Thursday, 12 September 2013

OUR DEFINITION OF INCLUSION

After an intense and fruitful discussion in several stages we came up with the following common understanding of inclusion:

"Building a Society by creating opportunities in which every person can participate and retain her/ his identity.
Offer an environment where individuals can feel free, safe and respected." Inclusion TV 2013

 

The TV studio

The editing corner

The mixing table


The TV Studio




Information about Inclusion TV

There isn’t much information about Inclusion TV on this website. 
So now we will give you some information.
 

The best part of most conferences and courses is the opportunity to network, share knowledge and celebrate achievements. This usually happens on the sidelines. This time we are putting it quite literally centre stage. The stage is a live TV studio environment where everyone gets the chance to be behind and in front of the cameras. 

The Date

The project starts on 5th September and ends 14th September 2013

The Place

The project takes place in the “Seehof” and the “Jugendfreundehaus”, Innsbruck, Austria. It is an amazing venue with good food, a comfortable environment for creative discussions and learning.

Jugendfreundehaus


Seehof

 

The People

45 professionals and young people from Germany and Austria come together. Everyone has ideas and experience to share about inclusion and how to advance this through their international projects.

The Team

The TV studio will be run by young people from a variety of backgrounds from Germany and Austria, the training is delivered by a team from Momentum World.  www.momentumworld.org and organised by AK-Tirol www.tirol.arbeiterkammer.at and the National Youth In Action agencies for Austria and Germany.


The Approach

This event is all about inclusion in practise. You will hear and see inspiring examples of inclusive projects around the UK and Europe. But this event will offer firsthand experience of an inclusive project where everyone has a role and is valued for what they can do.


So we, the participants, work in a self built TV studio, we broadcast live news, record and edit films and post this on the blog for you.

Help us by sharing the news  



The Power of Inclusion

My name is Sophia and I am a media student from Germany. I was sorted into the wrong group by accident and just switched to the Reporting Team on Tuesday to be able to work with all the cameras and the TV studio equipment. Even though I came late, the team included me as their newest addition and treated me equally to everyone else. They have all been very supportive and nice to me, thus I am enjoying my time here a lot.



Morning exercise on Tuesday
The participants of the Inclusion TV project are very interesting and different people. We all have our own opinions and ideas to contribute towards the Inclusion TV News and videos we are creating. Of course, we have discovered some similarities such as hobbies we have in common with each other. Still we are all extremely individual people with various strengths and obstacles we wish to overcome. I am certain we can say that each and every one of us has made a big step forward and developed as a confident human being on the way into a great future. Perhaps we will not even realise everything we have learnt this week, until later in life – and I am confident we will.
The people involved with this project are from 13 different nations, in total. Most of us are from Austria and Germany, so naturally we have a casual conversation in German every once in a while. Yet when we are working on our video projects, we speak English to make sure everyone is included and nobody feels left out. All the team members are very dedicated to making sure everybody is an important part of this program, so that we all feel essential and necessary for the group.

Alisa, Kathi and Gregor
We don’t just work though. There are breaks, during which we sit down and talk or have a meal together. Some of us will hang out at the end of the day or go out for a drink. Whatever it is that we are doing, nobody ever has to be alone, and that is what inclusion is really all about.

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Paul (l.), Leo,Hanna, Manuel and Nina 


Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Today we are going to tell you about our day. First there was a press conference about Inclusion TV and the unemployment of youth. Leo started the press conference by welcoming everyone. He explained what we do in Inclusion TV and how they started their partnership. After that, Paul informed the audience how Inclusion TV started. Paul ended his speech and Anna and Manuel explained what they have experienced. Nina from the German national agency also spoke to the audience and told us what the national agencies in Europe want to do for projects like Inclusion TV.

Anna and Manuel


After the speeches the audience had the chance to ask some questions. A question for example was if the social/youth workers found a solution for the unemployment of youth. Leo answered that they have some ideas like making the jobs attractive for the young peoung people need more opportunities and that these opportunities need to be individual. Another question wple. If the jobs are not interesting the youth would lose its motivation to do these jobs. He also said that the yoas if we should get the youth to do paid jobs or unpaid jobs because in some countries there are no jobs anymore. And the answer of Leo was that it could be better for the young people to go to projects like Inclusion TV. This is because the activities on projects like this are not about whether you get paid or not but instead, about the abilities of the youth and the individual.

Karolina filming the press conference




Deniz writing down everything for the blog







Michael and Igor working with the staff team











Before lunch the Director of the AK (Arbeiterkammer) held a very short speech and Tirol TV a regional TV-station took some pictures of the participants and everyone involved in Inclusion TV.

At 2 o’clock the TV-Team broadcast the Inclusion TV News. They showed a short film about the event on Monday and what the social workers thought about the event.

After the film Karolina and Sophia (from the Reporting Team) were invited on stage to talk with the presenters Isabella and Josephine about how they made the film.

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Ali Mahlodji

Later in the day, Ali Mahlodji a social worker from Austria talked about the project he is involved with. He started the project called Watchado. It’s a website full of videos, about the different jobs that people do. Afterwards the film is uploaded on to the website, young people can check the interviews and films and can see if there is a job they like. If you want to check out this project, go to this website:


www.watchado.net




After the speech of Ali the social workers and the young people had to make a 30 sec Video. The videos will be judged later today and the winner gets the “Inclusion Oscar”.

In the evening we had free time and we could either go to Innsbruck or we could stay at home.
What we got up to, will be a secret.

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

A few Photo's from the Week so far!



Sven, Josie & Manuel
Kati

Anna & Alissa
Gregor
Ronald - busy filming
The TV studio team, filming the Austrian TV crew

Michael with the camera - filming the press conference
Andrew, Amy & James

Inclusion TV - UNEMPLOYMENT

Here is a short slideshow of the first ITV news report we produced.  We had to meet very tight deadlines and get the video finished in time for the TV studio show.  A lot of hard work and long hours went into creating the video and we'll be sure to upload the full version as soon as we can.  We discussed the topic of unemployment in Europe and found out how the public felt as well as opinions of various social workers.