9 April, 2018
IS THIS IT?… Programme of evaluation campaign conference

group photo
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Arrival of participants
9:30 Welcome spaces
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Opening of the conference with:
- Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General of Democracy, Council of Europe
- Ivan Hromada, vice-Chair of the European Steering Committee on Youth
- Anne Brasseur, Ambassador of the No Hate Speech Movement
14:30 Introduction of the participants and the conference programme
15:00 Did we do it? Presentation of the findings of the external evaluation of the No Hate Speech Movement youth campaign (2016-17) with Hana Bendova, external evaluator
15:30 Reflection on the evaluation findings and feedback on recommendations (working groups)
17:20 Feedback from the working groups
17:35 Address by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
19:00 Dinner and social programme
Wednesday 11 April
09:15 Opening and introduction of the day’s programme
09:30 Hate Speech, Human Rights and IT today
- Hate Speech in the agenda of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, by Jean-Paul Lehners, Chair
- The role of politicians and lawmakers, by Gabriela Heinrich, General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, and Coordinator of the No Hate Alliance, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- New opportunities and challenges for human rights education, Dr. Natalie Alkiavidou, Director of Aequitas and lecturer to the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus.
- Hate speech today: what is there to learn? Keynote by Dr. Gavan Titley, Maynooth University
10:45 What next? Reflection on achievements, present issues and future steps to address them – in working groups
12:15 Departure to the Council of Europe headquarters
12:45 Group photo and lunch at the Council of Europe headquarters
14:45 This was it! Great ideas, plans, activities, tools and stories of campaigning – and bad ones too! Participants-led sessions on:
- Human Rights Education – Learning from practices in education to counter and prevent hate speech
- Media and Hate Speech – literacy, journalist training, guidelines and codes of conduct
- Campaigning with and for groups targeted by hate speech – from thematic approaches to coalitions to counter hate speech and protecting human rights for all
- Sexism and Gender Equality online – the campaign’s contribution now and in the future
- Youth work – Youth initiated, led and implemented activities at grass-roots level
- Online Safety for and by youth – Approaches and practices to encourage online safe behaviour of children and youth
- The Internet and Hate Speech – Engaging with Internet businesses and others for effective addressing online hate speech
- Policy and legislative action on hate speech – political and society support for legislative and policy measures on hate speech and discrimination
- We CAN! – CAN We?– from learning to using counter and alternative narratives to Hate Speech narratives as a campaign tool.
18:00 Feedback on the day and plenary closing
19:30 Reception and activity at the City Hall of Strasbourg, with Nawel Rafik-Elmrini, deputy to the Mayor of Strasbourg
Dinner in town (self-organised)
Thursday 12 April
09:15 Opening and introduction of the day’s programme
09:30 Moving forward -working groups on the continuation of the movement by national campaigns, partners and activists
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 We’ll do it! Conference conclusions and guidelines for future work on combatting hate speech for the Council of Europe, national campaigns, partners and activists in working groups
12:45 Lunch
14:30 Working groups continue
15:30 Plenary presentation and feedback on guidelines
16:30 Break
17:00 We did it! Presentation of Conference conclusions and guidelines
Celebrative closing of the European youth campaign with:
- Anja Olin-Pape, Chair of the Advisory Council on Youth
- Antje Rothemund, Head of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe
18:00 Closing reception
19:30 Fancy Love Speech party
Friday 13 April
Departure of participants