Combatting online Hate Speech by engaging online media (CHASE) project aims to define and respond to the challenges of tackling online gender-based hate speech in Cyprus, France, Greece and Italy.
Online gender-based hate speech is a global phenomenon taking a number of forms of abuse and violence, which have become a threat to the physical and psychosocial well-being of women and LGBTQI+ people. While there has been some emphasis on monitoring and advocating for better responses to social media-generated hate speech, a greater focus on the role of the media in perpetuating gendered hate speech narratives as well as combatting the effects will be introduced by the project.
The CHASE project recognises the importance of supporting media, in particular online media, to detect, avoid and counter gendered online hate speech. It also recognises that CSOs/NGOs and other human rights defenders can play an additional watchdog role.
The overall objective of the CHASE project is to establish and put into practice in Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy, a comprehensive mechanism which will support online media to successfully identify and respond to situations and instances of online gender-based hate speech.
The main components and key activities are:
Region/Country: Greece, Cyprus, France, Italy and the wider EU region
Timeframe/dates: 1 March 2024 to 28 February 2026
Funding programme: CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH
A Psychosocial Support Guide for Youth
The project aims to provide youth and youth workers with psychosocial support, equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to navigate the digital world safely, promote mindful media consumption, implement digital detox strategies, and heal from digital wounds.
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1. Development and Distribution of “Digital Guardian Pocket Guide” (open source, 3 languages, min.25 pages)
2. Establishment of “MindfulTech Oasis” Online Platform (open source, 3 languages)
3. 2 Days Participatory visit in France to deepen our understanding of effective strategies and approaches for violence prevention and peace promotion
4. Training session in Netherlands to empower youth trainers. (10 participants, 2 days)
5. Dissemination and multiplier events
Partner countries: Netherland, France and Croatia
The aim of the project is to empower young individuals with the knowledge, skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary to actively contribute to violence prevention and the promotion of peace within their communities.
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Partner Countries: Germany, France and Croatia.
Aim: “Linguapreneur” project seeks to address the specific linguistic needs of young migrants by providing them with comprehensive business-related language proficiency training. By doing so, the project aims to empower these individuals to actively participate in the economic activities of their NEW communities, break down linguistic barriers, and foster a stronger sense of integration and entrepreneurship.
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Partner Countries: France, Spain, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Bulgaria
Design For Change aims to train Adult Educators, Social Change Actors, Policy Stakeholders, and other stakeholders involved in social change to use Design Thinking principles as a standard when deciding on priority issues, determining who is affected by community problems and how, determining what solutions are possible and how they affect beneficiaries, developing ideas, and implementing projects.
This method will help to make better use of resources and financing, as well as educate staff, members, and activists in local governments, NGOs, development agencies, and organizations, improving the position of community change makers and civil society to address major community concerns.
Governments, academics, educators, and communities all want to know why things go wrong. According to one view, it is critical to include impacted communities in the creation of solutions, a process known as community engagement. This allows the project to be adjusted to the community’s needs, better guiding the intervention. Brown and Mickelson’s study, Why Some Well-Planned and Community-Based ICTD Interventions Fail, expands on this by looking at how simply incorporating the community in the design of an intervention isn’t enough to ensure success. It claims that mere community interaction does not always allow us to comprehend all the community’s demands.
The Project Social center is open to the whole population, offering unconditional welcome activities and services to help them live well together. It builds its project around the needs and expectations of its users. It’s a place where generations can meet and exchange ideas, and where family and social ties family and social ties. The center strives to optimize the integration of migrants, who will find and explanations of the codes of French society with a view to social cohesion.
The Social Project groups together all the actions that the social collective wishes to carry out.
It is built around 5 entities:
Major themes in 2024-2025
Main aim: to address the pressing issue of domestic violence among young women by providing them with support, empowerment, and opportunities for personal growth. The project also seeks to equip youth workers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively support and advocate for these young women.
