THROUGH THE LENS OF THE OTHER PORTAL
Digital Library
Here you will find an non-exhaustive list of open educational resources, ranging from atircles to guides and useful stock material relevant to the subject matter of the project.
Resource Booklets
How to use the Intersectional Lens?
Non-formal Education Practices and
Exercises for Youth Workers
The handbook explores how intersectionality can be used by Youth workers and other professionals who work with young people in an effort to look differently at multiple oppressions, to acknowledge different levels and types of discrimination and to build skills that help young people speak for themselves and fight for their own views and positions.
How to use the Intersectional Lens?
Non-formal Education Practices and
Exercises for Youngsters
Making a Change that Matters: Community Organising
To create long standing changes in our communities and societies that positively affect lives, we need to organise ourselves before organising others into our campaigns. Being clear about what angers us, what changes we want or need in our lives to happen helps us understand what steps we have to take to make our vision reality. Once we learn about our path but also fears and limitations, we are in a better position to organise others for transformation in a transformative way.
This booklet will help you clarify the basic concepts of relational community organising and present you some tools that you can use for organising yourself but also other people in your community with whom you wish to run campaigns.
Issue Selection & Campaigning: Community Organising
Taking a public action, such as running a campaign, requires people, a clear plan with clear goals, strategic thinking and the selection of the appropriate tactics. It also requires resources and good understanding of power relations within the community.
This booklet will help you understand what running a campaign means and offer you tools to plan your own actions in your community.
How to be a Good Listener?
Listening is an art by which we use empathy to reach across the space between us. Passive attention doesn’t work. Not only is listening an active process, it often takes a deliberate effort to suspend our own needs and reactions. To listen well you must hold back what you have to say and control the urge to interrupt or argue. The art of listening requires a submersion of the self and immersion in the other. This is not always easy, especially when we are interested but too concerned with controlling or instructing or reforming the other person to be truly open to their point of view.
This booklet will provide you an understanding on how you can develop a set of attitudes and processes with the people you work with to endow a positive professional environment. Simply put, the upcoming chapters will help you learn how to listen better and treat people respectfully.
How to Manage Change in Your Organisation?
Change management helps people and teams more easily acclimate to something new. While our natural instincts tell us to resist and even fight change, embracing the new can actually result in a more pleasant and fruitful environment for cooperation. When we stay active in caring and focusing on bringing in positive changes, our team will also be motivated to actively pursue new challenges and grow.
The goal of this booklet is to show you how to address strategically the complex human dynamics of change before implementing transformation in your organisation. Thus, it will help you develop a clear understanding on what you need to do for the success and durability of reforms or even systemic changes.
How to Manage Conflict in Your Organisation?
This is a challenging time for any association of people who work together in a productive and goal-oriented manner. This booklet intends to underline the importance of awareness concerning the conflict culture within our organisations, and discuss how that has a bearing on the creation of a positive work environment. If you are interested in how to enhance morale, work efficiency, attendance, or on-time delivery in your team through collaborative approaches to conflict identification, containment, and resolution, this is your reading!
This booklet will provide you an understanding on how you can develop a set of attitudes and processes with the people you work with to endow a positive professional environment. Simply put, the upcoming chapters will help you get acquainted with tools that can support you and your team in turning tension into positive outcomes.
Intersectionality and Education
The collection presents the slides from an open event with teachers from the secondary education in Greece, exploring the benefits of the adoption of an intersectional approach in the classroom and within the education system in general. The material has 3 parts: 1. Results of an online game mapping the attitude of the participants and their understanding of how change can be introduced in the classroom. 2. Introduction about the theory of Intersectionality 3. Examples of how an inclusive approach based on the theory of intersectionality can be applied in the classroom.
Mapping Processes and Results of Exclusion and Discrimination Local Research
The collection presents Intersectionality as a method that guided our research and the results from the local research that was undertaken by the partners and the local working groups. It aims at defining how multiple systems of oppression may intersect and affect groups of young people in each participating country and more specifically in each local community. The research is based on structured and semi-structured interviews with selected target groups: young people, youth workers, and policy makers.
