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Past projects
1. “Interactive workshops on Tolerance, Team Building, understanding the ‘other’ and Human Rights” Time: 12 – 14 March 2002 Organizer: European Network of Women. Place: Greece Summary: Youth leaders group participated in the workshops.
The content included multiform interactive activities. The Human Rights and Education Network sent three participants (Partnership).
2. “Training in service teachers on Olympic Education and Human Rights” Time: 25 – 28 June 2002 Organizer: European Network of Women and Ministry of Education. Place: Greece Summary: 300 in service
teachers participated a 3-days seminar on Team Building, Conflict Management and
Empathy. Participation of the Human Rights and Education Network: An expert trainer, (Partnership).
3. Seminars on “Networking” Time: May – November 2003 Place: Cyprus Summary: Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot teachers from all educational levels participated in meetings and interactive workshops on Networking, Team Building and Conflict Management. Organiser: Human Rights and Education Network. Partner: European Network of Women.
4. “Human Rights in Education” project
Time:
22 November 2002 – 21 November 2003 Place: Cyprus Summary: The
project aimed to introduce the Human Rights perspective in Education. Cypriot
educators from both sides of the island established a Network and E.U. experts
trained them. They acquired the capacity to design and implement school
activities on Human Rights. Some of them received further training and became
trainers. A Website also has been created. The main objectives of the project were: ·
To introduce the human rights perspective in schools in
Cyprus and promote cooperation among educators from the Greek and Turkish-Cypriot
community; ·
To create the conditions for the sustainable
implementation and development of human rights education in Cyprus; ·
To establish a network of teachers from all educational
levels from both sides of the island who are interested in human rights
education. This network will be linked up with European organizations and
experts, already working on this field; ·
To render a group of schoolteachers capable of
designing and implementing lesson plans, activities and projects, on human
rights and to upgrade the competencies of the teachers in this field; ·
To raise awareness on human rights among the wider public; Organiser: Human Rights and Education Network. Partners:
European Network of Women
and the Institute for
Research and Action of Migration. 5.
“Seminars for teachers’ training on Networking” Time:
23rd of March 2003 Place: Cyprus Summary: Cypriot educators from all educational levels and form all
communities participated in a 8-hour seminar on Networking and Human Rights
Education. The content of the seminars was: Introduction of the programme; a
quiz on the Council of Europe; Globalisation: with or without Cyprus? a quiz on
the European Union and exercises on the European dream; action plans for human
rights education in schools. Partner: Intercultural Institute Timisoara, Romania. 6.
Seminars on “Human Rights and conflict management” Time:
28th
of June to 4th of July 2003 Place: Greece Summary: A 28-member group attended 6-day seminars. The participants came from Cyprus (11 participants from all communities), Greece, U.K. and Belgium. Organizer: European Network of Women.
7. Camp training on
Team Building - Conflict Management Activities, Human Rights
Education, Children Rights and Child Labour. Time: 28 – 31 July 2003 Place:
Cyprus Summary: The camp training deals with the
theme of human rights and concentrated on children’s human rights. The global
problems of child labour, child prostitution and child soldiering were discussed.
Organizer: YOUTH ENCOUNTERS FOR PEACE (YEP). Participation
of the Human Rights and Education Network:
One
trainer
delivered Workshops on Team
Building – Conflict Management Activities and Human Rights Education.
80
teenagers from all
communities (30 T/C) attended the Workshops
(Partnership).
8. Study
Visit: “How the
preserve young people's cultural identity in the European integration context”. Time: 19 to 27 July 2003 Summary:
Purposes
of the seminar were: ·
Getting to know each other’s needs and tools
of Romanian youth work/youth policies and also from the participant’s
countries. ·
Finding new partners for international youth
exchanges for the organizations from Suceava County. ·
Acquiring knowledge about aims and formal
requirements of the “Youth”
Programme8-day seminar titled. Organizer: PRO DESTINE – YOUTH ASSOCIATION, Romania. Participation of the Human Rights and Education Network: Two members attended the seminars (Partnership).
Time: 26th January 2004 Place: Cyprus Summary: Teachers from all communities and from all
educational levels, also representatives of Cypriot NGOs attended an interactive workshop. The aim of the Workshop is to exploration into diversity
and social justice within art in schools and Non-Governmental Organisations. Organiser: Human Rights and Education Network. Partners: European Network of Women and International Amnesty of Cyprus. Content and Programme: Greek English
10.
