"""""Yes we are in"" stands for an trajectory with five theatre groups with adult actors/actresses with intellectual disabilities who want to experiment in the digital world. Culture is a tool for integration and inclusiveness for people who have special needs; ensuring and encouraging access to the arts for people with special needs is beneficial to our societies as it allows us to tap into the creativity of all people, including artists and citizens with special needs themselves. Digital literacy and the skills to work with social media are becoming basic elements in daily life. More than 30% of disabled adults – compared with 11% of non-disabled adults - have never used the internet. Informed by the above, this project's objectives are to showcase innovative practices as well as implement joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at a European level, focusing on the horizontal priority of “social inclusion” and 'innovative practice in digital era', for adult learners with a disability. This project deals with artistic work with groups with intellectual impairment. The project aims to improve their social communication skills, language skills and digital skills. Overall, this will lead to increased self-esteem and more social inclusion. The main objectives the theatre groups will address are:1. A digital adventure, experiment and learning path2. A substantive intercultural trajectory3. An artistic trajectory The digital adventure is the creation of a performance on each of the stages of the five theaters with live stream connectivity with the other four groups.This performance can only succeed if the ambassadors of these theater groups (five from each) form a close-knit team. For this, they meet three times during the 30 months of the project during a five days workshop: talking together about their own environment, about their own culture, about their artistic activities, about their dreams for their own city, ...In this way they process the intercultural process of the project as a group. The artistic directors have to process this intercultural richness of diversity in the live stream performances to be made. Between the three group meetings abroad, the five theater groups will organize bi-monthly livestream evenings where they practice together. The project will be supervised by a large youth organization, specialized in digital tools and training young people in the use of these tools. The artistic supervisors of the partner organizations will receive two multi-day training courses from them. A video documentary on the whole trajectory and objectives, as well as an eBook of guidelines, will be realised, in addition to video montages about the various international meetings.In all those outputs the participant learners with disabilities will express their way of dealing with digital tools, social media and the process of co-creation of a live stream common performance.“Yes we are in” aims to strengthen the self-confidence of people with disabilities by giving them opportunities in the digital world, in intercultural interaction with each other in an artistic way."

GUIA2! project aimed to exchange experiential knowledge and methods of work with disabled people by means of artistic tools. In this respect, the project reached its aims with organizing all workshops face-to-face inspire of COVID-19 and prepared all outputs.7 workshops included both disabled and non-disabled participants. Professional teachers and trainees from partner organizations attended these workshops. Post-session debriefings organized to exchange methodologies and experiences towards achieving monitoring and output measures. Presentations used to increase participation in European citizenship, promote discussions on disability & employability issue and enhance Disability Festivals. Moreover, individual interviews and focus group interviews were held to measure the impact of the workshops. In this sense, with these inclusive workshops the project achieved to reduce prejudice and enhance social and artistic inclusion. It also empower participants by addressing their self-stigma and invite them to join in this inclusive European educational program. Moreover, the project helped the development of inclusive methodologies for working with disabled people. It also achieved learning through the sharing of professional knowledge. The project acknowledged all participants as equal partners on the way to integration and to overcome stigmatization, marginalization, exclusion. Not only to guide them towards, but really to lead them “into” the arts, as active participants and artists.80 participants (including 11 disabled participants) attended 7 educational workshops, individual post-workshop public performances and 3 disability multiple-days festivals. It was planned for 100 participants but partner from Brussels had some problems with disabled participants and trainers in the organization which is mentioned in the interim report, and they could not send participants to any workshop. However, they hosted the TPM as planned and they also hosted the workshop as planned int he application form.Partnership produced and published: - Online Final photo exhibition because of COVID-19 (https://www.guia2.org/photo-exhibition), - Digital Stories - short educational videos from all meetings (https://www.guia2.org/digital-stories), - Website with educational materials (video, e-Manual, photos, descriptions of methods) (https://www.guia2.org) - e-Manual - with all methods, experiences of participants, evaluation results and recommendations by experts and educators (https://www.guia2.org/e-manuel) - Photographic documentary on the project and project partner organization (https://www.guia2.org/photo-gallery)

"EDUCATHE+ is a partnership of eight partners from six EU member states and one partner country who strive to enhance employment of people with disability (PWD) through use of educational theatre. This method enables us to empower people with disability by developing their Key Competences, share old and develop new methods, and enhance visibility of people with disability who are usually left on margins of the labour market due to prejudice. Disability is a social issue that has been addressed significantly by the EU in the recent years but what is lacking still is the notion among employers that being disabled is not being unable to work. As organizations with years of experience in working with and for disabled people, we find that this prejudice persists because of lack of interaction between the disabled and the ""non-disabled"". During our projects (on local and EU level), we have always found that a goal oriented interaction between ""non-disabled"" and disabled people results in higher levels of mutual understanding, cooperation and even employment and, on the other hand, lower levels of prejudice and subsequent discrimination. The basic method (""Educational theatre as the place for overcoming discrimination of PWD - EDUCATHE) was developed on that principles in 2008 and it has a profound educational and life altering impact on ""non-disabled"", disabled and educators alike. It is an open method that welcomes new input – which is especially important in order to capture the needs of different local communities in the EU. Therefore, this partnership will be used to share methods and enrich them through shared experience of partners, all the while expanding the subject from field of education to the field of employment. Built on a proven method that allows all partners to include their method, this partnership will give a new dimension and produce an added value of European stature for all those involved as we will directly involve learners and educators who are disabled and ""non-disabled"" and indirectly the general public, media and legislators (through our performances) - therefore addressing all ""stakeholders"" of this social issue.In total of 40 days of 8 international educational workshops, participants will undergo 112 mobilities (with 31 of those made by PWD), share/innovate practices and develop 8 theatre public-dissemination performances and raise public awareness of economic discrimination of disabled people - all the while receiving numerous ""soft-skills"" described by the EU Key Competences necessary for raising employment. Performances will be site-specific and held in locations that symbolize connection between the EU and the local country – which will add an additional EU dimension. Our performances will engage the audience and be meeting places where disabled people and the general public can interact and discuss – during and after the performances.Our performances will be recorded and disseminated on our web platform and all those interested in working with disabled and using theatre for educational purposes will be able to freely access online this knowledge and other materials produced by this partnership: E+ Toolbox, E+ educational video, E+ documentary. The outputs of our partnership will be built throughout the duration of the project and will include practices, exercises, experiences, interviews and methodologies that partners have brought into the project as their own contribution (e.g. their style of education theatre). In that way, partners will create a new mix-methodology for working with the disabled, promoting inclusion and employment. Beside our workshops that will produce public performances and reach the public, we will have three staff meetings to ensure quality project management and, equally important, give this partnership an additional, final media conference after 8 dissemination performances held in partner organizations. We are proud that this partnership has been built on values of transparent democracy, equality and solidarity which, we feel, is a mirror for what Europe strives for. By combining those principles with theatre workshops to achieve a goal of overcoming social prejudice and enhancing employability of disabled people (by making their abilities visible and rendering their physical/mental predicament less important in the eye of the employers) is something we want to encourage other organizations to do. We see this partnership as a basis to build a common future network for organizations who address the needs of the disabled and work in education & culture to improve employability of PWD. We use this opportunity to invite all interested organizations and individuals who work with, for, or advocate rights of disabled persons (and other marginalized groups) to contact and join us during the project and afterwards - when we plan to take a third step and spread the results of EDUCATHE + method across Europe and its adult education system."