Each webinar was introduced by the greeting of Marco Alessandro Giusta - Councilor for rights, youth, interculture and international cooperation of the City of Turin - followed by a brief presentation of the Recognize and Change project by the Project Manager Maria Bottiglieri.

Performance artistica, co creazione e partecipazione

Arti figurative, spazio pubblico e coinvolgimento attivo

The final International Conference of the project should have taken place in Turin, Italy.

As we know, pandemic did not allow to manage a live event.

That is why, after Jaen (ES) and Sinaia (RO), the third Recognize & Change International Conference took place on Zoom.

The digital event lasted four days, from November 30th to December 3rd, and saw a great participation of users from all the partner countries.

Here below you can find the complete agenda of the event.

You can watch and listen to the records of the conference on the project international Facebook page.

Listen to the podcasts here: https://anchor.fm/podcast-rc/episodes/Bullying-e-Cyberbullying-elaodu

The podcasts are written and recorded by the Young Educators and are published every last friday of the month.

Listen and share!

According to Diputación de Jaén, the Palacio Provincial is going to turn on their lights in golden tones throughout the month of September 2020. This action was promoted in order to raise awareness on childhood cancer and other childhood diseases. By promoting this action, the Diputación joined the international campaign promoted by the Federación Española de Padres de Niños con Cáncer. In addition to the palace lighting, a golden ribbon has been placed on the facade of the Palacio Provincial.  

As reported: “this year, the slogan ‘Contagious illusion!” has been promoted. We want to raise awareness on the current situation that we are living in our country with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic, since cancer and its treatments can weaken the immune system. This means that people with cancer are often at higher risk of infection and disease and are treated as risk patients.”  

The Diputación has joined this campaign six times. The campaign is entitled “¡Enciende la esperanza, enciéndelo en oro!” (“Light Hope, Light It Gold!”). 
This is a great initiative in order to support the children and families affected by childhood cancers.  
Learn more at ​ https://bit.ly/3hcA0go 

Photo & content source: https://www.dipujaen.es/ 
 

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) is observed on 17 May every year in order to celebrate diversity and to raise awareness of LGBTIQ rights violentions.
 

LGBTIQ is the initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning. Frequently, they experience  violence acts and shockingly high levels of sexual abuses. Transgender people are subjected to punishments in at least 26 countries.
 

As Achim Steiner, Administrator of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) claims: "On this day, let’s raise our voices and recommit our efforts to put human dignity at the heart of all that we do to build more just and more inclusive societies".
 

Reflect on it and share the message! Stop discrimination and violence acts
toward sexuality or gender identity!

#recandchange #acthuma

Please check out our international FB page for the global overview on the progress of our activities.

Moreover, R&C partners has 10 national Facebook pages in Italian, French, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Romanian addressing the countries involved in the project.

Please, open the section Partners of the website, click on the partner countries listed and you will be directed to one of our national pages. 

Last but not least - Share your stories with us!

Contact us or your national FB administrator and send us thoughts, pictures, videos shot with your smartphone, sentences, or even a short story.

This virus is forcing us all to big changes in our day to day lives.

Let's recognize these changes as opportunities!

The Program includes many activities such as training courses, workshops, video contest, photo exhibition and other awareness actions on gender equality.

It has been organized by the three Spanish institutions in order to commemorate the International Women’s Day, annually held on March 8 to celebrate women's achievements throughout history and across nations.
We are impressed. Well done!

Share & Discover more here: http://bit.ly/2PMta6v

The DEAR projects includes a wide range of activities that mainly focus on values of freedom, democracy and tolerance.
 
In Greece, despite the long process of authorization for any educational project, the third year of R&C issued by the Ministry of Education in Athens has been successfully approved.
 
This is a great news since it means that the Greek Ministry of Education recognizes the values promoted by our model!
 

Celebrate with us and explore more on Greek Education System activities reading the report at: https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/dear/documents/dear-greece-2019-report

In order to fight violence sharing thoughts and educational activities among the youth is fundamental. In that respect, Recognize and Change Bulgaria has promoted interesting educational activities at school.
Have a look at their photos (below) that picture young people interact with each other and with educators. What do you feel while watching at these photos?
Do you think these educational activities are useful in order to fight violence?
Reflect on the importance of sharing these kind of educational experiences and share the message:

Any kind of violence MUST BE STOPPED!

