against Hate” is a 15-month and 4-country (Greece, Italy, Denmark and UK) project that aims to provide space and support for cross sectoral cooperation of organizations and institutions that work with young people in formal/non formal education on combating hate speech and promote human rights education (HRE). More specifically, NEw CHapter brought together Youth NGOs, an international network (YSRN), 2 schools, a counseling body and a municipality in order to strengthen their capacities in international cooperation and develop competences on identifying and combating the different forms of hate speech and discrimination and promote the human rights education. NEw Chapter’s objectives are: •to encourage and strengthen transnational cooperation among the participating organizations and support their staff’s capacity building on how to tackle hate speech, bullying and discrimination through joint training with the use of non-formal and formal education methodologies •to explore and share experiences, tools and methods among the partners in order for both direct participants and institutions to get new insights and knowledge on HRE, and gain social, intercultural,critical thinking competences for a more inclusive education, training and youth field •to create a cross sectoral sustainable network of inclusion ambassadors that will spread the ideas of “No Hate Speech Movement” on organizational and community levels through local and online activities to reach a wider audience supporting the promotion of inclusive and peaceful societies •to generate synergies and partnerships between the participating organizations and support the exchange of effective methods, opportunities and challenges in local and European youth work in reaching out to marginalized young people and in preventing racism and intolerance among local youth. The participants of the project are people from each partner organization that work with youth from different sectors such as youth workers and leaders, ngo members, teachers, educators, municipal staff and policy makers. As a Participant I was representing Youth Social Rights Network with my colleagues-friends from Georgia, Greece and FYROM. This training course was the proof of the fact that the more experience and skills you have, the more you need to learn from others’ experiences. Non-formal education can never be enough because it is not only about learning but also acting together and changing the world together. I was deeply impressed by the presentation of Kostas Simitopoulos about the refugees in Greece and generally in the world and I realized that I had known almost nothing before about the difficulties and obstacles people face on their way to a safer life. Unfortunately the hate speech exists everywhere as well as discrimination and stereotypes. It is us to decide to ignore it or to combat it. With this aim we planned different activities and campaigns to be implemented in our countries. As the following step of the staff training we will continue combating hate speech in our local realities based on the tools and methods we learnt together. And again it was my pleasure to create a storytelling video of our training course.
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