translate English to French: This pilot course aimed at enabling youth workers and youth leaders to develop their competence and skills for project development in intercultural learning, human rights education and global education and had the following objectives: ▪ To develop a common understanding of the situations and challenges faced by young people across the Mediterranean; ▪ To provide tools for analysis of the present challenges to closer co-operation among partners across the Mediterranean, including xenophobia and racism, prejudice and ignorance, social exclusion and poverty, and unequal opportunities for social and political participation; ▪ To familiarise the participants with the approaches and activities of COMPASS (the manual on human rights education with young people);  ▪ To provide information about existing possibilities and conditions for the development of Euro-Mediterranean youth co-operation projects; ▪ To support participants in developing common projects and to identify common criteria and approaches for follow-up projects and initiatives; ▪ To develop an informal network of youth workers and youth leaders in the European and Mediterranean regions. The course was a success before it started.
Plus récemment, l’escalade des menaces pour la paix et l’égalité en matière de dignité humaine depuis septembre 2001 a fortement perturbé les jeunes de la région méditerranéenne et fait ressurgir les préjugés et la discrimination culturelle qui exacerbent les antagonismes au détriment de la coopération et qui incitent à la confrontation au lieu de la consolidation de la paix. C’est dans ce contexte que la Direction de la Jeunesse et du Sport et le Centre Nord-Sud (Direction des affaires politiques) ont pris l’initiative d’organiser, à l’intention des responsables de jeunes engagés activement dans la coopération euro-méditerranéenne, un stage de formation autour du thème de l’apprentissage interculturel et des droits de l’homme.