Academia Europea di Firenze organises a workshop "The well-being, quality of life, social rights, social cohesion / subsidiarity and sustainability", which will take place in Florence (Italy) from 9 -13 May 2011. The workshop is organised within the EU Longlife Learning programme and is a direct follow-up to the last study session of the Human Rights Education Youth Network.

To get more information and apply please visit the web site of the Academia HERE.

           

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Human Rights Education Youth Network is organisning and international training course "Dialogue against the Fist, Understanding instead of Fear", which will take place in Bakuriani (Georgia) from 11 to 17 December 2009. This Training Course (TC) is dedicated to conflict prevention and promotion of peace, which will bring together young leaders from Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russian Federation in order to engage youth workers into debate about recent conflicts and cold relationship in the countries and how to find best way to keep constructive way to address them through cooperation in youth field.

This training will touch all type of conflicts: Intrapersonal conflict; Group conflict; Intercultural conflicts; Organizational conflict; Community conflict; Intra-state conflict; International conflict;

Training will also be also opportunity for youth workers to learn more about conflicts during implementation of the projects, and discuss real examples of conflicts, which happened during different types of projects within the YiA program and learn how to address them.