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The '''Cyprus Intercultural Training Institute''' (CITI) was founded by a group of Cypriot trainers from diverse backgrounds. The group was formed through a project supported by the Bi- communal Development Programme, which is funded by [[USAID]] and [[UNDP]] and is executed by [[UNOPS]]. The trainings implemented by this group were targeted to professionals of all backgrounds and the aim to promote:
* Understanding and appreciation of communities and differences between communities;
* Awareness of richness in diversity;
* Functional and sustainable inter-communal dialogue;
* Productive environment for working together;
* Understanding of the past and present situation, and their consequences; 
* Empathy

CITI has also cooperated and offered its expertise on several occasions in trainings carried and funded by other organizations locally and internationally, such as the:
* Fulbright Commission
* Friendship Village Israel,
* Neve Shalmon/ Wahat al – Salam, Israel,
* SIT Vermont, USA
* IDPM, University of Manchester, UK

==Notable Projects in relation to [[Future Worlds Center]]==
* [[Civil Society Dialogue Project in Cyprus]]

==Workshops organized==
<u>Identifying Challenges of Nurses in their Workplace and Communities: Towards a Healthier Relationship with Patients, Family of Patients and Hospital Staff 04/03/04</u>

Objectives
* To provide an introduction to bi-communal activities in Cyprus;
* To establish networks among nurses of different educational level and background;
* To identify the existing challenges that nurses experience in their relationship with co-workers, hospital staff, patients and families of patients;
* To generate ideas on how to facilitate a healthier intercultural communication and cooperation among nurses, hospital staff and families of patients;
* To create an action plan to overcome the challenges; 
* To use the findings of the workshop to start a collaboration with Greek Cypriot Nurses ‘ Association for the achievement of common goals. 

Target Group
15 members of Nurses Association of Turkish Cypriot Community.

<u>Training of trainers: Basic Facilitation Skills 18/09/04</u>

Objectives: to prepare participants for facilitating future bi-communal workshops on media literacy by:
* Promoting awareness of sensitive language and building functional and sustainable inter-communal dialogue 
* Developing an understanding of the differences between facilitation and training and elaborate on the facilitation techniques for a good workshop.
* Address possible problems that could be facilitators might encounter in their workshops, and ways of addressing them.

Target group
8 participants of the Media Literacy Trainers Workshops carried under the [[Media Literacy|HasNa Media Literacy Project]]. 

<u>Workshop of Multicultural Education: Promoting Appreciation of Differences in the School Environment </u>

* To give the students the opportunity to meet with each other
* To built skills for communication and building friendships
* To sensitive them to tolerate and respect difference

Target Group
20 English School Students, 9 Turkish Cypriot and 11 Greek Cypriots.

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