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MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

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Instructions<br />

Ask participants to list all the problems facing young people in their local community.<br />

This can be done by brainstorming. Write down the answers on a flipchart.<br />

Divide participants into groups of four to six people, trying to ensure regional<br />

and gender diversity within groups. Give each group several sheets of flipchart<br />

paper, markers or crayons, etc.<br />

Explain that they are to imagine they have the power and the means to design<br />

an ideal community, where as many as possible of the problems listed on the<br />

flipchart will be resolved. Encourage them to try to be realistic, but to think<br />

creatively.<br />

Tell them they have 45 minutes to think about their community, give it a name<br />

and represent it visually in as attractive a way as they can! At the end of this<br />

time, they will show their poster to the others and try to persuade them to join<br />

their community.<br />

After the groups have presented their results, bring everyone together <strong>for</strong> the debriefing.<br />

Debriefing and evaluation<br />

Begin by asking <strong>for</strong> general comments on the activity and the posters. Ask if anyone<br />

has questions <strong>for</strong> people in other groups.<br />

How easy did you find it to come up with solutions? Do you think you managed<br />

to solve the most important problems?<br />

How inclusive is the community you created? Do you think that it would be<br />

attractive <strong>for</strong> older people, <strong>for</strong> minorities, <strong>for</strong> immigrants, and so on? Did you<br />

devote any attention to this issue?<br />

How much agreement was there in your group about the approach you should<br />

use?<br />

Did you find that regional differences made a common solution problematic,<br />

or were the issues sufficiently similar in your different localities?<br />

Can you identify a general strategy that your group adopted, or did you tend to<br />

select problems on an ad hoc basis?<br />

How realistic were your solutions? Can you see any of them being implemented<br />

in your community at home?<br />

Can you think of specific steps that you personally could take to try to bring any<br />

of these solutions closer to reality?<br />

Do you think that anything can be done at an international level to address<br />

problems facing young people in the <strong>Euro</strong>-<strong>Mediterranean</strong> region?<br />

Tips <strong>for</strong> the facilitator<br />

During the brainstorming, you may wish to prompt participants if they do not mention<br />

problems that might concern other young people in their communities. Try to encourage<br />

them to think inclusively: ask them to imagine what minority or disadvantaged groups<br />

might say about problems in the community.<br />

<strong>MOSAIC</strong> - <strong>The</strong> <strong>training</strong> <strong>kit</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Euro</strong>-<strong>Mediterranean</strong> <strong>youth</strong> <strong>work</strong>

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