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TolerARTnce

2020-2-ES02-KA105-0156192020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: ES|BG|RO|HR|TR|IT · Grant: €17,685
Creativity and cultureInclusion - equityRoma and/or other minorities

Objectives

TolerARTnce intended to fight against discrimination and social exclusion of minority groups of all kinds: ethnic, racial, religious, gender, and sexual minorities, as well as of people with disabilities. For this, its aim was that really include those minorities in society and daily life, in all spheres, raising awareness and giving information about them and the difficulties they face, free of prejudices, as it usually unfortunately is displayed. In the long run, the project would help people at risk of exclusion, coming from disadvantaged backgrounds or with fragile conditions. The aim of the project, in summary, is to promote inclusion, social compromise, equality, tolerance, and respect for cultural, racial, and human diversity as a whole, and esp. of the minoritarian groups in risk of marginalization. This would be promoted through art practices, thus encouraging creativity and artistic skills within participants; that would be intended to use art as a way of communicating, bringing into light these realities and fighting the issue, including them as protagonists and raising awareness. At the same time, it was to be promoted internationalization and multidisciplinary, as the project would include people coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds, some of them related to these minorities directly or being artists themselves. We had established a series of concrete goals that we have tried to achieve following the above-mentioned strategies: (1) sensibilization of a group of youngsters in order to promote the integration of minorities within their communities, through a formative artistic programme that would deepen concepts like “social inclusion” through art techniques; (2) working directly with local groups at risk of marginalization – with the aid of local NGOs – to teach participants how to work for the promotion of inclusion and fight against this phenomenon in their own local communities, back home. This is intended to encourage participants to create their own initiatives through mentoring social and youth workers and volunteers with experience in the sector. (3) explore together with youth how art techniques can be used to work effectively on different topics, as well as non-formal education and alike-methods. (4) orientating participants on the different formative and mobility opportunities that are part of the Erasmus+ chapter/programme and others, as well as the different learning methods and recognition of learning tools (e.g., Youthpass). Showing them how these can, indeed, make a difference and help them grow professionally and personally. Apart from those, TolerARTnce, in a more “technical” sense, had as specific objectives: presenting and explaining main concepts like social inclusion or integration, mapping both actors-causes-effects and solutions in situations of social exclusion or discrimination of minorities, putting youth into direct contact with social work and third-sector structures, promoting work in teams on strategies to promote inclusion, and, as indicated above, stimulating both creativity and the artistic skills of participants, through a series of activities like theatre plays, drawing/painting, picturing…; and curiosity and will to learn more about non-formal education, the Erasmus+ sphere and international mobility. Summarising, our project intended to serve as a formative immersive experience for youth in terms of their relationship with existent social minorities in their local environment, through learning techniques based on experience-sharing and critical analyses of their own culture and beliefs. Art (painting, photography, theatre, music) would be used as a way of promoting creativity and increasing the self-esteem of participants, which would work in international and multicultural teams to promote openness to other nationalities and cultures. Finally, it aimed to potentiate European values of solidarity, social inclusion, respect towards diversity, and active participation, among others. All this, it was intended, would lead to more aware, sensible, and tolerant communities, with youngsters that would be interested even in future learning and formative experiences of all kinds, abroad or at home.

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