Project organizator: Armenia Progressive Youth

The training course will have 2 parts which will take place between the 22nd and 30th of November, 2023,in Dilijan, Armenia and between 14th and 22nd of March, 2024, in Ommen, Netherlands.

The project aim:the project focuses on capacitating youth workers and youth educators in confronting hate speech, addressing hateful rhetoric online and in real life as well as understanding how hate speech affects young people and youth groups in communities where they work.

Objectives of the meeting: 

• building a community of HateBusters.
• building capacity of youth workers and youth educators in identifying, addressing and confronting hateful speech and narratives.
  
• increasing the competencies of youth workers and educators in the field of anti-hate speech activism and Human Rights Education (HRE) as well as campaigning as a tool.
• mainstreaming anti-hate speech and HRE methods in youth work and developing future HRE-related projects in partner countries.
• assuring a long term, sustainable increase in quality of partner organizations' and youth workers’ work with combating hatespeech, cyberbullying, and other human rights violations.
• exploring various good practices and developing local campaigns, educational activities and materials that support youth workers and educators to combat hate speech.

Working language: English

Number of participants: 36

Participating countries:  the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Spain Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine