"“SOW. LARD BALL. COW. MISTAKE OF NATURE. I HOPE YOU'RE RAPED. WATER HEATER WITH LEGS. YOU, DISGUSTING BITCH"" Michela Murgia, writer.YouGov, the largest online data catalogue available, made a European survey about body shaming. Really important it’s the data that tells us how many people don’t even have the knowledge to understand that they are victims of it. People whose bodies do not correspond to the ""ideal"" canon are insulted or discriminated against - one-third of people in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Spain have already experienced this on their own. In most cases, being a victim of body shaming is not an isolated case: among Europeans who have suffered discrimination, 36% have suffered more than ten times.""Body Shining"" is an outcome of the interest of all 5 European partner associations to multiply and improve the tools and abilities in the field of non-formal education with youth at risk of social exclusion, by sharing and combining resources, abilities, experiences and good practices amongst them. Each one of the partner's associations is specialized in one field of non-formal education.Main objectives of the project are:• Raise awareness about the act of body-shaming • Give tools of art mediation • Zeroing cyberbullying and act of discrimination• Enhancing self-esteem that allows us to have good relations with our-self and the others (fundamental for our personal growth development). The project has a duration of 29 months within which we improve 5 intellectual output: IO1 ""What does body shaming mean?"": We will present a book filled with young people’s perspectives on body-shaming. It will be based on workshops co-designed by them and by young with disabilities. It will collect 200 critical incidentsIO2 ""Toolkit for prevention"": The output will consist of a series of video and texts offering training tools for youth workers to address the topic of body-shaming. The focus will be on prevention of body-shamingIO3 ""Art workshops for body-positivity"" while IO2 focuses on creating pedagogical tools for prevention, IO3 focuses on pedagogical tools that can be used for youngsters who had experienced body shaming. We will deliver art-based workshops in co-constructionIO4 ""Online learning platform"" aims to help youth workers integrate the project’s products into their work practice either by establishing specific training or by inserting specific sessions into the existing collaboration process. To facilitate the adaptation of our training we’ll upload the videos from IO2 and IO3 illustrating the workshop processes of the different intellectual outputsIO5 ""Artistic-campaign to raise awareness about body-shaming"" consists in preparing art-campaigns co-developed by youth and artists on the main topics of the project and in delivering a toolkit to build a replicable model for art-campaign making, embedded in specific pedagogical objectives. IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE/YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESThrough prevention activities they will: • Raise awareness of the role and the use of the internet, social media, and cyberbullying• Develop skills to identify, avoid, or escape from the act of body shaming• Degrowth of hate speeches• Zeroing shame as a result of a traumatic experienceThrough body-positivity aptitude they will: • Increase confidence and safety• Gain skills namely: self-approval, self-esteem, security • Accept and appreciate diversity as an element of enrichment Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops it will: • Acquire tools to run an artistic workshop• Be empowered through their increasing ability to do research, to explore their own perceptions and to find out more about other people’s attitudes and beliefs• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation.IMPACT ON YOUTH WORKERS Through prevention activities they will gain: • Vocabulary used by young people• Competences to address the possible presence of insecurity concerning certain parts of us, which affects the well-being of our lives• Skills to advocate and prevent acts of discriminationThrough body-positivity aptitude they will: • Obtain tools to empower young people • Acquire the capacity to animate in autonomy art mediation workshops with young people related to the body • Get capacity to promote body positivity aptitude Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops they will:• Gain a better capacity to discuss concepts of body shaming and self-esteem• Acquire the capacity to connect concepts and discussions to everyday professional challenges• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation."

