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Preventing young people from engaging in violent extremism requires effort. To do this, educators and counsellors – known as ‘frontliners’ – need new skills to detect early signs of radicalisation and manage intercultural tensions. Many of these professionals are unprepared due to outdated professional training.
The EU-funded project ‘Preventing Youth Radicalisation’ aims to raise awareness, identify effective good practices and provide teachers and counsellors with tools to better support vulnerable young people.
The objectives include improving youth counselling services, combating alienation linked to extremist ideologies, promoting critical thinking and providing vocational training teachers with best practices to improve their work on preventing radicalisation.
The project is funded by the Erasmus+ Program for the period 2019–2021.
Project website: https://www.wissenschaftsinitiative.at/rad/en/
