Guidelines For Trainers

GUIDELINES FOR TRAINERS

INTRODUCTION The Legislative Assembly of the Emilia Romagna region in Italy is a governmental local tool for the promotion of citizens participation. It has limited charges but serious tasks in promoting and realizing events and projects aimed to support participation in the democratic life at all levels. In the last 5 years the Legislative Assembly, that has the power to influence with recommendations and laws proposal the regional government of the region, has organized a European Youth Meeting that took place in Rimini, on the coast, the 9th of May of every year. This event, completely founded with local grants and with the help of the representative office in Italy of European Commission (EC) and European Parliament (EP), involves at least 1 school from each member state plus some delegations from candidate countries. The event has the main aim to facilitate the discussion between students and between teachers about topic of relevant interest (last year: European citizenship and multiculturalism, Interethnic dialogue, Interreligious dialogue). The results of this common work, done in parallel groups and synthesized by delegates chosen during the workshops, is the content of a final exposition with a public of at least 400 people and commented by EP members, local authorities and famous personalities (journalists, writers, etc...).

REPLAY REPLAY (Resources for European Projects and Learning Activities for Youth) is a resource centre specialized in the creation and development of national and international youth activities that promote non-formal education for young people. International mobility is one of the main tools used by Replay to stimulate the intercultural learning of young people (from 15 to 35) and adults (35 plus). REPLAY works within the Cemea (Training Centres for Active Education Methods) network in Italy and can count on a pool of trainers specialized international youth activities working with civil society and public institutions, putting together competencies and abilities from different and independent organizations in Italy. In the last 2 years REPLAY pool of trainers has taken part to the European Youth Meeting organized by the Legislation Assembly of Emilia Romagna region, taking care of students workshops facilitation. Another organization usually take care about the workshops dedicated to teachers.

BOLOGNA 2009 This year the event has been postponed to 24-28 November 2009 due to the European Parliament Elections. A political crash in the relationships between the Legislation Assembly of Emilia Romagna region and the Municipality of Rimini, about cofounding rules, has displaced also the event in Bologna (regional capital), where the Region has decided to concentrate all the activities exploiting its governmental buildings. Even if REPLAY steering committee, formed by Andrea Messori, Federica Demicheli and Jan Lai, has started to work on the event in September 2008, the working conditions are again “at the last minute” style, due to all the changes also in logistics and format. REPLAY has 3 different charges this year:  Managing students workshops

 Managing teachers workshops  Combining the two activities in order to reach a synthesis, to be shared during a public session with local citizens and journalists, while commented by MEP and personalities

5th EUROPEAN YOUTH MEETING As you have read in the document presenting the event (ANNEXE 1) that you have surely received by one of the coordinators (Andrea, Federica or Jan), the event is titled “Our Europe, my values, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall” and is dedicated to discuss and to create a common document for the open debate with the hosts the last morning (28 th of November 2009). The guests on the stage will be probably:        

1 European Commissioner 4 Members of the European Parliament The representative officer of EC in Italy The representative officer of EP in Italy The president of Emilia Romagna Region, also representative of all the regions of Italy Tahar Ben Jelloun David Grossman The president of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia Romagna region

On the base of the provisional program for students (ANNEXE 2) and for teachers (ANNEXE 3), students from each school of the 29 countries invited and from the Italian schools from Emilia Romagna region will make a preparatory work with their teacher before coming. On the base of a common chart created by REPLAY steering committee, after choosing one of the 3 main working areas, up to the 24th of October 2009, all the schools will send a synthetic thematic document about the result of their work to the steering committee. After that all trainers will receive a joint proposal of recommendation, based on these documents that will represent the starting point of the thematic workshops. The same common chart will also contain the teachers opinion about what European Union can do in order to facilitate the role of the School systems in dealing and promoting the “common European values” treated in the ANNEXE 1. Again the synthesis of all these contribution will represent the starting point for the group of trainers taking care about teachers workshops. Workshops with students Each trainer will facilitate a mixed group of more or less 25 students coming from 5 different schools. For each topic we will organize 3 parallel workshops dealing with the same activity program. All the 3 groups of 3 trainers will work autonomously but they will be all coordinated by Jan Alexandro Lai. The topic for 2009 are: 1) Dignity and Freedoms Dignity: human dignity, right to life, to the integrity of the person, prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and prohibition of slavery and forced labour. Freedoms: right to liberty and security, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom of assembly and of association, freedom of the arts and

