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A fairy Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Jan 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This international youth exchange, lasted from 17th to 25th of October 2014, in Omegna, Italy. It promoted the exchange of fairy tales from the childhood of young people from 4 different european countries. The youth exchange program brought the educational and healing value of fairy tales and storytelling to the youung peole and help them to confront on their cultural identity, and european common values. In fact a project dedicated to the legends helps the young people to understand the formation of the European Union and to demonstrate it in a very creative way. Activities that were used in the project reviewed the main concern of legends and fairy tales directly related to Europe. In the described frame participants confronted on how fairy tales deliver messages of growth and transformation of their societies. Especially the young participants looked at how traditional stories can teach them how to overcome challenges and help them cope with their feelings and future challenges. In the frame of the project 28 young people and their leaders creatively cooperated through story telling and learned how to listen and develop empathy towards others. During 9 days of workshop, debates, games, artworks the young people created an art exhibition (theatre, comics, video), which enabled participants and the public to reflect and learn more on community values promoted trough traditional and modern fairy tales. The final outcome was a European fairy tale (a fictional legend, in which the main characters will be italian, Polish, etc.) as a vehicle for telling about traditional and modern values relevant for the present and the future of the local and european communities. At the end of the exchange the group presented a final performance of the fairy tale at a local primary school in Omegna in front of school children and their parents and other members of the community. Through the project activities participants were introduced into the creativity by exploring the connection of the creative process (creativity mechanisms and phases), the creative person (traits and characteristics) and the creative product (practical application). They learned about creative problem solving as a personal and leadership skill and the use of creativity to spread civic message in their local communities.
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