SOLIDARUS

One of the goals of SOLIDARUS is to promote mutual understanding between European citizens. International youth exchanges and forums for youth workers and educators is one of the ways to achieve this goal. WHAT OUR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES ARE ABOUT The main idea of such youth exchanges is to support young people from Europe and neighboring countries, including Russia and CIS countries, to find their way to live together in diverse society. Different aspects of such issues as Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue, Democracy and Youth Participation, Human Rights and (anti)Discrimination, Identity and Social Inclusion etc. become topics of our youth exchanges and experts’ forums. We invite participants to explore these topics not only on social, but also on personal level. Non-formal citizenship education and intercultural dialogue is the main focus of our international youth exchanges. Such meetings of young people from different countries give opportunities to their participants not only to experience intensive interactions in the frames of planned programmes and on personal level with their peers, but also to discuss in open dialogue topical social issues, to reflect challenges of today’s life and to raise awareness of different perspectives on them. OUR METHODOLOGY For that we try to create a space where participants of our projects can exchange their ideas, get new experience, train their social skills, examine their attitudes and reflect on their values. Our projects are implemented with methods of non-formal education that promote interaction and reflection. Participant are invited to take part in discussions, simulation games, meetings and visits, opinion sharing and other interactive methods. We encourage them to share their personal opinions as well as gain new perspectives on social issues and themselves by working individually, in different small groups and in plenary. OUR NETWORK In this work we cooperate with organizations from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Spain, Italy, other German institutions and open for new partners!