sciences, right to education, freedom to choose an occupation and right to engage in work, freedom to conduct a business, right to property, and right to asylum. 2) Equality and Solidarity Equality: equality before the law, non-discrimination, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, equality between men and women, rights of the child and of the elderly, and integration of persons with disabilities. Solidarity: Workers’ right to information and consultation within the undertaking, right of access to placement services, protection in the event of unjustified dismissal, fair and just working conditions, prohibition of child labour and protection of young people at work, reconciliation of family and professional life, social security and social assistance, health care, environmental protection, and consumer protection. 3) Citizens’ rights and Justice Citizens’ rights: right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections to the European parliament and at municipal elections, right to good administration, right of access to documents, protection by the European ombudsman, right to petition, freedom of movement and of residence, and diplomatic and consular protection Justice: right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial, presumption of innocence and right of defense, principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offences and penalties, and right not to be tried or punished twice in criminal proceedings for the same criminal offence. The main aim of the workshops is to gather all the information about the topic already existing in the group, stimulating reflection through active exercises in order to gather general recommendations coming from the groups about the issue chosen. These notes and the comments will be shared and coordinated with the help of one delegate for each working group, coordinated and supported by the pool of trainers. The 27 th of November 3 reporters among them will expose the proposal to the general assembly of students and teachers (national groups) that will take their time in the morning to produce a written declaration of vote containing also comments in the text. After a fine tuning of the text operated by the 3 delegates and the pool of trainers the final text will be voted. It will represent the document to be shared during the 28 th the closing ceremony. If you want to have an idea about the result in the 2008 edition of the event have a look to ANNEXE 4, 5 and 6.

Workshops with teachers The team of trainers will facilitate a mixed group of more or less 70 teachers from 30 different countries. During the activities the teachers can be divided on subgroups working specifically on one of the 3 topic of the European youth meeting of bologna 2009. The team will be responsible of supporting and training the teachers present at the European Youth Meeting thought workshop on the subject: “Active methods for teaching rights”. The teachers will attend the same outline as the students (Dignity and Freedoms, Equality and

Solidarity, Citizens’ rights and Justice), with an extra attention to the role of School in the development of discussed topics and the role of Europe in the whole process. They will be supported in sharing their experience as teachers about the topics and their pedagogical approaches for developing these topics with young people in schools. The teachers group as whole has to produce a final document to be presented in the final event with their recommendation about the role of Europe in fostering the development of such topic within the framework of formal educational systems.

THE REPLAY TEAM FOR BOLOGNA 2009 At the moment, REPLAY team for Bologna 2009 is the following one: Trainers taking care about students’ workshops 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Jan Alexandro Lai (Italy – [email protected]) Saro Rossi (Italy - [email protected]) Carmine Rodi Falanga (Italy - [email protected]) Dalila Ferhaoui (France - [email protected]) Silvia Volpi (Italy - [email protected]) Marija Pilipovid (Serbia - [email protected]) Ivana Volf (Serbia - [email protected]) Quique Miana (Spain - [email protected]) Filaretos Vourkos (Greece - [email protected] )

The division on thematic groups of 3 trainers will be proposed to you in next few weeks in order to start preparation, on the base of your experience, preferences and team needs. Trainers taking care about teachers’ workshops 1. 2. 3. 4.

Federica Demicheli (Italy - [email protected]) Tommaso Erbetta (Italy – [email protected] ) Giorgi Kakulia (Georgia - [email protected]) Ermete Mariani (Italy - [email protected])

The specific tasks inside the team will be decided by the group, answering also to the results of the preparatory work done by teachers up to 24th of October 2009. General coordination Andrea Messori (Italy – [email protected]) Preparation After collecting the charts from each school we will be in condition to make a synthesis and to produce a document of 3 paragraphs that will be the base for the students’ work and one draft of recommendation for teachers, again base for their work in Bologna. The trainers working with students have to propose by e-mail to their colleagues activities (active tools of non formal education) to be used to stimulate a deeper and critical approach to the document, in order to

improve and complete it. The same work has to be done with the teachers with the aim to make them experiencing directly activities that they can propose at school to their students, in order to increase the use of non formal education methods also inside the school system. All the trainers have to use a form (ANNEXE 7) in order to propose an activity to their colleagues. A list of materials for the activities has to be made available to the Legislative Assembly of Emilia Romagna Region as soon as we can.