#acthuman #recandchange #stoptheviolence

Shoah is the Hebrew word for “catastrophe”. This term specifically means the killing of nearly six million Jews, but also homosexuals, Roma, disabled people, in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War

In order to honour the victims of the most horrible case of discrimination that ever took place in Europe, we decided to show in this post four pictures.

These picture connect our project with the recent history of Shoah and they aim to raise awareness on of what can happen when prejudice and persecution are left unchallenged. It happened once, therefore it can happen again (Primo Levi).

First Photo: the Stolpersteine in Rome.

Second Photo: a close-up of Elias Canetti, born in Ruse and Nobel prize for literature, a Jewish Bulgarian who spoke old Judaic Spanish at home, Bulgarian at school, German after he settled in Vienna and finally emigrated to the UK to escape the Nazis.

Third Photo: the Brazilian football players who wore the yellow David star.

Fourth Photo: a book of Judeo-Spanish language and literature in Andalucia - the first diaspora in modern history. By the way, the same language was also spoken by the Jews in Thessaloniki... and now this language is almost extinct.

(All photos in this section are subject to copyright)

Recognize & Change France has just posted on its Facebook Page an interesting post on educational initiatives they have recently promoted. More specifically, these activities concern a collaboration with Recognize and Change Spain.
As Recongize & Change states in the post, “This week we are pleased to welcome to Dunkirk Maria, Gema and Argelio, three young Spanish educators. On the program of their stay: discovery of the city, participation in workshops and meeting with pupils, like yesterday at the Lycée agricole de Dunkerque with the GMNF terminals”.

Strength is in numbers, isn’it?
Read more about it on Recognize & Change France Facebook Page and share the message.

Today in Collegno (Italy) the award ceremony dedicated to the second year video contest took place.

The overall quality of the candicates was good, but someone had to win, so...

The winner is the video Colors of Equality!

You can see all the videos on our dedicated videowall.

On June 18-19 an event organized by the Intercultural Cities Programme (ICC) took place in Turin, Italy.

The Intercultural Cities Programme (ICC) of the Council of Europe supports cities in reviewing their policies through an intercultural lens and developing comprehensive intercultural strategies to help them manage diversity positively and realise the diversity advantage.

We were actively involved in the event and fully supported the conversation.

We attended the final event of RadicalisatiOFF, a EU co-funded project whose goal is to discuss and contrast radicalism.

The event took place in Turin, Italy, on May 29-30.

We actively contributed to RadicalisatiOFF by managing panels and teamworks focusing our attention on discrimination.

Thanks everyone for attending!

Our colleagues at Delphi in Burgas (Bulgaria) recently organized the second year project training seminar in Malko Tarnovo, a small village near the Turkish border.
The group of Young Educators was composed of 14 people (4 women and 10 men) and they worked on the second year iniatitives and activities.

Two of the three prizes of the contest was given to the Appolonion Rehabilization Center. It was decided from students in order to help one of their classmate who had a serious accident and left him with disabilities.

The third prize was used for promotion and diffusion of the project: students with their 2 YE team (covering their travel cost from the prize) traveled to Tinos island (35 minutes by boat) where they visited the High School of Tinos showing the 1st year promo video, the winning videos and they spoke about their experience through the workshops and the R&C project.

They also had the chance to share a workshop with students from Tinos. They came back very excited and they are pleased to take part in workshops with Secondary School Students.

On the 19th of December, the winners of the French high school video contest from the Lycée Notre Dames des Dunes in Dunkirk, donated their prize of 1,500 € to the Non Governmental Organisation Le Refuge and Solfa Solidarite Femme. A great act of generosity from these young citizens!

Le Refuge helps young people who are victims of homophobia, by providing them with a temporary place to stay and helping them to regain confidence in themselves. Solfa Solidarite Femme aims to fight gender discrimination and in particular violence against women and children.

This financial help will enable these NGOs to expand their activities located in Dunkirk. For example, with 500 €, Le Refuge can accommodate two young people for two months. Solfa plans to use the money to run wellness workshops and activities for the victims they work with.

Several video contests have been organized during the first year project, and others are ongoing (such as in Spain).

So let's have a look at the winners of the national contests!

