Question 33: What do you hope to achieve by implementing the project? What are the goals of your project? Please state this from the perspective of youth work practice. Youth Work Context: As three partner organizations, we encounter a similar problem in our daily work: young people, who constitute our target audience, are regularly exposed to hate speech. In Wuppertal, young people of immigrant background encounter discriminatory expressions on the street, at school, or on social media. In Hatay, Syrian refugee youth face exclusionary attitudes from the local community. In Vantaa, young people of refugee background struggle with implicit or explicit prejudices during the integration process. While working with these young people, we realized that most don't know what to do when they encounter hate speech. Some withdraw, some react with anger, some try to ignore it. None of these are healthy coping strategies. Our project aims to fill this gap. First Goal: To Equip Young People with the Skill to Recognize and Analyze Hate Speech Young people need to be able to distinguish different forms of hate speech. What is the difference between overt insult and implicit discrimination? How does racism under the guise of humor operate? How does hate speech spread on social media? We will explore the answers to these questions together with young people. Analytical skills are not just an academic exercise. We want to develop the capacity to evaluate situations encountered in daily life. A young person should be able to understand whether content shared in a WhatsApp group constitutes hate speech. Second Goal: Developing Intervention Strategies Against Hate Speech Recognizing is not enough, intervention is also necessary. However, intervention does not always mean conflict. Sometimes breaking the silence is enough. Sometimes changing the subject. Sometimes supporting the victim. Sometimes speaking up later. Forum theatre allows these skills to be practiced in a safe environment. A hate speech situation is dramatized on stage, and participants can try different intervention methods. They have the chance to rehearse before trying it in real life. The Oxford debate, on the other hand, improves argumentation skills. It is important to be able to produce not only emotional but also logical responses to hate speech. Third Goal: Creating the Capacity to Produce Social Messages Through Artistic Expression We know the power of art in youth work. There are young people who can put on stage what they can't express verbally, who can't express themselves in writing but find themselves behind the camera. Theatre, film, and happenings open channels for these young people. At the same time, art is a carrier of social messages. A theatre performance can reach a hundred people. A video can be watched thousands of times. Content produced by young people themselves can be more convincing than professional campaigns. Fourth Goal: Intercultural Dialogue and Breaking Prejudice The fact that young people from three different countries and different cultural backgrounds live together for a week is a learning experience in itself. A Finnish young person who only knows Turkey from the news begins to question prejudices when sharing a room with a peer from Hatay. A Turkish young person who only knows Germany from football teams expands the picture when they meet a young immigrant from Wuppertal. Cultural evenings deepen this acquaintance. Cooking together, dancing, and singing concretize the abstract concept of "intercultural dialogue." Fifth Goal: Strengthening Active Citizenship Awareness We want to break the belief among young people that "I can't do anything." Hate speech is a huge problem, that's true. But it can be combated at the individual level. The tangible outcomes they produce during the change process will be proof of this belief: we did it, you can too.' Outreach activities reinforce this awareness. Doing something in their own communities after returning home means transitioning from being passive recipients to active producers.