Mus-e Kosova is a partner organisation on the project "Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing". This project is funded by Erasmus Plus and is implemented by : Shoqata Antik- Albania, Mus-e Kosova- Kosovo, Association Civil Centre For Sustainable Development Egri- North Macedonia, Youth Can Do It- Romania, MV International-Italy, Bosnian Representative Association For Valuable Opportunities- Bosnia&Herzegovina, Alternative Innovative Development- ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKIET-Greece, Lykia Izcilik ve Doga SPorlari Kulubu Dernegi-Turkey and Asociation Cultural Y Deportiva Lahoya- Spain. 

Combating Hate Speech by Art and Creative Writing  aims to  raise capacities of the partners to apply creative writing and art to combat online and offline hate speech. 

 Project Objectives:

To develop competencies of youth workers and educators to design and deliver activities based on creative writing and art aiming to fight online and offline hate speech especially targeting young people;

To raise competencies of youth workers and educators to apply creative writing and art in the process of raising awareness on online and offline hate speech;

To transfer lessons learned from international to national level through capacity building activities and to raise awareness on online and offline hate speech among involved communities.

 To increase knowledge of the participants and partners on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new project ideas at local, national and international level.

 Main aim of the TC:

Main aim of this training course is to raise participants understanding on the roots, forms and consequences of online and offline hate speech; to share good practices of addressing hate speech from participants’ communities and to develop participants’ competencies needed to work with young people who might face hate speech themselves. Through the training course the participants will increase their knowledge on applying art and creative writing based approach to address online and offline hate speech. Besides creative writing and art the participants will increase knowledge on Erasmus + Programme, non-formal education, YouthPass.

Methodology:

The project will be based on non-formal education and will reflect following features: active participation, learner-centred, balanced co-existence and interaction between cognitive, affective and practical dimensions of learning, holistic and process - oriented and close to real-life concerns, using intercultural exchanges and encounters as learning devices.