Dialect 2 News

If you were to ask us what children are better at or what they enjoy more, the answer we would give you before the start of the project is definitely football.

But what we learned in the previous period and disproved the initial thought is that there is no significant difference between football and digital literacy workshops.

We concluded that children enjoy both phases of the project equally. From the experience we gained in the previous period, it is clear that children have a desire to acquire new knowledge and skills, especially in the field of digital literacy and expression through video content. 

What is particularly important to us and what we are proud of is the development of teamwork skills, emotional intelligence (to learn about their emotions and how to express them as adequately as possible), inclusiveness, responsibility, and critical thinking, both on the pitch and at workshops in the classroom.

At the workshops, we also learned how to create digital content such as videos, blogs, posts, using digital platforms (e.g., online chats). The children learned to use the Internet as a source of information in a positive way, to distinguish fake from real news, and how to verify it. 

Through all these activities, the children acquired not only basic digital literacy skills related to the project, but also in a wider professional and social context.

The combination of football and workshops provides a comprehensive experience that supports the overall development of children by preparing them for the opportunities and challenges that await them in the future.  

Dialect 3 News

In total 44 secondary education professionals and 123 students from the Physical Education Department from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki were trained on the DIALECT3 toolkit. Teachers from Athens, Thessaloniki, Igoumenitsa, Evia and university students participated in the trainings workshops through which they got trained on issues of inclusive school environment through the lesson of physical education and they played football in a different way where the goals are not that important as the fair play.

Teachers’ training focused on:

• equipping physical education teachers with the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to implement inclusive education, diversity management and conflict management among students and
• enabling them to help students improve undesirable behaviors and attitudes towards tolerance and inclusion

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Οι εκπαιδεύσεις των εκπαιδευτικών και φοιτητών φυσικής αγωγής ολοκληρώθηκαν!

Συνολικά 44 καθηγητές και καθηγήτριες φυσικής αγωγής και 123 φοιτητές του Τμήματος Φυσικής Αγωγής του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης, εκπαιδεύτηκαν στo εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο DIALECT3. Οι εκπαιδευτικοί από Γυμνάσια της Αθήνας, Θεσσαλονίκης, Ηγουμενίτσας και Χαλκίδας καθώς και οι φοιτητές/τριες από τη Θεσσαλονίκη συμμετείχαν σε εργαστήρια μέσα από τα οποία εκπαιδεύτηκαν σε ζητήματα συμπερίληψης στο σχολικό περιβάλλον μέσα από το μάθημα της φυσικής αγωγής και έπαιξαν ποδόσφαιρο με έναν διαφορετικό τρόπο, όπου τα γκολ δεν έχουν τόση σημασία όσο το fair play και η ομαδικότητα.

Οι εκπαιδεύσεις στόχο είχαν:

– Να εξοπλίσουν τους εκπαιδευτικούς (εν ενεργεία και μελλοντικούς) με την κατάλληλη γνώση και τις δεξιότητες να υλοποιούν συμπεριληπτική εκπαίδευση, να συντονίζουν με επιτυχία ομάδες με διαφορετικότητα και να διαχειρίζονται αποτελεσματικά τις συγκρούσεις μεταξύ των μαθητών/τριών.

-Να διευκολύνει τους εκπαιδευτικούς ούτως ώστε να υποστηρίξουν τους/τις μαθητές/τριες να βελτιώσουν ακατάλληλες συμπεριφορές και να ενισχύσει την συμπεριληπτική τους στάση προς τους/τις συμμαθητές/τριες τους.

Dialect 3 News

Two exhibition events took place introducing the DIALECT method to community members, representatives of sports associations, professionals of physical education, athletes and representatives of CSOs.

One event took place in Thessaloniki organized by the Department of Science, Physical Education and Sports (DSPES) of Aristotle University where students of the Department of Physical Education learn about the methodology of DIALECT and football3 and had the opportunity to play football in a different way.

The event in Athens was organized by ActionAid and took place in Plato’s Academy football pitch. The open exhibition event in Athens was implemented in the form of a tournament with multiple teams of adolescents participating. 44 adolescents from 4 football academies participated in the event and played football applying the methodology of DIALECT. Amongst the guests present in the event were: Charis Kopitsis (Representative of Super League departments of AEK academy and former football player), Leonidas Chatzimichalis (Head of Administration and Organization of AEK FC Academy Development Network), DimitrisRousos (Head of scouting department AEK), Anastasios Christofileas (Responsible of men football in PSAPP-Panhellenic professional football players association and former football player) and Katerina Lagiou (Representative and official partner of Valenciaacademies and camp).

