The 15- to 16-year-olds have spent two years putting together the resource pack, Watching the Media, along with young people from Germany, Austria, France and the Lebanon. The project is being overseen by the European Social Action Network, with funding coming from the European Social Fund.
Watching the Media, which contains games, ideas for activities and background information, is designed to help young people and youth workers to decode stereotypes in the media. It focuses on Arab and Muslim stereotypes. The launch will take place at the beginning of July.
Roz Mascarenhas, Black roots project worker at Milton Keynes Youth Service, said: "The young people have come up with ideas on how to question things that they see.
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