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Partners Countries: France , Ukraine, Ireland, Denmark and Germany. LGBTIQ YOUTH NET is an action to combat online LGBTIQ+ hate speech by providing a fresh, and innovative YOUTH EDUCATION model. Combining digital and social skills for LGBTIQ youth, non-LGBTIQ youth, youth educators, and policymakers to help combat hate speech towards the LGBTIQ+ community. This will bring inclusion, increase the capacities of youth workers, and innovate their educational programs.
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Project Website: https://lgbtiqyouthnet.eu
As statistics on immigration at the European level reveal men, women and children cross seas, walk long distances and sometimes live in disastrous conditions before arriving in a country that will welcome them. European countries become a “second home” to an increasingly number of immigrants and refugees with a very diverse linguistic, cultural, educational and professional backgrounds.
While this diversity enriches the linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe, it also challenges political decision-makers on the adequate means to assume henceforth their responsibilities, that is to say work to the overall development and well-being of the people they have accepted to welcome to their territory.
Objectives:
1. Diversify and innovate
2. Preserve generational skills
3. Empower learners
4. Up skilling migrants’ educators
Outputs:
1. Transnational analysis of integration policies – Professional training and good practices for migrants’ insertion in the labor market
2. Formal and non-formal education – Multiple approaches for fostering the linguistics skills of adult migrants
3. Which jobs for migrants? Towards a vocational guidance in relationship with migrants’ needs and the needs of labor market
4. Mentoring To improve learning abilities valuing different pathways
5. Storytelling For empowering and motivating adult migrants: success stories
Project Website: www.mufocom.eu
WE WORK FOR NO HATE SPEECH LGBTQI YOUTH PEOPLE’S SAFETY, EQUALITY, FREEDOM AND NO DISCRIMINATION
Countries Partner: France, Spain, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Bulgaria
In today’s digital age, the issue of online hate speech is escalating, posing a significant risk to marginalized groups, including LGBTQI youth. The EMNHS LGBTQI project is committed to tackling this problem head-on.
The project, EMNHS LGBTQI, is actively addressing the alarming surge in online anti-LGBTQI hate speech, a critical issue adversely affecting the mental health and well-being of vulnerable youth. With a staggering 84% of young individuals acknowledging the existence of such hate speech online and a distressing 91% feeling threatened by it, there is an urgent imperative to empower these individuals with the necessary tools to combat this form of discrimination. In the midst of an increasingly digital landscape that has magnified these issues, the project is dedicated to nurturing resilience, advocating for inclusivity, and establishing safer online spaces for youth, particularly those within the LGBTQI community.
The escalating problem of online anti-LGBTQI hate speech poses a formidable challenge to the mental health and overall welfare of at-risk youth. Despite the extensive connectivity and social opportunities facilitated by digital platforms, they also serve as channels for disseminating harmful speech. Educational institutions and youth support programs bear a shared responsibility in arming young people with the skills required to counteract this negativity.
Project Website: www.emnhslgbtqi.eu
Countries Partners: France, Serbia, Greece, Jordan ,Turkey Greece, Bulgaria and Spain.
Research has estimated that domestic violence results in the loss of a total of 9 million years of productive female life, a greater loss than that caused by all forms of cancer, motor vehicle accidents, war and malaria. Studies show that 3-4 million children between the ages of 3-17 are at risk of exposure to domestic violence each year. Statistics say that 95% of domestic violence cases involve women victims of male partners.
Non Formal and informal method will be used in this training course, Main Working methods :
Diagnostic methods of victims of violence and abuse Behavior analysis, text analysis, drawings, narration with objects, painting and using empathy methods. Drama activity Role-play Empathy Activities Therapy methods (psycho-Drama) Group work, presentations, discussion workshops, interactive activities, theater, individual work, brainstorming, etc.
The main objective of this project is to provide participants with knowledge of how to protect from abuse and violence:
and we aim Equip the participants with methods above mentioned in order recognize abuse and violence victims.
We aim: personal and professional development.
1. Stimulate interaction between participants and youth leaders, providing a space to share experiences, knowledge and learn constructively from each other.
2. Encourage cross-cutting synergies between participants, organizations and, ultimately, all the actors involved in the project.
3. To promote the feeling of collective construction of European society.