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Dance for tolerance
Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Oct 16, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

„Dance for tolerance” is socio-artistic project. It has been created as an answer, to follow up and to understand young people needs. Its aim is to improve life status of youth in modern world. We can still observe the crisis effects in EU. There are problems in finding a job especially for young people. It’s hard for them to start an adult life. This brings some frustrating questions. Do people from other countries still our jobs? Are they taking away our development possibilities? To understand we need tolerance resources. Having them is only possible if people want to cooperate and get to know each other. Meeting young people from different countries and cultures gives an opportunity to do that. Moreover young people understand the need of rising qualifications for becoming more valuable on a job market. In this exchange we want to help them developing their skills and experiences in: organizing, languages, social, artistic and new technologies. Each participant will receive Youthpass that certify competences gained during the project. 30 people, aged 18-25, from Poland, Italy and Turkey will participate in the exchange. Many of them have to struggle some economic or social difficulties. Some of them have already done they first difficult step for arising on job market. Moreover for young people from Turkey this will be the first time abroad and they will have the first opportunity to meet other cultures in reality. For young people from Poland and Italy this will be the first time they meet Turkish people and culture. Each group participates in every stage of the project: preparation, meeting, evaluation and dissemination. Youth is supported by group leaders. They rather animate and encourage in realizing youth ideas than giving and forcing theirs. Each group prepares: discussion on intolerance problems in own country, stereotypes and prejudices on other nations; national evening (presentation of culture and lifestyle in own country); folk or contemporary dance workshops. All workshops will contain creative activity methods. It will allow all young participants active learning. The exchange activities will also contain new media and technologies (PowerPoint presentation, movies, photos …). Everyone participates in creating and promoting open funpage and group on Facebook, called “Dance for tolerance”. This place will be our forum for thoughts exchange. Also for everyone interested after the project. Each country will prepare (during the meeting and after it) PowerPoint presentation and movies witch will show personal experiences from the meeting. Each group after coming back will share those materials with its organization, local and region. Also each group will give at least one dance workshops witch they learned on the exchange. Flashmob - artistic finalization of the exchange will be the result of teamwork and intercultural cooperation; the result of increasing artistic skills and including local society. All local and countrywide media will be informed about the exchange. We will also cooperate with local authorities and companies. After the exchange we plan to cooperate with partners organizations: evaluation, new projects, experience exchange, etc. Among young people we count on: stereotype breaking, language barriers breaking, language learning motivation (especially English language), professional competencies development (useful on job market).

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