Youth Inc.

Invisible Heroes

Our Youth INC. project is being implemented under the “Capacity Building in the Field of Youth” strand of the Erasmus+ program. In this project, which involves collaboration among six partner countries and focuses on promoting dialogue between cultures and communities, we work with youth workers and mixed groups of young people.

Through the civil society organizations and youth workers participating in the project, young people are introduced to and learn “community philosophy,” a method that fosters critical thinking. Using this method and with the help of experts, young people will identify heroes from cultural and ethnic minorities, as well as women, who played a significant historical role in community life, represented important universal values, and contributed through their actions to the creation of a more just society at the local, national, and/or European levels. At the end of the process, we will erect and unveil virtual memorials, thereby making these previously invisible heroes visible.

Project results:

The methodological handbook developed as part of the project provides guidance for youth workers, teachers, and educators on how to apply the methodologies of Children’s Philosophy, the Roundtable, and Interfaith Encounters. The handbook available for download here in Hungarian.
The teaching module developed as part of this project supports youth workers and educators in making people who are invisible to society visible through the active participation of young people: INVISIBLE HEROES – PROBLEM-BASED TEACHING MODULE – you can download the module here
The technical guide produced as part of the project offers tips on how to display the virtual memorials we are creating for our unsung heroes: UNSUNG HEROES – A Technical Guide for Youth Workers and Educators – you can download the guide here
INVISIBLE HEROES – images and texts – you can download it here

As part of our YOUTH INC. project, we created a webpage on the Izi Travel platform to honor the Invisible Heroes!

“We asked young people to work together to identify heroes they can look up to—people whose values they consider worth emulating for one reason or another,” says Árpád Bayer, a project coordinator at YOUTH INC.

There were groups from Israel to Germany, from Kosovo to Miskolc—in many places, the teams gathered and honored their heroes.

This was the result: https://izi.travel/en/browse/3d5edd67-5c8e-455b-aa1a-a4e6e8b46edb/en

Among them are athletes, activists, a woman from the countryside, a contemporary poet, a military doctor, and teachers.

There are some of our contemporaries—and even some who have been dead for many years—whose fates we knew nothing about.

We have heard some truly inspiring stories—thank you to all project participants and implementers for your collaboration! This project is co-financed by the European Union.
The content does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

Partnerek: Jugendagentur, Act For Society Center, Anthropolis, A.T.A, Interfaith Encounter Association, SIT

By Árpád Bayer – Open History, Anthropolis Association

Roundtable Discussion in Miskolc

During the discussion, staff members from the Institute of Anthropology and Philosophy will speak with practicing anthropologists from Miskolc, who will share their life stories, their professional dedication, and how their work and anthropological perspective contribute to understanding and resolving local sociocultural issues.

The project was implemented with the support of the European Union under the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Youth program.