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TOGETHER to get there

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-3-IT03-KA205-020441
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 89,906 EUR

TOGETHER to get there

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According to the report of the study ‘Backgrounds, Experiences and Responses to Online Hate Speech: A Comparative Cross-Country Analysis’, the 31% of people aged 11-17 that have been interviewed admitted having seen hate online messages targeting people attacked for skin colour, nationality and religion. These findings are in line with the conclusion of the document “Being young in Europe today – digital world” by Eurostat, stating that surfing in the web may expose children and young people to potentially harmful content, fostering dependency, anxiety or aggression”. Youth work can contribute to prevent and counter hate speech and misinformation online among the young people. Nevertheless, this is a quite challenging task; digital environments speed up social processes and make it even more challenging to keep up with the dynamics that young people are engaging with and exposed to. For this reason, TOGETHER aims to provide our youth workers with training opportunities on innovative youth work methods and practice, in so doing, responding to their need to be better equipped in managing youth programmes for media literacy, prevention of hate speech and promotion of tolerance online. Our main target group is an intergenerational and intercultural group of 24 senior, junior and young volunteering youth workers from our organizations. The project will also directly benefit the 6 partner organizations, which will have the opportunity to align their youth work practices and methods, creating an enabling environment for a stronger and more stable cooperation among them. Youth is our final beneficiary group. Young people will enjoy an enriching participative learning experience that will increase their resilience to hatred and fake news online and that will foster their attitude to actively counter these phenomena and promote tolerance narratives.To achieve its final objectives, the project methodology is based on the following step: 1. innovation design of youth work activities/methods, 2. prototyping and testing of good practices, 3. Assessment and fine-tuning of the good practices, 4. dissemination and networking for capitalisation of the project results.The project will organize 4 transnational mobility events of youth workers to support them in developing and sharing effective practices and methods, which they can learn and get inspired by. During each mobility, participants will create two outputs: 1. schedules of an innovative youth work practice/methods to foster hate speech prevention and fake news detection, including the toolkits supporting their implementation; 2. one short informative video on the methods and practices shared, to be used for dissemination purpose. Each mobility event will be followed by the testing of the youth work practice/method developed during the event, to be carried out in each local context with a group of at least 10 youngsters. Starting with the second mobility event, the youth workers will share the result of the testing activities implemented at local level and will identify possible adjustments to the methods/activities tested.During the last mobility event, the youth workers will produce an additional output: the guidelines for possible joint interventions in the field of youth, in line with the next Erasmus+ program (2021-2026).Two main outcomes are expect by the project:1. improved skills of our youth workers. Youth workers will be better equipped in terms of competences and tools to work on hate speech prevention and fake-news detection and they will be able to create more inclusive and welcoming learning environment for young people.2. a more structured cooperation between our organisations. Organizations will share a plan of action to support youth workers’ professional development and align their skill in targeting youths’ needs in a fast-changing context. As a consequence, the number and quality of joint youth work initiatives promoted by our network will be increasedThe impact on the participating organizations will be a direct consequence of the improved capacities of their project staff and youth workers, and can be described in terms of modernization of their youth work programmes and increased commitment in initiatives to promote fake-news detection and hate-speech prevention. We expect also that they will enhance their attitude to transnational cooperation for promoting both the improvement of youth work practices /methods and for the capacity building of their staff. Finally, the project will raise awareness among the stakeholders targeted by the dissemination activities on the role that young people and youth workers can play in making our society healthier, more welcoming of differences, more tolerant and safer for all. We expect them to become keener on promoting youth work initiatives and youth workers professional development.

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