The 8 partners of It, Pt, Ro, Fr of the SHARAD project (Sharing Radio) are strong of previous experiences of contact with the prison reality. These experiences have facilitated them in a better knowledge of the needs that emerge in the places of detention and suggested them to propose this project path. They also have previous experience of interventions with people involved in restorative justice and with groups of ex-convicts in reintegration. It was noted that inside the prison communication is a central theme, internal communication first and foremost. In order to improve the ability to communicate, it seems necessary to be able to develop specific technical skills, both in prisoners and operators. In this perspective, SHARA's partners propose to build a digital radio (which respects all prison regulations in terms of privacy and non access to the Internet) managed by various subjects (the prisoners themselves, the teachers who teach in the classes of the national education system, the cultural operators who carry out informal learning courses, the staff inside the prison) that can be connected to community web radios that will be built with the target groups outside the prison. SHARAD will ensure the development of many skills: digital skills for the use of specific software (not connected to the Internet), basic skills (knowing how to write informative written texts adapted to the subject matter), linguistic and communicative skills (use of voice, intonation, etc., ability to package information according to the target group), productive/creative skills for the use of symbolic and audiovisual languages to build texts. The partners, working for a long time with different prison realities, are certain of the great impact that the realization of these paths will have for the recipients of their intervention. The SHARAD project will therefore exploit all the rich skills (digital, cultural, artistic, creative, educational, operational, communicative, multimedia) that are within the partnership to build various networks aimed at various users: an information network that connects all the institutions of the European partnership and that is managed and filtered by the educational staff, a multi-thematic network that connects inmates within the prison, a network that allows collaboration and exchange between teachers and cultural operators of the various realities. Broad objectives and expected results. The planned activities range from the analysis of the situations in the different prisons and the legislation of the countries concerned to the implementation of radio animation and communication interventions with other codes and languages in different contexts, in particular those of the external targets. Training meetings/seminars will be organised on the use of technology and communication strategies for formal and informal education teachers working with prisoners. A platform will be built where the products of the different national groups (mixed facilitators/prisoners) will be uploaded. The topic of communication will also become central in the educational work of the teaching staff working in prisons in the different countries and who will have the opportunity to compare organisation, approaches, methods and content of their programming. The expected final result is, for those who will participate in the activities in the project, not only the acquisition of operational skills, but also a better knowledge of themselves, of their world, of the community in which they are inserted and a better ability to represent themselves thanks to all the codes to which the paths within SHARA will have trained the two groups, prisoners and operators. The communication circuits built within SHARA will continue to function even after the end of the project, as the skills acquired, the practice of radio communication and the platform built ad hoc will maintain its functionality even beyond EU funding.
All the activities implemented were aimed at improving self-knowledge and knowledge of one's own context, through the development and promotion of creative skills (verbal and non-verbal communication, iconic language, audio-visual tools and codes), through which one can represent one's own situation in a critical and reflective manner. At the penal institutions, the subjects who took charge of this training proposal were first and foremost the secondary school teachers who run institutional courses within the prison. Specifically, they worked on the theme of communication strategies, collaborating synergistically with those operators who intervene in the prison institution with informal educational, creative and artistic proposals and activities. . For the internal/external staff and all the educators/operators involved, the knowledge of other national and European realities was promoted; the acquisition of specific skills in the technological and expressive sphere and a better interaction with the reality of their recipients.
SHARAD is a European project involving four European countries with the aim of giving those who HAVE NO VOICE the opportunity to tell their stories and make themselves known through creative means: PODCASTS. SHARAD is aimed at the prison population and operators working institutionally or informally with prisoners, and stems from the consideration that a strong need expressed by this community is that of representing and self-representing itself through the narration of the social and human reality inside detention institutions. It is a complex society that does not find a credible voice to narrate it. A society for which the improvement of communication devices and representation strategies can become a strong element of valorisation and knowledge. The use of creative ways of self-representation, also through the acquisition of artistic languages, is crucial for the development of such strategies. Moreover, through the collective creation of podcasts, prisoners also acquire skills in the use of technological tools. The project also addressed ex-prisoners, adults in disadvantaged situations, restorative justice and high-risk adolescents.