Radio La Benevolencija

23/01/2026

A LIGHT event in Utrecht – From Awareness to Action

For everyone who wants to challenge bias and polarisation—without losing nuance

LIGHT invites you to a hands-on, interactive event in Utrecht for everyone who wants to act against unconscious bias and polarisation. This LIGHT event is especially aimed at people who are engaged—or thinking about engaging—in activism around today’s increasingly polarized environment.
The format is interactive, personal, and participatory. No lectures. No ideology. No pressure to agree.

Practical info

• Where: Villa Vrede, Europalaan 55, 3526 KP Utrecht
• Or online via Zoom, using the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87051593429?pwd=K7aGpzgQSWRAWdPi4HXaGhQcH8BHpU.1
Meeting ID: 870 5159 3429 Passcode: 956387

• When: 29 January 2026, from 16.00-18.00

• Who: Students, Activists, Social workers interested in activism, bias awareness, and social responsibility

• Please fill out this registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBLoK-ZZhyccSr_rgpcoNYWLA0a8oJuQtq6Dp2IIQIkXRIgA/viewform?usp=publish-editor

17/09/2025

🔴 LIGHT Project - Newsletter #4: September 2025 🟠

We’re thrilled to bring you the latest updates from the LIGHT Project:

🌍 Youth-Led Awareness: Young people across Europe have been shaping powerful messages through storytelling, videos, and creative campaigns. Their voices are raising awareness on unconscious bias and invisible racism in fresh, authentic ways.

💡 Tools for Youth Workers: Our Awareness Pack is now live! Co-created with young people, it offers stories, videos, and practical resources designed to spark dialogue and inspire action among peers and communities.

🤝 Sharing Knowledge: Partners and youth workers are actively exchanging experiences, ensuring that insights and best practices travel across borders to strengthen inclusive youth work.

Join us in spreading LIGHT!



LIGHT - an Erasmus+ Youth Project is led by a diverse group of partners from across Europe: Licra - Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme (France), KMOP (Greece), Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci ETS (Italy), Radio La Benevolencija (Netherlands), and CWEP (Poland).

01/07/2025

🔴 LIGHT Project - Newsletter #3: June 2025 🟠

We are excited to share the latest updates from the LIGHT Project!

Empowering Youth Workers: Our Capacity-Building Cycles are equipping youth workers with tools to tackle unconscious bias and invisible racism through interactive online courses, local support and collaborative learning.

Raising Awareness: We're engaging young people in creative workshops to explore identity, question stereotypes and understand bias. They’re creating impactful awareness materials like videos and personal stories.

Next Steps: Stay tuned for our Awareness Pack, a collection of stories and videos designed by youth, for youth, to spread awareness across Europe.

Join us in spreading LIGHT! 🌍✨

👉 Lees de Nederlandse nieuwsbrief hier: https://www.labenevolencija.org/stories/light-project-newsletter-1-in-dutch-6zz76



LIGHT - an Erasmus+ Youth Project is led by a diverse group of partners from across Europe: Licra - Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme (France), KMOP (Greece), Centro per lo sviluppo creativo Danilo Dolci (Italy), Radio La Benevolencija (Netherlands), and CWEP (Poland), each contributing unique expertise to promote inclusivity and tackle unconscious bias and racism.

23/05/2025

🧠 Think you're objective? Think again!

As part of the LIGHT Project, we asked participants un our workshops to explore real-life situations where unconscious bias influences decisions - and the examples that came up were all too familiar 👇

📌 Job Interviews: Applicants with non-Western names are often less likely to get a callback - even with identical CVs.
📌 Performance Reviews: Research shows that gender, race, and parental status can impact how managers rate performance.
📌 Justice: Even trial judges can be unconsciously influenced by race.
📌 Policing: Studies confirm disparities in stops and searches across racial lines.
📌 Education: Teachers may have lower expectations for students based on their background.
📌 Media & Advertising: Representation and stereotypes matter more than we think.

These biases are hard to see but powerful. That’s why we’re working to make them as recognisable as possible - so we can challenge them together.

🔦 Follow the LIGHT Project and be part of changing the narrative.

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LLIGHT - an Erasmus+ Youth Project

27/03/2025

🛑 “It’s just a joke.” “I didn’t mean it like that.” 🛑

Sound familiar? These are classic responses when get called out. But here’s the truth - intent doesn’t erase impact...

Microaggressions may seem small, but they create big barriers in workplaces, schools and communities.

They reinforce bias, exclusion, and invisible racism—often without people even realizing it.

So, how do we respond? 🤔 Thanks to research shared in the Harvard Business Review, we now have effective ways to address microaggressions without escalating conflict. Let’s start identifying, challenging, and changing these everyday moments that shape our social spaces.

