ACT-ABLE – drama education lab for young people with disabilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACT-ABLE – drama education lab for young people with disabilities

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The ACT-ABLE Project – drama education lab for young people with disabilities is a strategic partnership supporting innovations of the school sector, this partnership is composed of Fondazione Spazio Reale, being the applicant, Soccorso Clown (Italy), Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo (Italy), University of Usak (Turkey) and Residui Teatro (Spain). The project wants to favour the educative inclusion of students with intellective disabilities through inclusive methods such as theatre, with innovative methodologies such as physical comedy and visual theatre, storytelling, dance-theater and vocalism as instruments of personal potential, and enhancing their learning abilities.
This Project starts from multi-yearly experience of the concerned partners based on the idea that guarantees the actual function of the right to study and training, is one of the main factors that mainly touches the world of the disabled. As this is an important condition to the aim of their complete integration and inclusion in a social and working life. It is intended for children and youths with intellectual disability, the age range aimed at this educational cannot be decided with chronological strictness, both for the type of disability and for the variables that coincide on the advantageous participation to the proposed course. Generally, the project is aimed at students within the range of first and second grades of the secondary school.
The project includes:
– Five days training course for the staff to share their own methods of inclusive theatre and activate a common method to use during the project.
– Drawing European guidelines which contain the methodology to use so as to start these inclusive theatre courses based on physical comedy and visual theatre in Italy, Turkey and Spain.
– The realisation of these inclusive theatre courses taught the methodology of the physical comedy and of the visual theatre, destined to 24 youths with disabilities within the age of 11 and 15 in Italy; 10 youths from 12 to 24 in Turkey and 16 youths between 11 and 18 in Spain.
– The creation of the theatrical company ACT-ABLE, made up of actors/mentors and the youths that have participated in the inclusive theatrical pathways held in Italy, as an example and inspiration for the birth of other mixed theatrical companies at a European level.
– Of the commune conclusive document based on the results obtained during these courses and which will give life to “ACT-ABLE method: good methodological ways of inclusive theatre”.
Through these activities the project intends: to improve the learning capacity of young people, help the scholastic institution with a new and inclusive offer, with an exchange of good ways between mentors and European organizations that use these inclusive theatrical methods; form professionals and make aware the stakeholders and the local communities through these artistically inclusive events.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222159 Eur

Project Coordinator

SPAZIO REALE FORMAZIONE Impresa Sociale SRL – ETS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onlus
• Soccorso Clown Societa Cooperativa Sociale Impresa Sociale E.T.S.
• Asociación RESIDUI TEATRO
• UNIVERSITY OF USAK