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Youth Takes Initiative: Against Bullying

2019-2-PT02-KA105-0060632019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PT|IT|CY|TR|AT|EL|ES|PL · Grant: €50,109
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesInclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

“Youth Takes Initiative: Against Bullying” is planning to have 2 mobility with one training course which will bring 29 youth workers, leaders on the 1-9th October 2019 and one exchange project which will bring 40 people from 8 different countries(4+1 group leader) together to get enough knowledge about ‘cyber-bullying’; to learn how European Institutions are tackling it and creating tools (e-book, videos etc.) for youth workers for preventing bullying and being marginalized of young people. In the another hand, we believe that ‘blaming’ new technologies might cause children and young people to have less interest in information and communication technologies (ICT) and it might also cause big problems in the future. Because of this reason, instead of being afraid of ICTs, we would like to support skills of youth workers and leaders to be conscious users. Participants from Portugal, Poland, Austria Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy and Cyprus will come together in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Research shows that the use of technology can make these practices more dangerous and harmful than traditional bullying. The impact on the child’s well-being can be serious. According to recent data, in Europe more than 50% of children bullied online said that they became depressed as a result and over a third of them stated that they harmed themselves or thought about suicide. The right of freedom of expression is very important but it has to be limited by the respect of the human rights and reputation of others. Unfortunately, almost every day we can find very effective examples of online hate speech and increasing number of young people are victims of cyber-bullying. This has developed a real “advocacy of hatred” - mainly based on ethnic, sexual orientation and religious discrimination - that has become a serious threat to the democratic values of Europe and the EU. As European young people; we want to increase awareness about this issue and by developing social media tools (e-book, videos, articles etc.) for young people to prevent from it. Hate speech, xenophobia, discrimination against young people from different background or other religious communities as such (including refugees arriving in Europe) contribute to exclusion and may further reinforce radicalization of children and young people. We have planned all of our activities for reaching out to marginalised young people, promoting diversity, intercultural dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights by focusing on enhancing media literacy and critical thinking. During our training course, non-formal education methods will be used: group work, discussions, outdoor activities, simulations, quizzes, creative writing workshop, debates, field visit, theatrical performances and various team building/evaluative games. All outcomes (included methods) will be written in the e-book and will be a useful guide for youth workers.

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