“Prevention is key: it is crucial to invest in interventions that are aimed at removing the breeding ground for radicalisation to prevent these processes or stop them as early as possible.”RAN CollectionPreventing Radicalisation to Terrorism and Violent Extremism(EU Commission, 2016)State of the art knowledge and practical experience on radicalisation prevention in schools is excellently collated and summarized in the 2016 EU Commission publication “Preventing Radicalisation to Terrorism and Violent Extremism”, produced by the Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network.The CHRIS project is guided and directed by this publication, which is demonstrated across the application.The CHRIS project is one of the first projects in Europe to take the Commission’s Young People’s Co-creation Agenda seriously and to implement this Agenda to create valuable contributions to radicalisation prevention in schools, based on the full, authentic and uncompromised co-creation of young students from a diversity of European countries.The CHRIS approach is guided by the fact that young people’s co-creation is a SINE QUA NON for efficient and future-oriented radicalisation strategies in European schools.The CHRIS project is embedded in a long-term European strategy:The “CHRIS Schools” project will be followed and complemented by a “CHRIS Community” project submitted to the October 2016 Erasmus+ Youth Call and addressing radicalisation prevention in community contexts.The wider perspective is a Knowledge Alliance application to be submitted in 2017 or 2018, bringing together powerful radicalisation prevention resources.The CHRIS project will involve young students in basic schooling in the development of sustainable ways of countering radicalisation in schools, based on in-depths engagement in what produces radicalisation potential in relation to teenage identity formation and through real-life and real-time community collaboration – and with the aim to build capacity to co-create the project outcomes.The CHRIS project will take radicalisation prevention in schools to a didactic level and mobilize young students’ hidden and unfolded knowledge to do so.Therefore the project will take the participating young student teams through 3 phases of capacity building and co-creation: Feeling Me Feeling School (identity), Open Schooling (reality and community) and Co-creation (design of radicalisation prevention in schools).The project will build capacity and in particular critical capacity among the young students to be co-creating the project results, including through virtual collaboration between the students from the pan-EU partnership and climaxing the collaboration through a 5 days intensive mobility event, the CHRIS Co-creation Encounter.The project will move radicalisation prevention beyond delivery of content and beyond punctual and event-based interventions and towards a didactic level: countering the development of early radicalisation potential through offering young people solid life-wide narratives, (gender) identities and missions, including empowering to political narratives and identities.The CHRIS project is based on 2 important assumptions, resulting from state of the art research:- Involvement in engaging, including and exciting learning activities, work forms and life-wide missions is a more powerful prevention measure than punctual delivery of anti-radicalisation content and eventing, as it links to the formation of identity along the teenage years- Powerful radicalisation-countering in schools can only be created in close collaboration with the young students themselves, unlocking their hidden knowledge and unfolding their co-creative potential, also because most anti-radicalisation communicators are embedded in a culture and discourse very different from 21st century boys and girlsThe project will engage 2 teams of 5 young students from each of the 5 participating schools along the entire project. The young teams will be supported by 2 teachers from each participating schools.The full participation of the young students has been formally endorsed by the school managements, as documented in the Letters of Endorsement attachment.The project’s knowledge partners will guide and inspire the project practice and will work with the young teams to produce the final outcomes.The project will produce the following key outcomes:- CHRISresource - virtual radicalisation prevention in school resource center- CHRISguide – guide pack on radicalisation prevention in school for primary and secondary schools across Europe- CHRISvideo – 30 minutes video on radicalisation prevention in school, co-created and co-produced by the young students- CHRISresearch – recommendations for further and focused research based on the project experience and knowledge creation- CHRISpolicy – recommendations for radicalisation prevention policy for schools based on the project experience and knowledge creation