The Experts Meeting of the Creative Canvas project was successfully held from 7–9 February 2026 Orta Nova, Italy 🇮🇹, hosted by Beyond Borders. The meeting gathered 12 experts from partner organizations in Italy, Serbia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina 🌍, who worked together on developing innovative tools to combat hate speech through youth-led online campaigns and artistic activism 🎨✊
During the meeting, participants defined the research methodology for mapping best practices in online campaigns 📊 and planned the development of the guidebook “Graffiti ABC: A Guide to Combat Hate Speech,” which will serve as a practical resource for young activists and youth workers 📘🧑🎨 This important milestone strengthened international cooperation 🤝 and laid the foundation for future campaign activities aimed at promoting inclusivity, creativity, and positive social change 💬✨
Youth Centre Perspektiva from Albania together with its partners Hate Fighters Network (HFN) from Serbia, Beyond Borders Italy and Obojena Klapa from Bosnia and Herzegovina implements a capacity building project “Creative Canvas” to tackle issues of discrimination, hate speech, cyberviolence and gender-based discrimination and violence through creative tools and methods in work with young people. The main aim of the project is separated in two dimensions: a) identifying, consolidating and promoting existing best practices of using art as a tool for activism; and b) creating and enabling an environment to develop new approaches to countering, preventing and fighting cyberbullying, hate speech, discrimination and gender-based violence. Creative Canvas project will be implemented from November 2025 to October 2027, with activities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Serbia. Creative Canvas project is co-financed by the European Union.
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