Local Activities
As part of the project, eight European organisations have developed local activities aimed at promoting tolerance and fighting discrimination in their country. Here we document their activities and make the results of their work available for download.
Spanish Forum for Prevention and Urban Security (Fórum Español para la Prevención y la Seguridad Urbana, FEPSU) – Spain
The Spanish Forum for Prevention and Urban Security produced a guide titled “How to Fight Hate Crimes?” (“Como luchar contra los delitos de odio”) as well as a series of educational documents and a video. These materials can be used as educational tools and to encourage debate on public policies, in schools, in the media, in civil society and in the private sector.
- FEPSU project website
- Introductory Guide: How to fight against Hate Crime (in spanish)
- Pedagogical Cards (in spanish)
- Hate Crimes. Pedagogical Video (in spanish)
Institute for Conflict Research (Institut für Konflikt Forschung, IKF) – Austria
L’Institut de recherche sur les conflits (IKF), basé à Vienne, a organisé un événement de diffusion du projet JUST en coopération avec l’Association autrichienne des villes et des villes (Österreichischer Städtebund) parallèlement à la réunion du comité d’experts sur l’intégration de l’association qui s’est tenu en octobre 2017. À cette occasion, un article sur le projet intitulé «Intégration vivante – Réponses d’Autriche» a été publié dans le magazine de l’association des municipalités autrichiennes (Österreichische Gemeindezeitung).
En outre, IKF a coopéré avec le groupe autrichien de recherche sur les conflits, la paix et la démocratie, réseau d’institutions de recherche autrichiennes, qui contribue au développement pacifique, non violent et non discriminatoire de la société du point de vue de la science, de la théorie et de la pratique. IKF a publié trois articles sur le cluster «CPD Policy Blog», présentant les principaux résultats du projet.
- Magazine Article “Living Integration – Answers from Austria” (in German – page 57-58)
- Blog Article 1: Social cohesion in heterogeneous societies
- Blog Article 2: European initiatives to promote social cohesion
- Blog Article 3: The Strategic Role of Local Authorities and Institutions in Promoting Social Cohesion
Blog Article 4: Recommendations for promoting social cohesion at the local level
Italian Forum for Urban Security (Italiano per la Sicurezza Urbana, FISU) – Italy
The Italian Forum for Urban Security produced a documentary video on hate speech and hate crime as part of the project. The central part of the video consists of interviews conducted in Brescia, Lucca and Pesaro with elementary school children. The video aims to encourage a debate on stereotypes related to discrimination, to encourage the construction of a counter-narrative to hate speech and to foster initiatives to increase tolerance and social cohesion.
While the video was finalized and presented at the end of the project, FISU will organise presentation events in different cities after the end of the JUST project.
FISU project website (in Italian)
Video : “Hate is not a Beautiful Thing” (in Italian)
French Forum for Urban Security (Forum Français pour la Sécurité Urbaine, FFSU) – France
By their proximity to citizens, local authorities can act and create a climate where discrimination, hate speech and violence have no place. To support cities and municipalities in this endeavour, the French Forum for Urban Security organised two awareness and training days on discriminatory violence, one in the city of Dunkerque in November 2017 and one in the city of Nantes in December 2017. The training days attracted around 80 participants and were held with the support of representatives from the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and UNIA (BE).
ToToolbox “Preventing discriminatory violence”
Documentation: Training Day in Dunkerque (in French)
Video : Training Day in Dunkerque (in French)
Info-Graphic on Discriminatory Violence (in French)
Belgian Forum for Urban Security (Forum Belge pour la Prévention et la Sécurité Urbaine (FBPSU) – Belgium
The Belgium Forum with the support of the Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities of Belgium (UNIA) has produced a toolbox whose objective is to raise awareness of local elected representatives to prevent and fight discriminatory violence at the local level. The toolbox will mostly enable local authorities to integrate urban security and crime prevention policies into existing local policies against discrimination. The toolbox contains: a description of the legal framework around discrimination in Belgium; six practice cards focusing on “hot topics” (e.g. managing diversity in your workplace, handling hate speech online, etc.); materials fostering reflection on discriminatory behaviors; an index of UNIA’s offers and services.
- Toolbox “Preventing discriminatory violence” (in French)
Portuguese Association for Victim Support (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima, APAV) – Portugal
APAV, a portuguese victim support organisation working on federal level but based in Lisbon, organised a seminar on the violence motivated by intolerance and discrimination in cooperation with Lisbon’s city council. The seminar raised awareness among elected officials and technical employees from the city administration as well as representatives from civil society and the private sector. The participants discussed the role of the municipality in prevention, exchanged best practice examples and received information on available support services for victims.
UFUQ – Pedagogy between Islam, Islamophobia and Islamism (Pädagogik zwischen Islam, Islamfeindlichkeit und Islamismus) – Germany
The association UFUQ chose to dedicate its local activities in the framework of the project to interrogate potential uses of open data in antidiscrimination work. While such data are already use in other fields of public policy, strategies to counter and prevent discrimination and discriminatory violence have not yet made use of them. UFUQ organised a 1-day workshop with a group of city representatives as well as experts from civil society to start the discussion on the topic in October 2017.
- Booklet “Using Open Data in Anti-Discrimination Work” (in English / in German)
Jagellonian University of Krakow (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie) – Poland
Jagiellonian University took up the Just and Safer Cities for All project in the framework of its activities to promote student safety. It held a seminar problematising discrimination and violence at university, uniting experts from Polish NGOs as well as university staff and students. It took place in the framework of the campaign “16 Days against Gender Violence” in November 2017.
The university’s office for student safety moreover produced a brochure explaining key concepts of anti-discrimination and adapting them to the context of higher education, and a guide for students, PhD-students and teachers to prevent discriminatory violence at university.
- JU project website
- Seminar “ »Discrimination and Violence at University – Unjustified Presence »
- Brochure “Key Concepts to Counter Discrimination in Higher Education” (in Polish)
- Guidebook “Preventing Discriminatory Violence in Higher Education – A Guide for Students, PhD-Students and Teachers” (in Polish)
