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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
+==Workshops organized==
-.  Identifying Challenges of Nurses in their Workplace and Communities: Towards a Healthier Relationship with Patients, Family of Patients and Hospital Staff 04/03/04
+# Identifying Challenges of Nurses in their Workplace and Communities: Towards a Healthier Relationship with Patients, Family of Patients and Hospital Staff 04/03/04
 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.
-. Training of trainers: Basic Facilitation Skills 18/09/04
+# Training of trainers: Basic Facilitation Skills 18/09/04
 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
+* 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.
+* 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.
+* 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 HasNa Media Literacy Project.
-. Workshop of Multicultural Education: Promoting Appreciation of Differences in the School Environment
+# Workshop of Multicultural Education: Promoting Appreciation of Differences in the School Environment
-•	To give the students the opportunity to meet with each other
+* To give the students the opportunity to meet with each other
-•	To built skills for communication and building friendships
+* To built skills for communication and building friendships
-•	To sensitive them to tolerate and respect difference
+* To sensitive them to tolerate and respect difference
 Target Group: 20 English School Students, 9 Turkish Cypriot and 11 Greek Cypriots.
-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
-Cyprus Intercultural Training Institute (CITI) is composed of a group of Cypriot trainers from diverse backgrounds. The group is 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 are 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
 [[Category:Partner Organizations]]