Community Counteracting radicalisation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Community Counteracting radicalisation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The overall aim of the project were to contribute to improving the prevention efforts against militant islamist radicalisation and extremism among young Muslims. Furthermore, the overall aim were to strengthen young Muslims active citizenship and to build a sustainable bridge between local Muslim communities and prevention professionals in order to improve collaboration, cohesion and efficiency in the efforts to empower young Muslims to active citizenship on democratic terms. We sought to break down the mutual distrust and make use of the knowledge, credibility and trust that local Muslim communities hold about the local youth in risk of being radicalised.

Thus the CoCoRa project developed and tested a new prevention strategy that involves civil and local Muslim communities actively in the prevention of radicalization through the process of empowering young Muslims to feel affiliation and positive citizenship.

The community-based CoCoRa Prevention Strategy are composed of three partial programs which are detailed described step-by-step in a sample of methodical handbooks in order to ensure the concrete transfer value and utility for future prevention projects based on the community collaborative approach:

The CoCora Collaborative Program to establish and anchor the local collaboration
The CoCoRa Prevention Program to empower and qualify youngsters to assume the socalled self-including citizenship
The CoCora Ambassador Program to train the youngsters to present the programs and their own empowered narratives for l practitioners and other stakeholders in the professional prevention efforts as well as for other young Muslims and representatives from Muslim communities facing the same need for a participartory initiatives.

The aims and objectives of the CoCoRa project represents an innovative perspective on the approach and methods used in the general European efforts to prevent and respond to young Muslims radicalization and increased sympathies for militant Islamist groups. The CoCoRa project provides an innovative approach by developing and implementing a prevention strategy, built on 1) the active involvement of and collaboration with local civil Muslim communities and 2) the systematic linking of deradicalisation and empowerment to active citizenship on democratic terms.

In summary, in the CoCoRa project build and anchored the prevention strategy on the direct collaboration and the insight, resources, credibility and trust within local Muslim communities in order to prevent and counteract radicalization from the inside, so to speak.
Furthermore, we adopted an empowerment and equality approach to the prevention strategy in order to relate the deradicalisation closely to the perspective of an equal and active citizenship.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183627 Eur

Project Coordinator

MHT CONSULT APS & Country: DK

Project Partners

• CESIE
• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• CULTURES INTERACTIVE E.V. – VEREINZUR INTERKULTURELLEN BILDUNG UND GEWALTPRAVENTION
• ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES INITIATIVES CITOYENNES ET EUROPEENNES