The project is aimed at promoting an active role of youngsters in fighting against racism, by strengthening their ability to analyse the mechanisms of construction of stereotypes and to react to racist and discriminatory attitudes and speech. To allow youngsters to understand, through arts and entertainment, the existence of stereotypes and to make them ineffective by using humour, will remove one of the main obstacles to the integration among future generations and will contribute to the creation of an inclusive society.

• tutors/ex-students from comics training centers
• students from art secondary schools
• indirect beneficiaries are visitors of comics exhibitions

Main activities are:

• Training courses about stereotypes and prejudices targeted to young artists attending comics and graphic arts training centres and Art institutes.
• Workshops to be held at upper secondary art schools and youth centres, which will be carried out by young artists with the cooperation of senior trainers.
• Catalogue and comics & machinimas exhibition of the works of students and famous artists, which will be shown in festivals in Italy, Germany and France

The final event at the International Forum for Animation Technologies in Angoulême (France) will include:

• comics and machinimas exhibition, live performances, a thematic workshop about the use of comics and other forms of art in fighting against racism, with the participation of young people involved in the project and coming from Italy, Germany and France.
• a research-action about the representations of migrant origin youngsters in the media in the three partner countries

Young tutors have been trained about the themes of racism and dicscriminations through a 40 hours training course. The so trained young tutors carried out 20 workshops in art secondary schools in Italy. Each course lasted 20 hours and each student produced at least one comic abour the above themes. Some of these comics have been selected to be shown in the most relevant comics exhibitions in Italy and in France. The other partner countries hosted similiar initiatives.

The main difficulties have been faced in the collection of images of migrant origin youngsters for the research-action. Workshops in schools produced great results and the participation to the comics exhibitions gave a good visibility to the project. The achieved visibility and the positive experience of workshops will grant the durability of the obtained resuts.

• European Commission- Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Program 2007/2013
• Unipolis Foundation