and combined active, digital and collaborative methodologies resources in a multilingual online platform. It is about the development of a multilingual online toolbox with activities for Human Rights Education for youngsters - this toolbox will be available as an open and collaborative online wiki. The initial activities of this toolbox will be created in a meeting that will take place by different social and educational workers and members from all partner organizations. After the end of the project, the website will continue and will be opened for other organizations. All the activities inside this online toolbox will be chapters of a role playing game that has as a main plot the story of a group of passengers of a plane that crashed in an island. The index page of the wiki will be a map of this island and each time an activity is added to
this toolbox a new mark will appear in the map. These activities will be developed in a meeting in Portugal and implemented in each partner country (Portugal, Jordan, Spain & Egypt).
Environment, Sustainability & Youth Entrepreneurship & Development in Rural Entrepreneurship and development in rural Areas To create general understanding for local communities in rural areas how to use ‘environment’ as a source for employability. To promote innovative ideas for social entrepreneurship related to ‘environment’.
"Creative Force" Exploring the meaning of community To raise awareness about Global Eco-Villages Movement and it is role in sustainable development. To promote Suderbyn best practices as a holistic ecovillage.
"Youth Cluster” Training Course for the Promotion of Non Formal Learning for New Stakeholders" "Youth Cluster - Training Course for the Promotion of Non Formal Learning for New Stakeholders" is a training course [for action 3.1 - Cooperation with the Neighbouring Countries of the European Union of Youth in Action Programme] that aims the promotion of the recognition of Non Formal Learning in Youth in Action Programmme in 2 perspectives: 1) a strategic path for inclusion of youngsters with
less opportunities, with a special focus in Youth in Action Programme for unemployed youngsters and 2) the recognition of Non Formal Learning by different actors and agents promoters of social inclusion.
Structured Dialogue Civil Society from the Southern Neighbourhood and the EU launch structured dialogue I-Dare is taking part in the structured dialogue meetings; the new initiative by the European Commission. I-Dare took part in the seminar held in Dead Sea 30-31 March 2014 and in Brussels Forum 29-30 April 2014. I-Dare participated in different working groups; Youth, Media, Think-tank, and Capacity building. You can check back our live tweet and short videos covering part of Brussels Forum. The below press release gives more information about the initiative.
Chitchat and screening about the work of English artist Damien Hirst
Articipate Using theatre as a tool for youth participation