This following English section of the online toolkit is for information purposes only.
It aims to give you a general overview and provide all necessary information on the EUROGUIDE Products.
Please note that Handbooks, Online Training Programmes and Quizzes are available for five European countries in their official languages.
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We’ve created a handbook that explores our findings around topics such as polarisation, youth radicalisation and resilience against disinformation and fake news.
There are two versions of the handbook: the E-Learning Tool and the PDF version.
Our custom made quiz helps youth develop a discerning eye for polarising narratives and false content on the internet, among others.
It will also help young people have a better understanding of their environment to limit the effect of any kind of groomers.
ANOUT THE EUROGUIDE PROJECT
Disputes based on socio-political or religious arguments are not a new phenomenon in schools. However, there is a strong need today to respond to the polarising issues that front-line practitioners may face, particularly regarding extremist ideologies and “us vs. them” worldviews.
EUROGUIDE aims to offer teachers and social workers practical tools to respond to these existing challenges.
WHY EUROGUIDE?
From Consortium partners’ previous experiences, it was found that many efforts across the EU have focused on identifying signs of radicalisation in schools or created guides aimed at teaching controversial issues. However, there have, to date, been minimal efforts to offer in-depth guidance to a wider range of front-line practitioners.
Moreover, there are even fewer resources that provide pragmatic ideas to respond and react constructively to polarising narratives. The small number of resources that do exist often become outdated, as extremist narratives are constantly shifting.
CONTACT US
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THE OBJECTIVE
EUROGUIDE aims for short-term beneficiaries (front-line practitioners) to become more confident and capable in their ability to help and support their youth, preventing youth radicalisation and extremism; medium-term beneficiaries (young people supported by the front-line practitioners) to gain resilience and a more robust understanding of the values that drive positive life choices; and the project as a whole seeks impact on its long-term beneficiaries (EU citizens) by helping to create safer and more cohesive local communities.
EUROGUIDE is led by a total of 10 partners spread across 5 different European countries.
During their adolescence years, young people are in the process of learning, developing opinions and exploring different worldviews. Education is essential to preventing young people from being attracted to violent extremist ideologies, organisations and movements – whether extreme Islamist, far-right, far-left or other threats to cohesive, inclusive societies. It is therefore vital to help and support front-line practitioners (teachers, social workers, etc.) to empower them to better address the vulnerabilities of young people to extremism. This consequently contributes to the prevention and countering of youth radicalisation and extremism.
At the local level, front-line practitioners can help to prevent radicalisation by tackling the polarising issues that can lead to young people feeling excluded and thus more vulnerable to extremist ideologies. One of the main challenges to creating resources to support teachers, social workers, etc. is that the issues causing polarisation vary significantly between EU member states and between the different types of extremism to which young people can be subjected to. EUROGUIDE is a living platform delivering e-learning materials that empower front-line practitioners to teach young people to identify and adopt the democratic values that are shared by EU citizens, which therefore be of universal value. The platform content has been developed through interviews/workshops with front-line practitioners (in Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands). This, so that we could define the shared values and methods for integrating these into the everyday support and interactions that responders have with young people – ultimately creating a handbook for each participating country. The online toolkit also includes pragmatic support for practitioners facing specific challenges and an online quiz that will help young people become better critical thinkers. The online training helps front-line practitioners utilise the resources effectively. As a result, practitioners can integrate the teaching of shared values into the support they give to young people, access pragmatic solutions to specific challenges to integration and use resources that will help youth gain the media literacy that supports resilience to extremism.
This project is co-funded by the Internal Security Fund of the European Union – GA N° 871038