What makes digital spaces unsafe? Hate speech and other risks – webinar with Debora Barletta
Scams, phishing, grooming, revenge porn, mobbing, cyberbullying, hate speech, and much more. There is no shortage of English terms to describe the many risks of the digital world, but what is often lacking is a real awareness of the phenomena they describe. At the bottom of it all, we find not only a lack of digital skills, but above all a culture of violence and oppression that has real effects both online and offline.
To talk about the risks of the digital world and how to clarify and develop knowledge, we invite you to join the free MILES webinar What makes digital spaces unsafe? Hate speech and other risks – led by expert Debora Barletta – which will be held:
Thursday, 9 October 2025, from 4.30 pm to 6 pm
Live streaming on Facebook and YouTube
Why to join?
- You will gain useful knowledge and tools to proactively contribute to creating a safer and more welcoming digital space.
- At the end of the webinar, you will receive a certificate of participation (request it via the link in the comments field during the live broadcast).
Agenda
Introduction to the MILES Project
Lisa Avarello, project manager del Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci – ETS introduces the project and the webinar sessions
What does online security mean?
- What makes online spaces dangerous?
- Scam, phishing, grooming, revenge porn, mobbing… what do they mean? An overview of some terms and related phenomena
- How to protect oneself? The basics of cyber safety (managing passwords, images, sensitive data, communities)
Hate Speech: outcome and driving force behind everything
Exploring hate speech, its dynamics and ramifications
- CM/Rec (2022) 16 on Combating Hate Speech
- Hate Pyramid
- Power dynamics
Learning to recognise hate to prevent it.
Practical advice on how to defend yourself and ‘extinguish’ hatred, but above all on how to prevent it.
- Report with full knowledge of the facts
- Principle of nonviolent communication based on human rights
Closure and greetings
The expert
Debora Barletta is an international youth worker, trainer and facilitator passionate about empowerment and non-formal learning. An expert in human rights education, combating hate speech, youth participation and Internet governance, with a focus on inclusion and digital literacy. She designs and conducts innovative educational programmes – online and offline – adapting them to different contexts, third sector, schools, universities.
Co-coordinator of the National Network for Countering Hate Speech and Hate Phenomena and National Coordinator of the No Hate Speech Movement Italy, she is also an active member and campaign manager of UNITED Network. She is a member of the board of YouthIGF Italy and of the Programme Committee of the Internet Governance Forum Italy, helping to promote inclusive and participatory Internet governance.
With a strong international background, stemming from her experience with the Council of Europe and her work on several European projects, Debora Barletta also supports local realities to foster the inclusion of marginalised young people. Active in advocacy and campaigning, she participates in national and international debates and panels to promote rights, diversity and digital citizenship.
MIL and PRE-BUNKING approaches for critical thinking in the education sector is a project funded by the Erasmus + – Partnership for Innovation – Forward Looking Projects programme.
Partners
- Coordinator: Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci – ETS – Italy
- OLAE – Portugal
- Aproximar – Portugal
- ALSDGC – Romania
- Bupnet – Germany
- KMOP – Greece
- GO! – Belgium
- Cardet – Cyprus
- die Berater – Austria
- Atermon – the Netherlands
- Danmar – Poland
For further information visit the website miles.erasmusplus.website or contact Lisa Avarello: lisa.avarello@danilodolci.org.
