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Social Theatre - Building a Chance for All
Start date: Jan 20, 2015, End date: Jul 19, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“Social Theatre – Building a Chance for All” is KA1 Erasmus Plus project was held in West Lexham , Norfolk, UK from the 13 to 22 April 2015. This mobility was bringing together 55 participants + and 1facilitator from 11 EU and neighbouring countries: UK, Turkey, Tunis, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Palestine, Serbia, Jordan, Israel and Italy. They explored together ways in which social theatre can become a sanitation and restructuring mechanism for social relations. Social exclusion is a major problem of our time, which has replaced the "old notions" of poverty and marginalization. Social exclusion is often a cause of poverty, conflict and insecurity. In order to tackle it effectively, we need to understand where the problem lays and then to find different ways of working with partners, governments, the international community and civil society organisations to overcome it. This project was dealing with the phenomenon of exclusion as the participants perceive and experience it, originated in the insecurity of living standards, preconceived ideas, political and social isolation, feelings of estrangement and unhealthy lifestyles and the surge of the unemployment rates among young people. With this exchange we improved the skills and the background of youth, who is better able to identify opportunities, develop themselves, and when needed to prevent and to remedy social exclusion. The main theme of the mobility was raising awareness of the realities and possibilities to develop a more inclusive society through anti-discrimination youth projects with marginalised groups, against social exclusion. The mobility was use the non-formal and informal education methodology which was be based on the specific tools of social theatre, on open and interactive approaches and directly aiming at creating a safe learning environment for the participants. This was facilitated to attaining our objectives, which include the development and acquisition by participants of new skills, competences and attitudes and thus contribute to social and personal development. Within the mobility each participant was be able to: - develop their own set of skills and competences, through individual and group work , according to their needs - develop their capacity to meet and work with new people, from different countries, backgrounds, lifestyles - experience and improve skills of working in a multicultural team; - improve the tolerance and the ability to constructively listen to other ideas, positions - build competences in communication - acquire entrepreneurial and managerial skills - develop ideas for new projects. Key concepts explored in our mobility: inclusion versus exclusion, analysing social exclusion and factors which influence it, discrimination, empowerment, youth participation versus apathy, active citizenship, local institutions and the role of NGOs, EU and local strategies against social exclusion, attitudes towards target groups in need, taking action. Participants learn new information, they used the space for discussion, debates, sharing and developing new tools to help them combat and surpass social exclusion efficiently.
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