Travel dates: arrival; 1/09/2019 and departure 8/09/2019

Project type: Youth exchange

Place: Merkinė, Lithuania

Participating countries: Lithuania (hosting), UK, Czech Republic, Denmark , Macedonia and Turkey

Participants per country: 10 (8 Young people and 2 group leader no any age limit)

Info pack

Application form

Deadline for Applications:  05 July

Deadline for buying Tickets: 10 July

Principle objective of the youth exchange is to address hate speech and hate crime firmly show in communities and nations all around Europe. In approach to help advancement of youngsters it is important to address many issues, difficulties and deterrents that may avert them for achieving their life objectives. Hate speech and hate crime can have destroying effect on youngsters self-assurance, self-accept and wellbeing consequently it is imperative to address it and fight it.
Objectives;
– To further comprehension of the participants and participating organizations on the roots, structures and outcomes of hate speech, particularly on the connection between hate speech and hate crime;
– To expand skills of the participants and participating organizations to address disconnected and online hate speech in their communities and add to breaking generalizations, preferences, separation and bigotry that are confronting different groups in participating nations, particularly minorities including displaced people and racism;
– To create capabilities of the participants and participating organizations to make and dispatch campaigns, awareness raising activities fighting the underlying foundations of hate speech and hate crime and fighting separation and bigotry;
– To fortify skills of the participants to adequately utilize different media, including social one, as devices for awareness raising on the issue of on the web and disconnected hate speech and hate crime;
– To create correspondence, cooperation, administrations abilities of the participants in intercultural settings;
– To help making new contacts among the participants and their organizations and growing new activities thoughts that could be implemented with help of Erasmus + Program;