« Think Global Act Local » is a training course that brought together 31 youth workers and youth leaders and 3 trainers from 5 countries to discuss and reflect together about the global challenges and global issues. This training was organized in Luxembourg City.
It is already not our first project that we do related to the topic of global challenges and our previous experience showed that the topic is really important and not so much elaborated among young people. Through the previous exchanges that we organized on this topic, we have developed and tested a series of methodologies that we would like to share with the youth workers, as we consider the topic is very important to promote among young people and in this training we wanted to give some concrete tools to the youth workers to work with the young people on it.
This project made youth workers more sensitive to selected global challenges, like environmental problems and climate change, poverty and social exclusion, human rights, intercultural dialogue, intergenerational solidarity. After this training, the participants understood, how these issues can be presented to young people they work with in an attractive way. They discovered themselves these topics through simulation games, exercises, activities for interaction with local community, discussions in small groups, plenary sessions, concrete actions, workshops, etc – all what they afterwards can implement in their work with young people directly.
