Promoting the dialog between ethnic groups in Lithuania

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Promoting the dialog between ethnic groups in
Lithuania
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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• Goal
• to promote the dialog between individuals and
  different institutions local self-governments,
  NGOs, ethnic communities, organisations of adult
  educations in the places with mixed ethnical
  and cultural composition

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• Why do we participate
• Interesting I. What and how the others are doing
• Interesting II. What are the issues that NGOs
  are living with in the regions with mixed
  ethnical composition
• Continuation. We have the NGO leaders training
  project from 1996.
• New. Intercultural training dimension
• Useful. Dissemination of adult education
  principles in bigger number of regions in
  Lithuania

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• Our goals
• To increase the intercultural competence of
  project partners
• To extend the activities of NGOs and ethnical
  communities
• To promote the co-operation between NGOs and
  local self-governments
• To disseminate adult education methodology and
  increase adult education skills

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• Partners in Lithuania
• The Department of National Minorities and
  Lithuanians Abroad
• Local self-governments of Trakai and Visaginas
• Lentvaris neighbourhood

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• Participants of training
• Adult educators
• Representatives of NGOs
• Activists of ethnical communities
• Representatives of local self-governments

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• National composition of the group
• Poles 5
• Russians 5
• Lithuanians 3
• Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Uzbeks 1 for each

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European Intercultural Competence Programme

• It is possible to learn

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We are different. What is that unites us?

• Principles of learning
• Recognise myself and my nation
• Recognise those who are close to us
• Recognise the differencies and respect them
• Look for similarities and build on them

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We are different. What is that unites us?

• Methods of learning I
• Theoretical part (30 min.)
• Tell about your name
• National characteristics
• National symbols, heroes, rituals, values
• now I know better what others do not know about
  my nation

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We are different. What is that unites us?

• Learning methods II
• Tell what is important to your nation
• Presentation of multiethnical culture of
  Lentvaris and Visaginas
• Acquaintenance with the locality of training

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Conclusion

• How to measure the development?
• Willingness to participate in the seminars
• Decission to stay with group even if in advance
  it was decided differently
• Request to assign to different groups
• Inviting to be the guest
• Willingness to share the experience and accept it
• Common project

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