The project allowed the partner organisations and their partners, volunteers and communities to share experiences related to their work focused on increasing inclusiveness of young people, but also of children and adults. As a youth project, we focused our attention on sharing experience on inclusive youth participation to social life, including forms of increasing young people participation to the faith and religious life of their communities, increasing gender equality, supporting better participation and recognition of LGBTIQ+ young people in the social and political life, better access and integration in all social life and activities of young people with disabilities and of all young people irrespective of the wealth, ethnicity or residency (urban or rural).The project followed its aim through 2 types of activities: (A) learning activities, represented by 5 study visits and (B) an online platform / website.Each study visit included 2 activity components: (1) visits to projects and institutions in order to get an idea on the practice in the visited country/city and how disabled young people, LGBTIQ+ youth, young people from various religious groups and with different ethnicities can participate to the social life without obstacles and (2) discussions, debates and exercises around best practices on how to enhance inclusiveness in a sustainable way when planning Erasmus+ projects and in particular Erasmus+ international youth projects.The project was possible due to the cooperation of five partner organizations from: Romania, Finland, Slovenia, Portugal and Scotland. The strength of the project was given by the experience of each of the partner organisations in working on inclusive youth work, having each of them very different and particular approaches and target groups. These main target groups that are out main focus are: women and girls (receiving a special attention from RKI in Finland), LGBTIQ+ youth (the target group of Pride Ljubljana in Slovenia), rural and Roma youth (the main target group of CDCD in Romania), young people with disabilities (main beneficiaries of projects implemented by BLOOM in Portugal), young people from minority religious groups (the target group of Interfaith Scotland). During the project period, five learning activities have been organized as well as three transnational project meetings to allow partners to coordinate their activities. Each organisation in the partnership had good practices to share and the practices and methods used in partner countries varies from organisation to organisation which assured a large variety of the learning outcomes of the project. The 8 key competences for lifelong learning have been considered in the design of activities.75 unique beneficiaries - youth workers or youth leaders - have been directly involved in the international study visits and over 3000 people have been involved in different parts of the project, including participating to workshops and other activities organised by the participants to study visits during the Interfaith Week (Scotland, November 2017), Ljubljana Pride Week (June 2018), in schools in Romania during the study visit in Romania in November 2018. The project involved youth workers, youth leaders, professionals and volunteers working with young people from each partner country. Most of them have a high level of expertise and/or in-depth and first-hand experience in involving young people from discriminated groups in local, national and international activities. Through the input of these youth workers on the project generated good practices shared amongst the youth workers participating the learning activities. These youth workers are working with the 5 partner organisations and/or with other organisations in their national networks. Therefore, one of the project results have been better practice networks for young people’s inclusion. Moreover, junior staff and volunteers have been inspired to be able to work with more inclusive approach and have better results on their daily work.At the second level, based on the experienced shared by the youth workers participating in the learning activities, selected as presented in the application, from the partner organisation and beyond, form other youth work organisation, two dissemination tools ensure a widen the impact of the project: (1) the online platform sharing good practices and the videos created during the study visits and (2) the direct dissemination made by the participants to learning activities, encouraged and empowered to share their experience with other youth workers in their networks. Regarding the online platform: it functions at the same time as a dissemination and learning tool, and tells stories of different youth workers, youths and organizations that works for inclusion in all partner countries and it gives simple guidelines for the youth workers.

We live in a world where sexist jokes among friends, xenophobic graffiti and racist speech among politicians has become an everyday experience. Too often, we do not even register it, as long as it does not target us directly. This is no different for youth workers lived reality. Hate Speech is an experienced reality across Europe and while efforts have been taken to address online hate speech and different actors programmes and training developed to combat youth radicalization, gaps remains in relation to how do youth workers actively address and transform hate speech in a safe and transformative way in different spaces for young people. We all youth work practitioners are part of our families, circles of friends, communities, the political realm…; hence we need to unlearn the “normality” of hate speech and/or hateful behaviour ourselves first, in order to be able to recognise and tackle it with the young people and the youth groups we work with. This project gathered ideas, and created concreted new approaches and methods on how to support the youth worker in recognising and tackling situations where hate speech occurs within a youth setting and has the ambition to support the youth worker’s practice to become transformative.We changed the name of the project when we started to implement the project as we found the original name not suitable for our target group and beneficiaries and not really inspiring people to get involved. We decided to call the project Outside In – Transforming Hate and created a visual identy to match the name. It resonated better the aim of the project. The project lasted two years, from June 2017 to May 2019, and aimed at making youth work in Europe more inclusive and safer for all. Over the two years, five partner organisations from Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, and Slovenia, co-created a European network of trainers and experts who can provide quality trainings and tools for youth workers to recognise, manage, and transform hateful speech and behaviour in their everyday work with young people.A unique aspect of this project was that this new network of trainers consists of youth workers and equality experts from the five countries who mainly belong to minority and marginalised groups themselves; groups which are often talked about but are still greatly under-represented in national and international youth work training structures and pool of experts.These 24 youth workers and equality experts underwent an intensive training-of-trainers programme, which included three residential trainings (one in Slovenia, two in Portugal), transnational knowledge exchange, mentoring support scheme, and tasks to plan training outlines, test them out in practice and reflect their learninging order to develop their training skills (methodogogical skills and meta-skills that trainers need). As a result, they have gained knowledge, skills and experience of inclusive youth work and transformative manner to tackle hate speech in youth setting and have the competence to provide youth workers the tools, methods, and approaches to tackle hateful speech and behaviour constructively.In addition, as an outcome of the training program and the new competence acquired by it, this same team of newly trained trainers have also co-created a practice manual for other youth workers as well as co-created a content for educational platform for youth workers. The practice manual and educational platform provide answer (hands on methods and knowledge) on some of the most perplexing needs of youth workers in today’s Europe – how to provide a safer space for all youths and how to tackle hateful speech and behaviour in a way that enable long-term change among youths with discriminatory attitudes and behaviour.The project addressed the contemporary needs of youth workers in an innovative way, bringing together a diverse group of participants from five European countries all of whom have experienced or worked directly in confronting various hate speech issues within their national contexts. The slogan “Nothing About Us Without Us!” was a leading principle to communicate the idea that no policy and practise should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group’s affected by that policy and practice. In the core of all work in this project was to allow the often silenced and oppressed voices to be in core of all activities and development of content during the project. In total more than 500 youth workers were trained during the project on national level coming from more than 100 different youth work organisation or institution. The educational on-line Platform and educational tools and Practise Manual have been very well recieved by the target group and is used by youth workers in all partner countries as well as reaching out youth workers outside the partnership.