The Urban Survival Kits project is a trans-national learning initiative exploring how Adults With Disabilities (AWD), including atypical and neurodiverse, can be supported with their local, national and international travel needs. USK builds on the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and removes barriers in physical infrastructure; accessibility of information, and creates effective communication tools.Without immediate intervention; people with disabilities will continue to be the most deeply impacted and isolated people in our society. The long-term implications of the pandemic and additional challenges they face in daily life mean that without the opportunities to reengage and connect they will remain largely excluded. The partnership is designed to maximise the impact of “Urban Survival Kits” (USK): an innovative program with staff and the adults with disabilities they support (AWD).USK is an individually centred program delivered through a variety of artistic mediums/techniques and integrated through digital media. USK is introducing innovative ways of thinking and working and developing a range of skills based on the key competencies of lifelong learning.Through intensive hands-on training, the 12 staff will directly experience each element and outcomes of the program. Their experience, reflective learning and expertise will directly inform and refine the workshops delivered to AWD in each partner organisation.A series of online workshops will be delivered to 24 AWD, supported by staff, creating a specifically tailored, inclusive and immersive learning experience. This integrated structure provides a safe way of experimenting, externalising, reframing and ultimately sharing their real-life stories and experiences. Increasing the relevance, level of engagement and long-term impact and opportunities it will create. Activities include:1 STT (5) days (15) Staff1 blended mobility workshop (5) AWD (30) support staff (15)1 Blended mobility workshops (5) AWD (30) support staff (15)5 Multiplier Events partner-based.1 International Multiplier event1 Awards Multiplier Event (+online International virtual exhibition tour)20 Partner online meetings4 Transnational meetingsPartner organisations from Northern Ireland, Croatia, Turkey, and Poland provide a holistic integrated approach to the educational goals of USK - collectively creating an adaptable blueprint for Survival Kits which can be adapted for any place, time or situation.During 24 months, partners will translate, adapt and consult directly in contact with the artist. Establishing a collaborative process of ongoing evaluation, optimising the accessibility of all teaching and learning methods, materials and instruction manuals for each partner organisation.Participants will:- experiment with new artistic and digital mediums for self-expression, exploration and navigation of the world around them- build directly transferable life skills needed to orientate and negotiate the independent adventures ahead- develop their creative, digital competencies and create any survival kit they will ever need- practice hands-on training, digital recording content from their site Digital Trail working as part of a rotating film crew- prepare an Exhibition, showcasing their Survival Kits, Digital Trails, Artworks and UV inventions. A unique opportunity to re-connect and interact as part of a larger group- create a universal/traditional game for Livestream interaction, providing an opportunity to share interact and network international platformAn International Exhibition of selected works at the University of The Atypical Public Gallery will create a way of engaging peers, policymakers, government agencies and creating a new international audience and online presence - transforming individual and collective narratives; establishing them as survivors, leaders and peer advocates of the future.The Digital Trails Website and the app will also be launched, creating a sustainable network linking each of the Live Digital Trails which can be followed and contributed to. The growth of live interactive Digital Trails will provide a sustainable mechanism to connect, communicate and reengage through an accessible network; enriching social interaction, leading the AWD across Europe.The USK Awards and selected works will tour via a 3-d printer and be reproduced and presented to the participants in each partner country.By creating and sharing their own USK, the learners and teachers will:-adapt the process for their re-engagement and active participation in wider society-create new strategies to prepare them for reconnecting and engaging with daily life and journeys of any distance or kind-create their own personal dialogue and means of communicating beyond the confines of traditional language-Collectively creating a universal language, dialogue, teaching and learning tools providing a reusable framework for inclusivity in adult education and dire

"Crafting the Inclusion: Crafts and Practices in non-formal education for increasing social inclusion (CRAFT:IN) is a partnership focused on exchange of various crafts that will develop human resources within partner organisations, develop key competences of their staff, start new non-formal educational activities and entrepreneurship initiatives, and promote social inclusion of marginalised groups.CRAFT:IN consists of five partner organisations from Croatia, Germany, UK, Portugal, and Slovenia with transferable knowledge of a craft – one that their educators use in educational work with adults from various marginalised groups (refugees, Roma, people with disability, migrants…).Working with marginalised groups, partner organisations noticed that crafts can play a role in raising social inclusion, cultural awareness and mutual understanding between the dominant local culture and marginalised. Simply said, doing crafts, working with hands, sharing tools, methods, and owning their final products helps motivation, communication and mutual understanding.For the most part, crafts can be thought nonverbally (through practice) and, as such, are ideal for outreach campaigns and inter-cultural work even with communities who don’t speak the language. Crafts bring together people from various backgrounds (including marginalised groups) and promote interest in both “old” (local) and “new” (e.g. refugees) tradition, heritage, culture, skills, and design. As such, crafts help preserve the local culture, but also mirror the cultural diversity of peoples in Europe and can be platforms for intercultural exchange.However, positive effects are limited and quite vulnerable. To overcome this, activities should be continuous and explicitly established. They simply don’t occur spontaneously, as researchers Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam found in 2018. In other words, there has to be an agent that will facilitate inspiring craft programmes for marginalised groups, after which crafts show positive effects and harbour social inclusion and build “new”, mutual European cultural identity.For this reason, partner’s gathered in CRAFT:IN as they will gain knowledge of new crafts they can then introduce to their marginalised groups and develop new craft educational programmes of higher quality and international appeal. This will enable partners to develop their human resources and network further, their staff members to raise their EU Key Competences (multilingualism, cultural expression, entrepreneurship), and (with time) help heal social divide between the locals and marginalised groups.Each partner will host one independent Learning Teaching and Training (LTT) workshop where each host will, through methods of practical learning and non-formal education, share a craft they are masters of, and incite cultural exchange through practical experience and face-to-face participants’ interaction. Each workshop will end with an exhibition of products made at the workshop and/or public event where participants will promote inclusion, meet the locals, and discuss the role of crafts in developing inclusion at local level.In order to utilise newly gained knowledge and skills the most, partners will send two representatives to each workshop, to learn new skills and crafts. Upon their return, they will organise follow-up presentations (20 in total; 4 per partner) of the new skills and, where possible, start new inclusive programmes in the local community based on their new craft.To make their experiences tangible, partners will publish a Manual on various crafts we shared in effort to promote inclusion.In the background, back equally important, partners will host three Transnational Project Meetings (TPM) where managers will monitor project’s implementation, evaluate its past activities, and plan the future ones; including online campaigns for promotion and dissemination, and coordinating production of informal outputs.In total, 40 educational mobilises, 10-15 participants from marginalised groups, 3 project meetings, 1 online publication on inclusive crafts, 5 workshops and exhibitions/public discussions will be held. These activities will significantly increase partner organisations’ human resources, develop individual key competences, and promote crafts as means of inclusion and non-formal learning.In the long term, partner organisations see this partnership as a ""stepping stone"" - the first of many that will follow and lead to a sustainable and open European platform for inclusive crafts and social entrepreneurship.. Partners are committed to building this platform that will help preserve, develop and promote crafts for social inclusion."

"""""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)