Education Trumps Hate

Aims & objectives

Defining human rights education in the
national and international youth work
context;
-Introductions and 'hands on' practices with
Bookmarks, Compass and We Can manuals;
-Sharing the best practice examples of
human rights education within the youth
work sector in participating countries;
-Overview of 'No Hate Speech Movement';
-Networking and development of future
collaborations

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

The group was composed by 30 youth workers/youth leaders participants coming from Belgium, Slovinia, Malta,Ireland ,Spain, Ukraine,Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Italy, Montenegro and UK.

Training methods used & main activities

This training was based on the non-formal learning methodology: learning from 'hands-on' experiences, self reflection and self assessment, experiences and expertise shares, as well as theoretical inputs.

We also used human rights based methods by non formal educationa activities included in Council of Europe Compass, Bookmarks and We CAN! manuals.

Outcomes of the activity

Participant acquire knokledge, skills and competencies about:

- human rights history , evolutin and protection system;
- youth work for human rights education;
- non formal education methods related with combating hate speech online and offline;
- online activism combatng hate speech;
- non formal education manuals for human rights education.

Participants produced individual action plans.

To know more about the project:
https://goo.gl/3bwG5P

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Full time trainer, leading mostly the sessions related with human rights and human rights education.

I worked on this training for 8 days as a full time trainer.