NEWSLETTER
YOUTH EXCHANGE: YOUTH & ART FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
24 OCTOBER 2019-O1 NOVEMBER 2019 BANSKO, BULGARIA
manipulated by any antimigrant and ultra nationalist political
formations
and
groups promoting violence and disgusting hatred and intolerance. In this context of lack
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
migrants and refugees even violence, even hate crime, media
and
political
propaganda, fake news. All this In the last several years Europe has faced major challengesthe Siria' s conflict resulted in millions people fleeing from their homes and in the context of the refugee crisis, there has been a great in crease in nationalist attitudes, Moreover
movements political this
and
populism.
resulted
in
increased USE of hate speech,
directly
affects
European
values and the future of Europe but its present.They are the ones who truly believe in
of
refugees
solidarity
with
successful
integration is almost an impossible mission which by itself is a threat to security in the EU. During the exchange, young people will have the opportunity to discuss key concepts such as freedom,Â
European values and need to protect them now more than ever. But at the same time they are rather vulnerable. A lot of time of they have low media literacy and lack of analytical skills thus can get easilyÂ
discrimination against
responsibilities, media and fake news, hate speech, hate crimes, extremism, violence, peace
and
solidarity.
In
addition we also believe young people need to be aware of their own role in
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
protecting human rights but justice, equality, human dignity, nondemocracy,
discrimination, tolerance,
European values, rights,
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT - To raise awareness among youth about hate speech and hate crimes as human rights - To encourage positive also need to be equipped with
attitudes,
the necessary knowledge and
tolerance for refugees and
skills to tackle hate speech and
migrants.
human rights violation. In order
-To introduce possible non-
not to fight back hate speech
violent ways to counter hate
with more hate and violence,
speech
the
channels for reporting hate
project
will
promote
solidarity
and
to
and
provide
peaceful ways to engage youth
speech online
and make them ambassadors
- To encourage media
of human rights..
literacy, analytical and critical thinking. -To stimulate the active engagement of young people by encouraging them to be become ambassadors of human rights protection. .
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
HOW WE STARTED
OUR JOURNEY STARTED... The teams of association Pro
New
cooperation
was
Vision International and Active
established between informal
youth were extremely happy
group Active Youth and
to start this first new journey
Association
Pro
Vision
International in framework project "Youth & ART fot human rights" . The project is financed by Erasmus Plus program through the UK National Agency.
together
by
implementing
youth exchange “Youth & art for human rights” funded by Erasmus+ Agency
is
UK a
National
partnership
between British Council and Ecorys
UK.
The
involved
36
Bulgaria,
United
project
people
from
Kingdom,
Italy, Spain and Turkey. The project was the first mobility implemented by Active youth team and together with our partners we’ve held all the planned activities. The first day was quite interactive and full with different emotions and activities – such as getting to know
each
other,
team
building and ice-breaking, city quests and we finished with an intercultural evening of all
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
partner countries.
EXCHANGING On
our
next
participants
day had
the the
opportunity to explore and exchange information on the topic of human rights. In the morning we
used the
method "world cafe" and discussed concepts such as hatred,
freedom
of
expression, prejudices and discrimination and how they are all related to human rights. During the activity the participants worked in small groups
using
the
brainstorming method and came
up
with
their
perception of human rights . All that followed by workshop
for us to balance the knowledge of the participants. We also discussed the difference between hate speech and freedom of expression and it turned out that many of these themes are so intertwined and embedded that it is difficult to understand the difference between some of them.
which we called "ACT in out" which
was
a
plenary
discussion aiming to set up the definitions for the group for all the topics which was important for the exchanging process in the next day. Since we received people with different backgrounds and experience it was important
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
of graffiti and the difference between "Graffiti and Street ART" . Also the participants discovered
the
most
important graffiti artists. Then we moved on to the practical and
creative
part!
The
participants were divided into three different groups and created 3 different Graffiti paintings that were after that given as a present to local Even the most powerful tool
school in the city of Razlog.
needs a break from time to time.
This
is
why
the
participants had the chance to explore
some
Bulgarian
of
culture
the and
traditions. The group visited the monastery of Rila . The Rila monastery is the largest and most famous monastery in Bulgaria for its paintings
cave of of ST. John' s and rock
AND HERE IS HOW WE CONTINUE...
prayer where we enjoyed our
Our next day was very
time together with a picnic in
creative and interesting. The
the open area..Â
Than the
participants had opportunity
participants went to the city of
to learn the idea, philosophy
Blagoevgrad which is the
and techniques of graffiti
main and bigger city in south
paintings and slowly entered
west part of Bulgaria where
in the world of "Graffiti." His
they got to know more about
workshop began with an
the traditions.
explanation of the meaningÂ
and
architecture..
The
participants visited also the
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
Here we are with another creative day exploring the ART of storytelling. In the morning we started our work with an introduction to storytelling and sharing of experiences on how to involve other young people by telling impact stories. We used a lot of
The idea was to learn the
interactive methods for that
techniques of digital storytelling
activity and most of all the
and  to crate own
storytelling as such.
videos, based on the method and to engage more young people across Europe. In the second part of the day the participants were divided into small
groups
and
showed
creativity of educating new During
the
day
we
had
generations with
sharing
the idea that ART can be used to
experience on digital tools and
combat hatred, racism and
presenting
discrimination.
workshops
on about
digital
programs-how
As most of the participants were
to create comics, digital content,
new to Erasmus + world and are
animation, video editing.
participating for very first time in mobility
organized
in
the
framework of the program , they had the opportunity to be introduced to lot of different and interactive activities which will
An interview encourage them to spread the with Jonathan idea of the program to other
Hames, the them and young people among world's most innovative even more popular than is now. person.
to make Erasmus + program
A WEEK FULL OF PRODUCTIVE WORKSHOPS, DISCUSSIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE AQUIRED SKILS AND KNOWLEDGE!
EACH JOURNEY HAS IT'S END...
plan for dissemination of the activities as well as reflected on their
learning
Youthpass Last moments of our youth
#ACTIVE YOUTH #PRO VISION# YOUTH# ERASMUSPLUS #ERASMUS LIFE#HUMAN RIGHTS # YOUTH 4 HUMAN RIGHTS #ERASMUSPLUS
diaries
&
competences
acquired during the project.
exchange "Youth & ART for Human Rights". The participants shared the power of storytelling and created their videos to spread the message of peace, love and solidarity. Along with that they created a
An interview with Jonathan Hames, the world's most innovative person.
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.