Awareness raising on gender based violence through theatre based school workshops Erasmus Project

Project Title

Awareness raising on gender based violence through theatre based school workshops

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: Open and distance learning; Creativity and culture; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

In the context of covid19 pandemic, gender based violence (GBV) against women and girls has increased all over the world with serious consequences related with their emotional stability and social inclusion. In the same time, initiatives aiming at the prevention of GBV in schools have decreased because of the lockdown and the decrease of physical contact. Theatre-based methods, even if they have a proved effectiveness in allowing the students to express themselves freely in a safe environment, are used less and less because of the pandemic.
The project is aiming to empower secondary school teachers to organize theatre-based workshops in order to raise awareness related with GBV in physical presence but also online. It is based on participatory theatre techniques which allow the development of empathy and the active involvement of the participants in real life situations, in the context of a safe environment. In order to achieve this objective, the project is going to develop a handbook in relation with the organization of these workshops with all the necessary information that will allow the independent use of the method from the teachers to their schools. On the basis of this handbook, it is going to develop training material and organize online courses which are going to be open to the participation of teachers through an open call. It is envisaged that at least 300 teachers are going to participate in these workshops. From them at least 200 will come from the partner countries and other 100 from countries outside the partnership. These teachers, in order to complete successfully their training will implement the method at least once (with physical presence or online) in a class of at least 15 students. In this way, a total of 4.500 students are going to benefit from the method. An Impact Assessment Report is going to gather data from the implementation and use them in order to support the upscaling and sustainability of the method.
At the end of the project it is expected that the quantity and the quality of theatre-based GBV prevention workshops (physical and online) will be improved and that the teachers will acquire the skills to organize in an autonomous way these workshops on the basis of the needs of their students and also to respond in an adequate way in case they identify that the students have been involved in a GBV situation in any role (perpetrator, victim, bystander). They will also improve their ability to use theatre as a tool also in situations where physical presence is not possible. The students will improve their ability to express themselves in a safe environment in issues related with GBV and to react in a proper way in case they are bystanders in a GBV situation. They will also increase their awareness on the types of gender based violence and on the expected replies from the part of the student.
The project is going to be implemented by a consortium of theatre organisations, academic partners and partners expert in GBV that includes 8 partners from 7 countries all over Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 189444 Eur

Project Coordinator

UG Dah Teatar & Country: RS

Project Partners

• AIDA
• THEATRO AEROPLOIO – ENA THEATRO GIAPAIDIA
• INSITE DRAMA OKTATASI, KULTURALIS ES SZOLGALTATO NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG
• RealStars
• ACTION SYNERGY SA
• Association of Young Psychologists in Bulgaria
• HOGSKULEN PA VESTLANDET