"""""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."

Skills Jump is a project for sharing good practices, empower and develop media and film literacy between youth, youth workers and media professionals. It is targeted for professionals working in practical media/film literacy, teachers, facilitators and youth age 15 to 19. The coordinator is Metka - Centre for Media Education (FI) and partners Mediaraven (BE) and Mouth That Roars (UK). The partners have found each other from Digital Youth seminar in Belgia which all participated. The main goal is to find ways to develop and understand each other’s organizations, learn new way to work between European media literacy and youth organizations. The participants would meet during 12 months once in each partner country. In the learning activities the main goal would be understanding how the organization works and what can be learned from each other. There will be two workers from each organization plus three youngsters (age 15 to 19) We have online meetings and transnational meetings in Finland, Belgia and UK. The goals mentioned by each partner: To get more experience in international youth work, digital ways to reach in youth and learning new ways to make projects with young people trough media and film / Metka - Centre for Media Education (FI) To learn new and innovative ways of reaching a diversity of young people ‎through the use of media / Mouth That Roars (UK) Learning how to cooperate on a project in an international context. Get more experienced in using film and other (digital) media to reach young people. / Mediaraven (BE) We expect the media/film literacy professionals, youth workers and youngsters learn and develop participatory ways of working, be inspired by each others work, learn new ways to work with youth, be empowered by other professionals and young people, develop tolerance and understanding and share good experience to their home organizations. When participators share the same problems despite the different cultural background, they can support and help each other. Working together will develop long-term partnership that can include more members from the different countries in the future. We expect young people get good international connections that they can use in their own cooperation in the future. The professionals will be inspired by the young people’s ideas, creativity and knowledge working with digital media. The knowledge is shared internationally, interculturally and between the generations. The evaluation is done in the beginning and in the end of the project and before and after all the meetings. We use Youthpass to evaluate the learning process and reflect each participators own learning goals. We issue together learning goals for each meeting and reflect before and after how we succeeded. We will disseminate the project results inside our organization to educators, facilitators, volunteers to other youth, media and film literacy organizations, librarians, museum workers, teachers, youth workers, freelancers in media/film workshops, to European film and media literacy networks and societies. The results will support their local, regional, national and international work and improves quality of their media and film literacy work with young people. The results will support their local, regional, national and international work and improves quality of their media and film literacy work with young people. This will be done in Finland, Belgium and UK. The partner organizations will reach digitally 75 000 web users (Metka (FI) 30 000, Mouth That Roars (UK) 15 000 and Mediaraven (BE) 30 000), 3000 YouTube users. The learning materials in pdf-format will be downloaded 10 000 times. The learning activities will have 45 participators in (FI, UK and BE) Media and film products made by youth receive by Facebook 1500 view per video or other media products. Mouth That Roars reached over 90 countries with their official webpage.