PROJECT ABSTRACT – 808215 – SWEVIC Call: REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2017 Project Number: 808215 Project Acronym: SWEVIC Duration (months): 24 Project Title: Supporting hate crime victims in Sweden Coordinator: POLISMYNDIGHETEN SWEDISH POLICE AUTHORITY Polhemsgatan 30 10226 Stockholm Sweden Total Cost: 753.339,85 EUR Grant Awarded: 601.384,75 EUR Participant Grant Participant Name Country Role Requested % POLISMYNDIGHETEN SWEDISH POLICE AUTHORITY SE COORDINATOR 433.840,00 € 72,14% BROTTSOFFERJOUREN SVERIGE SE PARTICIPANT 167.544,75 € 27,86% 601.384,75 € ABSTRACT SWEVIC is a cooperation project between the Swedish Police Authority (SPA) and Victim Support Sweden (VSS) and aims at: Reducing underreporting and improving police investigations of hate crime Increasing the ability to identify hate crimes Building trust between victims of hate crime and the Swedish Police Developing the collaboration between VSS and the SPA and other Member States Reaching out to victims of hate crimes and increasing awareness This will be done by organising good practice seminars for European participants, joint education and training on hate crime and hate speech for police officers and volunteers and other competent authorities as well as launching a media campaign. Directly the project will educate approximately 200 Swedish police officers, 110 Victim Support Sweden professionals and 1.400 Victim Support Sweden volunteers. The project will reach approximately 100 experts from different EU countries, 800 employees from the national health services and the Social Security offices. At least 2.000 more will be educated through e-learning. The campaign will reach approximately 3.3 million Swedes. An important target group is the victims and potential victims of hate crime and hate speech, e.g.: the LGBTI community, religious communities, democratically elected politicians that in any way support the rights of the groups above, people of color, etc. 1 The project will result in more adequate and improved support for victims of hate crime, and will increase the well-being of the victims and encourage them to come forward and go through the legal process. Adequate support will also lessen the risk of radicalization among groups often targeted by hate speech and hate crime and will raise the level of trust in the competent authorities, especially the Police. Increased knowledge and awareness of hate crimes will make the police officers and other occupational groups better equipped to deal with these issues. 2 PROJECT ABSTRACT – 808698 – SRHCHS_LT Call: REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2017 Project Number: 808698 Project Acronym: SRHCHS_LT Duration (months): 20 Project Title: Strengthening response to hate crime and hate speech in Lithuania Coordinator: MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA Sventaragio str. 2 01510 Vilnius Lithuania Total Cost: 286.287,96 EUR Grant Awarded: 229.028,00 EUR Participant Grant Participant Name Country Role Requested % Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania LT COORDINATOR 129.846,00 € 56,69% LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS GENERALINE PROKURATURA LT PARTICIPANT 3.182,00 € 1,39% ZURNALISTU ETIKOS INSPEKTORIAUS TARNYBA LT PARTICIPANT 96.000,00 € 41,92% 229.028,00 € ABSTRACT Objectives: Ensure effective investigation, prosecution and adequately sentencing of hate speech and hate crime Improve knowledge and awareness of competent national authorities about the impact of hate crime and hate speech, the needs and expectations of the vulnerable communities Address underreporting Intensify countering online hate speech Activities: Comprehensive analysis of cases of the application of criminal liability Improvement of methodology on conducting of pre-trial investigation Qualitative research on the vulnerable communities Developing relations between the vulnerable communities and law enforcement authorities Joint training for police officers, prosecutors and judges Development of IT tool for reporting of hate speech online Facilitating of hate speech recognition to the local communities Encouraging the general public to counter hate speech online 3 Type and number of persons benefiting from the project: Police officers (127) Prosecutors (116) Judges (106) Teachers (200) Social workers (50) Local authorities (50) Other national authorities (25) Vulnerable communities (50) NGOs/CSOs (11) Universities and educational institutions (11) Expected results: Increased capacities to effectively investigate, prosecute and adequately sentence hate crime and hate speech Improved knowledge and awareness of competent national authorities about the impact of hate crime and hate speech, the needs and expectations of the vulnerable communities Strengthened relationship between law enforcement authorities and the vulnerable communities Reduced scope of hate speech