<< Objectives >>1) We think adult educators have the need to know better RoD in order to better manage the process of empowerment with their learners, mainly when they use active methods which imply moving emotions. 2) Moreover, adult educators can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the difficulties in managing the emotions and pains perceived in the group of learners, often coming from extreme situations, poverty, racism, war, discrimination, violence. For these reasons RoD can be also a tool to be used.<< Implementation >>Theoretical SeminarTrainingSystematizing SeminarApplication On The FieldFollow Up SeminarHandbook About Using Rainbow Of Desires In Adult Education<< Results >>1) A 40 pages handbook about Rainbow of Desires used in Adult education2) A rich debate in the 3 seminars about how to use RoD to empower marginalised groups.

The LegiLab 4 Progress project was carried out in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme (NA MOVIT). The entire project took place during 16 months (from June 2017 till Octobre 2018) and connected 4 organisations from 4 different countries (Giolli from Italije, Active Inquiry from Scotland, Pracownia Inspiracji Społecznych from Poland and Pekarna Magdalenske mreže Maribor from Slovenia). The project was in fact a continuation of the collaboration between these organisations and their exploration of the method of Legislative Theatre that had been initiated in the previous episodes of the LegiLab project.Legislative Theatre is the name of one of the methods of Theatre of the Oppressed developed, as so many others, by Augusto Boal in Brazil between 1993 and 1997. The method was created during Boal's service as „Vereador“, i.e. Member of the City Council in Rio de Janeiro, which presented an opportunity to actually participate in the process of passing the city legislation. When looking for a way to use this opportunity in a way to hand over the legislative power to the citizens themselves as much as possible, i.e.e the people directly affected by the said legislation that shapes their lives, he came up with this approach. The technique is an upgrade of the forum theatre method which in itself calls for active participation by the spectators by changing them into spect-actors who actively intervene into the action on stage that presents to them given real-life problems. The spect-actors then look for ways to resolve or appease the presented dilemmas and improve the situation of the oppressed characters. Legislative Theatre upgrades this by looking not only for practical suggestions but also legislative proposals that could improve the position of the oppressed at a systemic level by changing and adjusting the legislation according to the needs of real people. In the previous editions of the LegiLab project the members of the participating organisations were together exploring and developing the technique of Legislative Theatre. This time we decided that each organisation would implement the knowledge and skills gained in their local environment. Each of the organisations thus developed its own form of Legislative Theatre, thus implementing this method in practice. This brought forth four different projects: River management project in Italy, The (Almost) Silent World in Poland, The Housing Project in Scotland and Status quo on the Labour Market in Slovenia. The short documentary film 'LegiLab: Experiments in Legislative Theatre' presents the method of Legislative Theatre and documents how each of the organisations tackled their own legislative project. The online booklet 'Beyond Performance: Experiences in Legislative Theatre' translated into 4 languages (Slovene, English, Polish and Italian) offers a more in-depth insight and reflection on the Legislative Theatre technique. The compendium presents several articles on Legislative Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed, examples of good practice and reflections on political participation of youth in Europe. Using a comparative analysis of the current state of political participation of youth in the countries of participating organisations we gained better insight into what forms of social engagement of youth can be found in individual countries and thus encouraged the transfer of good practices.The main motivation for undertaking the LegiLab 4 Progress project was the state of political engagement (mostly among youth) in Europe and their interests and ways of communication with decision makers. A common thread of the project was a debate on what are the options that young people actually have to engage in political participation as compared to the time of the formation of the Legislative Theatre technique. In sight of the ever more apparent weaknesses of representative democracy in Europe and the world and alarming warnings about the democratic deficit and the growing gap between politics and the people, the initiatives to search for alternative ways of participation and democratic decision making also multiply. One of the ways is also the method of Legislative Theatre which offers participants in-depth insight into the concrete problems affecting themselves in the local environment (be it at the state or local level of legislation) and later to actively participate in the search for alternative solutions and legislative changes by which they can improve the situation. Thu the power of decision-making is being given back in the hands of the wider population rather than just a handful of political actors and decision makers.More about the project: https://legilab4progress.wixsite.com/legilab4progress

<< Objectives >>COFA aims to support Adult educators to use Community organising with participatory approaches to make their practice more democratic, more inclusive and better able to connect with linguistically diverse communities of migrants and refugees. The project aims to transform Community organising through the addition of Legislative-Theatre and Newspaper-Theatre from Theatre of the Oppressed, multilingual and participatory pedagogy and Participatory Video.<< Implementation >>COFA will organise three trainings, one in Community organising, a second in Newspaper-Theatre with Participatory Video and a third in Legislative-Theatre and its potential for Community organising. We will also develop 5 Project Results: a podcast and article about Community organising, a website to support participatory and multilingual facilitation, a Newspaper-Theatre tool-kit, a handbook of Legislative-Theatre best practice and a Guide to start a Participatory Video process.<< Results >>Through training, research leading to 5 relevant Project Results and dissemination through a series of multiplier events in each of the partner countries COFA intends to support Adult educators and Community organisers to introduce new methods that will help them be more effective teachers and organisers, especially with migrant communities. The ultimate outcome will be that migrant communities benefit from the more inclusive and more effective community organising practices.

