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Intercultural competences

2020-2-SK02-KA105-0025782020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: SK|LT|BG|RO|BE|EL|HU|HR|UK|TR|AT · Grant: €31,749.96
Inclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

BPI initiated this project to carry on the previous research, which was conducted by its members in this area and to move it from theoretical approach to more practical grounds. BPI is also currently conducting research about hate speech and hate crime concerning the young generation and children and their behaviour online, which will offer us valuable data for later practical development, Our city, Bratislava is a capital of Slovakia. However, online and offline hate speech and hate crime among young people especially towards minorities is an up-to-date topic. Here, we may talk about hate speech in online life, due to the internet and social media. Most of the youngsters are not considering the online sphere as the real-life and they allow themselves to use such a language which is not accepted or would not have been used in the real-life or in a public place. BPI was always active in this specific topic, as the organization and also the organization members as an experts. Director of BPI is the vice chairman of VRAX committee tackling extremism and racism in Slovakia since 2017. The BPI team also conducted various publication on this area as De-fake toolkit or Manual of online propagation. General objectives of the project is to improve intercultural competences of youth workers for being capable to invent and implement youth work methods and tools on preventing and dealing with online and offline hate speech and hate crime among young people especially towards minorities, including Roma, refugees and migrants young people. Learning objectives of the training course: - To deeper understanding of the participants and participating organizations on the roots, forms and consequences of hate speech, especially on the link between hate speech and hate crime; - To increase competences of the participants and participating organizations to address offline and online hate speech in their communities and contribute to breaking stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination and racism that are facing various groups in participating countries, especially minorities including refugees and migrants; - To develop competences of the participants and participating organizations to create and launch campaigns, awareness raising actions fighting the roots of hate speech and hate crime and fighting discrimination and racism; - To strengthen competences of the participants to effectively use various media, including social one, as tools for awareness raising on the issue of online and offline hate speech and hate crime; - To develop communication, teamwork, leaderships skills of the participants in intercultural settings; - To support creating new contacts among the participants and their organizations and developing new projects ideas that could be implemented with support of Erasmus+ Programme.

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