Let’s communicate! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s communicate!

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

LET’S COMMUNICATE! was a capacity building project in the field of youth lead by Taka Tuka Society (Slovenia) in partnership with Teatar Tirena (Croatia) and Kumut Chandruang Foundation: Moradokmai Home-school and community (Thailand).It aimed at improving language skills of young people with speech, language and communication difficulties and with hearing impairment to enable them to actively participate in educational process as well as social life.For this purpose experts of special education, drama in education and languages worked together, to create (language) learning process based on drama techniques and to apply it in project activities together with young people. During its implementation two groups (Slovenian and Thai) of youth actively participated in project activities. They learned international sign language and English through drama, lead workshops for their peers, helped in organizing local events, attended youth exchange, presented their experience at local schools and public events.Consortium members were meeting in different locations to share their knowledge and develop useful material for their communities. Mobility: Working meeting in ZagrebYouth exchange in ThailandWorking meeting in Thailand Training course in Ljubljana Final Conference in Ljubljana The results of these meetings were educational books for using drama techniques for fostering social and communication skills and learning languages. The books are useful for special and mainstream education.Furthermore, they trained pedagogical workers from different educational settings on using developed resources with their students.Project’s final event was 8. International Educational Drama and Theater Conference “The Power of Communication” in Ljubljana. The conference offered a series of lectures, workshops and discussion about educational theater and drama, where a special part was dedicated to benefits of drama for inclusion of young people with special needs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 141989,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

DRUSTVO USTVARJALCEV TAKA TUKA EV & Country: SI

Project Partners

• TEATAR TIRENA
• KUMUT CHANDRUANG FOUNDATION