YCREATE

Project Scope 

Voices for respect, celebrating difference, and tackling hate (YCreate) is a Strategic Partnership between the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus for Creativity in the Field of Youthin response to the COVID-19 situation.

The focus of this project is on equipping young people to counteract hate speech and violent behaviour, disinformation, and misinformation (offline and online) targeted at minorities and vulnerable communities through creative, arts-based, participatory, and digital activities that foster active citizenship and socially responsible actions.

General Objective

Through this project, the partner countries will promote, connect and empower young people for civic and social participation at the local level, to engage them in active citizenship and solidarity among young people, and strengthen young people's sense of initiative in the social field and support their communities, while providing skills development through creativity and arts.

Specific Objectives

• YCreate Development Curriculum Programme - improving the competences and skills of European youth workers, tutors, facilitators and community artists to empower young creative as peer mentors counteracting hate speech and misinformation through artistic and creative participatory action
• YCreate Peer Mentoring Community Action Toolkit - guidance and resources for and co-designed by young creatives – performers, writers and aspiring producers –to act as

  youth leaders and peer mentors. It will enable them to be innovators in cultural and artistic community interventions with children, pupils and youth, counteracting hate speech, behaviour and misinformation towards minorities and vulnerable groups

• YCreate Crisis Communication Online Human Library - this output has at its core the human library concept bringing it to the digital environment by creating an OER platform for knowledge exchange and good practices in contexts of crisis

Activities

• Young people to be supported to develop cultural products, such as graphics and memes, songs and sketches which could be used to interrupt hate speech
• Workshop package to help young people to think about how hate has impacted on them directly or though their family and friendship group
• The product either address a specific area of hate, or undermine hate with positive message about diversity, tolerance and kindness

Partners

• United Kingdom: College Art (Coordinator)
• Cyprus: "Hope For Children" CRC Policy Center
• Italy: Associazione Culturale Mulab
• United Kingdom: Rinova Limited
• Greece: To Hamogelo Tou Paidiou
• Netherlands: Stichting Kunstbedrji Arnhem

Funding reference

• The YCREATE project is co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission. 

Project Number

• Ref. 2020-1-UK01-KA227-YOU-094535

Implementation Period

• 30/06/2021 - 29/06/2023