In November 1995, UNESCO member states16, after promulgating and signing the declaration of the principles of tolerance, mentioned the role of education in shaping the attitudes of tolerance. Education was found to be the most effective way of preventing intolerance. There is lack of activities and understading of why the acceptance and tolerance bahvior is now especially needed. In each of countries engaged in the project we conducted research and focus groups. Participants engaged in the project: - young people up to 30 years old which are willing to engage in tolerance, acceptance activities, but at the same time they have lack of education about what stereotyoes come from, what is the process of discrimination, what benefits we have from different word, why we should accept others - carrers, parents who will have the encryped comic book as a common tool for both - young people and their careers, to talk about tolerance and exchange good practices in it - educators who can used our materials and scenarios of workshops proposal to supplement their lessons - youth organizations connected with tolerance and acceptance who will also use our materials in their non-formal activities in their organizations - people who "were tocuhed" by discrimination - we want to include them in our activities, especially to evaluate the content of outputs and in dissemination events - youth leaders will have the possibility to test themselves and "meet" new tools to use in their youth organizations, ways of develpoment of youth or in the field of tolerance 20 metaphorical cards touch the stereotypes topic A workshop proposal how to use the cards prepared to 4 hours of training Testing the cards by 8 young people up to 30 years old a virtual escape room game with 4 rooms, each dedicated to different part of discrimination - regligion, migrants, sex, age and disability 6-7 tasks to resolved in each room in the virtual escape room game Testing the game by 2 groups of young people up to 30 years old - 4 people in each a encrypted comic book with 4 stories with good pracices of acceptance bahavior Testing the comic book by 4 people composed of careers and young people, children All materials, except the virtual escape room game will be developed in 4 languages 4 Open Tolerance Days Finak Conference in Poland Main aims and objectives of the project: - better understanding the discrimination and stereotpes creation process, feelings of discriminated people among young people up to 30 years old in project partners' countries - shaping own opinions, decisions of young people up to 30 years old - increasing of ability among young people up to 30 years old to think in a creative and critical way - equipping youth leaders with tools to work in their societies and teach, talk about tolerance bahaviors - increasing youth engagement in social matters, especially in activities conected with acceptance bahavior - youth integration with other cultures, with migrants, disadvantaged groups during pilot trainings in partners’ countries - Sharing the acceptance and understating for others among youth leaders in partners’ countries - Intercultural dialogue dissemination among youth leaders in partners’ countries - intolerance Prevention among young people, youth leaders from partners’ countries - dissemination of quality, human rights and respect, EU values program among young people, young leaders in partners’ countries The effect will be better understanding the discriminated people situation by youth, their more active bahavior in activities connected with tolerance topic. Thye will be equipped with materials, and tools which can easily (thanks to concret instructions) be implemented in their surroundings, schools, homes. All resulst are innovative and touching the topic of discrimination, stereoptypes roots, but also good practices in youth reaction for discrimination.
The main aims of the projects were: - better understanding of the discrimination and stereotypes creation process, feelings of discriminated people among young people up to 30 years old in project partners' countries - shaping own opinions, decisions of young people up to 30 years old - increasing of ability among young people up to 30 years old to think in a creative and critical way - equipping youth leaders with tools to work in their societies and teach, and talk about tolerance behaviours - increasing youth engagement in social matters, especially in activities connected with acceptance behaviour - youth integration with other cultures, migrants, and disadvantaged groups during pilot training in partners’ countries - Sharing the acceptance and understating for others among youth leaders in partners’ countries - Intercultural dialogue dissemination among youth leaders in partners’ countries - intolerance Prevention among young people, youth leaders from partners’ countries - dissemination of quality, human rights and respect, EU values program among young people, young leaders in partners’ countries
In November 1995, UNESCO member states16, after promulgating and signing the declaration of the principles of tolerance, mentioned the role of education in shaping the attitudes of tolerance. Education was found to be the most effective way of preventing intolerance. There is a lack of activities and understanding of why acceptance and tolerance behaviour is now especially needed. In each of the countries engaged in the project, we conducted research and focus groups. The research was based on 400 answers. In focus groups, we gathered 40 young people up to 30 years old. It occurred that at schools, in formal education, they are not educated about discrimination, how we create stereotypes, why we discriminate etc., so we decided to create the "On the way to acceptance" project and equip youth educators, and leaders with innovative, interesting tools like escape rooms, metaphorical cards, encrypted comic books to help them to include the conversation about respect in their institutions, organizations, schools.