Luis Manuel Pinto is European Coordinator of the European Peer Training Organisation (EPTO) / Youth Initiative of the European Jewish Information Centre (CEJI)
EPTO is a network of organisations and individuals who are working with peer education on diversity issues. EPTO’s educational programmes are used around Europe in schools and other youth environments.

The idea of peer
Socially, what defines one’s identity is associated with one’s sex or gender, nationality, religious belief, physical ability, ethnic background, sexual orientation, social class or age group. A ‘peer’ is in the broader sense of the term, someone that share one or more descriptors of your identity that place you in certain society sector or group. In the youth work context, the term ‘peer’ has been mainstreamed focusing on the age factor, meaning that a peer is someone from your age group and surrounding community with which one shares common references.

Dear all,

I would like to submit some personal recommendations for the organisers of the event which according to my perspective could improve future conferences with similar format.

I would like to acknowledge all the hard work that was put into the last conference and say a big “thank you” to everyone participating and acknowledge the organisers for the investment in the cause and in young people. It is an investment that should go on.

In order not to exhaust anyone with extended text, I present a summary of the recommendations which are followed by its further developed, for the ones who may be interested.