Basic Training On The Organization Of An Intercultural Exchange

For many years, the FGYO has been promoting franco-german exchanges between youth coming from disadvantaged areas and often excluded from such exchanges for various reasons. Yet such openess towards "the Other" is fundamental in any identity construction process aiming at making citizens aware of their own determinisms and open to diversity.

Lets no forget it: " everyone believes to see the world how it is because everyone believes the world is how she/he sees it". But, believing in interculturality, it is to assert that it is possible to train ourselves to the awareness and knowledge of our own culture and of others.

These trainings are designed for counselors, social workers and social actors working in disadvantaged areas or working with youth from those areas.

We designed those trainings to give future international exchanges counselors, the tools and the knowledge that are necessary for putting up such projects. We believe that by experiencing an intercultural exchange themselves, participants will better realize and understand the challenges they are going to face.

These trainings, that we wish to be as "operational" as possible, are designed to be a veritable practical training. To be so, the training centres on:

• Simulation workshop on intercultural exchanges, in binotional or tri-national groups throughout the week (preparing projects, planning, finding partners, financing, evaluation…).

• Specific pedagogical tools and methods: Plurinational team work, intercultural games, linguistic animation, verbal and non verbal communication, organisation techniques, conflict management, pedagogical tools (video, sport, theater).

• Public specificity : assets and difficulties, with visits to local organizations.