Dear Network,
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and we hope our E-News serves as a steady anchor for you amidst the turbulence, landing in your inbox with our updates.
Last month, we shared the exciting news of our new Director's appointment, and now, we're thrilled to kick off 2025 with another exciting update: the release of our Annual Report for 2024!
Loyal to our tradition, you can enjoy its reading and download it by going on our website here . Feel free to share it with your own contacts through the medium you prefer, remembering that what's in there is our common achievement.
Online Meet-Up with our New Director
For those of you who would like to discuss and act on our UNITED future, we're also happy to remind that you are welcome to join our Meet-Up, happening this Thursday, February 20th at 6 pm CET. Use this link and enter the call with our new Director and with UNITED team, to see what's coming next and to share how would you like to be part of it.
Here a short agenda:
- 18:00 - Round of Introductions
- 18:10 - Addressing the participants’ talking points
- 18:45 - Outlining UNITED’s Future
- 19:15 - Questions & Final remarks
UNITED in Action for 2025 European Week Against Racism
Our flagship campaign for March 21st is just one month away, and this year, more than ever, our theme is unity – AS WE NEED TO STAY UNITED IN ACTION!
Let us know what would you like to see happening on this pivotal activist moment and stay tuned for our upcoming initiatives.
Remember that you can always share your plans through our dedicated form here, so don't miss this chance to take action against racism!
Holocaust Memorial Day and Safer Internet Day
Talking about activism, we'rere also happy to share the content we produced for January 27th, 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to say that NEVER AGAIN IS NOW.
Another global call that we decided to share was the one for Safer Internet Day, that we celebrated by resharing our publicationd "Internet Privacy 101 – Your Digital Safety Guide dedicated to Internet Privacy and following the call #togetherforabetterinternet.
We'll never get tired to repeat that change can happen only if we all take action, one step at a time in the domain we live in, online and offline, that's why we always need to remember such important dates.
Youth Recommendations from U4EU 2.0: Danger of Words Conference in Budapest.
As shared through the last E-News, on January 23rd we hosted the 
U4EU 2.0: Danger of Words Conference | Let's Combat Hate Speech Together! in Budapest.
The focus was to enhance youth engagement in contrasting hate speech. Thanks to the inspiring meeting it was possible to collect several Youth Recommendations that you can read here.
Feel free to share them and let us now what you think. Remember also to check-out or dedicated publication on the website and always #nohatespeech
News from Projects: REFUGIN 2nd Knowledge Consolidation Event in Chișinău
REFUGIN is one of the biggest projects in which we're involved and it focuses on strengthening the role of key civil society professionals on the medium-to-long-term integration of young refugees.
The project strives to improve young refugee integration via the improvement of the knowledge and skills of education professionals and NGOs working comprehensively with forcibly displaced youth, as well as through the direct capacitation of young refugees.
The 2nd Knowledge Consolidation Event, a 3-day training event for professionals from 8 European countries, reunited in Chișinău thriving for a successful integration of the people in refugee like situation through #education.
We hope you enjoyed going through all thee updates and we see you next month! #stayunited