on the Internet Type and number of deliverables to be produced: Data analysis (1) Policy recommendations (2) Development of methodology (2) Training courses/workshops (27) Qualitative research (1) Round table discussions (5) Development of guides (1) Developed IT tool (1) Online campaign (1) Online and newspaper articles (9) Conference 4 PROJECT ABSTRACT – 808836 – AL-RE-CO Call: REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2017 Project Number: 808836 Project Acronym: AL-RE-CO Duration (months): 24 Project Title: Discurso de odio, racismo y xenofobia: mecanismos de alerta y respuesta coordinada (AL-RE-CO) Coordinator: MINISTERIO DE TRABAJO, MIGRACIONES Y SEGURIDAD SOCIAL José Abascal 39 28071 Madrid Spain Total Cost: 262.973,90 EUR Grant Awarded: 210.375,00 EUR Participant Grant Participant Name Country Role Requested % MINISTERIO DE TRABAJO, MIGRACIONES Y SEGURIDAD SOCIAL ES COORDINATOR 82.098,00 € 39,02% ASOCIACION DE MUJERES LATINOAMERICANAS ES PARTICIPANT 11.504,00 € 5,47% ASSOCIATION TRABE, INICIATIVAS PARA LA ECONOMIA SOCIAL Y SOLIDARIA ES PARTICIPANT 39.307,00 € 18,68% MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR ES PARTICIPANT 28.305,00 € 13,45% UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA ES PARTICIPANT 49.161,00 € 23,37% 210.375,00 € ABSTRACT Objective: To improve the capacities of State authorities to identify, analyse, monitor and evaluate online hate speech in order to design shared strategies against discourse motivated by racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia or Antisemitism. Specific objectives: To generate a protocol with search criteria and indicators to identify and measure online hate speech, and also to design warning indicators to assess intensity, severity, distribution and impact of hate speech To generate a computer tool for the systematic collection and analysis of hate speech To design shared strategies to combat the online hate speech To disseminate the project and analyse its transferability in the EU Activities: 5 Identification of good practices in the EU Development of a protocol with search and early alert indicators Design of an electronic tool based on the protocol Validation and implementation of the tool and training of key agents Development of shared strategies Dissemination of results Type and number of persons benefiting from the project: Law Enforcement bodies; Institutions linked to the Cooperation and Collaboration Agreement against racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, signed in Spain (Public Prosecutor's Office, General Council of the Judiciary, Ministries of the Interior, Justice, Health, Employment and Social Security, and Education); victims; NGOs; academia. Expected results: Better knowledge about good practices in the EU Greater capacity for monitoring and analysis of hate speech online Established shared strategies Transfer of knowledge and results disseminated nationally and at the EU Type and number of deliverables to be produced: 1 Good practices report; 1 Protocol with indicators; 1 Computer tool; 1 Document Shared Strategies; Website; 1 Transferability document; 1 Final report; 4 National and 1 European training sessions (80 participants); 1 National and 1 European debate forum (30 participants); Final conference (80 participants). 6 PROJECT ABSTRACT – 809349 – NOINTOHATE2018 Call: REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2017 Project Number: 809349 Project Acronym: NoIntoHate2018 Duration (months): 18 Project Title: 10 years Implementation of EU Framework Decision on racism and xenophobia in Romania: challenges and new approaches regarding hate crime actions Coordinator: CONSILIUL NATIONAL PENTRU COMBATEREA DISCRIMINARII Piata Walter Maracineanu 1-3 Sector 1 010155 BUCURESTI Romania Total Cost: 242.840,51 EUR Grant Awarded: 192.459,81 EUR Participant Grant Participant Name Country Role Requested % CONSILIUL NATIONAL PENTRU COMBATEREA DISCRIMINARII RO COORDINATOR 130.043,81 € 67,57% ASOCIATIA INSTITUTUL PENTRU POLITICI PUBLICE RO PARTICIPANT 62.416,00 € 32,43% 192.459,81 € ABSTRACT Hate crime is the most severe expression of discrimination with important consequences in the under-consolidated EU democracies while also raising problems for the consolidated ones. Public institutions should be strengthened to be able to organise a system of recording such cases in the overall work of recording violence, and this implies not only a good legislation, but mostly a well- organised system, able to detect such situations from the very beginning. In this respect, the consortium of NCCD and IPP shaped the present proposal aiming at assessing the impact of the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia at the level of Romania while identifying the needed legislation/policy improvements in accordance with the EU standards, and also at strengthening the capacity of the national anti-discrimination