Best Practices Manual #HITproject Hate Interruption Teams

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including a rapper, graffiti artist, video maker, journalist and other people such as influencers and authors to support and contribute to the awareness campaign on hate speech.

Bulgaria In Bulgaria we decided to stage our meeting with the young people at the HIT project in Kuklen city. This is a place near our main city – Plovdiv. Our group with 30 young people is a collaboration of people from several cities from Plovdiv region – Asenovgrad, Karlovo, Puvomay and Kuklen. It is a positive practice because young people make new friendships, which provides additional motivation. Another fact is that in Asenovgrad and Kuklen the local society is more ethnically diverse than in Plovdiv. On May 17, 2019, the first HIT project workshop was organized. Young people from the Bulgarian Red Cross from Plovdiv, Kuklen, Asenovgrad and Parvomay developed creative campaigns to show the world that there is no place for hate speech and behaviour in our daily lives. The meetings were held in the hall of the Centre for Social Rehabilitation and Integration "Indy Roma" - Kuklen and with the support of a team of the centre and the "National Association for Social Cooperation and Partnership" - Kuklen. This partnership gave an additional and colourful flavour to the project activities. We conducted two events (November 2019 to March 2020) related with the HIT project - Seminar on human rights and hate speech and behaviour against migrants and Workshop on the HIT project - Hate Prevention Teams. During the seminar, the objectives of the project and the interactive activities were presented, which were based on the methods of non-formal education and were conducted in the last few months. They were thematically divided - the first training was on "Human rights and Hate Speech", the second "Idea Campaigns and Preservation of Oral History", the third "Social Marketing". The fourth, final training, entitled "Creating a Narrative and Campaign," was the culmination of the meetings. During the meeting with youth in March, the young people and their project mentors reviewed and analysed the goals and results achieved in the 2019 meetings. The emphasis was placed on the materials that each of the young people will have to prepare before and during the upcoming workshop on 13.03.2020. An important part of the meeting was the application developed for creating a storyboard, with which young people build scenarios presenting hate speech in action, but with a positive and negative outcome.

(b) Key human rights concepts and how to transmit them As already mentioned in the previous section, the partner countries implemented summer schools, followed by collaborative workshops a few months later. During these gatherings, the diverse activities allowed the participants, both young individuals and educators as well as relevant stakeholders, to understand the matter of hate speech through the use of different tools and resources. In a nutshell, the trainers mainly focused on the HIT curriculum which included storyboards and card games, coupled with the HIT evaluation framework activities. However, most countries used the agreed tools whereas others 14


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