Interactive Workshops:
1st :The
European Union indicators of quality in education concerning the realities and
the needs of schools in Cyprus; 2nd
: Creative conflict management in family and school. Time: 1st lecture: 16th March 2004;2nd lecture: 4th May 2004.
Duration: Two hours each workshop. Place:
Cyprus.
Summary: Parents and teachers created a common committee to formulate and adjust the content, and to prepare the workshops. Niki Roubani, trainer and activist from European Network of Women, delivered the workshops. The 1st workshop introduced the indicators of quality in education and the 2nd one included interactive activities and theory on family and school violence, and interactive activities on creative conflict resolution. The participants (parents and teachers) exchanged ideas and practices from different point of view and they understood the need and the right of closed interactive cooperation between
them. Co-organizers: Human Rights and Education Network, Parents Association of Akropolis Primary School.
11. One-day meeting: "Intercultural Education and Antiracist Culture" Time:
Saturday, 27th March 2004 Place: Cyprus. Summary:
During the morning, academics and activists from Cyprus and Greece presented innovative
researches and studies on the field. During the afternoon two workshops took
place. Organizer:
"Equality - Support - Antiracism Movement" Partners: Department of Education, University of Cyprus Human Rights and Education Network "Towards
an Intercultural Curriculum", presentation in Greek.
12.
Celebration of the World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development Time:
17th to 21st May 2004. Place:
Cyprus. Summary:
The Programme included greetings, researches, studies, presentations, movies,
choruses, broadcasts, exhibitions, discussions,
festivals (Futsal,
Music, traditional and international Cuisine, Dance, Poetry), etc. Organizer:
Department of Education, Intercollege. The Human Rights and Education Network contributed to the Celebration with one speaker (Partnership). Presentation in Greek: "A bi-communal project in education".
13. Interactive Seminar: “Gender Relations – Gender and Conflict Management’ Funded
by National Machinery for Women Rights. Time:
2nd and 3rd June, 2004. Place:
Cyprus. Summary: Women and men form all communities of Cyprus participated in an 8-hour interactive seminar. Niki Roubani, trainer and activist from European Network of Women and Sylvie Mantis, Peer Team member of Human Rights and Education Network, delivered the seminar. The frame of the content was: The discovery of parameters that influence the formation of gender. Empathy, harmonious relations and the creative resolution of conflict. “Measuring” equality and equal opportunities. Reasons for the conflict between men and women, positive parameters of the conflict, negative parameters of the conflict and consequences. Creation of a women’s organization (European Network of Women – Cyprus). Evaluation of the Seminar. Co-organisers: Human Rights and Education Network, Hands Across the Divide, TEA Theatre Education Association, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Representation of Cyprus and European Network of Women (Greek section). Content
and Programme: Greek
- English
- Turkish
14 Seminar on Human Rights and Peace Education Network (H.R.&P.E.N). Time:
4 – 10 of July 2004. Place:
Santorini – Greece. Organizers:
European Network of Women (Greece) and the group “ORAMA” (U.K.). Summary:
To structure a substantial and consistent work on Human Rights and Peace
education and training. To bring together people who have worked on these issues,
coming from different backgrounds and having different expertise and specialties
on Human Rights and Peace Education. To create
a Human Rights and Peace Education Network (H.R.&P.E.N). Partnership:
The Human Rights and Education Network participated with one speaker/facilitator
and
one peer team member.
[Participants' names and photos] [Agenda,
English] [PHOTOS OF THE SEMINAR].
15. Human Rights training and Networking for Trainers. Funded
by National Machinery for Women Rights. Time: 13 November 2004. Place: Nicosia. Summary:
The interactive
training and the discussions that followed were related: -
To the exchange of information on activities of organizations and people -
To the exchange of perceptions and experience concerning the special interests
and motivations -
To the perception of our personal difference as well as our cultural one, as
enriching qualities, -
While at the same time practicing skills: active listening, presentation skills
of people and issues, lobbying and the dissemination of ideas (lobbying people
and lobbying for policies), networking practices, the use of healing tools,
especially those involving the Arts, so that personal creativity may positively
affect their visionary personal democratic involvement, (The Art for Diversity
program was introduced), -
There were activities aiming to enable the human body to gain non-competitive
conscience of balance and strength, thus increasing personal confidence as well
as solidarity and interdependence. - There were activities, finally, on conflict management and peaceful confrontation.
16.
Youth, teachers and activists training on NGOs capacity building and Project Management. Time:
On
the move. Place:
Cyprus
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