Civil Society Completed

Schools for Democracy - Development, Professionalization and Advocacy

Centrum komunitného organizovania ·Slovakia

€100k

Grant awarded

Fund for Non-Governmental Organisations

Programme

12 August 2020

Signed

About this project

The problem addressed by the project is radicalisation of young people and lack of understanding of the importance of civil society. Lack of personal experience with minorities, lack of discussion, inability to critically evaluate information and its sources opens the door to extremism. The project seeks to increase sustainability and development of the Schools for Democracy programme (including its accreditation), as well as to increase the number of schools involved in the programme. The Schools for Democracy programme focuses on systematic work with primary and secondary school students, emphasising the values of freedom, equality, democracy, and an open civil society. The project will seek to develop students' competences in the field of human rights, de-radicalise them and reduce their stereotypes and prejudices. It will build on open debate and the development of critical thinking, and teach civics, ethics and history differently through critical thinking workshops, Cultures Interactive methodology, living libraries and non-formal human rights education. The types of activities used will be workshops, talks, discussions, living libraries, seminars, etc. The main target group of the project will be primary and secondary school students. Expected results: <ul> <li>625 students taking part in workshops</li> <li>25 teachers involved in project activities</li> <li>20 students of the Faculty of Education participating in the internship</li> <li>15 schools involved in the project</li> </ul> Amnesty International Slovakia will be involved in the implementation of educational activities, organisation of roundtables, preparation of the proceedings and other activities. REACH will participate in the development of a comparative analysis "Advocacy in relation to educational activities against extremism at the regional and national level" and will thus apply its experience and expertise in the field of analytical outputs and advocacy in the field of prevention and combating extremism and radicalisation.

Project partners

Amnesty International Slovakia Project partner· Slovakia
Reach-Institute, o.z. Project partner· Slovakia

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