Culture Act is an indirect spin-off of The Art of Facilitation (2017-2-NL02-KA105-001768). That project used improv and forum theatre in youth work to facilitate human rights education. As one of the participating organisations, the youth workers from SIW (NL) created the Culture Game, using improv to promote/facilitate cross-cultural communication. During the dissemination of the results of that project, SIW introduced this outcome to the other member organisations of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations and partners in the field of European Solidarity Corps. The Culture Game received a lot of interest. The organisations involved in this proposal of Culture Act discussed the intention for a training course that will solely focus on improv theatre and to introduce and connect it to cross-cultural communication, in particular in activities with young migrants and multicultural groups, through international volunteering. In this way, the youth workers involved will focus specifically on how improv theatre can be a creative method to support the cross-cultural communication that is taking place in the activities that all organisations involved in this proposal organise. This all with the bigger aim to bring people from different cultures together and to provide a creative platform for intercultural understanding. “Xenophobic populism and racist hate speech continued to make their mark on the contemporary political climate in Europe in 2018”, stated the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance in June 2019. Their report added a warning against the threat of “us vs. them” approach in political and public discourse. Partner organisations raised this issue as a very dangerous development. They added that youth can be the change-makers to avoid going into this “us vs. them” division making process in society. This facilitation is sometimes challenging, especially in activities with young migrants or youth with different cultural backgrounds, if the youth worker is not confident in how this facilitation needs to be done. With the skills of improv theatre they will be able to be more spontaneous and respond to the requests of their target groups. They can also provide learning opportunities for the youth involved in the activities as improv theatre is a perfect way to allow active participation, cultural exchange and inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities (please see section “working methods used” for more detailed information about the role and relevance of improv theatre in the context of this project). Culture Act has therefore the following objectives. We would like the youth workers: - To understand and apply facilitation skills in their own reality - To gain experience in non-formal education and improv theatre skills as an inspiration for facilitating activities with and between young migrants and youth from different cultural backgrounds - To be equipped with cross-cultural competencies to facilitate interaction with young migrants and youth from different cultural backgrounds - To create new improv games to facilitate cross-cultural communication - To develop an action plan for facilitation in their organisation's context as well as the regional and European level - To implement the lessons learned and action plans in the organisations - To virtually share and evaluate the activities organised