DIALECT 4 Project
INTRODUCTION
DIALECT 4
DIALECT4 builds upon the partnership’s 5 years of experience in implementing the DIALECT football for inclusion methodology, which targeted adolescents in disadvantaged communities in Greece, Italy, Hungary and Serbia, aiming to address the emerged need for an early-age intervention to combat children’s radicalization and enhance their resilience in intolerant rhetoric and extremist beliefs in society and in sports. It does so through children’s involvement in ethnically, culturally and gender mixed football teams at community level, combined with media and digital literacy capacity building opportunities. DIALECT4 entails the adaptation of DIALECT methodology to the developmental stages of children, focusing on critical thinking, media literacy, and understanding of values of tolerance, non-discrimination, gender equality.
Furthermore, DIALECT4 will continue its work with the established local youth teams promoting long-term beliefs and behavioral change. A significant component is the enlargement of youth and children local action groups to facilitate inter-age learning and mentorship, promoting a community-based approach to combat racism and intolerance.
DIALECT4 aims to:
• Develop capacities and skills of DIALECT mediators and trainers from 4 partner countries on engaging and working with children boosting their resilience in extremist views and their media and digital literacy skills through football for inclusion.
• Create children football teams at local level in the 4 involved countries (Greece, Italy, Hungary, Serbia) based on an adjusted methodology, with the aim to boost children’s critical thinking skills, self determination and media literacy skills.
• Continue the work with DIALECT youth football teams, giving the necessary time to adolescents to achieve behavioral change in addition to the already captured changes in their beliefs.
• Bring together the involved children and youth at local level through the established youth local action groups, with the aim to facilitate inter-age learning through mentoring and practice in the context of youth-led initiatives against racism, hate speech and intolerance at local level.
DIALECT4 in numbers:
95 kids 10-12 years old
120 adolescents 13-17 years old
20 football3 mediators & trainers
210 stakeholders in the field of youth and sports at EU level
DIALECT4 is funded by the Erasmus+ Sports programme of the European Commission. It is being implemented in Greece by ActionAid and the National Center of Social Research (EKKE), in Italy by ActionAid, in Hungary by Second Chance Sports Association and in Serbia by Football Friends. Associate partners are Common Goal in Germany and UEFA foundation for children in Switzerland .
PROJECT NUMBER 101184384
PROJECT NUMBER 101184384
1
Develop capacities and skills
of mediators and trainers on engaging and working with children boosting their resilience in extremist views and their media and digital literacy skills through football for inclusion.
2
Create children football teams
based on football3 methodology, with the aim to boost children’s critical thinking skills, self determination and media literacy skills.
3
Continue the work with youth football teams
by giving the necessary time to adolescents to achieve behavioral change in addition to the already captured changes of their beliefs.
4
Build resilient communities
through the established youth local action groups, with the aim to facilitate inter-age learning through mentoring and practice in the context of youth-led initiatives against racism, hate speech and intolerance at local level.
TRUE FACTS
What makes us different?
Adolescents, children, CSO's, Sports Associations, Municipal and Public Authorities, Youth leaders and members of the general public will be involved.
These groups of people will cooperate on the common ground of promoting the messages of solidarity, the need for understanding and the importance of combating intolerance and xenophobia.