The E-STAR project is an urgent step that we, youth professionals and education professionals, must take swiftly to prevent the devastating consequences of the latest ongoing changes in European reality: we must address the issue of increasing violence among young people towards their non-native peers and vice versa, educating them to understand and appreciate cultural differences and to learn to live together peacefully, to collaborate, to achieve true integration and to learn to value diversity and, finally, to build together their local communities and their common future in Europe. Thus, the objectives of the E-STAR Project are: - To exchange good practices, challenges and needs on needs on raising the awareness of young people in their fight against racism. - To create tools that make the problem of invisible racism visible, prevent it and promote equal relations based on good treatment... - To recognise new and accepted forms of racism in Europe and to generate joint awareness campaigns against racism, presenting Europe as a multicultural and open place, based on Human Rights. - To create an innovative tool (MOOC - Massive Open Online Course) for the online learning of youth workers regarding the prevention of Invisible Racism and good relations. The expected results of the project are as follows: - A research that will focus on different elements, deepening the situation of young people, especially those most disadvantaged and most likely to find themselves in situations of violence. - A seminar of experts - the seminar of 4 working days and a total of 12 experts in order to share research results, share good practices and methodologies by each of the partner organizations create a common terminology and clearly distinguish concepts and approaches. Therefore, the main outcome of this meeting will be the glossary of terminology, good practices and methods and recommendations for the design period of the MOOC and the Manual. - A MANUAL of the E-STAR project, consisting of a minimum of 100 pages and printed in 5 European languages (English, Hungarian, Italian and Norwegian, in 100 printed copies each. - MOOC: Massive Open Online Course. A MOOC will be created to develop competencies and learn methodologies on intercultural learning and prevention of invisible racism for educators and youth workers working directly with young people. This Mooc will be available in English on Cazalla Intercultural's learning platform www.youth-mooc.eu. - 4 Final conferences: As a final step for the dissemination of the results within the life of the project, 4 conferences (one per country) will be organised, with a duration of one full day, in which a high participation of decision-makers and public authorities is expected, as well as of the education sector and of representatives of the different youth organisations, NGOs (non-formal sector). - 4 Dissemination events for young people: The objective of these events is to make the activities developed in the manual "Manual on the fight against invisible racism in youth work" known to youth leaders and other young people, who can test these activities and evaluate their relevance and development. The project will involve youth workers, educators and experts who work or want to work with young people in the future on the issue of invisible racism. Twelve youth workers or educators will participate in the Expert Seminar and a minimum of 100 people are foreseen in the MOOC "Educating Young People in the Prevention of Invisible Racism". In addition, some 80 young people are expected to participate in the dissemination events and the final Conferences with more than 120 people, including youth workers, educators, volunteer teachers and politicians. The impact on participants, partner organisations and target groups will be as follows: Acquisition or improvement of skills related to educational activities to combat racism. The participants and partner organizations after the project will deeply understand the concepts of invisible racism and microviolence, and will be equipped with tools such as educational activities with young people. Acquisition or improvement of skills related to awareness-raising and communication activities. The participants and partner organisations after the project will be able to implement quality awareness campaigns, will be equipped with tools, good practices and ideas for the future. Increased motivation and commitment to the fight against racism.
Thus, the objectives of the E-STAR Project have been: - To exchange good practices, challenges and needs regarding the awareness of young people in their fight against racism. - To create tools to make the problem of invisible racism visible, to prevent it and to promote egalitarian relations based on good treatment. - Recognise new accepted forms of racism in Europe and generate awareness campaigns against racism in a joint way, presenting Europe as a multicultural and open place, based on Human Rights. - To create an innovative tool (MOOC - Massive Open Online Course) for online learning for youth workers on the topic of prevention of Invisible Racism and good relations.
With this project we have addressed one of the issues that we consider most urgent today, the issue of increasing violence among young people towards their non-native peers and vice versa. The general challenge we have faced throughout the project is invisible racism, which is, according to our experience of working with young people, the root of violence that prevents safe and healthy relationships towards others, as signs of violence are being tolerated by Society i.e. any kind of violence that arises from the simple fact that some are above others on the power scale, have violent behaviour (often without being aware of it) and this harmful behaviour is being ACCEPTED by the rest of society. We have seen that racist discourse is present in social networks and in the media, a discourse of hate that has lost all modesty and permeates society, which tries to look for culprits. We have also addressed a need that has arisen during the course of the project: the need for distance learning and facilitation, due to the confinement arising from the covid pandemic.