“Report Racism” Workshops at the University of Alicante

In the framework of the Erasmus+ project MATE – An Innovative, Student-Centered Approach to Intercultural Skills Acquisition for Students and Young Migrants, coordinated by M.M.C. Mediterranean Management Centre (Cyprus), the University of Alicante implemented 5 “Report Racism” Workshops. T

he aim of the workshops was to help students comprehend how dominant discourses – often carrying bias, stereotypes, and ill perceptions – are formed and reproduced. The main topic of the workshops – Hate Speech – was divided in five subtopics, comprising the five modules of the curriculum and corresponding to important aspects of the “Hate Speech phenomenon”, as discussed and decided by the MATE partnership. The five modules covered the following topics: 

Module 1: Hate Speech
Module 2: Free Speech vs Hate Speech 
Module 3: Understanding the Legal Framework of Hate Speech & Reporting Hate Speech 
Module 4: Media Literacy 
Module 5: Intercultural Communication 

The materials were jointly designed by the consortium partners and delivered by the professors of the University of Alicante between 15th October - 2nd November in the form of webinar due to the present situation with the pandemic of Covid-19. The average of 12 students participated in each Module.