Description
The project plans to organise meetings, workshops and training sessions to improve the awareness of students at Middle School No. 26 in Łódź of issues with online hate speech and cyberviolence. The project seeks to teach them how to react to and fight such acts. Participants will include 350 students at Middle School No. 26 in Łódź. As a result of the project, they will learn how to effectively react to online hate speech, i.e. in a way that demonstrates lack of acceptance but with getting into online fights with other site users. Participants will also learn about the legal consequences and mental impacts of cyberviolence through hate speech. This will be a warning for them against resorting to this style in the internet. The project will rely on an innovative combination of anti-hate speech education and the pursuit of hobbies and interests in the field of video production and game design.
Summary of project results
"Research shows that young people spend many hours online and this is where violence, aggression, bullying may affect their interactions. ProjectTeens4Future has been proposed in response to 'cyber-violent' behaviours among students in Middle School No. 26 in Łódź. The goal was to reduce cyberviolence and hate speech in youth interactions. 323 middle school students learned about online threats, rules of virtual communication and methods of responding to negative content. The project trained youth and developed an education game about combatting hate speech. The game has been used by project graduates in their activities for younger students. Youth in a Łodź middle school were the beneficiaries of the project."
Summary of bilateral results