seen and heard

Young People’s Voices and Freedom of Expression

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Seen and Heard is a freedom of expression project, centered on young people in Europe.

Its key objectives are identified as the co-production of creative protest and mobilisation of the human right of freedom of expression WITH young people, considered here as artists, makers, healers in their own right.

Its achievement will be the design and implementation of a full life cycle of a social movement (from academic research to activist art and public dissemination and evaluation) in inclusive communities, in three European cities with strong migrant, refugee and asylum seeker populations.

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Explore our International Research Project

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Our objective is to achieve a just and equitable movement of young people who believe that freedom of expression is a basic human right for ALL persons.

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The Seen and Heard team comprises academics, activists artists, educators, filmmakers, illustrators, authors, poets, designers and students.

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Our mixed-method study comprises quantitative and qualitative data collected simultaneously in Malta, Wroclaw and Berlin

Children involved with research project on Malta

In a series of videos we explain our interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral EU initiative where human rights, art, education, and activism converge.

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Human Rights Education (HRE), is vital to the realisation of rights. It is a lifelong learning process that helps us respect and stand up for each other.

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Amnesty International Poland is taking the lead on creating a book for the children and young people involved in the project.

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Our mentoring programme adopts an artivist approach. Led by the academics and artists , we also co-create protest videos.

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Seen and Heard organises a wide range of events and workshops in schools, colleges and universities in Germany, Malta and Poland.

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As well as contributing to our research, participants are also “being Seen and Heard“. Read about the project in their own words.

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