Youth work countering hate speech

The project ‘’ Youth work countering hate speech’’ is a multinational training course aimed at educating youth workers and social activists on anti hate speech, media literacy and human rights education. The project will involve 30 youth workers coming from 10 countries-both EU members and partner countries from Caucasus-Bulgaria, UK, Latvia, Italy, Romania, Denmark, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijdan. We beleive  in the power of youth work to counter hate speech, discrimination, racism, nationalism and radicalization and with this project we aim to strengthen the skills, knowledge and competences of youth workers from the participating countries to combat hate speech and prevent radicalization of youth by human right education. The methodology that will be applied at this training course is based on non-formal education and human rights education approach. The overall aim of the project is to equip youth workers with the needed tools, knowledge, information, competences and attitudes to counter hate speech and work with young people using non formal and human rights education

The project objectives are:

- to encourage cooperation in the youth field and raise the capacity of the youth organizations from program and partner countries to do more initiatives and projects in the field of human rights and anti-hate

 -to encourage media literacy and knowledge among youth workers to combat cyberbullying

-to introduce the youth workers with the No hate speech Movement and its tools and resources- Bookmarks, Compass, WE can handbooks

-to promote social activism against hate speech on European level

 -reducing the risk of radicalization of young people by investing in training youth workers and increasing human rights initiatives