Invent2Prevent (I2P) Students For A Unified and Resilient Europe (SURE) and the Manara Center- The Regional Center for Coexistence programmes

Country

United States

Target Audience

General public
Youth/pupils/students

key themes association

Internet and radicalisation
Vulnerable youth and youth engagement in P/CVE

Year

2023

Organisation

EdVenture Partners (EVP) is an organisation dedicated to developing innovative industry–education partnership programmes. These experiential learning opportunities provide students with hands-on, realworld experience, while clients can take advantage of social impact and community outreach solutions and recruiting access at colleges, universities and high schools.

EdVenture Partners has designed and managed programmes at over 900 universities and 400 high schools in North America and internationally. EdVenture Partners is a female owned, for-profit small business organisation that is compensated for programme development and programme management through the deployment of a mutually agreed contract and statement of work with its clients.

Type of Organisation: For profit

Project description

Invent2Prevent (I2P), Students For A Unified and Resilient Europe (SURE) and the Manara Regional Center for Coexistence programmes are global high school and university initiatives that provide students the opportunity to; Invent2Prevent: create and activate their own products, tools and initiatives to prevent targeted violence and hate crimes; SURE: promote social cohesion in communities where refugees from Ukraine reside and push back against anti-Ukraine/Ukrainian narratives online and offline and; Manara Regional Center for Coexistence:forge relationships with universities to promote a vision of peace, security, and prosperity instead of ethnic or religious bigotry and violence through coexistence in the Middle East and around the world.

In each of these programmes, students from around the world develop campaigns and social media strategies against targeted violence, extremism and disinformation that are credible, authentic and believable to their peers, and that resonate within their communities. A team of students, guided by their teacher, professor and an EdVenture Partners' Program Manager, will develop and produce a real campaign that has measurable impact on their campus and in the community. The teams will research their target market and create a strategy designed to best reach and influence their peers.

Students in each of these programmes receive an operational budget of between USD 1 000 and USD 2 000 (USD equivalency) to design, pilot, implement and measure the success of dynamic, integrated projects that: - motivates or empowers students to become involved in countering hateful and extremist narratives;

proposes a strong call to action inspiring a target audience to “do something” to prevent targeted violence and hate;
Leverages social media or digital platforms to drive rich engagement with a target audience and catalyzes their network to get involved in preventing targeted violence and hate;
Optimizes the sustainability and scalability of each project to continue its progression and evolution beyond the program term.

Teams compete for USD 9 000 to USD 18 000 in prize money as well as sustainment money to build and grow their campaigns.

Deliverables

At the end of the semester, each team of students delivers digital resources from their campaigns, including (but not limited to) the following creative materials: