💡 Activity 2: Challenging Discrimination – Breaking Barriers

Komotini 691 00, Greece

💡 Activity 2: Challenging Discrimination – Breaking Barriers

Komotini 691 00, Greece

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💡 Why This Matters?
Discrimination is one of the biggest challenges to building inclusive societies. It can be based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or economic status. In this activity, you will learn how discrimination happens, how to recognize it, and what you can do to challenge it.
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🎥 Get Inspired: How To Challenge Discrimination In A Way That Encourages Change by Ben Ivey
Description: In this video, Ben Ivey discusses effective strategies to confront and challenge discrimination, emphasizing approaches that foster positive change and understanding.
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🚀 Now Take Action!
✅ Research a form of discrimination and its impact in your local or global community.
✅ Write a short blog post or social media message about how to address and challenge discrimination.
✅ Participate in a campaign or awareness event focused on breaking barriers and fostering inclusion.
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🌍 Who Is Behind This Activity?
Cities of Learning Network partners invite you to learn and take action on European Youth Goal #8: Quality Learning. We value your contributions and want to reward you with badge recognition.
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📌 Project Partners:
🔹 System&G, Greece – Lead Partner
🔹 CODEC, Belgium
🔹 Badgecraft, Lithuania
🔹 System&G, Finland
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💬 Contact us for more details about the Erasmus+ co-funded project "European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning".
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Disclaimer: We are grateful for the ideas generated by youth leaders and youth workers during the international study visits. To create this activity, humans collaborated with AI using the Youth Goals Hub GPT custom-built version, informed and inspired by the best youth work practices.

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🏅 Badge Description for Activity 2: Challenging Discrimination – Breaking Barriers
This badge is awarded to individuals who have actively engaged in understanding, addressing, and raising awareness about discrimination in their communities. Badge earners have researched different forms of discrimination, reflected on their impact, and taken action to challenge these barriers through advocacy and awareness initiatives.
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This badge recognizes the earner’s commitment to fighting discrimination, their ability to effectively communicate solutions, and their active role in promoting equality and inclusion.

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity member

To earn this badge, recipients have:
✔ Researched a specific form of discrimination (e.g., racism, gender inequality, ableism) and analyzed its effects in their local or global community.
✔ Created a blog post or social media message to raise awareness about discrimination and propose solutions for fostering inclusion.
✔ Participated in a campaign or awareness event aimed at breaking barriers and promoting an inclusive society.
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Provide your evidence with a photo, a text or even a link.

Location

Komotini 691 00, Greece

Skills

#Enhance learning & development

#Support inclusion

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Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

Used in playlists

Empowered Learners: Advancing Quality Learning

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

Created on European Youth Goals

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