Radio Theatre: Tales of the Quarantine Erasmus Project

Project Title

Radio Theatre: Tales of the Quarantine

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project “Radio Theater: Tales of the Quarantine” seeks to provide youth workers and social educators with new tools that allow them to improve the skills of young people in terms of creativity, public speaking, teamwork, body expression, artistic expression, management of times, self-knowledge, new technologies and electronic resources. The initiative is part of the horizontal priority to which this special call responds, the development of skills and inclusion through creativity and the arts, since the use of radio-novels and the impact it generates in working with young people are the common thread of the project. It is a strategic association formed by 5 partners from 4 countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal and Romania) who are going to develop a 24-month project.

The main objective of this project is based on creating a strategic association to promote creative and artistic competences (body expression, self-knowledge, narrative, public speaking, theatrical) in the field of work with the youth population, especially with young people with fewer opportunities, in order to to develop, test and implement innovative methods through the use of radio and theater as a creative educational tool. These methods are intended to improve the competencies of youth by promoting their skills, abilities and values, favoring learning and key competences through the use of digital tools, especially important in the situation of social distancing that has caused Covid-19.

The specific objectives are:
O1. Create innovative practices in the field of youth through the development of a methodology based on theater and radio, with which to acquire key competences and artistic skills to generate creative responses focused on learning through digital tools.
O2. Increase the possibilities of transferring innovative methodologies and non-formal education among youth workers and educators, using an intellectual production that they can access to understand how to develop and enhance the development of skills and inclusion, in response to the new reality caused by the Covid-19 crisis, betting on digitization and the need for creative solutions.
O3. Favor the organizational development of 5 entities from 4 different countries, with diverse cultural and organizational experiences and strengthen their strategic association, developing and disseminating the intellectual product created in the field of youth education and creativity.

The expected results of the project will be the following:
1.- Intellectual result
– 5 radio-theatre made up of 10 episodes of 20 minutes duration
– Supplementary manual
2.- Learning, teaching and training activities – 4 virtual trainings
3.- Impact on partner organizations
4.- Impact on society as a whole
5.- Impact on non-formal education in youth

The proposal is mainly aimed at educators, youth workers, counselors and youth leaders who want to implement innovative and creative educational methods that favor the inclusion and development of skills in young people, especially young people with fewer opportunities. In the same way, there will be young people who will benefit from the development of the project, as well as organizations and non-formal education providers that work with young people, both from the 4 countries involved and from third countries inside and outside the European Union.

The main activities and project indicators that lead to the achievement of the project’s goals and objectives will be monitored and evaluated through the following indicators:
– Quantitative:
1.- Intellectual result (radio-theatre and manual)
2.- 5 organizations from 4 different countries will benefit from an innovative project
3.- Adults from the 4 countries will benefit from the project’s face-to-face activities
4.- 125 people will participate in the multiplier events
5.- 70 people will participate in the virtual trainings
6.- A solid strategic partnership, formed by 5 organizations that work with adults from 4 countries
– Qualitative:
1.- Professionalization of workers, trainers and staff working with young people in Spain, Italy, Romania and Portugal to use innovative methods.
2.- Increase the organizational capacity of the five partner organizations that are part of this consortium.
3.- Popularize the use of radio and theater as a suitable methodology for youth workers to develop their creativity and acquire new skills related to artistic expression, body language and the use of new technologies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 101620 Eur

Project Coordinator

Consejo de la Juventud de Castilla y León & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• ROSTO SOLIDARIO – ASSOCIACAO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIAL E HUMANO
• FUNDACION ASPAYM CASTILLA Y LEON
• ASOCIATIA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE SI STUDIUL CONSTIINTEI CUANTICE