PROGRAM | The Anna Lindh Foundation

Regional ALF Networks Forum for Intercultural Citizenship
(Aug 26-27)

The Forum will bring together around 70 members of nine Anna Lindh Networks to discuss intercultural citizenship education. The two-day program will consist of Agora sessions with international expert speakers and thematic debates with decision-makers as well as Medina sessions where the participants are encouraged to discuss and share best practices and find new partners and connections.

The Forum will be held at Radisson Blu Seaside hotel in Helsinki.

Saturday 26 August (@Radisson Blu Seaside)

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:30 Welcome and introduction

Pekka Haavisto, Member of Parliament (Finland)
Karoliina Heikinheimo-Pérez, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland)
Ambassador Risto Veltheim, Advisory Council of Anna Lindh Foundation

10:30 – 12:30 Agora Panel: Diversity in Intersections – Challenging Perceptions

Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, Moniheli (Finland)
Anna Urbańczyk (Poland)
Katharina Burlafinger (Germany)
Mirka Seppälä, Home Accommodation Network (Finland)
Amiirah Salleh-Hoddin (Finland)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:15 Medina Workshops:

WORKSHOP I: Witty Tools, Sassy Techniques (facilitator: Tia Kangaspunta)

Helsinki-Aleppo Virtual Reality Project – Teatime Research (Finland)
Migrant Journeys: Game (Turkey – Sweden)

WORKSHOP II: Arts as Inclusive Power
(facilitator: Tuure-Eerik Niemi)

WORKSHOP III: Citizens fighting hate speech
(facilitator: Xavier Baró)

WORKSHOP IV: Young people, heritage and memory (facilitator: Hanna Lämsä)

15:15 – 15:35 Coffee & networking space

15:35 – 16:45 Medina Workshops (earlier sessions continue)

17:00-19:00 Networking space/Free time

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner at SALVE (Hietalahdenranta 5 C)

Sunday 27 August (@Radisson Blu Seaside)

09:30 – 11:00 Medina workshops (parallel): workshops by Network members to share project ideas and best practices

WORKSHOP V: Working with intersecting identities
(facilitator: Anu Leinonen)

WORKSHOP VI: Learning languages, learning cultures (facilitator: Neslihan Saglam)

WORKSHOP VII: Resisting Extremism (facilitator: Heidi Rautionmaa & Arto Kallioniemi)

11:15 – 12:30 Agora Debate: Education and the Role of Civil Society in Fostering Intercultural Learning
(moderator: Caroline Robertson-von Trotha, Germany)

Neslihan Saglam, (Turkey)
Martin Ubani (Finland)
Lovisa Fhager-Havdelin (Sweden)
Lahcen Tighoula (Morocco)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Conclusion and closure

15:00 – 17:00 Finnish Anna Lindh Network Meeting

19:00-21:00 THE SONG OF MY MOTHER – Movie night with film director Erol Mintas in ANDORRA (Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki)

Speakers

pekkahaavisto — **Pekka HAAVISTO** is a Member of Finnish Parliament (1987-1995, 2007-). He has twice served as a minister. Haavisto was the first green minister in Europe, as a Minister for Environment and Development in Lipponen’s first government (1995-1999). He has also recently served as a Minister for Development and State Ownership in Katainen-Stubb government (2013-2014). Haavisto has acted as the Chairperson of the Finnish Greens (1993-1995) and as the Chairperson of the European Green Party (2000-2006). In autumn 2014 he was appointed as Foreign Minister’s Special Representative for African Crises. Before he has worked as the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) in Sudan and Darfur (2005-2007), and as a Special Advisor for the UN (ASG) in Darfur peace process (2007). He has also led several missions to conflict areas as the Chairman of UNEP’s post-conflict work in 1999-2005. Mr. Haavisto was a presidential candidate in 2012, running against Mr. Sauli Niinistö, who eventually won the election, in the second round of voting. He lives in a registered partnership with Mr. Antonio Flores from Ecuador. (Image: Touko Sipiläinen)

lovisapien — **Lovisa FHAGER HAVDELIN** is Secretary General and Managing Director at Teskedsorden (The Order of the Teaspoon), a Swedish foundation engaged in an active dialogue with children and young people to promote tolerance and respect. With a background in Swedish and international organisations such as Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), Peace Dividend Trust, Unicef and Amnesty, her work and her leisure activities have been woven together by her interest in and commitment to people. In 2015, Lovisa was awarded the UN-supporter of the year and has been selected to participate in the 2016 Anna Lindh Academy’s leadership program.

