E-STAR: E-Learning for Standing Together Against Racism is a project that tackles the topic of racism, in particular that of invisible racism, aiming to provide youth workers with new knowledge and tools useful to foster awareness and learning among young people, fighting discrimination and valuing diversity.

CONTEXT
We see that racist speech is present in social networks, in the media and even in the new populist and nationalist discourse. This hate speech is losing all modesty and stature in society, which is trying to find the culprits in the face of the difficulty of finding employment, the precariousness of employment and the inability to give an inclusive and integrating response to the need for new multicultural communities and global challenges. Therefore, the project aims to promote tools for youth workers that are useful, versatile, attractive and easy to understand and implement, so that they can work in fighting the discrimination and hate speech that are taken as normal and accepted. We aim to raise awareness on how power relations work and how violence in the face of difference manifests itself in different ways, not always visible.

FOCUS
The project addresses youth workers and young people and aims to foster learning of tools to make visible acts and discourses of discrimination of which we are not aware (invisible racism) and to promote good treatment, as a basis for building relationships based on empathy, cooperation and encounter.
The project will develop a research on invisible racism, fostering the exchange of good practices coming from the experience of the 4 partner countries involved, and will build a toolkit of learning tools that youth workers can use in their work with young people.
The project promotes E-LEARNING for YOUTH WORKERS through a MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, on tools for learning on invisible racism.