The purpose of the project COMMUNICATION BRIDGES is to improve young deaf people's opportunities for social activity in the hearing community and promote dialogue, exchange and cooperation between the youth of EU and China.During the project various activities will be provided through partnerships with Accident Time (United Kingdom), Chengdu School SE (China), Chengdu University (China), Društvo učiteljev gluhih Slovenije (Slovenia), Društvo ustvarjalcev Taka Tuka (Slovenia) and Estudio Buscueda de Pantomima Teatro (México).All the participants will cooperate actively throughout the whole project, working towards the -same-geaHn contact with each usingHweridwide--eemfflbmieatiQR-ehaflriete^-Fyftherm&re7-working visits will happen in Ljubljana, Chengdu, Birmingham and Valenciana.The project has five main components:1. Reduction of communication and integration difficulties of deaf people through activities such as: sign language courses and games, promotion of the deaf culture, festival for young deaf people.2. Promotion of Eu - China cooperation with stories, photoexhibition, DIE programme, Slovene/Chinese sign language basic web dictionary.3. Education and professional empowerment of youth workers that work with deaf people in the field of drama pedagogy, creating an active network of people working in these fields (web information and lists of contacts), development of new DIE programmes.4. The young people involved directly into the programme will gain following skills: self-confidence, creativity, responsibility, self-initiation, innovative and active thinking, empathy and assertiveness.5. Promotion of the project: documentary film, articles in newspapers, posts on web sites of all the organisations included in the project, leaflets.About 80 children will take an active part in the project creation; approximately 1200 young people will attend project activities on different levels of the project, while the indirect impact on the society will be much wider.