Good Practices & Other Resources
This collection tries to provide further information on the usefulness and the applicability of the intersectionality theory not only in the field of youth but in a number of other fields and sectors. An abundant list of resources that helped us see things differently and recognize our own blind spots.
TLO Project Reports
Videos
Through the Lens of the Other (TLO) - Short films produced by the Local Working Groups
Training films: Capacity Building Activity for Youth Workers
Busteni, Romania, April 2019
Training films: Youth Exchange on Intersectionality
Malta, September 2019
Training on Film Critique for Volunteers of PDSFF 2021 & 2022
Athens, Greece, November 2020 & October 2021
Filming at Intersections (FILMINTS) - Short films produced by the Local Working Groups
Others Videos
About the project
Context & Background
“Through the Lens of the Other” aims to introduce and explore new ways of understanding and addressing discrimination in Europe. Critical theories in social sciences explain, through the concept of intersectionality, how oppressive social beliefs and structures (xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, ableism etc.) are interconnected; systematic oppression cannot be understood or addressed with single-issue approaches as they tend to accentuate a specific part of the target groups’ identity and, thus, perpetuate otherness. Co-existing multiple identities demand an approach to integration that is holistic and sensitive to different experiences.
Discrimination due to gender, sexuality, race, culture, physical ability, ethnicity and nationality are the main aspects that the project centers upon; its influence is in the social, economic and behavioral development of the people affected and can be expressed in different terms. Apart from the marginalization, which is the main influence on their social development, discrimination can be detected in the exclusion of the aforementioned people from equal treatment by institutions (e.g. unequal access to democratic rights, discrimination in the workplace, access to the labor market).
The common element in these discriminations is the process of othering, that is, of viewing people around you as inherently and essentially different, based on their belonging to one certain group. Shedding light onto this structure, outlining how it is a common process in all discriminations and operationalizing the analytical framework though non-formal learning activities will work as a step towards tackling it. To this end, youth workers need to be equipped and strategically placed for navigating through challenging situations, embracing complexity as a positive aspect of life.
Aims & Objectives
The “Through the Lend of the Other” project aspires to:
- Empower individuals and reinforce the agency of marginalized groups thus enhancing their representation;
- Raise awareness on the victimization of vulnerable groups thus fostering empathy;
- Promote positive attitudes towards discriminated groups thus embracing diversity as an asset in a society;
- Reduce prejudice and promote social integration thus fostering inclusion of marginalized people;
- Promote integration and cohesion among EU member states regarding rights and freedoms.
Activities, Methods & Deliverables
TLO’s analytical framework will be operationalized through non-formal learning (learning by doing, peer learning, learning through arts) and different tools that will be enriched in the course of the project. The power of the image has a central role in the effort to sensitize the public on issues of discrimination. In specific, at least 14 audio-visual products will be created by the project teams, translated in English and screened in local events organized in partner communities and the international PDSFF festival organized by Inter Alia. The project will also offer online, open access educational material on intersectionality in all partner languages as well as policy recommendations for the integration of marginalized groups resulting from deliberation with youngsters, youth professionals, policy makers, local communities and other stakeholders.
Our impact in numbers
Partner Organizations
In this section you can find all the partner organizations of the project as well as their contact information.
Inter Alia is a not-for-profit private organization with main objectives: to promote communication between European people, to enhance civil society and collective action at the European level and to strengthen Europeans’ common sense of belonging.
Site: https://interaliaproject.com
Mail: info@interaliaproject.com
Facebook: @interaliaproject
Site: https://www.prismonline.eu
Mail: info@associazioneprism.eu
Facebook: @assoprism.eu
CCIF exists to make a difference in the communities where we operate in, through a number of well thought out humanitarian initiatives.
We are involved in upholding law and justice, human rights, intercultural existence through projects like; Projectstop a human trafficking awareness initiative that entails awareness, advocacy, training/education and restoration; Lifeline, Street Angels, Hope, 7fm Malta which engage locals to positively influence our surroundings. We also offer humanitarian help in time of national disasters. CCIF works in partnerships and collaborations with other NGO´s and Stakeholders in areas that help attain our objectives. Although we are guided by Christian principles we offer help to all people irrespective of cultural background.
