Title: Youth 4 Tolerance
Dates: 05-12 March 2018
Place: Castellammare Di Stabia, Italy
Project description:
For several years now, the violent conflict in Syria caused many people to flee their homes, trying to find peaceful life in Europe, leading to an increased number of refugees and asylum seekers. Along with this refugee wave and the frequent terrorist attacks in Europe and media propaganda there was fear generated among Europeans from newcomers which leads to intolerance, rejection and even hatred and violence towards migrants and refugeеs. With every year agencies and institutions dealing with human rights and in particular refugees are warning us about the
huge increase of negative attitude and zero level of acceptance of refugees from the vast majority of Europeans.
Main objectives of the project:
– understanding migration processes from young people and discovering of benefits of migration for Europe;
– promoting positive attitude, tolerance, solidarity and understanding towards refugees and migrants;
– discovering hate speech, its causes, roots and consequences by young people and realizing the power of words as well as having the ability to distinguish it from freedom of expression
– raising awareness among young people that hate speech online can lead to physical harm, violence and hate crimes;
– informing youth about ways and channels for reporting cases of hate speech online;
– informing young people how to effectively combat hate speech towards refugees in non- violent way;
– promoting the No hate speech movement among young people;
– promoting tolerance, mutual understanding and dialogue between young people from different nationalities, cultures and religions.
Profile of participants:
5 participants at age (16-26) and 1 group leader (no age limit) = 6 participants per partner organization with the following profile:
-young people who faced hate in their community;
-young people with fewer opportunities (facing geographical difficulties);
-young people motivated and interested in the topic.
Costs:
All costs related to accommodation and food are covered by Erasmus plus program. There is a travel limit -275 euro for return ticket.
Participation fee:
There is a participation fee of 20 euro which has to be paid on spot during the youth exchange.
If you are interested in and would like to take part in you can fill the from here : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduhBmS5FXONO3QkCiLOLJMbSpc5SOT-8EbaLIc_vAZW1ulOg/viewform?c=0&w=1
Deadline: 20 January 2018