Bulgaria (Caritas Ruse)

• First place: Be yourself
  Authors: Teodora Petrova, Shanel Yuseinova, Melisa Lyutfi, Simona Nenkova, Valeria Marianova, 8 b class, German language school Friendrich Schiller, Ruse
• Second place: Identities
  Authors: Neli Nikolaeva, Gergana Nikolaeva, Marchela-Bela Dragomirova, Bella Dicheva, Anton Yotov, 8 v class, from English language school Geo Milev, Ruse

France

• First place: Will it ever change?
  High school Notre Dame des Dunes, Dunkerque

Greece

• The story behind the photo
  Special Vocational High School, Lyceum of Syros
• You are not alone
  EPAL, Syros
• We are all humans
  EPAL, Syros

Italy

• First place: Essence of you
  Istituto Magistrale Regina Margherita, Turin
• Second place: In your shoes
  Enaip Grugliasco

Portugal

• First place: Unique
  Authors: Ines Tomas, Ligia Nunes, Joana Magalhaes, Margarida Portalete
• Second place: Who We Are
  Authors: Liliana Rosa, Denisa Lapuste, Joana Vieira, Vasco Marmelo, Alice Braga
• Third place: Through Others
  Authors: Madalena Lopes, Ines Guedelha, Bernardo Nunes, Ricardo Canario, Duarte Carita

Romania

• First place: Feelings are not simple things
  Colegiul Economic "Nicolae Titulescu", Baia Mare
• Second place: Perspective
  Colegiul Național "Gheorghe Sincai", Baia Mare
• Third place: Teenage
  Colegiul Național "Gheorghe Sincai", Baia Mare

Thanks to all the participants!

We are in Jaen, Spain, for our international conference.

The event marks the end of the first year project and the official beginning of the second year.

We are sharing our thoughts about results, goals and developments.

It is pivotal to meet each other and talk together about how to succeed in our gaols.

Thanks to all the participants!

Check our Facebook and Instagram channels for pics and videos!

Burgas is the fourth largest city in Bulgaria and is located on Black Sea shores. It hosts an important port and its economy is focused on manufacturing and tourism.

The skyline of the city is pretty contemporary and is marked by communist-era buildings together with new projects taking place. The old port docks, for example, have been recently restored and converted into restaurants and clubs.

Burgas landscape is characterized by several parks and pedestrian streets, that are the core areas of the city movida.

Beaches play and important role in the city living as well. On the seafront there are lots of restaurants where to eat the Bulgarian traditional recipes.

The city is currently living a great economic and social growth that is been reflecting on the associative composition of the area.

Burgas hosts our partner Delphi. The association is focused on youth volunteering, international civil service and youth exchanges.     

Burgas surroundings are interesting too. The small town of Primorsko, the BilikTash archaeological site, the salt pans and the Black Sea shoreline are particularly remarkable.

Our partner in Fortaleza promoted the video contest for high school students.

Here is the really nice promo they realized to launch the contest.

Well done!

Through the special voting platform of the project from 2 July until 31 August 2018, the audience with great participation saw and voted 10 videos that created students from the EPAL of Syros and the Special Vocational High School - Lyceum of Syros.

Through the voting process and the final evaluation committee's decision, the three winning videos in the contest are:

1. The story behind the photo from the Special Vocational High School - Lyceum of Syros.
2. You are not alone from EPAL Syros.
3. We are all humans from EPAL Syros .

Congratulations to the winning teams, which will be awarded by the Vardakeios School of Hermoupolis at a special event to be held in October in Hermoupolis, Syros.

Caritas Ruse in Bulgaria recently had some meeting with several organizations that are working on young people. They exchanged ideas and looking forward their future journey together.

Vote your favourite video on the website videwall!

You can vote any videos of any cointest and give max one vote for each video.

Together with Delphi ASM we discussed about the future actions for Recognize & Change.

We enjoyed our time in Burgas!

Together with our Spanish partners (Diputacion de Huelva and Diputacion de Jaen) we discussed about the project activities and next steps.

Stay tuned!

The Young Educator Niculina from Baia Mare, Romania, had the chance to attend an exchange in Greece, to the project partner Vardakeios School of Ermoupolis.

Follow us on facebook on https://www.facebook.com/recognizeandchange/ and share your hand!

Go to https://submit.recognizeandchange.eu, select your area, and parecipate to the contest. Your video will be shown on the videowall voting platform ad shared across social media.

We held a meeting with the selected schools teachers in order to set up the training methodology and to define the organization of the Young Educators activites.

We met all together in Cascina Govean, a lovely farmstead located just outside Turin, Italy, for the first meeting of the project.

During the week end we introduced the project to the selected Italian Young Educators and shared the common basis for the strategy development.

It was a unique opportunity to discuss the project goals and to meet each other.

The best way to begin to build a culture of trust. Together.