Take Action – Together Against Discrimination! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Take Action – Together Against Discrimination!

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Strategic partnership “Take Action – Together Against Discrimination!” is about promoting quality youth work with focus on social inclusion and fight against discrimination. Project focuses on exchange of good practices between partners and lasts for period of 2 years 07/2020 – 06/2022 and involves local activities and international mobilities. There will be 3 transnational partners meetings, involving in total 30 staff and board members of organizations. 2 short term staff trainings will involve in total 46 youth workers and 10 jobshadowing (short term training) will involve 10 youth workers. Participating countries are Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Iceland.

The aim of the project is to raise the capacity of partner organizations to work on diversity issues. To achieve this we have set following objectives:
Train youth workers through staff trainings to use identity building as tool for fighting against prejudice-based discrimination
Raise capacity of partner organizations to tackle radicalization of young people and to prevent hate speech online and offline via exchange of good practices and jobshadowing
Train 5 local NGOs in each partner county to be able to work with youngsters on following issues: human rights, gender issues, online safety, hate speech and discrimination
Carry out 135 workshops on diversity issues involving directly more than 3000 young people in participating countries
Create 9 new activity plans for anti discrimination education, test them and add them to format which allows other organizations to use them in their work
Raise the capacity of partner organizations to use peer to peer methodology for inclusion and promotion of diversity internationally and on local level with youth and youth workers

We expect that all partners have clear understanding how to work on the topic of anti-discrimination and what activities/methods they can use with different target groups. We have trained tyouth workers who are able to work on identity building as tool for preventing stereotypes and prejudice based discrimination and to be able to use non-formal methodology with youth workers/youngsters to challenge hate speech online and offline, cyber violence and bullying.

We plan, that as result of project, we will have trained at least 5 local organizations in each country (totally 45) involving at least 3 youth workers from each (135 in total) and have carried out locally with local partners via 15 workshops involving 300 young people (totally 135 workshops and 3000 young people impacted in 9 countries). Via additional country specific local activities we plan to involve another 225 youngsters per country, so totally more than 2000.
As result of the project, we plan create 9 workshop plans, which have been tested by our youth workers and can be used in work of anti-discrimination. This material and other made during the partnership will be uploaded on common online platform, where we will also share our personal experiences of diversity workshops and cultural specifics. On regular basis we will share on platform our experiences of local and international activities between partners and with other interested stakeholders (for example other NGOs, youth centres). In each country we will organize event to disseminate the results of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111990 Eur

Project Coordinator

SEIKLEJATE VENNASKOND & Country: EE

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA D.G.T
• Asociación Mojo de Caña
• ASOCIACIJA TAVO EUROPA
• TEATRO METAPHORA – ASSOCIACAO DE AMIGOS DAS ARTES
• Diyarbakir Cevre ve Kalkinma Dernegi
• Skref fyrir Skref ehf / Step by step
• ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE KORA