"Intercultural Dialogue to Empower Minorities" (INTER-DEM) is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting peaceful interaction, mutual discovery and tolerance between natives and ethnic minorities youth through training young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists, in promoting intercultural dialogue in micro-realities through and in New Media Channels. In the "Data collection in the field of ethnicity" (2017) issued by the European Commission, it is underlined that "Racial, ethnic and national origin, minority religion, language and cultural traditions have not been clearly distinguished in law, but are instead recognised as intrinsically interlinked. In its Advisory Opinion n. 17, the Permanent Court of International Justice stated that a (minority) community is “a group of persons living in a given country or locality, having a race, religion, language and traditions of their own and united by this identity of race, religion, language and traditions in a sentiment of solidarity, with a view to preserving their traditions, maintaining their form of worship, ensuring the instruction and upbringing of their children in accordance with the spirit and traditions of their race and rendering mutual assistance to each other". The necessity of setting the conditions for youth awareness about racism and discrimination as well as of the active contrast thereof in the field of youth is stressed by the European Youth Strategy, which sets the objective of supporting the development of cultural awareness and the contrast of prejudice among the youth. INTER-DEM pursues this goal by means of training a cluster of young people in becoming potential Youth Digital Activists committed to contrasting feelings and practices of discrimination among young people as well as promoting the positive values of tolerance and respect of diversity enshrined in European identity and citizenship. INTER-DEM individualised Target Groups: The project will involve youngsters from national ethnic minorities as well as native youths. This choice was agreed among all Consortium partners, in order to achieve a double goal: fostering social inclusion of youngsters coming from ethnic minority groups as well as sensitise and educate native youth at empathy, tolerance and inclusive behaviour. INTER-DEM activities are: - Research and identification of European good practices in contrasting radicalization and prejudice towards national ethnic minorities among young people through the Digital Intercultural Dialogue; - Selection of a cluster of 8 young people per partner organization (4 natives and 4 from ethnic minorities) to take part in the process of educational empowerment delivered in the project. - Implementation of 4 Blended Youth Mobilities (1 per partner country) wherein partners will develop the knowledge, skills and competences of selected youngsters in employing Social Media Communication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools as methodologies/instruments for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance among their peers as well as the overall Social Community; - Implementing a set of local activities delivered by participating youngsters in each partner country towards an audience of their own peers in a process of co-leading between natives and ethnic minority youths. The focus of the activities will be to convey the educational message of the project to youngsters in local realities. INTER-DEM outcomes will be: - 1 Research Report containing statistics and needs regarding ethnic minority youths in matter of social inclusion in participating partner countries. - 1 Toolkit containing existent best practices and employed workshop on Social Media Communication, Social Activism Campaigning, Digital Storytelling and Digital Educational Tools for contrasting phenomena of racism and discrimination as well as spreading positive values of inclusion and tolerance, drafted during the fourth mobility and finalised before the local dissemination events. - 1 Blog created by the participants during the first mobility which will be the diary of their shared educational learning journey. - 4 Digital Storytelling products created during the second mobility. - 4 National and 1 International Social Campaigns launched during the third mobility.
The aim is to support the development of cultural awareness and the counteracting of prejudices, underlines the need to establish the conditions for the sensitisation of young people on racism and discrimination, as well as the active counteracting of them in the youth field. among young people. INTER-DEM pursues this objective by training a group of young people to become potential digital youth activists committed to challenging feelings and practices of discrimination among young people, as well as to promoting the positive values of tolerance and respect for diversity enshrined in European identity and citizenship.
The "Intercultural Dialogue to Empower Minorities" (INTER-DEM) is a 24-month Strategic Alliance focused on promoting peaceful interaction, mutual discovery, and tolerance among young people from native and ethnic minorities through training young people to become potential Digital Youth Activists, in promoting intercultural dialogue. in micro realities through and on new media channels. In the "Data collection in the field of ethnicity" (2017) issued by the European Commission, it is underlined that "Racial, ethnic and national origin, minority religion, language and cultural traditions have not been clearly distinguished in law but are differentiated and recognised as intrinsically interrelated. In its Advisory Opinion n. 17, the Permanent Court of International Justice stated that a (minority) community is "a group of persons living in a given country or locality, having a race, religion, language and traditions of their own and united by this identity of race, religion, language and traditions in a feeling of solidarity, with a view to preserving their traditions, maintaining their form of worship, ensuring the instruction and education of their children in accordance with the spirit and traditions. of their race and rendering mutual assistance to each other".