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Antigypsyism and Digital Media

2020-3-MK01-KA105-0944792020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: MK|RO|ES|TR|BA|EL|BG|RS · Grant: €8,299
Romas and/or other minoritiesInclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

Richness in different cultures, languages, religions, traditions – this is what makes Europe great. Each country and society has this diversity and in order to have a functioning and successful society we need to integrate all people, no matter their nationality, religion, culture, native language, sex or sexual orientation. Especially when it comes to the young people because they are the future. But, can we really say that the young are successfully integrated and included in the society? Taking in consideration the economic crisis, the migrants and refugees looking for a better life and the recent situation with the Corona virus which left millions without work throughout the world hitting hard each country’s economy, we cannot say that the young are fully and successfully integrated. Another very important issue is the discrimination. The young belonging to other minorities and the refugees face discrimination, hate speech and racism every day even in this 21st century considered to be modern with no discrimination, but acceptance represented by inclusion, equity and diversity. One of the minorities still facing the discrimination are the Roma. Every day we see examples of young Roma being discriminated, especially in the educational and employment process which are one of the most important branches of society that grant decent and successful life. In Europe there are approximately 10-12 million Roma, and 6 million live in the EU. A number of researches have identified the Roma as the most deprived ethnic group in Europe, their fundamental rights threatened in all areas of the public sector, including education, employment, health and social care, and other services. How can we have a successful Europe if this problem prevails? According to the EU 2020 strategy, with accent on youth, the inclusion and diversity strategy and the Erasmus + programme, we need to work more to provide proper inclusion, equity and non-discrimination in order to connect, engage and empower the young people to participate actively in the society and provide opportunities for learning, intercultural understanding and recognition of their work through volunteering, solidarity, quality and innovation. A lot of NGO’s and public institutions are working towards successful integration of the youth, especially the ones from the Roma community and the migrants and refugees, into the society. But more needs to be done. As we see the discrimination of the Roma every day throughout EU, the term “antigypsyism” became popular and the ways to prevent and combat it are also one of the goals for the new EU strategy. As this term is new and recently accepted, we wanted to introduce it to the youth workers in North Macedonia and the partner countries. That is why we proposed this training. The main goal was to make the term “antigypsyism” more widely known among the young people, what it means, its consequences and ways of prevention, with accent on the digital media as the widest known spreader of news and information used by the young. The specific goals of this training were: - Introduction of the term “antigypsyism” and the ways to prevent and combat it; - Recognition of the fake news on digital media with accent on the social networks as a way to combat “antigypsyism”; - To increase the digital skills of the youth workers through recognition of fake news on the digital media; - To promote the inclusion of the people with fewer opportunities with accent on the Roma and other minorities, migrants and refugees, thus increase and embrace diversity; - To strengthen and develop the skills of the youth workers in order to enable them to educate the young to fight successfully towards the discrimination, the stereotypes and the hate speech; - To promote the equality and the individual’s right to be different thus giving chances for everybody; - To enhanced the intercultural awareness; - To promote bigger active participation in society; - To increase the motivation for taking part in future education or training after the mobility period abroad; - To improve the foreign language competences (English); - To include actively the young people with fewer opportunities; - To promote and strengthen the cooperation between organizations and local actors for the exchange of good practices and knowledge in order to promote sustainable approaches and tools for social inclusion of the youth that respond to the direct needs of local communities and young minorities/migrants or refugees, especially towards combating the discrimination.

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