The Anna Lindh Foundation produced in February 2009 'How to cope with diversity at school: teaching and learning about religious diversity', a resource developed for teachers working with students aged 14-18 in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

The resource was developed to enable students to learn more about people from cultures and traditions other than their own, in the belief that such knowledge and understanding will reduce ignorance, suspicion or fear of those who are different from themselves.

In the same context the Foundation is organising teacher-training workshops to present the resource to teachers and non formal educators.

The first teacher-training workshop 'The Challenges of Diversity at School in the Euro-Mediterranean Region' was organised in Beirut in cooperation with the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO from 26-30 May 2009. It targeted teachers and teacher-trainers from the following 12 Euro-med countries: Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The workshop presented the teaching resource developed, How to cope with Diversity at School: Teaching and Learning about Religious Diversity, with the aim of training the participants on using the resource in their schools, increasing their knowledge about religious diversity in the Euro-Med region and the challenges it poses and providing a chance for them to exchange know-how and feedback concerning the use of the resource in the classroom in light of the specific national and regional contexts of the teachers.

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