Training course: Taking Action Against Sexist Hate Speech

Location: Bojnice, Slovak Republic

Dates: 13-21 August 2022

Number of participants: 28

Participating countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic

Organizer: Education for Equality and Ecology (Youth NGO)

Apply: here

Deadline to apply: 26 June 2022

Date of selection: 03 July 2022

Inquiries about this training course: Michaela Ujházyová at ujhazyovam@gmail.com

Costs:

Participation fee

None

Accommodation and food

Accommodation and food will be provided by organizers. Participants will be accommodated in a youth centre over the town, in rooms for 2 – 4 people.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs will be reimbursed based on Erasmus+ distance calculator:

  • Slovakia: if over 100km – 180 EUR
  • Bulgaria: 500-1999 km – 275 EUR
  • Italy: 500-1999 km – 275 EUR
  • Greece: 500-1999 km – 275 EUR
  • Poland: 100-499 km – 180 EUR
  • Ireland: 500-1999 km – 275 EUR
  • Lithuania: 500-1999 km – 275 EUR

 

Taking Action Against Sexist Hate Speech

Training course for youth workers, leaders and educators who would like to create safe space for everyone in their youth work activities, support young people who experience hate speech and participate at prevention campaigns and strategies.

Training course applies approaches and methods of human rights education and eduction for democratic citizenship.

Programme is build on 4 pillars:

1. Developing base: team building, creating safe space, sharing experience, learning needs and expectations;

2. Discovering the topic: discovering forms and targets of hate speech, prevention of hate speech in the contex of human rights and human rights education;

3. Hate speech and gender equality: sexism,  hate speech targeting people because of their sex, gender or sexual orientation, forms of sexist hate speech, how to overcome gender or LGBT+ biases in youth work;

4. Practice: introduction to legislative framework, sharing tools to build resilience, develop advocacy activities and raising awareness.

In the middle of the programme, participants will have an opportunity to enjoy their free time in the town Bojnice favourite for its fairytale castle, Zoo or a swiming pool.

Training will be led by experienced international team of trainers: Dariusz Grzemny, Michaela Ujházyová, Magdalena Musilová, Ivana Godulová

Training course is organized in cooperation with following partners organization:

YOUth Connect, Italy/DreamTeam AMKE, Greece/Asociacija “Aktyvus
jaunimas”, Lithuania/Gorey Youth Needs, Ireland/STOWARZYSZENIE
QUEEROWY MAJ, Poland/RESURSEN
TSENTSAR BILITIS, Bulgaria.