Combating youth raDIcalizAtion: Building communities of toLEranCe combining fooTball with media and digital literacy

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DIALECT2 capitalizes on a built inter-ethnic/inter-cultural gender-diverse pool of 500 adolescents at risk of poverty and exclusion, and 20 football3 mediators & trainers as part of project’s first phase (2019-2021), aiming to combat youth radicalization combining football3 activities with media and digital literacy. OBJECTIVES - Enhance DIALECT Action Plan, integrating media and digital literacy skills development through community-building football for adolescents. - Develop the capacities of mediators & trainers on addressing adolescents’ respective skills deficiency. - Develop media & digital literacy skills of adolescents, enhancing their resilience to extremist views. - Engage football academies in the exploitation of methodology. ACTIVITIES - Enhancement of DIALECT action plan, based on needs analysis on media &digital literacy. - Blended training of mediators and trainers via an EU curriculum. - Pilot testing of methodology in football field and in-classroom in 4 EU countries. - Application of the acquired skills by adolescents, through local youth-led digital content creation projects, tackling racism in sports. - Impact assessment. - Dissemination and exploitation activities, including a social experiment and exploitation workshops. TYPE AND NUMBER OF PERSONS BENEFITING 160 adolescents 12-18 years old; 20-28 Football3 mediators & trainers; 9-12 football academies; 100 stakeholders in the field of youth and sports at EU level, 6000 of general public. RESULTS Enhanced critical thinking and resilience of adolescents to extremist values. Enhanced capacities of mediators & trainers (sports professionals, coaches, CSOs) on building media and digital literacy skills of adolescents through football3. DELIVERABLES 1 Needs assessment report; 1 Enhanced Action plan; 1 Training toolkit / online course; 9 month football3 training sessions; 1 Repository of 8 youth-led projects; 1 Impact assessment report; 1 Social experiment video, 1 EU policy recommendations.