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All Different - All Equal"All different, All equal" is the call of the Council of Europe for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation. The campaign is aimed to encourage and enable young people to participate in building peaceful societies based on diversity and inclusion, in a spirit of respect, tolerance, and mutual understanding.

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2 way street - powerful methods and techniques to facilitate youth participation in local projects

The training course took place from 25-29 of May 2006 in Oradea city, Romania.

This particular training course was designed to equip youth workers with the knowledge, abilities and skills that they need to involve effectively young people in local projects as well to encourage and assist organizations working with young people to develop an organizational culture and working practices that encourages authentic youth participation and to develop participants’ competence in using the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life.


The training course brought together 25 participants from 12 different countries of Europe. Participants were representatives from local/regional authorities and from non-governmental youth organizations that are active in Council of Europe countries. As well they were Youth leaders and people in position of responsibility in international non governmental youth organizations (INGYOs), national youth councils (NYCs), national or local youth organizations, actively and directly involved in youth participation projects at local or regional level.

The design of the training course was based on following modules:

  • Youth participation and the stages of participation;
  • The framework for participation;
  • The steps in the participatory process;
  • How to plan and implement workshops that are using Technology of Participation (ToP) method for Strategic Planning, Team Building, Action Planning, etc ;
  • Benefits of using ToP method;

In order to support participants learning process training course preparation team prepared Workbook and Action Planing guide for Campaign development for the participants.

The Workbook provided information about: definition of youth participation, levels of youth participation, framework of youth participation, how to plan the campaign for youth participation by using Technology of Participation (ToP) and Focused conversation, how to facilitate ToP and Focused conversation method and summary of relevant document who speak about youth participation.

The Action Planing guide for Campaigns provided steps which are suggested to take into consideration while planing a campaign.


The Results of Training course:

  • participants identify the characters of youth participation

  • participants identify the levels of youth participation according to R. Hart theory of youth participation;

  • participants learn how to plan and implement workshops that are using Technology of Participation

  • participants developed the skills in creating a youth engagement campaign;

  • participants developed strong partnership between themselves;


The full report of the training course can be find on ACT website.

The training course "2 way street - powerful methods for involving young people in decision making process" was developed in the frame of Council of Europe campaign "All different, All Equal".

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