neslihan — **Neslihan SAĞLAM** is an Intercultural Education Specialist who spent years in teaching languages, culture and civic skills to refugees, minorities in the United States. She has an M.A degree in Linguistics from Syracuse University New York. She has two published books. “Integrating Culture into Foreign Language Curriculum “and “Japan as I Heard and Saw.”

Bewerbungsbild2 - Kopie — Katharina **BURLAFINGER** (M.A.) is a political scientist with focus on democracy promotion and conflict prevention. Her PhD thesis deals with the Anna Lindh Foundation and the European Endowment for Democracy and their contribution to the European Neighbourhood Policy. Since 2013, Katharina is volunteering for a non-profit organisation, Atrium e.V., which is working for an inclusive and intercultural environment for blind people in Tunisia and Germany.

lahcentighoula — **Lahcen TIGHOULA** is a teacher trainer and English language teaching supervisor for the Moroccan ministry of education in Laayoune region. He has been a member of the Moroccan ALF national network since 2007 and took part in various regional meetings and workshops on intercultural education. He is also an active member of Moroccan Association of Teachers of English – MATE.

Martin Ubani is a Professor of Religious Education at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include religion and education, teacher education and classroom research. He has worked in teacher education for past 10 years. He was a member in the committee working on religion in the recent national core curriculum for basic education in Finland. His current research focuses on religion, multiculturalism and conflict in educational policy and practice, and on dialogue and religions in education. — **Martin UBANI** is a Professor of Religious Education at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include religion and education, teacher education and classroom research. He has worked in teacher education for past 10 years. He was a member in the committee working on religion in the recent national core curriculum for basic education in Finland. His current research focuses on religion, multiculturalism and conflict in educational policy and practice, and on dialogue and religions in education.

Amiirah wears many hats. She is a social psychologist and project coordinator for a youth interfaith dialogue project using storytelling methods, under the Finnish NGO Ad Astra. Among other things, she is a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Forum in Finland, and is the Head of Muslim Affairs at the Muslim Jewish Conference (a Vienna-based INGO). Her activism for various causes is driven by her intersecting identities as a hijab-wearing migrant Muslim woman of colour." — **Amiirah SALLEH-HODDIN** wears many hats. She is a social psychologist and project coordinator for a youth interfaith dialogue project using storytelling methods, under the Finnish NGO Ad Astra. Among other things, she is a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Forum in Finland, and is the Head of Muslim Affairs at the Muslim Jewish Conference (a Vienna-based INGO). Her activism for various causes is driven by her intersecting identities as a hijab-wearing migrant Muslim woman of colour.”

Mirka Seppälä is Project Manager at Home Accommodation Network, which brings together refugees and locals who want to live together. We are the network of 5000 volunteers and two workers. Our roots are in the international Refugees Welcome movement. — **Mirka SEPPÄLÄ** is Project Manager at Home Accommodation Network, which brings together refugees and locals who want to live together. We are the network of 5000 volunteers and two workers. Our roots are in the international Refugees Welcome movement.

Abdirahim ”Husu” Hussein is a Finnish politician, civil society activist, media personality and a father of four from Helsinki. He is also a community educator who currently works as a consultant for businesses aiming towards East Africa. He was granted the Finnish PEN’s Freedom of Expression Award in 2015. — **Abdirahim ”Husu” HUSSEIN** is a Finnish politician, civil society activist, media personality and a father of four from Helsinki. He is also a community educator who currently works as a consultant for businesses aiming towards East Africa. He was granted the Finnish PEN’s Freedom of Expression Award in 2015.

