"<< Background >>The 'Anne Frank Youth Network - Remembrance & Action for Equal Rights' (hereafter: AFYN (RE)ACT) project is a cooperation partnership focused on strengthening, evolving and paving the way for the sustainability of Anne Frank Youth Network - a network whose purpose is to foster youth' sense of common values, civic engagement and participation, in Europe as well as beyond. As a growing global network built on volunteering and youth civic engagement, it is inspired by Anne Frank’s diary and her life story. All AFYN activities aim to raise awareness of the dangers of antisemitism, racism, discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights, and democracy. Through AFYN activities:— The wider youth public gets an opportunity to learn about the life and work of Anne Frank and the history of her time in an inspiring and meaningful way that connects with their own experiences (peer-education based traveling exhibitions; educational youth activities disseminated through Toolkit training seminars).— Young people active in the AFYN participate in workshops designed to build their skills and competencies that enable them to make a positive contribution to communities and societies. These skills and competencies are subsequently applied and further developed through the implementation of youth educational and awareness-raising follow-up actions in their local communities.There are currently a number of interconnected threats to common European values that are creating tensions and presenting challenges to European communities, countries, and continent. Such developments include the challenges associated with successfully integrating newcomers, growing nationalism, increasing polarisation and a questioning of European cohesion, identity and future. The need to address these tensions has been recognised in the Paris Declaration (2015), and the AFH has for many years taken up the challenge of promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and anti-discrimination through education.As the institution entrusted with the preservation of the place where Anne Frank went into hiding and wrote her diary during the Second World War, the AFH mission is to raise awareness of the dangers of antisemitism, racism and discrimination as well as the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy. This is why we were particularly concerned when we witnessed a disturbing increase in antisemitic incidents all across Europe during the period leading up to the pandemic outbreak: ""France reported a 74 % increase in the number of offenses against Jews, and German police announced a 60 % rise in violent antisemitic attacks."" (The Atlantic, Feb. 2019). The resurgence of antisemitic scapegoating can be witnessed in the antisemitism present in Dutch soccer (‘’Jews to the Gas: the antisemitism shaming Dutch soccer’’, CNN, March 5, 2019), and the antisemitic newspaper sold at a kiosk in the Polish parliament (featuring the article advising ‘How to Recognize a Jew’, March 2019). In 2021, we are grappling with a year and a half-long pandemic whose protracted uncertainty is inflicting various harms and negative consequences, from economic ones to mental health repercussions. We spent most of this past period online – working and learning, interacting with our friends, colleagues and peers, and being subjected to an onslaught of (negative) news, some of which classifiable as conspiracy theories or disinformation. The pandemic and its ‘new vocabulary’ and imposed reality of social distancing, self-isolation, quarantines and general alienation from our old lives and habits have only amplified the problems and divisions in society that existed prior to its outbreak. Research indicates that youth have become disillusioned with democracy, and that their apathy and lack of participation is driven by this loss of faith in the system. AFYN is as an avenue for rekindling youth's sense of civic engagement, and for fostering positive personal agency.<< Objectives >>AFYN (RE)ACT project promotes active citizenship and youth civic engagement practices that strengthen European identity, democratic citizenship and European values in order to contribute to a more open, tolerant and inclusive European future.The AFYN (RE)ACT cooperation partnership's objectives are: a) Increasing knowledge and education about the Holocaust among young people, developing new forms of remembrance in the light of dwindling knowledge about the Holocaust and lack of engagement with issues related to it, as well as b) Improving skills of young people who have prior experience as peer educators by increasing their international competences turning youth members of the network into youth leaders. c) Developing innovative (digital, blended and face-to-face) educational materials, activities & tools that increase the capacity and engagement of youth, their schools and communities in prevention and educational and awareness-raising responses to various (modern) forms of antisemitism, xenophobia, racism, discrimination and other types of intolerance;d) Strengthening the quality and relevance of Anne Frank Youth Network and its activities throughout Europe, consolidating its past successes and paving the way for the evolution of its digital and blended-learning materials designed for fostering youth civic engagement, as well as its sustainability-oriented digital and structural infrastructure, including creation of a long-term comprehensive strategy.The partnership is meant to stimulate non-formal educational practices that will generate a critical learning space for a collaborative, inclusive, human rights centered, youth-led and action-oriented experiential education about the phenomenology of antisemitism, polarization, xenophobia, discrimination, exclusion, marginalization and disenfranchisement of various racial, sexual, ethnic and religious groups throughout Europe.<< Implementation >>The project's cooperation partnership will be realized through the following activities: A. TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS1. In “AFYN (RE)ACT Kick-Off Meeting”, the partners will formulate their cooperation fundamental guidelines and processes (communication, timeline, general frame for production of different project results, the utilization of each partner’s networks, project management, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance mechanisms). 