The aim of the project is to improve the quality of life of LGBTI people in eastern Slovakia by educating various target groups to accept LGBTI people and leading a campaign to sensitize students and the public to accept LGBTI people.
Educational activities within the project will be focused on changing attitudes and strengthening own activities of students in the sphere of human rights/LGBTI rights; campaigning will also be implemented through a peer approach in secondary schools. The project also has the ambition to contribute to suppression of hate speech and prejudice against LGBTI people.
The project will work with several target groups: secondary school students in Košice and Prešov region, students of certain university disciplines (psychology, medicine, pedagogy), experts (doctors, psychologists, school psychologists, teachers), LGBTI young people in secondary schools, public in Košice and Prešov region.
Educational activities and public awareness campaigns will be carried out in the project. Educational activities will focus on a multi-phase training of students and experts on LGBTI people; training of LGBTI young people in order to empower and equip them with leadership, argumentative, storytelling and facilitation skills to be able to lead a series of discussions and lectures in the peer-to-peer secondary school environment in order to sensitize other young people. Interactive and non-formal methods will be used in these activities.
Public awareness campaigns will focus on screening a film with LGBTI theme followed by a discussion (in at least 5 cities) and implementation of a peer sensitization campaign in secondary schools, led by young people trained in the previous part of the project (at least 3 interactive sessions in at least 7 schools).