Invisible Racism - Make it visible

This is a call for the strategic partnership - exchange of the good practices.

More about the concept of invisible racism: http://educationaltoolsportal.eu/en/tools-for-learning/invisible-racism-%E2%80%93-make-it-visible

About invisible racism: https://www.invisible-racism.eu/

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Objectives

The main of the project is to create the cross-sectional alliance in order to work together and exchange the best practices in the field of racism with the special focus on the modern forms of racism like invisible racism or micro-racism.

Specific objectives:

• To work together in alliance on the recognition and visibility on the existence of the new forms of racism (recognition of the problem)
• To work on the awareness raising of the impact of modern racism with the special focus on the marginalized groups
• Share and and adapt the best practices into the local reality
• To ally our forces in order to fight racism on the European level
• To create the branding and communication strategy to make visible modern forms of racism

Project structure

We plan to apply for the funds of ERASMUS+ - strategic partnership in the field of youth, exchange of good practices for the deadline 4th of October 2018. The call is created to develop and reinforce networks and to share and confront ideas, practices and methods, and this is what we want to do in relation to racism and invisible racism.

We plan to have following residential activities in the project:

1) Kick off partners meeting – in the beginning of the project, 2 days meeting with the objectives to get to know each other our organizations and ways of work, and to plan the activities of the project and dividing responsibilities.
2) Staff training on modern forms of racism – training that we will invite 3-4 staff of each organization (or active volunteers); with the objective to exchange experiences and learn about modern forms of racism like micro racism or invisible racism. Estimated duration – 5 days
3) Partners meeting – for 1-2 persons per organization, with the objective to evaluate the first staff meeting, exchange the feedback from the testing of the practices, and plan the activities for the second part of the project + networking.
4) Staff training on campaigning and communication strategy - training that we will invite 3-4 staff of each organization (or active volunteers); with the objective to empower organizations on the campaigning strategies and prepare them to actively stand against racism. (we are looking for partner who is expert in campaigning and advocacy)
5) Evaluation meeting and dissemination event – we would like to organize those two events together because of the greater impact and the budget limitation. Inviting 2-3 people for the evaluation meeting of 1 days, and then on the second day implementing international dissemination event that can be as well liked with the advocacy.
6) Dissemination events – there is as well possibility in the project to implement dissemination events by each partner, this is optional. There is a budget of 100€ per person per event, if you would like to implement the event please specify.

Besides the residential activities, we are planning to:
1) Testing of the best practises – after the first staff training each partner will be equipped with the new tools and approaches, which they can use in they daily work. In this way we can try and see how the practices are working in the different context what brings the additional learning to the partnership.
2) Development of the branding and communication strategy – since our main objective is to make the invisible racism visible, we need to create the strategy how to do it, and this will be brainstormed during the partners meeting, and we will try to apply for exceptional costs for the expert who can help us with this.
3) Campaigning – implementation of any ideas that came up from the project

What partners are we looking for?

The project can work only if we manage to bring together the diverse partnership that is composed by organizations who already work on the topic of racism and the organizations that represents minority groups that are target of racism. For us the most important is to bring together the group of organizations who are motivated and the topic of racism is very close to them, since in this way we can bring the sustainable change.

We are looking for partners who represents the following organizations:
- Organizations who work explicitly on the topic of racism in the fields of
o Non Formal Education
o Formal education
o Activism
o Intervention
- Organizations of the groups which are the targets of racism
- Experts on the communication strategies

Responsibilities of partners:
• To be able to share best practices and contribute with their experience to the objectives of the project
• To participate in all the meetings
• To try tools of other partners in their local activities
• To engage in making the racism visible offline and via social media and getting engages in campaigning
• To contribute to reporting and management of the project

How to express the interest?

All interested organizations if they are interested to take part in the project should send the e-mail by 15th of September with the following information:
• Motivation to take part in the project
• Experience in the field – what can be the organizations contribution to the project
• Information if the organization would like to host any event, and or dissemination activity on the local level.

If you have any questions, you can contact directly with Aga: aga@cazalla-intercultural.org

The deadline for the expression of interest is the 15th of September. If by then we will be able to put together the sustainable partnership which is diverse and cross-sectorial, then we will start working on the application form.