2. In “AFYN (RE)ACT Materials Draft Review Meeting”, partners will conduct a peer review of the draft versions of produced project results to ensure the materials’ quality. 3. In “AFYN (RE)ACT Materials Finalization & Multipliers Events Planning Meeting”, partners will provide near-ready drafts of their project results, so this meeting’s focus will be on the fine-tuning and final edits of the materials, enhancement of inclusion and multiperspectivity elements, cross-national and intercultural adaptations. It is during this meeting that partners will also make clear plans for the dissemination of project results, especially drafting the plans and programs of different multiplier events andnpartner cooperation and participation therein. 4. In “AFYN (RE)ACT Project Evaluation & Sustainability Meeting”, following the conclusion of all the multiplier events, the partners will gather to compare the evaluation and dissemination results of the AFYN (RE)ACT project. They will also conduct introspective and reflective analyses of the cooperation partnership, explore opportunities for further cooperation, and outline AFYN (RE)ACT project's follow-up and sustainability action steps within each organization’s purview and networks. B) PRODUCTION OF PROJECT RESULTS, i.e. different sets of mutually-reinforcing and complementary materials that will strengthen and advance AFYN mission and activities through enhancing its digital, educational and structural infrastructure:1. AFYN website2. AFYN digital platform3. AFYN Digital Resources Collection4. AFYN Digital Engagement Strategy5. AFYN Toolkit 2.06. AFYN Activities Set for Civic Youth Engagement7. AFYN Follow-Up Activities Framework8. AFYN Outreach Guide9. AFYN Facilitators' Handbook10. AFYN International Youth Forum Organizers' Manual11. AFYN MERL Policies and Tools12. AFYN Safeguarding Standards13. AFYN Long-term Sustainability StrategyC) MULTIPLIER EVENTS & LEARNING ACTIVITIES:Multiplier events each bringing together 25 youths from 4 countries for 2-3 day project-results dissemination events:1. AFYN (RE)ACT NL Youth Forum '23 2. AFYN (RE)ACT PL Youth Forum '23 3. AFYN (RE)ACT CRO Youth Forum '23 Multiplier events taking place online, each bringing together 25 youths from various European countries for a full-day online training using project results:4. AFYN (RE)ACT Digital Forum - Digital Engagement 5. AFYN (RE)ACT Digital Forum - Historical Human Rights Education6. AFYN (RE)ACT Digital Forum - Civic Engagement7. AFYN International Youth Forum '24 (learning-teaching-training activity bringing 50 youths from 12 countries from throughout Europe for a 5-day training event)<< Results >>At YOUTH level:90 youths participating in multiplier events + 50 youths participating in the learning-training activity, as new AFYN members, will each organize an estimated 3 peer education follow-up activities. Making a very conservative low estimate that each such peer education activity will have 15 peers taking part, it is expected that project results (educational materials, tools) will reach...~6,300 youths. An additional 1,500 youths are expected to be reached through various digital engagement activities (digital multiplier events, social media campaigns, etc.) AFYN new members are expected to have:1.Improved knowledge about the Holocaust; 2.Increased awareness about the various forms in which antisemitism expresses itself in the modern society; 3.Increased resilience in addressing the issues of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and other forms of intolerance such as hate speech; 4.Enhanced critical thinking and self-reliance skills when it comes to considering own personal responsibility in making a positive contribution to society, especially in the face of various dangers challenging peace, European values and cohesion; 5.Deeper understanding and higher levels of active citizenship and community involvement as evidenced through AFYN youth participation in volunteering, activism, social movements, public interest advocacy campaigns;6.Gained new competences and tools to counter and address manifestations of racism, antisemitism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance;7.Gained the necessary competences to collaborate with young peer educators around ‘understanding, respect and dialogue’ in school contexts;8.Learned how to mentor, collaborate with and support young people who launch social media campaigns/outreach educational activities; 9.Learned how to create and foster an ‘atmosphere of active dialogue and understanding’ in the schools;10. (youth participating in peer-education activities) - Increased inspiration by the youth positive role-modeling of active citizenship. This overall increased awareness and sensitivity towards the problems of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance in society will be fostered in youth primarily through two modes: their direct involvement in their own educational process (where they will be co-designing their learning experiences, as well as taking charge in passing on knowledge to their peers) and the innovative approaches to Holocaust education.At PARTNER ORGANIZATION level:It is expected that each partner organization will have at least 3 new young people of those actively participating in the project becoming active members and/or interns/junior staff in these organizations. Owing to the emphasis on building both digital as well as structural infrastructure, as well as systematization and standardization of quality assurance mechanisms, it is expected that the partner organizations will improve their own youth work standards and practices in the course of AFYN (RE)ACT duration. They will have an enriched toolbox of innovative methods, approaches and pedagogies in addressing these complex issues through (non-formal) education as well as strengthened expertise in using webinars and social media as educational instruments.At ANNE FRANK YOUTH NETWORK level:The Anne Frank Youth Network overall, as result of this KA2 project, is expected to have1.A consolidated legacy of past successes, in the form of a.Newly created digital infrastructure;b.Updated educational materials and tools (revised and improved existing materials and tools + newly created educational tools and materials in historical human rights education and youth engagement domains);2.A strengthened partnership coalition, with a new model of sustainable functioning, enhanced througha.New digital infrastructure;b.Regional hubs activities;c.Newly created MERL mechanisms and tools.d.Long-term strategy"