Swipe through the post, learn the strategies, and join us in making a difference! Follow the LIGHT - an Erasmus+ Youth Project to be part of the change.

10/03/2025

🚨Attention youth workers, educators, and anyone passionate about shaping an inclusive future!🚨

As part of the LIGHT Consortium, we've been supporting the creation of something special - a toolkit with 30 educational tools designed to tackle invisible racism and unconscious biases. Think of it as your go-to resource for sparking meaningful conversations with young people.

One our favorites? Storytelling exercises! Stories have this magic ability to sneak past our defences, tap into our emotions, and make us see things from new perspectives. And that’s exactly what we need to break biases and build bridges. 🌍❤️

Check out the toolkit and follow the LIGHT project and get ready to dive into some seriously powerful tools!

The LIGHT Consortium has worked on creating a toolkit consisting of 30 educational tools. This comprehensive resource presents key concepts, learning methodologies, and innovative exercises to help youth workers raise awareness among young people about invisible racism, unconscious biases, and initiate meaningful discussions on these topics.
For example, this toolkit includes five storytelling exercises. Storytelling is an excellent tool that engages multiple areas of our brain and appeals to our emotions.

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30/01/2025

🔴 LIGHT Project - Newsletter 1, January 2025 🟠

Youth Work Sheds LIGHT on Unconscious Bias and Invisible Racism

Welcome to the first edition of the LIGHT Project newsletter!

We are excited to begin our journey to empower youth workers and young people to recognise and challenge and . The LIGHT Erasmus+ project aims to improve the capacity of youth work to tackle unconscious bias and invisible racism, to contribute to the fight against and to promote within EU societies.

29/01/2025

🔴 🟠 Het LIGHT-project werpt licht op onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme in heel Europa 🟠🔴

Het LIGHT - an Erasmus+ Youth Project heeft de ambitie om onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme te bestrijden door concrete oplossingen te bieden om bewustwording over dit fenomeen te vergroten en tools aan te reiken aan jeugdwerkers in Europa. Het project wordt gecoördineerd door Licra - Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme (Frankrijk), in samenwerking met haar Europese partners: KMOP – Education and Innovation Hub (Griekenland), Centro per lo sviluppo creativo Danilo Dolci (Italië), Stichting Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation (Nederland) en Stowarzyszenie Centrum Wspierania Edukacji i Przedsiębiorczości (Polen).

Lees hier het volledige persbericht ➡️

Het LIGHT-project werpt licht op onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme in heel Europa Het LIGHT-project heeft de ambitie om onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme te bestrijden door concrete oplossingen te bieden om bewustwording over dit fenomeen te vergroten en tools aan te reiken a...

28/01/2025

🔴 LIGHT Project - Newsletter 1 (in Dutch) 🟠

Jongerenwerk werpt LIGHT op onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme

Welkom bij de eerste editie van de nieuwsbrief van het LIGHT Project!
We zijn verheugd om onze reis om jeugdwerkers en jongeren in staat te stellen onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme te herkennen en uit te dagen te beginnen. Het LIGHT Erasmus+-project streeft ernaar het vermogen van jeugdwerk om onbewuste vooroordelen en onzichtbaar racisme aan te pakken
te verbeteren, bij te dragen aan de strijd tegen discriminatie en om inclusiviteit binnen de EU-samenlevingen te bevorderen.

Het volledige nieuwsbrief ➡️

16/12/2024

simplifies a complex world by filling in gaps with assumptions rather than facts. While this might make quick judgments easier, it often leads to unfair treatment and missed opportunities.

🔎 We use labels to simplify our world, but they often limit understanding and perpetuate stereotypes. 🔎

- A student labeled a “nerd” might be overlooked for an internship because they’re seen as bookish rather than social.
- Someone seen as “too aggressive” in meetings may not be considered for management, even if they have strong leadership potential.
- A person labeled as “shy” might be excluded from group activities, assuming they don’t want to participate.

Labels dictate how others perceive and interact with us - and worse still they often stick - regardless of who we truly are. By questioning these stereotypes, we can prevent them from shaping unfair decisions in workplaces, schools and communities.

What labels have you noticed being unfairly applied to others—or even yourself? Share your thoughts below!

References:
- Research by Jennifer Eberhardt highlights how labels distort perceptions, affecting our judgments unconsciously (Psychology Today).
- Studies like Darley and Gross’s show how stereotypes influence assumptions, even with identical evidence (Psychology Today).
- Findings from the University of Toronto demonstrate how stereotyping creates lasting negative effects, perpetuating inequalities (ScienceDaily).