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Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing

608552-EPP-1-2019-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBY-WB2019Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countriesfinalized
Countries: AL|ES|IT|BA|EL|TR|MK|XK|RO · Grant: €55,473.04

Project summary

Project entitle ‘Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing’ will connect 9 partners from : Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Turkey and Spain to raise capacities of their organizations to apply creative writing and art to combat online and offline hate speech. The project will include mobility and capacity building activities with aim to develop competencies of youth workers and educators to design and deliver activities based on creative writing and art aiming to fight online and offline hate speech especially targeting young people; to raise competencies of youth workers and educators to apply creative writing and art in the process of raising awareness on online and offline hate speech; to transfer lessons learned from international to national level through capacity building activities and to raise awareness on online and offline hate speech among involved communities and to increase knowledge of the participants and partners on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new project ideas at local, national and international level. Mobility activities will have form of two training course targeting youth workers and educators. Capacity building activities will have form of workshops targeting diverse group of participants coming from local communities of involved partners. Key project results will include booklet of good practices and video interviews aiming to raise awareness on online and offline hate speech and using creative writing and art to fight it.

Objectives

To develop competencies of youth workers and educators to design & deliver activities based on creative writing & art aiming to fight online & offline hate speech especially targeting young people;To raise competencies of youth workers & educators to apply creative writing & art in the process of raising awareness on online & offline hate speech;To transfer lessons learned from international to national level through CBA; To increase knowledge of the participants and partners on E+ Programme;

Background

Project ‘Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing’ connected 9 partners from : Albania, Kosovo, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Turkey and Spain to raise capacities of their organizations to apply creative writing and art to combat online and offline hate speech.

Final report summary

<< Background >> Project ‘Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing’ connected 9 partners from : Albania, Kosovo, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Turkey and Spain to raise capacities of their organizations to apply creative writing and art to combat online and offline hate speech. << Objectives >> To develop competencies of youth workers and educators to design & deliver activities based on creative writing & art aiming to fight online & offline hate speech especially targeting young people;To raise competencies of youth workers & educators to apply creative writing & art in the process of raising awareness on online & offline hate speech;To transfer lessons learned from international to national level through CBA; To increase knowledge of the participants and partners on E+ Programme; << Implementation >> Due to covid-19 the implementation has been very difficult. Nevertheless we manage to implement two mobility activities-training courses in Albania and in Greece which targeted youth workers and educators. As well are implemented Capacity building Activities in the form of workshops targeting diverse group of participants coming from local communities of involved partners. Also online tools helped us in implementing local workshops and keeping contact with partners and participants. << Results >> Key project results:2-mobility activities 1-booklet of good practices video interviews aiming to raise awareness on online and offline hate speech and using creative writing and art to fight it. 72 people trained on the mobility activitiesposters, workshops, installations and illustrations prepared by participants and used in local workshopsfour main exercises used in local workshops in seven countries248 people have participated in local workshops in seven countries

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