Online Learning Platform against online Hate Erasmus Project

Project Title

Online Learning Platform against online Hate

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Four NGOs: BSV/LOVE-Storm (DE), DigiQ (SK), the University of Florence (IT) and the Human Rights House in Zagreb (CR) in association with the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) and other partners in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Serbia and Switzerland develop a ONLINE-LEARNING PLATFORM AGAINST ONLINE HATE and make it available to educators and learners in Europe.

In recent years much has been written and some has already be done about the problem of online hate. The wider public, media, civil society and all education sectors: everybody is well aware of the problem.
Many people want to do something about it, but few react on online hate attacks, when they see it. Too many are shocked. They don’t know what to do. They are afraid of being attacked too. They feel insecure and uncomfortable. They search for the one right answer… and then – before finding it – too many just scroll on, leaving the incident behind them and the attacked persons alone.

Civil courage could be a key factor:
1.) to support the targets of online hate,
2.) to mobilize the audience against hate and
3.) to stop the hate(r)
But civil courage needs more than knowledge and awareness, provided in many existing and necessary educational programs all over Europe. Civil courage requires skills and preparedness that can only be provided in interactive trainings via role plays, so that targets and witnesses of online hate can overcome their instinctive reactions (fear, freeze or fight) and react effectively.

The planned ONLINE-LEARNING PLATFORM AGAINST ONLINE HATE will develop three innovative outputs to strengthen civil courage and to develop practical skills against online hate:
1.) An ONLINE TRAINING ROOM, where trainers can lead role-plays of conflicts in online chats in a safe and realistic way. We will therefore adapt, test and reinvent the existing award-winning LOVE-Storm Online Training Room, giving it to group of trainers in nine European countries, CSOs and educational organizations all over Europe.
2.) A set of OPEN E-LEARNING RESOURCES against Online Hate will be developed or adapted from other open European projects and then optimized for search engines and online marketing in order to ensure that individual learners who “google” for solutions against online hate, will find answers at the Online Learning Platform and will be invited (drawn) into ever deeper learning experiences and training of skills against online hate
3.) A variety of OPEN TEACHING RESOURCES, including a trainers guide, a scenario editor to develop ones own role play scenarios and a marketplace for curricula for offline, online and blended learning courses and workshops.

Emphasis will be given to the scientific monitoring and evaluation of the Online Learning Platform, organized by the University of Florence (IT) to ensure that the impact of Online Training Room and Learning Platform are evaluated and will contribute to the further growth of knowledge and methodologies against online hate and digital conflict resolution.

Last but not least we aim to DISSEMINATE the Online Learning Platform all over Europe:
On national level groups of educators from different educational organizations will be trained to run workshops and webinars in Germany, Croatia, Italy and Slovakia. Beyond the 4 project countries, similar groups will be trained in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Serbia and Switzerland.
Additionally we will address the anti-online hate community and the educational community in the project countries by active participation at their conferences, round tables, expert talks, online groups and activities and media.

Similarly we will use our memberships in European associations and networks to access them and the existing EPALE / Lifelong Learning / SALTO-YOUTH and other platforms to spread the project results to the educational sector.

The Online Learning Platform is developed to stay, develop and grow, to support and build the community. Educational organizations all over Europe are invited to use the Online Training Room and the Learning and Teaching Resources for their own educational programs, not just for the time of the ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership, but for as long as educational programs against online hate will be needed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 382927,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bund für Soziale Verteidigung e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• KUCA LJUDSKIH PRAVA ZAGREB UDRUGE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
• DIGITALNA INTELIGENCIA