The project "Overcoming Cultural Borders through Communication Arts" (CAT) aims to contribute to the social inclusion of older people (pensioners, prisoners, students or teachers) by involving them in creative activities such as dance or social theater, but also in creative craft activities, in order to overcome cultural borders through communication arts and to avoid their social isolation and poor functioning in society; to enhance their creativity through new tools, methodologies and techniques enabling the preparation of new training offers and to give them a better possibility to discover their own abilities for themselves and for the benefit of others, such as audiences made up of relatives, colleagues and friends.
The motivational basis of the application "Overcoming Cultural Borders through Communication Arts" (CAT) is found in the tradition of collaboration between the non-governmental organizations Cultural-Artistic Foundation SIGMA-ART, from Bucharest, Romania, Active XXI Foundation, from Jelenia Gora, Poland and LUTE University from Milazzo, Italy, which have a sustained collaboration over time through the implementation of EU projects, since 2013, for the activation of seniors with a high degree of communication and involvement in project participation. Communication arts activities involving local activities and international workshops have developed new, modern and useful skills in their lives, leading to a creative process of overcoming communication barriers. SIGMA-ART Foundation has made constant efforts during the project implementation to ensure that the project activities are well thought out, meet the expectations of the adult beneficiaries, and the capacities and potential of the staff of trainers who worked in the project are well adapted to listening carefully to the needs of CAT seniors through an educational offer corresponding to their needs for developing artistic communication skills such as theater, dance and crafts.