The workshop will explore how Roma artistic practices, including visual and performative arts, music, and storytelling, can serve as powerful tools to counter hate speech, challenge stereotypes, and combat antigypsyism. Through presentations by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and artist Sead Kazanxhiu, participants will engage with concrete examples of Roma artivism that reclaim narratives and strengthen self-representation. In the interactive segment, participants will reflect on their own contexts and develop ideas for small arts-based interventions addressing hate speech and anti-Roma racism.
Organised by the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), with a contribution from the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe, this interactive workshop will explore how local authorities and faith communities can work together to respond to hate speech targeting migrants and refugees. Through testimonies, storytelling, role play, and interactive exercises, participants will reflect on how partnerships between municipalities, religious leaders, and civil society actors can foster trust, support prevention, and contribute to safer and more inclusive communities. The workshop will focus particularly on how spaces for encounters and dialogue can help challenge hateful narratives and strengthen a shared sense of belonging.
The thematic session presents the Equinet Perspective “Equality Bodies Gearing Up for Effective Practice in Combating Hate Speech”, which brings together experiences and practices from equality bodies across Europe. It is exploring the role of equality bodies in addressing hate speech through legal, policy, communication and preventive approaches, lessons learned from institutional practice across different national contexts and how public institutions, civil society and youth actors can complement each other in building effective responses to hate speech and polarisation.
This workshop is exploring how to build a world free from discrimination, hatred, and violence based on sexual characteristics, gender identity, and gender expression through an exchange with Delphine Philbert, author of the book “Rêver un autre Monde”. The event will include discussions on recent setbacks, visions for a more inclusive and equal society, and the role of international organisations such as the Council of Europe. Participants will also exchange ideas on what individuals and organisations can do to promote equality and human rights, followed by an informal networking discussion.
NB: The workshop is organised in French without interpretation.
The workshop shares promising practices in countering antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate speech.
Within the EU-funded project ECHOES (Echoes of Memory: Interactive Conversations with Holocaust Survivors through AI), TechHive Labs, Greece developed an AI-enabled, testimony-grounded educational tools that help young people engage critically with Holocaust history, while explicitly addressing antisemitism, Holocaust denial and distortion. Furthermore, another practice from ‘Never Again’ Association, Poland includes the ‘Racism Delete’ campaign to combat racism and antisemitism on the Internet. The Get the Trolls Out! Project of the Media Diversity Institute is a long-standing 10-year project that looked at combatting religious discrimination, notably anti-Muslim hate and Antisemitism in the European media space. A monitoring practice from the Centre for Cultural Dialogue, Croatia, includes their annual report on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism.