Don't Ignore, Act

Aims & objectives

1. Improving the competences of 18 youth workers from 8 partner NGOs in tackling hate speech (offline and online) among young people, through developing media literacy and critical thinking and promoting active citizenship attitudes during the 9 days of mobility.

2. Develop the active behaviour against hate
speech (offline and online) among 160 young people from the NGOs’ local community by implementing 8 dissemination events and creating/disseminating a Don’t Ignore, Act e-booklet.

3. Enhancing the capacity of 8 EU NGOs to become active against hate speech offline in their local communities and online by following the No Hate Speech Youth Campaign guidelines and methods and establish further partnerships among the participant countries.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The training involved 18 youth workers aged 18+ from the partners NGOs' staff (volunteers, social workers, educators, counselors, trainers and other related staff implementing non-formal activities), actively involved in promoting active citizenship and combating Hate Speech in their communities. The participants came from Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Lithuania, Malta, Czech Republic, Latvia and France.

Training methods used & main activities

Our daily program was divided in 4 - 1:30 hours sessions, 1 hours reflection/evaluation and inter-cultural evenings. In terms of NFE methods (indoor-outdoor), we have used in a holistic approach:
- Energisers before each session;
- Plenary inputs by trainers/experts;
- Guest speakers/study visits - opportunity to listen and observe how ‘others do it’;
- Presentations of participants;
- Digital content creation sessions (videos, posters, e-guide);
- Topic-related board games;
- Team-building, ice-breaking activities;
- One-to-one, group work based on discussion, debates, brainstorming, sharing ideas;
- Learning by doing - especially when testing the tools and undertaking practical exercises;
- Role-play, world-café, forum theater;
- Study cases, problem solving scenarios;
- Cultural awareness activities;
- Open spaces sessions where participants choose their topics of interests;
- Thematic board games;
- Daily reflection/evaluations of the learning process.

Outcomes of the activity

Facebook page of the project - https://www.facebook.com/dontignoreact

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the main trainer within the project.

I worked on this training for 9 days as a full time trainer.