From our offices in Malta, we are linked to a multi-disciplinary network of organisations carefully selected over the years and the combined professional experiences and resources we share to attain our organisational objectives.
Site: https://www.ccifmt.org
Mail: info@ccifmt.org
Facebook: @ccifmt
Eğitim Programları ve Evrensel ve Kültürel Aktiviteler Derneği – EPEKA was established on 16 March 2012. Our association aims to give an opportunity for the invidiuals from any age range to support governing our association, to develop themselves and their creativity, analyse their problems, find solutions and give support, provide a learning process in environmental issues and all kinds of art with the respect of human rights, develop themselves as individuals who have democtratic attitudes and behaviors with loyalty to the secular, democratic and social jus system of the republic, raise awareness on organising to empower the ties of family, society and nation to support for the national and global peace by connecting with the indiviuals and NGOs both in Turkey and abroad in collaborations and solidarity.
Site: https://epeka.org.tr
Mail: epeka.tr@hotmail.com
Facebook: @EpekaTurkiye
The annual LGBTI festival of Thessaloniki, promoting visibility and equality of gays, lesbians, bi, trans, intersex and all queer people in Thessaloniki and beyond.
Site: https://thessalonikipride.com
Mail: contact@thessalonikipride.com
Facebook: @ThessalonikiPride
Mail: info_irm@yahoo.com
Facebook: @info.irm
EU Diaspora Council (EDC), based in Stockholm, Sweden, is a non-profit organisation active at local, national and international level, which represents and supports the interests of youth organisations.
Site: http://eudiasporacouncil.org
Mail: info@eudiasporacouncil.org
Facebook: @eudcouncil
FREE YOUTH CENTRE association is a non-government and non-profit organization created in 1997 and registered under Bulgarian legislation in social utility. FYC mission is to support the personal development of the young people in Vidin and Northwestern Bulgaria, as free citizens in a democratic society through involving them in educational programs and community activities.
Site: https://www.fyc-vidin.org
Mail:info@fyc-vidin.org
Facebook: @FreeYouthCentre
Our mission is to create and offer innovative and participatory learning experiences in order for everyone to contribute in a responsible way to the positive transformation of their communities both locally and globally.
Our vision is that of a world where, based on the power of personal example, we can transform the community in which we are living, positively and durably.
A certain set of core values guide our actions and put the basis of what we do on a daily basis, passionately and with our hearts filled with hope, both internally and in relation with the outside world.
Site: https://artfusion.ro
Mail:office@artfusion.ro
Facebook: @art.fusion.ro
EU15 are experts in the development of e-learning solutions and bespoke training platform development. We have worked with numerous organisations to bring to life their ideas and initiatives.
We offer a full range of advisory and support services for all types of organisations and their staff and have over 25 years of developing training programmes (both on-line and off-line).
Our priority focus is on robotics, Artificial Itelligence, 3D printing and entreprenership.
Site: https://eu15.co.uk
Mail:info@eu15.co.uk
Sirius Training is a company dedicated to professional training, EU project management, work experience and training for all ages, English language and British culture courses.
Site: http://siriustraining.org.uk
Mail:info@siriostraining.co.uk
Facebook: @Sirius-Training-173990469781834
Fundació Catalunya Voluntària takes over from “Barcelona Voluntaria”, a non-profit organization that was born in 1999 by the hand of three young Catalans. Since 1999, Asociación Barcelona Voluntaria has been taking part in various projects and has been accumulating a significant experience in this field, gaining a prominent role among organizations which work with international youth.
On the 25th of October 2007, Asociación Barcelona Voluntaria became Fundació Catalunya Voluntària, which has been carrying on the same spirit and philosophy and is being an instrument for civic and social training.
In 2017, the FCV celebrated 10 years of action, during which the participation of approximately 2.000 young people has been facilitated in different volunteering projects, trainings, seminars, youth exchanges, internships and events; mainly international, but also in Barcelona and all of Catalonia.
Site: https://www.catalunyavoluntaria.cat
Mail:comunicacio@catalunyavoluntaria.cat
Facebook: @CatalunyaVoluntaria
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