<< Objectives >>VALUEBOX aims to enable educational staff to build an inclusive and high quality education as well as the European dimension of teaching in secondary schools,which are paramount for creating and maintaining a cohesive European society through providing them gamified training resources.<< Implementation >>WP2 aims to develop a new competence framework for teachers s on fundamental rights based on the common values of the EU WP3 aims to determine the related strategy to develop a gamified self assessment and recommendation tool which will provide teachers with an overview of themselves on teaching Common European Values WP4 aims to develop a gamified open online course with the goal to enhance teachers' ability to develop their own teaching competencies on Values Education<< Results >>With the help of 4 work packages,Valuebox will develop 3 project results.R1-Competence Framework for Teachers(COFT)R2-Gamified Self Assessment and Recommendation Tool for Teachers(SERT)R3-Gamified Open Online Course For Teachers(OOC)It is expected that teachers 200 teachers will be trained reaching 500 students on the integrating of European Common Values to secondary schools.

"After gaining independence Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia have started developing open society and building a democratic state. Since democratic society implies basic principles such as pluralism and prohibition of discrimination, struggle for equality and human rights have been brought to a public discourse. Throughout the last decade we have witnessed an increasing trend of polarization in Caucasus and Europe. Higher incidences of violent extremism hate crime and hostility towards different groups especially manifested through hate speech are becoming worryingly frequent in everyday lives. Several reports pointed the rise of violent extremism (Amnesty International ¨Annual Report 2016-2017”, Human Rights Watch ¨World Report 2017¨). In 2010s multiple international and civil society organisations have reported higher incidences of anti-western propaganda, which attacks the liberal values that underpin human rights. The strongest anti-western narratives try to convince the audiences that the Western World is imposing policies and values incompatible with the national traditions and values. Through this approach, especially the rights of LGBTQI community are being under a constant attack, together with efforts for promoting gender equality, rights of ethnic and religious minorities and the creators of these narratives systematically incite hatred and encourage nationalism, prejudices and discrimination, and also undermine other fundamental human rights. Due to the unconsolidated media environment of Caucasus, these dangerous messages spread among wide public and combating them requires not only constantly debunking specific cases of disinformation and fake news, but mainly systematic education of the population. Freedom House report ""Nations in Transit 2017"" has alarming findings regarding central and eastern Europe – more than a half of the countries in the report have declined in their Democracy Scores. With its second focal point, this project identifies human rights education and education for democratic citizenship (EDC/HRE) as one of the key tools to develop critical consciousness and empower society against propaganda. “Human rights education - helps to develop the communication skills and informed critical thinking essential to a democracy. It examines human rights issues without bias and from diverse perspectives through a variety of educational practices” (Human Rights Here and Now: Celebrating the UDHR, ed. Nancy Flowers (Minneapolis: Human Rights Educators’ Network, Amnesty International USA, 1998). The project used Council of Europe materials (Bookmarks, We CAN!) to create a know-how on taking action against violent extremism, hate speech, anti-western propaganda through human rights education, education for democratic citizenship, media education and literacy and counter and alternative narratives.Project aimed to develop media literacy and critical consciousness of youth in Caucasus through advocating EDC/HRE and confront narratives discrediting the concept of liberal democracy, rule of law, human rights;Objectives:To train the fellows in EDC/HRE and media education;To create educational opportunities for young people in EDC/HRE and increase their participation in civil society;To create the practice of using counter and alternative narratives with young people to discredit propaganda and hate speech;To make Council of Europe educational tools more accessible and disseminate it with civil society organizations;To create practices of counter and alternative narratives against propaganda and hate speech and disseminate it in international and regional civil society organisations;To promote and advocate for EDC/HRE European Charter and to create cross-sector and multi-level cooperation opportunitie"

<< Background >>It is generally recognized that human rights education is a key to human rights protection and accordingly to building an inclusive society defined by equality, social justice, active participation in democratic processes, as well as good governance and rule of law. As stated in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Education, knowledge of human rights empowers people and develop their competences to participate in democratic processes, gain access to public institutions, demand their fundamental rights and respect the rights of other members of society. On the other hand, it helps people representing the public sector to ensure respect for human rights and good governance. These competences must be taught at early years of age and improved throughout one’s lifetime. Unfortunately, many states, including the project partner countries, currently do not have a structural, thorough, and coordinated human rights education strategy at a governmental level, nor they provide universal, open access and up-to-date education materials for the society and professional target groups. Additionally, whilst human rights are being considered a core value of the EU, their protection level greatly differs among member states.By bringing together competences and resources, the project partnership aims to provide free and equal access to comprehensive and qualitative human rights education resources to European citizens. The corner-stone of the project is the Human Rights Guide – a universal, easy-to-use and open access human rights education platform online which serves as an information resource and self-help tool for society-at-large and professionals in understanding human rights and developing competences in applying human rights in specific situations. As a result of the project, the Guide will be implemented in eight EU member states, making it a truly pan-European education platform.<< Objectives >>The concrete objectives of the project are:-To raise and consolidate the understanding of human rights as a common European value among European citizens and professionals by upscaling the HRG to new EU member states.-To provide qualitative, up-to-date and inclusive human rights education to European citizens on equal basis by expanding and improving the HRG’s content and learning methodologies by using the advantages of the digital domain.-To strengthen the efforts of the partner-organizations in providing human rights education by sharing good practices and contributing joint effort in further devising innovative approaches to both national and common European human rights challenges.<< Implementation >>The main activities of the project are centred around the creation of the project results, namely, the upscaling and the expansion of the Guide and the Online Knowledge Assessment Tool, and the creation of the Human Rights Case Box and the Rights Compendium. In order to create these intellectual outputs, the following core activities will be implemented: the selection of the priority themes / cases in each partner country, the preparation of the content (research, drafting, testing, editing, translating), elaboration of the visual solutions based on the principles of visual education and the technical solutions. The partnership will also implement a series of promotion and exploitation activities: multiplier events in each partner country, public outdoor campaign of the Guide in France and Croatia, information sessions to introduce the Guide with strategic partners, roundtables and discussions with policy and decision makers to discuss strategic implementation of human rights education initiatives at a national level.<< Results >>As a result of the project, large number of European citizens will have free and equal access to qualitative human rights education online. The Human Rights Guide will be available for the first time in France and Croatia, and new expanded versions will be available in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia. The Guide features many socially relevant themes such as discrimination, data and privacy, domestic violence, family, immigration, but it will also contain important themes illuminated by the Covid-19 crisis such as restrictions on human rights, public health and democratic participation. The Guide will also be supplemented by new learning functionalities. The Rights Compendium will explain the human rights as contained in international conventions but placed in respective national contexts. The Human Rights Case Box will allow to explore human rights through human rights case-law, bringing it to the forefront as a pivotal source in human rights development. The new upscaled Human Rights Guide Europe platform will technically offer a significant expansion and transferability potential for a new content, languages and EU countries.It is expected that gaining understanding of the human rights, the members of the target groups will gain awareness of fundamental rights as core social and civic entitlements, will acquire courage to participate in democratic processes and civic activities, and will embrace human rights as a European value. It is also expected that this partnership will establish the participating organizations as innovative human rights education providers in their respective countries and in the wider Europe, and will provide for a potential to develop further human rights education projects on the basis of the fundaments laid down by the existing project.