The ORPHEUS-project

ORPHEUS (Offline and online Radicalisation Prevention Holding back Extremism and Upholding Security) is an Interreg 2 Seas project focused on developing new integrated and aligned services for online and offline prevention of political violence. We do this by extending the prevention service together with private and social institutions, young people and their educators as central actors.

Objectives

Safe Spaces

We will develop safe spaces for young people, organised as an integrated network of social services aimed at vulnerable youth. We involve two target groups. On the one hand, key players (such as social and youth workers, educators, voluntary key players and peers) receive coaching for upskilling. They are advised on how to engage in and facilitate implementation of safe space solutions for young people who are in a process of social alienation In this way, we integrate a preventive role for key players.
On the other hand, you safe spaces for dialogue with peer-to skilled educators. These open dialogue session give young people the opportunity to express their grievances in an interactive, constructive and informal environment We will run different pilots in Mechelen, Portsmouth and the northern part of France. Aim is to test and compare different safe space pilots with different key players who all work in a preventive way with alienated young people.

Goal ⌂

Young people will know how to express themselves and will hear alter-narratives making a strong connection between the project outputs and their societal well-being. A bottom-up approach ensures both empowerment and ownership in the long-term.

Toolbox

This online toolbox is specifically designed to help frontline workers to deal with challenges surrounding extremism, grooming, fake news, inclusivity, … The toolbox grants access to training material created by experts on these topics. This toolbox will contain training material for both online and offline purposes.

Offline

Social Bonding

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Target Audience

Frontline workers & Teachers

Alter-narratives

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Target Audience

Frontline workers & Teachers

Controversial issues

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Target Audience

Frontline workers & Teachers

Online

Cyber Awareness

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Target Audience

Frontline workers & Teachers

Media Literacy

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Target Audience

Young people

Manual engaging with youth in chatroom settings

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Target Audience

Frontline workers & Teachers

Goal ⌂

Increase online resilience in young people.

Help frontline workers deal with surging online issues surrounding grooming, extremism, polarisation, etc. 

Spread cyberawareness on a larger scale.

Social Content

One of our major goals is challenging fake news and disinformation. We create social content such as videos, animations, short movies and fact-checking clips to combat the fake news phenomenon. On this page you can find the projects we’re currently working on. Please share this content on your own social media profiles to support our cause. ORPHEUS (Offline and online Radicalisation Prevention Holding back Extremism and Upholding Security) is an Interreg 2 Sea project focused on developing new integrated and aligned services for online and offline prevention of political violence. We will do this by extending the prevention service together with private and social institutions,

Alter-narratives

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Media literacy

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Online safety

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Goal ⌂

Increase online resilience in young people. 

Help frontline workers deal with surging online issues surrounding grooming, extremism, polarisation, etc. 

Spread cyberawareness on a larger scale.

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