The main objective of ACTin’YouTH is to foster youth workers’ intercultural competences with theatrical methodologies aimed at creating local theatre workshops for the social inclusion of young people with different cultural background at risk of social exclusion. In fact, youth workers will gain competences also in the field of non-violent communication, conflict resolution, facilitation and will develop their communicative skills through theatrical methodologies as well as storytelling circles, thus improving intercultural communication competences and innovative approaches for the engagement of disadvantaged or underrepresented groups, in order to tackle discrimination and social exclusion. All the acquired skills will be used during the implementation of both local and blended theatre workshops. At the same time, there is a strong emphasis on the protagonism and leadership of the young participants in each phase of the project, as to boost their competences effectively. In nowadays interconnected world, it’s urgent to assure that younger generations really communicate and interact amongst them and it’s also important to search for methods improving mutual collaboration and participation. We believe that intercultural dialogue among young people can highly benefit from creativity and performing methodologies, since they learn how to put into practice intercultural dialogue and gain an alternative way of expressing themselves and the cultural features of the groups they belong to.In particular, theatre and performing arts can lead to an active experimentation of the intercultural dialogue power, experiencing the opportunity to work on self-knowledge, body-language and creativity, by acting and interacting together in the same framework, even though they don’t know each other, or they don’t speak the same language or share the same social and cultural framework.Specific objectives are: - develop a theatre-based training course for improving youth workers’ intercultural competences and social skills, aimed at engaging and involving young people- carry on local intercultural theatre workshops and related on-line activities;- create a cooperative final “digital performance”;- develop a collaborative interactive platform and tools;- produce a methodological manual with a collection of case studies based on local experiences.As a result, we will have:1) 24 TRAINED YOUTH WORKERS from 6 different countries on intercultural and theatre-based communication methodologies2) YOUNG PEOPLE with a different cultural background, taking part to the local activities, will experiment an engaging opportunity to interact with other young people, finding common ways of communication, interaction, mutual understanding and collaboration.So, they will gain- experience in a TARGETED METHODOLOGY to improve their intercultural communication competences that can be useful also for their future professional path and employability potential,- specific TRAINING in the methodology, that they will replicate in local activities led by themselves together with the Youth Workers,- TRANSNATIONAL LEARNING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE which itself is a great way to make young people aware of the richness of the intercultural encounter.3) INTERACTIVE PLATFORM, to make participants from all partners countries exchange their ideas, their outcomes and their materials on the ongoing activities (at local and transnational level), that will remain after the project’s lifespan as a repository of good practices developed during the project and as e-training tool for further Youth Workers and Young People who’d like to approach the methodology. The platform will also be the digital environment where young people, led by youth workers, will develop, starting from inputs given by the non-formal education sessions, the open, transnational and collaborative theatrical performance online. 4) MANUAL that will collect the results of the projects, the specific challenges and solutions implemented, in order to further spread it at national and international level, particularly addressed to Youth Organisations and Public Authorities that should be interested in creating local intercultural workshops aimed at social inclusion of young people. 5) VIRTUAL NETWORK of all organisations, associations, informal youth groups working with theatre and performative arts as tools for social inclusion and intercultural dialogue.6) INTERNATIONALIZATION OF A NEW METHODOLOGY: through the project, the methodology developed by the partner organisations, gathering together their different experiences in the field of social inclusion, will be tested, qualified and recognised in a transnational context with specific target groups and thus become transferable and replicable in other contexts.

<< Objectives >>Perform4Change aims at providing adult learners from local communities of the partners with tools to improve their soft skills through performing arts training, contributing to their civic engagement and willingness to participate in public sphere concerns, such as Climate Change. The community will collaboratively create artistic performances in a non-formal learning process aligned with the European common values and developed in an international good training practises exchange context.<< Implementation >>During Perform4Change, we will apply 6 workshops on performing arts for the development of civic/soft skills in adult learners, through the discussion about climate change. 6 public performances will come out of the training workshops. For the improvement of the workshops, partners will participate in each other’s workshops in each country and improve their own, engaging in good practises exchange that will result in an handbook of good practises.<< Results >>With Perform4Change, we aim at improving involved participants' civic/soft competences through performing arts training. 6 public performances addressing Climate Change awareness will take place, as a result. We will develop a good practises handbook on training that will be shared in open access. Partners aim at developing a collaborative international network, integrating new ways of working among entities with similar objectives and mission.

"Five organizations from Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Romania and Portugal take part in the ""Culture of Solidarity"" project. The essence of the project is the exchange of good practices and mutual learning. All partners have long been conducting non-standard educational activities based on the use of creative methods in combination with art and cultural heritage. The partners are very different in terms of target groups and methods of operation. The confrontation of various experiences will allow to gain a different perspective on their current activity, adopt new solutions and reflect on what features and skills of educators are universal in the work of all project partners. The difference of the project consists in departing from narrow specialization in order to increase the ability to respond to the changing reality and new challenges resulting from unpredictable phenomena (pandemic, mass migration, climate change). The partners' experiences show that traditional adult education consisting in preparing an educational offer and then recruiting is becoming less and less effective. It is more and more difficult to attract new participants, especially outside large cities and in groups at risk of social exclusion. Therefore, it seems necessary to develop a different approach to non-formal adult education (including young people). The educator should also be an animator working ""from the inside"" and professional artists should work with the local community to create joint works. The role of such an educator is to stimulate selected communities to cultural activity and artistic creativity that arise from the needs and cultural heritage of these communities: discover interesting phenomena, find individualities, build a community within diverse environments. Such activities should be directed primarily to the inhabitants of the borderland, national, ethnic and cultural minorities, migrants and refugees, seniors, the so-called troubled youth.Educational and animation activities should bring lasting, long-term effects, as well as combine many different fields of art and cultural activity. It should also cover human rights and anti-discrimination issues. It should be a culture of solidarity. This can be, for example, the preparation of a theater team working on a play based on local history, organizing literary and photo competitions, etc., combined with workshops, an exhibition, and the publication of works; work on a film about local issues combined with a ceremonial screening, creating a website devoted to local issues, etc. The ability to cooperate with local partners: local authorities, cultural institutions, informal groups of residents is also of great value.The project assumes a departure from excessive specialization, which limits the possibilities of adapting to the changing reality. Organizers and educators should be prepared to work in various environments (age, nationality, religion, cultural heritage). The educator should have unique qualifications: knowledge about the environment, empathy, organizational skills, team building and teamwork skills, etc. The ability to create communities based on shared values is also important. The project involves the exchange of experience in this field among partners very diverse in terms of educational methods and tools, environments in which they work, organizational forms (ngo, public institutions, schools). The aim of the project is to prepare a new type of educators and to enrich the educational offer of the project participants."

<< Objectives >>The project promotes good practices in engaging, connecting and empowering adults, especially those with fewer opportunities and at risk of social exclusion, through theatre and performing arts. It is linked to the activation and social inclusion of disadvantaged/unprivileged social groups, whose representatives will be encouraged and empowered to use theatre as a means to advance their specific causes and interests in front of the general public and public opinion.<< Implementation >>The main project activities concern:1- recognition and development of a common methodology through the exchange of experiences2- training of trainers3- implementation of local inclusive workshops in 3 countries4- production of a joint performance5- production of storytelling and methodological and narrative workbooks<< Results >>The project will develop the skills of the project partners' staff, so that they expand their tools related to the world of theatre, in order to better meet the needs of the target groups, using theatre as a dynamic method for non-formal learning and the power of performing arts to connect and inspire people to live up to their full potential, making use of the educational, social and economic advantages that theatre and performing arts offer.