The exhibition events acted as a springboard for the upcoming activities and the mobilization of the stakeholders.

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Γνωριμία με το DIALECT3 μέσα από events σε Αθήνα και Θεσσαλονίκη!

Δύο εκδηλώσεις έλαβαν χώρα παρουσιάζοντας την μεθοδολογία DIALECT στην τοπική κοινότητα, εκπροσώπους αθλητικών συλλόγων, επαγγελματίες φυσικής αγωγής, αθλητές και εκπροσώπους ΜΚΟ.

Η μία εκδήλωση πραγματοποιήθηκε στην Θεσσαλονίκη και διοργανώθηκε από το Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης όπου φοιτητές του Τμήματος Επιστήμης Φυσικής Αγωγής και Αθλητισμού είχαν την ευκαιρία να μάθουν για την μεθοδολογία DIALECT καθώς και να παίξουν ποδόσφαιρο με έναν διαφορετικό τρόπο.

Η εκδήλωση στην Αθήνα διοργανώθηκε από την ActionAid και έλαβε χώρα στο γήπεδο ποδοσφαίρου στην Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος. Εκεί πραγματοποιήθηκε ένα τουρνουά ποδοσφαίρου με 44 εφήβους και έφηβες από 4 ακαδημίες ποδοσφαίρου να συμμετέχουν σε ένα ποδόσφαιρο όπου το fair play και η συμπερίληψη έχουν τον πρώτο λόγο. Οι ομάδες ΑΟ Κολωνός, Ολυμπιακός Σχολή Ποδοσφαίρου Σεπόλια, Ολυμπιάδα Υμηττού και το Δίκτυο Ακαδημιών της Βαλένθια αλλά και θεατές, δημοσιογράφοι, εκπρόσωποι αθλητικών συλλόγων και Οργανώσεων της Κοινωνίας των Πολιτών, είχαν τη δυνατότητα να μάθουν τη μεθοδολογία DIALECT. Το τουρνουά παρακολούθησαν, μεταξύ άλλων, οι Χάρης Κοπιτσής (Εκπρόσωπος Τμημάτων Super League Ακαδημίας ΑΕΚ /πρώην ποδοσφαιριστής), Λεωνίδας Χατζημιχάλης (Υπεύθυνος Οργάνωσης Δικτύου Ακαδημιών ΑΕΚ), Δημήτρης Ρούσσος (Επικεφαλής τμήματος scouting Ακαδημιών ΑΕΚ), Tάσος Χριστοφιλέας [Υπεύθυνος ποδοσφαίρου ανδρών ΠΣΑΠΠ (Πανελλήνιος Σύνδεσμος Αμειβόμενων Ποδοσφαιριστών Ποδοσφαιριστριών) και πρώην ποδοσφαιριστής] και Κατερίνα Λάγιου (Εκπρόσωπος και επίσημος συνεργάτης για τη στελέχωση των ακαδημιών της Βαλένθια στην Ισπανία και τη δημιουργία camp).

Και οι δύο διοργανώσεις λειτούργησαν σαν εφαλτήριο για τις μελλοντικές δράσεις του έργου και την κινητοποίηση των εμπλεκόμενων φορέων.

Dialect 2 News

For several years now, Dialect has involved hundreds of adolescents of the Neapolitan metropolitan area in training processes and the application of capacity building to the world of sport. The first edition of the project worked to identify, and then combat through Football3, the forms of discrimination, exclusion, and violence present or potentially present in the world of football. In this second edition (Dialect2) what we are trying to do is to connect these issues, and the possible inclusive solutions we have identified, with another theme that fuels practices of discrimination and exclusion in the world of youth: the use of social media and new technologies.

“Violence” is not a word that should go together with others such as “sport” and “technology”, but in a historical phase in which young people find it difficult to embark on pathways alongside adults who can follow and guide them, this is happening more and more often. Over the past six months as ActionAid staff in Naples we accompanied a group of young community mediators (who had been players in the first edition of Dialect) to Oslo, to conclude a training course they had already started online and which had lasted several months. Once back here in Naples, we worked to share the tools that the boys and girls had learned with the even younger inhabitants of the Bagnoli neighbourhood, and we reunited the Dialect and Dialect2 paths through the moment that most pleases and gives joy to all: the Football3 tournaments.

