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Hate Is Not My Fate

2020-3-UK01-KA105-0941252020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: UK|IT|BG|EE|RS|LV|TR|ES · Grant: €23,210
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)

Objectives

The project ‘’ Hate is not my faith’’ is a multinational training course aimed at educating youth workers and social activists on anti hate speech, media literacy and human rights education. The project involved 32 youth workers coming from 8 countries-both EU members and not-Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Serbia, Turkey and United Kingdom . The partner consortium believes in the power of youth work to counter hate speech, discrimination, racism, nationalism and radicalization and with this project we aimed to strengthen the skills, knowledge and competences of youth workers from the participating countries to combat hate speech and prevent radicalization of youth by human right education. The overall aim of the project was to equip youth workers with the needed tools, knowledge, information, competences and attitudes to counter hate speech and work with young people using non formal and human rights education. The project objectives were: -Increasing the knowledge and competencies of youth workers in the field of anti-hate and human rights - promoting cooperation in the youth field and encouraging the organization of more initiatives and projects in the field of human rights and anti-hate. -to equip youth workers with methods, strategies and tools for organizing activities with young people on the topic -Promoting media literacy and knowledge of basic legal frameworks among youth workers to combat cyberbullying -introducng the Youth Workers with the No hate speech Movement and the Tools- Bookmarks, Compass, WE can handbooks -encouraging youth workers to become activists against hate speech in their countries and at European level -reducing the risk of radicalization of young people by investing in training youth workers and increasing human rights initiatives Thus the project aimed at wider impact-on participants themselves by gaining new knowledge, experience, competences, thus on their sending organizations by increasing their human resources and operational capacity to work more efficiently in the anti-hate and discrimination field which will also have a positive impact on their local communities. Moreover, the project wanted also to achieve increase in the cooperation between program and partner countries and the quality of youth work by providing high quality training and by follow up activities and transferring the knowledge and skills.The project also aimed at impact on on young people from partner countries- by increasing their media literacy, training in human rights, promotion of European values and raising awareness of the consequences of hate speech and thereby will help in reducing the risk of radicalization by the planned follow-up training and information modules which were and will still be organized in each partner country by the youth workers after the mobility with all the resources, experience and competenes acquired. .

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