NGO VIFÓ - Youth Forum of Vojvodina is organizing a Training Course called “Stand up for your rights!” on the topic of Human Rights and Active Youth Participation. NGO VIFO is host organization within this project.OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING COURSE:- To make young people aware of human rights and to provide them with the skills and tools to enhance their activities in this context;- To further develop competences of participants in active youth participation, strategies and tools to enhance it, especially focusing on youth information and local youth involvement; - To promote international co-operation, sustain and widen existing networks of youth workers and youth leaders, and initiate projects within the framework of the Youth in Action Programme.PLANNED ACTIVITIES:Workshops on Human Rights, their origin and legal protection, prejudice, discrimination and active youth participation; introduction of NGOs and Youth in Action Programme; theatre workshops; visiting and working with local NGOs in order to implement small local action on human rights promotion (street action, flash mob, interview, video documentation); getting to know each other’s culture through games and presentations, etc.METHODS:individual and group activities; using diversity of peer groups for the learning; presentations; thematic and creative workshops; theatre workshops; role plays; learning by doing; enabling participants to apply and transfer what they learnt to their youth work practise; street action; video documentation; discussions and so on.The course is designed as an open learning process based on participants’ experience and exchange. The training course will follow the non-formal education approach.The venue place of the training course is Mali Idjos (Serbia), in the dates of 30th June to 6th July, 2012.We are expecting 24 participants from 4 countries: Hungary, Macedonia, Slovakia and Serbia.