We Europeans
2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000035177
Project description
Countering populism through active European citizenship Populism has been growing strongly throughout Europe for years. Populists are gaining in importance due to a growing dissatisfaction and disaffection with politics among citizens.
Populists divide society and are thus a serious threat to pluralist democracies. Many populists parties are Eurosceptic and many Eurosceptic are populists. Populist Eurosceptic rhetoric primarily fuels prejudices about and enemy images of the EU. Enemy images are created by politicians and other opinion leaders in order to pursue a populist strategy.
Fake news and hate speech in digital media further promote this development and lead to a decline in European values. Social actors must find common strategies to counter populism.
Networking, learning from each other’s as well as innovative, new approaches that build on positive narratives and the advantage of EU Citizenship are the content of the project. Target groups Societal actors Adults Local, regional, national and European community of actors
Project objectives
- Help actors from education, politics, media, science and civil society to exchange and develop transnational and interdisciplinary strategies against populism (networking in the form of a community of practice, through exchange, mutual learning and direct learning).
- Strengthen advocacy for European citizenship and Europe, in which inclusion, tolerance, justice, solidarity and non-discrimination prevail.
- Encourage to stand-up for the European Union’s fundamental values, respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law.
Project Results
- European Community of Practice of societal actors: networking, exchange, mutual learning, defining common strategies and encouragement.
- Toolbox for societal actors: further education, profound scientific background information, better understanding of populist concepts and strategies.
- We-Europeans web-platform for adults; people who are inclined towards populism should be encouraged to reflect through a low-threshold, visually attractive approach without moral devaluation of their position, their concerns and fears.
Project description
Countering populism through active European citizenship Populism has been growing strongly throughout Europe for years. Populists are gaining in importance due to a growing dissatisfaction and disaffection with politics among citizens.
Populists divide society and are thus a serious threat to pluralist democracies. Many populists parties are Eurosceptic and many Eurosceptic are populists. Populist Eurosceptic rhetoric primarily fuels prejudices about and enemy images of the EU. Enemy images are created by politicians and other opinion leaders in order to pursue a populist strategy.
Fake news and hate speech in digital media further promote this development and lead to a decline in European values. Social actors must find common strategies to counter populism.
Networking, learning from each other’s as well as innovative, new approaches that build on positive narratives and the advantage of EU Citizenship are the content of the project. Target groups Societal actors Adults Local, regional, national and European community of actors
Project Objectives
- Help actors from education, politics, media, science and civil society to exchange and develop transnational and interdisciplinary strategies against populism (networking in the form of a community of practice, through exchange, mutual learning and direct learning).
- Strengthen advocacy for European citizenship and Europe, in which inclusion, tolerance, justice, solidarity and non-discrimination prevail.
- Encourage to stand-up for the European Union’s fundamental values, respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law.
Project Results
- European Community of Practice of societal actors: networking, exchange, mutual learning, defining common strategies and encouragement.
- Toolbox for societal actors: further education, profound scientific background information, better understanding of populist concepts and strategies.
- We-Europeans web-platform for adults; people who are inclined towards populism should be encouraged to reflect through a low-threshold, visually attractive approach without moral devaluation of their position, their concerns and fears.