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One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Countering Hate Speech Through Art

2022-3-AT01-KA152-YOU-0000950772022Mobility of young peopleongoing
Countries: AT|MK|BG|RS|RO|LV · Grant: €37,224
Creativity, arts and culturePreventing racism and discriminationInclusion of marginalised young people

Objectives

The project ‘One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Countering Hate Speech Through Art’ was developed with the aim to turn the attention of young people to the topic of online and offline hate speech by using art as a tool of awareness raising and addressing different forms of online and offline hate speech. The project was implemented in consortium of six youth organizations representing Austria, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, and Latvia with the goal to reach the following objectives: -to increase competencies (knowledge, skills, attitude) of young people from participating countries, directly involved participants, in the area of online and offline hate speech; -to develop skills of the participants to recognize and address online and offline hate speech; -to encourage the participants to stand up against hate speech; -to increase participant’s creative competencies by using art-based methods and tools supporting young people's direct involvement and developing their competencies; -to raise participants' intercultural competencies and make them aware of their own stereotypes and prejudices; -to raise knowledge of the participants on the Erasmus + Programme, non-formal learning, YouthPass and to empower them to continue to be active in the field of international youth work; -to support the creation of new project ideas, with a special focus on the KA 1, Erasmus + Programme; -to increase awareness of local communities of participating organizations on online and offline hate speech through follow-up activities in the form of interactive presentations prepare and delivered by directly involved participants with the support of the group leaders; -to encourage young people who will be reached online through a series of 10 video interviews with the participants of YE to fight online and offline hate speech and to get involved in the Erasmus + Programme.

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