Anna Urbańczyk, the City Culture Institute – culture manager, educator and human rights activist/expert from Poland. Trainer and facilitator conducting hundreds of training hours a year, working with NGOs, informal groups, institutions, universities. A member of The Anti-discrimination Education Association. Main expertise fields: gender; LGBTQ; WenDo – self-confidence, assertiveness and self-defence for women and girls and those socialized into female gender role; culture for equal possibilities; herstory; Polish Roma; persons with disabilities and universal design. (Image: Renata Dabrowska) — **Anna URBANCZYK**, the City Culture Institute – culture manager, educator and human rights activist/expert from Poland. Trainer and facilitator conducting hundreds of training hours a year, working with NGOs, informal groups, institutions, universities. A member of The Anti-discrimination Education Association. Main expertise fields: gender; LGBTQ; WenDo – self-confidence, assertiveness and self-defence for women and girls and those socialized into female gender role; culture for equal possibilities; herstory; Polish Roma; persons with disabilities and universal design. (Image: Renata Dabrowska)

Regional Training on Intercultural Citizenship Education (Aug 28-31)

This 4-day training is addressed to a maximum of 25 educators in the formal and non-formal education sector in Euro-Mediterranean region. The training will be based on the capacity building methodology on intercultural dialogue developed by a team of experts coordinated by the Anna Lindh Foundation using as main educational reference the Anna Lindh Foundation Education Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship in the Euro-Med region and including the presentation of intercultural citizenship education concepts, interactive learning and testing activities on the competences and notions presented and exchange of educational practices among the participants.

The Handbook is conceived as a tool to provide knowledge and skills for teaching and learning about values of dialogue, pluralism, respect, social participation and social cohesion which can enhance the role of the “EuroMed Intercultural Citizen” as an agent of change within multi-cultural societies. The Handbook provides an overview about key concepts related to intercultural citizenship education with a clear focus on the Euro-Mediterranean region and presents case stories and concrete activities to be developed in the formal and non-formal education sectors. On the basis of this resource, the ALF is putting in place a capacity-building programme on Intercultural Citizenship Education for the creation of a pool of multipliers trained in the use of the Anna Lindh Foundation Education Handbook on Intercultural Citizenship and committed to the organization of educational activities and dissemination of the resource.

The Training will be held in Tieteiden talo (House of Science and Letters; Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki).

TRAINERS

Xavier Baró

xavierbaro(at)aheadedu.org

I am board member and educational adviser of the Association of Human Rights Educators (AHEAD) in Barcelona.

As trainer and educational adviser I collaborate in a regular basis on the development of Training activities for the European Commission, the Education Department and the Youth Department of the Council of Europe; and the Anna Lindh Foundation.

I was coordinating the courses on European Citizenship for the European Commission, and I am co-author of the Handbook on Intercultural Ctizenship Education of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Ljubov Lissina

ljubov(at)trajectorya.ee

As Secretary General of the training organisation Trajectorya I work on Human Rights Education and Non Formal learning/education through diverse practice with young activists and leaders as well as with adult-learners.

I work in regular basis for the Council of Europe and collaborate with the Anna Lindh Foundation. Currently I am team member of the Training of Trainers on Human Rights Education of the Council of Europe.

The areas of my expertise include Human Rights education, gender equality (mainstreaming), intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, democratic (youth) participation, education for democratic citizenship, social inclusion, youth policy, Living Libraries, training of trainers etc.

Cihan Kılıç

cihankilich[at]gmail.com

I was board member of a grass-root refugee European network which is called Voices of Young Refugees in Europe (VYRE). Through VYRE, I have been working intensively over the issue of the social inclusion of migrants and minorities. Likewise, since 2013, I have been a member of Council of Europe pool of trainers where I had comprehensively worked over the issues of intercultural learning, counseling and mediation.