PROJECTDESCRIPTION

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In recent years, one of the common grounds of various social actors in Turkey and Germany is the motivation to address the new challenges around social inclusion and social cohesion. Children and youth from different socio-cultural backgrounds and with diverse family languages have been sharing the same living and learning environments for very long years. Today, there is an increasing need to ensure a well-working ecosystem for co-existence and social cohesion in our societies as well as in our education systems.

ALL TOGETHER II gathers NGOs from Turkey and Germany and provides them the ground to co-create innovative content. Through the co-developed Training the Trainers Modules around different topics, the project aims to support educators and volunteers working with children and youth in non-formal education by strengthening their skills and by improving inclusive approaches and attitudes in both countries.

How can we explore the field together and learn from each other?

By bringing together educators, pedagogues and other professionals from 16 different civil society organizations from Germany and Turkey, the project creates the ground for interdisciplinary exchange and intersectional perspectives on non-formal education, allowing participants to learn more about each other’s expertise and to define the overlapping areas of needs for further and more elaborate trainings in Turkey and in Germany. Project puts a special emphasis on the inclusion of children with refugee or migration background in the field of non-formal education.

Smaller working groups come together and work around topics of their common interests and expertise as well as the needs of the field. Each group always consists of participants from both countries and supported and facilitated by external knowledge-holders and project coordinators. Each working group focuses on a different theme, always through an intersectional perspective and all outputs will be linked by the overarching theme of inclusion.

How can we extend our work and share it with different actors, such as key stakeholders, professionals, educators and volunteers from the field?

As a final result of this 18 months long international exchange and collaborative process, several Training the Trainers Modules will be available, ready to serve for a better inclusive perspective and practice in Turkey and Germany. Each module will focus on specific topics, address different needs and gaps in the field and will support and strengthen the professionals or volunteers who directly work with children and youth through creative approaches.

All developed materials will be accessible free of charge via the project website:

www.hep-beraber.org
www.germanturkishinitiative.org
www.alle-zusammen.org