Educ8 Project

educ8 is an interdisciplinary, multi-track project conceptualized to build resilience in children and young people against radicalisation and polarisation through religious education in secondary schools and out-of-school settings. the project aims: • to equip the youth with the basics of other faiths to develop mutual understanding and empathy, • to lay solid foundation in their own faith to make them less open to manipulation, • to create teacher-led in-class discussions to cultivate dialogue and appreciation of the other, and • to build friendships among religiously diverse individuals through smart encounters. the main outputs of the project will be: a. a religious education program for secondary schools that will be embedded onto web- and tablet platforms. the whole program will be structured around storytelling (scenario-based), interactive, and will harness popularity of tablets and their ability to address all three senses (sight, hearing, touch). the program will first r