NECE Lab: Working with Polarised Groups in Civic Education

The NECE Lab brings together practitioners from the field of non-formal civic education who are engaged or interested in finding solutions to the challenges of affective polarisation among young people.

The train-the trainer exchange will strengthen the role of facilitators and teachers working with young people in environments characterised by distinct or growing national, ethnic, political, religious or cultural affiliations and identifications.

The Lab will focus on questions such as:

• What role does civic education play in preventing or overcoming affective polarisation among young people?
• What competencies do facilitators and teachers need to address polarisation tendencies among students?
• Which approaches have proved to be helpful when working with polarised groups?

The Lab aims to inspire and empower participants to be brave and encouraged to make a change with their own trainings and workshops with teachers, facilitators, youth workers, or young people.

Participants have the opprtunity to discuss, reflect, share their experience and develop their own work together with fellow practictioners. Moreover, they will gain insights into the work of CSOs dealing with polarisation in youth work in the Western Balkans and beyond.