LOGISTICS Board and lodging European teachers and students will be hosted in hotels near the Emilia Romagna Region buildings but Italian students and teachers, coming from the different districts, will always go home in the evenings. For the trainers the Region has reserved doubles rooms in Cosmopolitan hotel (http://hotelcosmopolitan.hotelsbologna.it) in front of the governmental building, where we will have also the team room. Students and teachers will eat in the canteen of the Region. Trainers will receive the catering directly in the second team room inside the building order to have the possibility to meet all together to facilitate also last minute exchanges and changes. In both location we have asked to have internet connection and at least 3 or 4 computers in order to let the students and the teachers work during evening sessions. Working spaces Even if the Legislation Assembly is still waiting for a possible better location in a new school in front of the Region headquarter (in order to reduce the dispersion of rooms in the governative building) for the moment teachers and the 9 group of students will work in meeting rooms inside the Region. These photos can help you to understand better the quality standards of the working spaces inside the region building. For the workshops room we have asked to find simply chairs and 1 table with the pc and projector if possible in each room without fixed furniture reducing space for activities:

Working rooms

Teachers room

Voting rooms

Economic conditions Due to all the changes in location and in kind contribution no more guarantee from the Municipality of Rimini, budget has been drastically cut, and also the economic conditions granted for our work has been taken inside this logic. For this reason our individual brut budget is: 200 euros (all taxes included) per trainer per day (5 working days) 150 euros per trainer for the travel costs We have to take into consideration that Italian trainers can join together and come by car but the budget will be, especially for the others coming from abroad, quite limited. In kindly request you to start from now to look for the cheapest flight or train that can bring you to Bologna the 23 rd of November 2009. Let Andrea ([email protected]) know the possible solution you have found in order to have a confirmation before you buy any ticket. For payments, in order to reduce taxes, it will be better that trainers would have a support organization that will send a bill at the end the activity. For the Italian trainers also, this is the best solution for having the full 200 euros per day for payment with only 20% of VAT. Who needs to have a “contratto occasionale” has to be aware that we will be obliged to keep 20% for “ritenuta d’acconto” and the 5,25% for “irap” from the 200. For foreigners it can reach the 30% plus 5,25%. So, better to have a bill at the end from your organization! Travel reimbursements Travel reimbursements will be made during the event in cash under the unique condition to bring all the original tickets (coming and back) also for local transports. Only second class tickets will be eligible for reimbursements and taxi costs are not admitted. For Italian trainers, they are allowed

to use shared car to reach Bologna, but reimbursements will be done by bank transfer together with the payment. The calculation for car use will be done on the base of the effective kilometers for a fixed rate of 10 cents per km to the car owner. A special form for the reimbursement will be sent to the trainers that will adopt this solution. Payment Payment will be done by bank transfer after the arrival of the grants by Emilia Romagna Region (normally within the 45 working days after the event). We will kindly ask trainers to fill in a form for bank details in order to facilitate bank transfer (ANNEXE 8). Support organizations has to present a bill/invoice addressed to: CEMEA del Mezzogiorno onlus Via Fortebraccio 1/A 00176 Roma (Italia) P. IVA (VAT code) 01204681009 Arrivals You are kindly requested to arrive during the day the 23rd of November in Bologna. We plan to have an evening meeting in order to know each other better before to start together. Remember that, a part from Bologna airport, you can arrive also in Forlì and Rimini airports, using low cost flights. Milano is 3 hours away by train from Bologna, but is still a possibility. All the return flights have to be planned for the late afternoon of the 28 th of November 2009. Instructions on how to reach the Cosmopolitan hotel from the different airports will be sent in a personalized itinerary, once time that we will know when and where you will arrive.

That’s all Folks for the moment Andrea, Federica and Jan