"""Looks can deceive"" project is a transnational youth initiative, created as on the initiative of young participants in the previous project Finding Humanity. The project will address the topic of stereotypes and related hate speech through the already existing informal methods of youth work, by introducing a new way of implementing youth work through new media (NFC method) into the work of partners and more broader. The project involves three partners - the Youth Center Trbovlje from Slovenia, the Association for the Shift of Film Culture DJIFONI-M Skopje from Macedonia and GOMBOLYAG FOUNDATION from Hungary.The basis of the project activities sums up the definition of stereotype: ""We do not look at the first, to define it later, but first we define and then look at it"", which we will try to achieve in ourselves, so that the change can be noticeable in the wider social environment. That's why we started the project fromthe visual perspective, as we would like to emphasize that things are often different as it seems at first glance - looks can deceive. We will create a series of 15 photographs aimed at provoking a reaction in the observer and summing up their own judgments about the displayed. In everyday life, the story often endsat this point and many doubts remain unanswered, but in our project this is only the beginning. Each photo will be equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication) chip with a link to a short video that will give the viewer an insight into the background of the story and an opportunity to unravel the related stereotype. He will thus be able to grasp the story and background of the photos whose contents we will developed on the basis of previous research among young people at the international level. It will capture the stereotypes and prejudices that are present in all three participating partner countries. The problem of hate speech will therefore be addressed in terms of the causes of it - stereotypes and prejudices, and reduced through project activities and results.Young people will be involved in all stages of the project: project initiative, project planning and design with partners, preparation of application form, implementation of activities, dissemination and project evaluation. The project will empower us to take on the responsibility that we will learn or understand, strengthen it through the acquisition of competencies, skills and knowledge. The project will involve 15 young participants (including young people with fewer opportunities, aged 15 to 26) with the support of three experienced youth leaders.PURPOSE: Eliminate stereotypes and prejudices against the different, thus reducing social exclusion and hate speech among young people.GOALS:1) To become aware of stereotypes and prejudices among young people in local environments.2) Include and encourage young people, affected by hate speech, to tell their story.3) Encourage critical thinking among young people.4) Sharing innovative methods for working with young people between partners.The project addresses the important topic of accepting the difference, promotes non-discrimination and combats hate speech through contemporary art and multimedia production. During the project we will plan and prepare the following final results:1) Research on hate speech, stereotypes and prejudices in the area of ​​youth (goal 1)2) A series of fifteen NFC chip photos (goal 2, 3, 4)3) A series of fifteen short one-minute films (goal 2, 3, 4)4) Exhibition of photographs (goal 3, 4)The project consists of two international project meetings and two learning mobilities. The key impact of the project on young people will result in enhanced intercultural competences, awareness-raising youth in the field of social inclusion, reduction of prejudices and empowered youth in the field of breaking the stereotypes, which will contribute to the reduction in intolerance and the prevention of radicalization. Partnership organizations will gain intercultural competences through the project and deepen their knowledge of the problem of discrimination and prejudice and social exclusion, as the project will also actively involve youth workers who will share the experience within their organizations. Target groups will become aware of the problem of stereotypes and prejudices, thereby increasing tolerance and preventing radicalization. Through the dissemination of information and new knowledge in local and regional environments and through youth organizations involved in new projects and international activities, the project will also achieve an important impact in the international field."

'Learning from the Past so that we are not condemned to repeat it' (LFTP) was an innovative ICT-based participatory community heritage project, designed to engage both adults and young people in European cultural heritage. The aim of the project was to develop value and appreciation of European cultural heritage in relation to social cohesion, in particular to the value of human rights, equality, diversity and peace. This project expanded, transferred and implemented Global Link's innovative heritage learning practices with transnational partners in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Slovenia, in particular building on Global Link's recently completed and very successful heritage and global citizenship project 'World War I: Sowing the Seeds of Global Citizenship.' In Learning from the Past, Global Link trained partners to recruit and work with adult volunteers to research and document peace activism, internationalism and global awareness across Europe during and after the First World War. Partners worked with 56 adult volunteers to research stories of local League of Nations activists across Europe, as well as women's peace activism, Esperanto societies, youth exchanges relating to international efforts for peace building, anti-racism, anti-fascism and cross-European connections. The time period for the research was World War I until shortly after World War II. Global Link provided training to partners on recruiting volunteers, identifying local archives and sources of historical information, and IT-based formats in which to gather the information and upload it to the online map. Each partner ran a short project with their target groups, taking them to archives, museums and libraries to inspire the beneficiaries to research their own local histories. The partners trained and supported the volunteers to write short accounts of their research in the IT-based format required to upload the information to the website, and trained them how to upload to the website. This resulted in Output 1: the Online Map. The partners and their volunteers then held Multiplier Events to share this heritage learning with 212 young people and supporting adults (teachers/youth workers) in their localities, who in turn engaged critically with the material, linking it to current debates around peace and conflict as well as responses to refugees and migrants in their societies. 193 young people across the partner countries then took part in producing creative arts-based and/or digital outputs which reflected on their local heritage and what this means for their roles as global citizens in the world today. This resulted in Output 2: Artistic Responses. These art pieces and the process of creating them were digitised via video for Output 3. The videos were uploaded to the project website and widely disseminated via social media. The final Multiplier Events were ‘Living Museums’, where adult and young volunteers worked with project partners to share all the project outputs with a wider local audience. One partner held their event face-to-face, as originally planned, in their local museum, while all other partners had to hold their Living Museum events online because of Covid-19 restrictions. Nonetheless, all partners managed to host lively, interactive events with diverse audiences, reaching a combined total of 476 people. The final Living Museum event was held by Global Link and involved the launch of the Learning from the Past online exhibition. An offline version of the exhibition will also open at Lancaster City Museum UK for six weeks from July 2021, bringing together the outputs from across Europe in one space. The LFTP partnership has secured further Erasmus+ funding for a follow-up project: Sharing Learning from the Past in Youth Work’ involves bringing together volunteers from six countries involved in LFTP to share best practice, visit the final LFTP ‘Living Museum’ exhibition taking place in the UK and strengthen our capacities as a network to develop heritage projects with young people. This will include the creation of joint ‘manifesto for heritage work with European youth.’All outputs have been shared on the project online platform (learningfromthepast.net) and widely disseminated through social media including the LFTP Facebook page, through our organisational websites and newsletters, in local news/radio/TV coverage, through conferences and events and via other networks such as heritage groups.