"The E-STAR project is an urgent step that we, youth professionals and education professionals, must take swiftly to prevent the devastating consequences of the latest ongoing changes in European reality: we must address the issue of increasing violence among young people towards their non-native peers and vice versa, educating them to understand and appreciate cultural differences and to learn to live together peacefully, to collaborate, to achieve true integration and to learn to value diversity and, finally, to build together their local communities and their common future in Europe.Thus, the objectives of the E-STAR Project are:- To exchange good practices, challenges and needs on needs on raising the awareness of young people in their fight against racism.- To create tools that make the problem of invisible racism visible, prevent it and promote equal relations based on good treatment...- To recognise new and accepted forms of racism in Europe and to generate joint awareness campaigns against racism, presenting Europe as a multicultural and open place, based on Human Rights. - To create an innovative tool (MOOC - Massive Open Online Course) for the online learning of youth workers regarding the prevention of Invisible Racism and good relations.The expected results of the project are as follows:- A research that will focus on different elements, deepening the situation of young people, especially those most disadvantaged and most likely to find themselves in situations of violence.- A seminar of experts - the seminar of 4 working days and a total of 12 experts in order to share research results, share good practices and methodologies by each of the partner organizations create a common terminology and clearly distinguish concepts and approaches. Therefore, the main outcome of this meeting will be the glossary of terminology, good practices and methods and recommendations for the design period of the MOOC and the Manual.- A MANUAL of the E-STAR project, consisting of a minimum of 100 pages and printed in 5 European languages (English, Hungarian, Italian and Norwegian, in 100 printed copies each.- MOOC: Massive Open Online Course. A MOOC will be created to develop competencies and learn methodologies on intercultural learning and prevention of invisible racism for educators and youth workers working directly with young people. This Mooc will be available in English on Cazalla Intercultural's learning platform www.youth-mooc.eu.- 4 Final conferences: As a final step for the dissemination of the results within the life of the project, 4 conferences (one per country) will be organised, with a duration of one full day, in which a high participation of decision-makers and public authorities is expected, as well as of the education sector and of representatives of the different youth organisations, NGOs (non-formal sector).- 4 Dissemination events for young people: The objective of these events is to make the activities developed in the manual ""Manual on the fight against invisible racism in youth work"" known to youth leaders and other young people, who can test these activities and evaluate their relevance and development.The project will involve youth workers, educators and experts who work or want to work with young people in the future on the issue of invisible racism. Twelve youth workers or educators will participate in the Expert Seminar and a minimum of 100 people are foreseen in the MOOC ""Educating Young People in the Prevention of Invisible Racism"". In addition, some 80 young people are expected to participate in the dissemination events and the final Conferences with more than 120 people, including youth workers, educators, volunteer teachers and politicians.The impact on participants, partner organisations and target groups will be as follows: Acquisition or improvement of skills related to educational activities to combat racism. The participants and partner organizations after the project will deeply understand the concepts of invisible racism and microviolence, and will be equipped with tools such as educational activities with young people. Acquisition or improvement of skills related to awareness-raising and communication activities. The participants and partner organisations after the project will be able to implement quality awareness campaigns, will be equipped with tools, good practices and ideas for the future. Increased motivation and commitment to the fight against racism."

<< Objectives >>The main focus of the project EuropeanDream is mutual learning between the participating organizations. Through intensive exchange of knowledge and experience, the organizations can develop new competencies and pass on best practices modells to other organizations. This promotes a mutual understanding of local work, opportunities and challenges. Innovative approaches on how to promote pro-European values within the target group can be identified and innovative methods can be developed.<< Implementation >>Next to online workshops to identified common challenges, opportunities and chances in conveying pro-European values with young people in each local context of the participating organizations, four face-to-face workshops will take place in each home country of the participating organization. The purpose of the workshops is to get to know the work and sphere of impact of each organization, strengthen intercultural understanding and jointly develop approaches and best practices to promote values.<< Results >>The project aims to counteract discrimination and social division within the European Union and to create a democratic and pro-European culture within the sphere of action of the participating organizations. By building a strong transnational network, we can analyze the current challenges, exchange experiences and jointly develop solutions for youth work that can also be applied to other European countries to a new, strong and value-oriented community of tomorrow can emerge in the long term.

Dignity W@rldProject period: 01.05.2017.-30.06.2018Type of the project: KA2 strategic partnership supporting innovationThe aim of Dignity W@rld project is was create an online human rights education platform, focused on games, which can be played individually or can be used in schools, youth clubs etc. as educational materials. The main topics are children’s rights, active citizenship, plus 4 of nowadays main human rights issues: gender inequality, homophobia, migration/xenophobia, racism.The 5 partner organizations, each of them expert in one of the topics, developed and collected online games of different genres, so every youngster can find something fit their taste. To support informal learning, there are background information, charts, videos connected to the games. To help teachers and youth workers in using the platform, lesson plans were created for them. The game development was done in national teams and in mixed groups also through online work and at the seminar. Dignity W@rld portal was tested online by young people and in schools/youth clubs in all countries. Dissemination was based on social media sites, the networks of partners and national conferences for professionals. http://enterdignityworld.com/https://www.facebook.com/enterdignityworld/

We live in a world where the composition of women and man is almost in equal number, but looking at the presence in the media, women are heard about or read in approximately 23% of the world news. The world seen in the news media is largely male one with their presence in 76% of the time. This leaves the female part of our societies relatively invisible. Study from 2012 shows that “women’s voices were hardly visible in stories on politics, economics, energy, and sports – areas considered male domain. Instead, they were more present in stories connected with gender-based violence, child issues, health, beauty and life style, which are to be considered as a female domain. This clearly shows that media often portrays women merely as sex objects, victims of violence and of disasters. In the same time, women’s views are rarely solicited and when solicited they are presented as average citizens. On a general point of view, women are rarely seen as expert sources. According to research conducted by Global Media Monitoring Project conducted in 100 countries, 46% of the printed news, radio and TV uphold gender stereotypes and only 6% highlighting gender equality. Other report shows that only 16% of the media gave stories for women’s voices. This again portraits the world of experts/professional mainly as a “man’s world” and limiting the possibilities for the women’s angles and expert’s opinion to be heard and shape our world.We want to go beyond the reasons why media continues to report negatively about women and contribute to responsible reporting and journalism that a holistic turnaround of our countries can be achieved. Staying in the space where media continues to stereotype women through coverage, it can contribute to the perpetuation of unfair positioning of women in society, which is already fragile and still needs development. One of the things we need to so is change the negative portrayal of women in and by media, while reporting and journalism training should establish gender-sensitive units and curriculum. There is definitely a need to raise the standards of reporting and make them more gender sensitive and strengthen the human capacity of the NGO’s and their partnership with media in the partner countries. This is an important pillar in the process of enhancing democracy, good governance and human rights in our countries while promoting professionalism and editorial independence.There is a need to give media a particular priority because they have an enormous impact on society. It’s about time that now the media makes the future where gender equality is a reality on screen, on radio, in the newspapers, including in the social media. This is where we, youth and women, NGO’s and activists come on stage, as we are the ones working on the grassroots level and can approach both media and local people thus having a bigger and more visible impact. We will bring the local realities from each community and country into the common portal for reporting where beside the information shared on local level, will be shared with the rest of the local partner communities, so our women voices are heard and equality is becoming more promoted and inspired.