Application form "Stop Feeling Sorry, Start Acting!" in Estonia 10th to 20th April 2016
Project “Stop Feeling Sorry, Start Acting!” will be key action 1 - mobility of youth workers (training course). Activity will take place in Vidrike in bring together 36 participants. South-Estonia from 10.04-20.04.2016. Estonia will be host country and Spain, Slovakia, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Germany and United Kingdom will be sending countries.
The general aim of our project is to combat hate speech online and offline.
Specific objectives are:
• To Increase the competencies of youth workers to recognize hate speech and human rights abuse and combat it in youth work
• To acknowledge the dangers of hate speech for youth and democratic values
• To introduce youth workers Bookmarks/Compass as a tool to work on hate speech and human rights with youngsters and provide them with useful methods.
• To empower youth workers to stand up for human rights offline and online
• To share good practices of anti-hate speech actions in participating countries
• To create new initiatives on local and international level to combat hate speech