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SenzaConfini.BrezMeja.OhneGrenzen

2021-1-AT01-KA152-YOU-0000078202021Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: AT|SI|IT · Grant: €31,349
Romas and/or other minoritiesPreventing racism and discriminationEuropean identity and values

Objectives

With the project, we aimed to provide young people from the Slovenian minority in Italy and Austria and young people from Slovenia living at the Slovenian-Austrian border with an opportunity to talk about minority topics in safe and welcoming environment. Moreover, the project was addressing the topic of the Slavic origins and historical events on the territory of Austria and Italy today. Furthermore, we aimed to promote respect and openness for the diversity that those youngsters face in their everyday life. The main projects´ objectives were reducing fear, prejudices and therefore raising respect for human rights. The emphasis of the project was put on cultural and ethnical interaction observing everyday situations in the participants’ environment and the concrete European situation. With this project, we wanted to contribute to the social awareness, therefore the ethnic tolerance, prevention from the negativism and violence, equipping the participants with the capacity of critical thinking and afterwards encourage them to live actively the promoted values in their own environment. One another important objective for us was to work preventive against all anti-ethnic and anti-cultural realities that are threating to raise (again) in our society. On the intellectual level, the main objectives of the project were getting knowledge about the Slovenian Carinthia, about the ethnical groups living in the South Carinthia and about the consequences of the Plebiscite in 1920. Further, we aimed to equip young participant with the historical knowledge about the Slavic origins in nowadays Austria and Italy, about historical importance of some concrete places, (such as Karnburg, Maria Saal, etc.), as Youth Exchange took place directly there. The project aimed to give young people opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences; promote diversity; respect cultural, individual, religious, gender and political differences; work towards a cohesive, united and diverse Europe; contribute to narrowing down the existing social and cultural gaps; fighting all kinds of discrimination and hatred; promoting common values and defending the rights of individuals and ethnical communities. Main issues that we wanted to address through the project were issues of minorities and other ethnical groups, discrimination, human rights, Article 7 of the Austrian Treaty (democracy), assimilation, problematic of the bilingual place-name signs, Church and bilingualism, bilingualism in cultural life, bilingual educational system, trauma, memory narratives, identity and group identity, dialogue, etc.

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