<< Objectives >>Cultural diversity is a reality in society and convictional pluralism is a natural part of it. Yet it remains invisible in mainstream discourse and we observe an increase in hate speech and discrimination towards (religious) minorities. TBNTB supports the inclusion of groups with fewer opportunities and promotes interreligious and interconvictional dialogue using the Theatre of the Oppressed as a innovative tool to transform and to promote an active, committed and participatory citizenship,<< Implementation >>Key activities are:1 online theoretical seminar about Inter-religious/convictional dialogue1 training in Brussels (Belgium) about how to use Theatre of the Oppressed in interreligious/convictional dialogue3 local paths to apply what was learned in the training, held in Brussels, Parma, Valladolid1 feedback seminar, to collect the results of the 3 local paths and setting the tool-kit1 tool-kit about interreligious/iconvictional dialogue approach, integrated with Theatre of the Oppressed.<< Results >>We expect these concrete results:1) Invented and tested new approach to interreligious/interconvictional dialogue, integrated by Theatre of the Oppressedmethod2) High quality tool-kit about this integrated method3) Spread results and tool-kit in the youth work area in Brussels, Parma, Valladolid in specific and Europe in general4) Improved collaboration among Axcent, Giolli, Red Incola.

"Each of the partner organisations are deeply concerned about the rise in anti-immigration sentiment and action across the continent and determined to do something about it.Giolli is the lead partner that has brought the four organisations together. Each brings a specific expertise. Giolli is one of the lead Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners in the world and has years of experience in anti-racism work. They identified Elan Interculturel (France), EFA (England) and Nyke (Hungary).Elan Intercultural brings expertise in fostering intercultural understanding among health professionals and social workers using an approach called Critical Incidents. EFA combines language and literacy training for migrants and refugees with action for social change. They are experts in Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and community organising. NYKE struggle in their national difficult situation using mainly Theatre-in-Educations tools.All are working with migrants and supporting them to lead complete lives free from discrimination.MiGREAT! has international learning and professional development at its core. We will share our expertise, learn new methods and bring these methods to a wide audience in order to have a bigger impact in the crucial work of creating counter- narratives around immigration and integration.We will run six trainings, in four different countries that will reach around 80 professionals. We will reach 100s more through our dissemination (workshops, seminars and conference) and intellectual outputs (handbook, Visual tools and Theatre scripts. The profile of these participants will be varied and that is one of the key strengths of our proposal. They will include adult educators, theatre practitioners, activists, campaigners, community organisers, pshychologists, social workers and cultural workers. Many of these professionals will be migrants themselves.The methodologies are equally varied. Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) is a set of techniques created by Brazilian theatre director and activist, Augusto Boal. TO fundamentally disturbs the relationship between players and audience. Boal talks about ""spect-actors"" and states that theatre is for everyone and not just the elites. In TO marginalised people have the opportunity to express the challenges their face in a creative, empowering way and rehearse interventions that can help to change things in real life.EFA follow the work of Paulo Freire, who was a contemporary of Boal. Freire developed power theories of language and literacy development that puts learners at the heart of the process. He also focused oppressed people and consciousness-raising of their conditions and the potential solutions. Freirean education validates the lives and experiences of the learners and seeks to effect positive change outside the classroom. EFA are doing this in their unique way in London. They are incorporating a community organising approach. This is building power in the community in order to hold the state and the market to account. It is about identifying and developing community leaders in order to take action for the commongood.NYKE add a specific emphasis on Theatre-in-Education approach that is empowering in the context of life in the 21stcentury. Elan Interculturel bring critical incidents to the group. This is a systematic way to analyse key issues and problem-solve. Itdraws from the world of pshychology and is complementary to the methods described above.We anticipate that the project will be transformative, both for the professionals involved and in turn the people they are working to empower. When Dermot Bryers, CEO of EFA London, attended a five day training with Giolli on TO in 2011 he returned to Londonwith a new mindset and a new set of tools to apply to his context. EFA have incorporated these methods into their work, and trained over 100 teachers and activists in TO techniques. We expect a similar impact multiplied many times over. Scores of organisations in at least four European countries and hundreds of practitioners in a variety of fields will learn new imaginative ways of working with migrants to create positive narratives around migration.The long-term benefits of MiGREAT! will be to help make Europe a more hospitable place for new arrivals for years to come. This will benefit host communities and migrants alike."