Dialect2 will still be running, and we have a lot of work to do. We can’t wait to start using the ball and the smartphone (and other technological tools we are working on) together, to show once again that football is everyone’s and for everyone, and that we must work to ensure that everything, even the most beautiful and socialising things like sport and technology, are not if misused and in the wrong hands. See you soon on the fields and on these screens.

ActionAid Italy staff working on the Dialect2 project

Dialect 3 News

The Dialect3 educational toolkit was composed by the project team of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the framework of D3.1. Dialect3 Toolkit.

DIALECT3 toolkit is about combating stereotypes and developing students’ social and life skills for the promotion of school communities of tolerance through physical education. The chosen medium is football and the football3 methodology, which is an alternative model of football, and it has been considered worldwide as the ideal tool for addressing social challenges and implementing the principles of equality and equal opportunities for all, respect for human dignity and justice, active participation, synergy, solidarity and tolerance, pluralism, peaceful coexistence and conflict resolution in everyday life. The toolkit is in line with the aims, the learning outcomes, the pedagogical methods, and the new educational practice of designing and teaching didactic scenarios of the new physical education (PE) curriculum. It is based on real educational needs, as revealed by reviewing the new secondary school PE curricula and interviewing PE secondary education teachers, PE higher education students, high-school students of different nationalities and gender, and education managers. It is addressed to teachers and students of secondary education (mainly high school) but it can also be used in the wider sporting context (teams, sports clubs, etc.).

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Το εκπαιδευτικό εγχειρίδιο DIALECT3 είναι έτοιμο!

Το εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο Dialect3 συντάχθηκε από την ομάδα έργου του Τμήματος Επιστήμης Φυσικής Αγωγής και Αθλητισμού του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης στο πλαίσιο του D3.1. Dialect3 εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο.

Αφορά στην καταπολέμηση των στερεοτύπων και στην ανάπτυξη των κοινωνικών δεξιοτήτων και των δεξιοτήτων ζωής των μαθητών/-τριών για την προώθηση σχολικών κοινοτήτων ανεκτικότητας μέσω της φυσικής αγωγής. Ως μέσο επιλέχθηκε το ποδόσφαιρο και η μεθοδολογία football3, η οποία αποτελεί ένα εναλλακτικό μοντέλο ποδοσφαίρου και έχει θεωρηθεί παγκοσμίως ως το ιδανικό εργαλείο για την αντιμετώπιση των κοινωνικών προκλήσεων και την εφαρμογή των αρχών της ισότητας και των ίσων ευκαιριών για όλους, του σεβασμού της ανθρώπινης αξιοπρέπειας και της δικαιοσύνης, της ενεργού συμμετοχής, της συνέργειας, της αλληλεγγύης και της ανεκτικότητας, του πλουραλισμού, της ειρηνικής συνύπαρξης και της επίλυσης των συγκρούσεων στην καθημερινή ζωή. Το εργαλείο εναρμονίζεται με τους στόχους, τα μαθησιακά αποτελέσματα, τις παιδαγωγικές μεθόδους και τη νέα εκπαιδευτική πρακτική σχεδιασμού και διδασκαλίας διδακτικών σεναρίων του νέου προγράμματος σπουδών Φυσικής Αγωγής (Φ.Α.). Έχει δομηθεί πάνω στις πραγματικές εκπαιδευτικές ανάγκες, όπως αυτές αποκαλύφθηκαν από την ανασκόπηση των νέων προγραμμάτων σπουδών Φ.Α. της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, από τα αποτελέσματα των συνεντεύξεων και τη συμπλήρωση ερωτηματολογίων από καθηγητές και μαθητές δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, διευθυντές και στελέχη εκπαίδευσης και φοιτητές του ΤΕΦΑΑ, ΑΠΘ. Απευθύνεται σε καθηγητές και μαθητές της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης (κυρίως του γυμνασίου), αλλά μπορεί επίσης να χρησιμοποιηθεί και στο ευρύτερο αθλητικό πλαίσιο (ομάδες, αθλητικοί σύλλογοι κ.λπ.).

