Counter@ct
Radical messages are rapidly spreading through the Internet targeting vulnerable groups, particularly young people aged 16 to 25, posing security threats across the EU. This project aims to address this worrying trend.
Objective:
Counter@ct’s core objective is to promote behavioural change, dissuading such groups from adhering to radicalising/terrorist content online and/or using violence, by providing them with counter-narratives. These narratives will use successful stories of disengagement by vulnerable groups from radical ideas. We expect to provide tools to address these groups via an online counter-narrative campaign and its impact assessment.
Activities:
- Studying how these vulnerable groups interact online, including motivation rationales, triggers and key-influencers. The desk research allows for the definition of an effective communication strategy that will be the basis of a counter-narrative online campaign and a set of indicators to outline the impact assessment plan.
- Six awareness-raising sessions (240 participants), targeting youngsters within vulnerable groups.
- Two training courses (40 participants) to campaign managers, in Portugal and Spain.
- A Practical Guide to Prevent and Combat Online Radicalisation and Extremism will be created (in PT/EN/ES) with chapters on: how to implement an online counter-narrative campaign and its underlying communication strategy; how to develop indicators and an impact assessment methodology; how can campaign managers deal with its impacts; how to develop awareness-raising and training session; how to improve multi-stakeholder cooperation to prevent and combat online radicalisation.
- A final conference gathering multi-stakeholder experts will be held in Portugal to present the deliverables and results of the project, as well as to promote a public debate on preventing and fighting radicalisation/terrorism, strengthening long-lasting cooperation.
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