Dialect 2 News

One of the most beautiful experiences that DIALECT2 gave us was our trip to Oslo. From June 28th to June 30th, 2023, all the partner countries participating in the project sent a delegation to Oslo, Norway, consisting of 6-7 participants to receive face-to-face training in digital and media literacy skills. Following the online course, the in-person education came to reinforce and present, on a practical level, the knowledge gained during the online course. The main topics of the education were the role of digital media in society, their impact on young people, and the enhancement of their skills. In addition to in-person training, the teenagers had the opportunity to explore Oslo, take walks, admire the Norwegian fjords, and see a European city. For many of them, it was their first time traveling abroad.
In the video, you can see our most beautiful moments condensed into one and a half minutes!

Dialect 2 News

DIALECT2 “Combating youth raDIcalizAtion: Building communities of toLEranCe combining fooTball with media and digital literacy” sets its base on the DIALECT project “Remembering Polarization: Building Communities of Tolerance Through Football” (co-funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020)), which was realized the previous years.

DIALECT 2 goes further, having a twofold aim, combining the power of sports and football in specific, with media literacy. With the proliferation of mass media and social media information nowadays, a pursue to raise the critical thinking and self-determination of adolescents, whose identity construction is overlapping between offline and online interactions, seems more needed than ever.

A large number of mediators and trainers from all partner organizations participated in the online trainings, which were held according to the program and plan designed by Norsensus. All of them will finalize their training with training sessions that will be held in Oslo at the end of June 2023. In the continuation of the project, they will transfer the acquired knowledge not only to the young participants of the football3 tournament, but also much more widely.

On the occasion of the trip of mediators and coaches from Football Friends, a meeting was held where experiences and impressions from previous training sessions were shared, as well as concrete schedules, travel agendas and stay plans were agreed upon.

DIALECT 2 is funded by the Erasmus+ Sports programme of the European Union. It is being implemented in Greece by ActionAid, the National Center of Social Research (EKKE) and the Panhellenic Association of Paid Female Football Players (PSAP), in Italy by ActionAid, in Hungary by Oltalom Sportegyesulet, in Serbia by Football Friends, in Germany by Streetfootballworld and in Norway by Norsensus Mediaforum.

Dialect 3 News

Currently, our team is carring out an online survey addressed to physical education professors.

Aim of the survey is the assessment/evaluation of existing skill levels and practices that promote tolerance through physical education in schools.

Find our survey here and take part in order to help us build school communities of tolerance through physical education!

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Αυτό το διάστημα η ομάδα του DIALECT 3 πραγματοποιεί διαδικτυακή έρευνα, η οποία απευθύνεται σε καθηγήτριες και καθηγητές φυσικής αγωγής.

Στόχος της έρευνας είναι η αξιολόγηση των υφιστάμενων επιπέδων δεξιοτήτων και πρακτικών που προάγουν την ανεκτικότητα μέσω της φυσικής αγωγής.

Βρες την έρευνα εδώ και πάρε μέρος για να μας βοηθήσεις να χτίσουμε ανεκτικές σχολικές κοινότητες, μέσω του μαθήματος της φυσικής αγωγής!

Dialect 2 News

DIALECT 2’s team has delivered the project’s toolkit.The handbook aims to assist coordinators of youth activities by providing examples and information on ways to support young people in digital media environments to enhance their civic participation.

It contains guidelines for developing counter-arguments or alternative narratives to combat hate speech and promote digital resilience, especially in online environments. This handbook suggests various communication and pedagogical approaches, both online and offline, as well as tools to challenge the narratives that perpetuate and legitimize hate speech.

It aims to enrich the tools of coordinators for young people, educators, and activists, who are already involved or want to be actively involved in human rights and education actions.

The toolkit is addressed to non-profit organizations, schools, sports clubs, and community centres, that want to use football and media literacy skills as a multi-faceted tool to combat racism, xenophobia and exclusion, training trainers and mediators around digital media literacy.

The handbook is based on the firm belief that the internet is a public space and therefore all the principles of a democratic society can and should apply online. In this light, young men and women have a particularly important role to play online, in terms of combating hate speech, detecting fake news, and leading by example as active digital citizens. They can even be the defenders of human rights on the internet.

You may find the toolkit HERE.