Body Shining Erasmus Project

Project Title

Body Shining

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“SOW. LARD BALL. COW. MISTAKE OF NATURE. I HOPE YOU’RE RAPED. WATER HEATER WITH LEGS. YOU, DISGUSTING BITCH” Michela Murgia, writer.

YouGov, the largest online data catalogue available, made a European survey about body shaming. Really important it’s the data that tells us how many people don’t even have the knowledge to understand that they are victims of it. People whose bodies do not correspond to the “ideal” canon are insulted or discriminated against – one-third of people in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Spain have already experienced this on their own. In most cases, being a victim of body shaming is not an isolated case: among Europeans who have suffered discrimination, 36% have suffered more than ten times.

“Body Shining” is an outcome of the interest of all 5 European partner associations to multiply and improve the tools and abilities in the field of non-formal education with youth at risk of social exclusion, by sharing and combining resources, abilities, experiences and good practices amongst them.
Each one of the partner’s associations is specialized in one field of non-formal education.

Main objectives of the project are:
• Raise awareness about the act of body-shaming
• Give tools of art mediation
• Zeroing cyberbullying and act of discrimination
• Enhancing self-esteem that allows us to have good relations with our-self and the others (fundamental for our personal growth development).

The project has a duration of 29 months within which we improve 5 intellectual output:

IO1 “What does body shaming mean?”: We will present a book filled with young people’s perspectives on body-shaming. It will be based on workshops co-designed by them and by young with disabilities. It will collect 200 critical incidents
IO2 “Toolkit for prevention”: The output will consist of a series of video and texts offering training tools for youth workers to address the topic of body-shaming. The focus will be on prevention of body-shaming
IO3 “Art workshops for body-positivity” while IO2 focuses on creating pedagogical tools for prevention, IO3 focuses on pedagogical tools that can be used for youngsters who had experienced body shaming. We will deliver art-based workshops in co-construction
IO4 “Online learning platform” aims to help youth workers integrate the project’s products into their work practice either by establishing specific training or by inserting specific sessions into the existing collaboration process. To facilitate the adaptation of our training we’ll upload the videos from IO2 and IO3 illustrating the workshop processes of the different intellectual outputs
IO5 “Artistic-campaign to raise awareness about body-shaming” consists in preparing art-campaigns co-developed by youth and artists on the main topics of the project and in delivering a toolkit to build a replicable model for art-campaign making, embedded in specific pedagogical objectives.

IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE/YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Through prevention activities they will:
• Raise awareness of the role and the use of the internet, social media, and cyberbullying
• Develop skills to identify, avoid, or escape from the act of body shaming
• Degrowth of hate speeches
• Zeroing shame as a result of a traumatic experience

Through body-positivity aptitude they will:
• Increase confidence and safety
• Gain skills namely: self-approval, self-esteem, security
• Accept and appreciate diversity as an element of enrichment

Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops it will:
• Acquire tools to run an artistic workshop
• Be empowered through their increasing ability to do research, to explore their own perceptions and to find out more about other people’s attitudes and beliefs
• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation.

IMPACT ON YOUTH WORKERS
Through prevention activities they will gain:
• Vocabulary used by young people
• Competences to address the possible presence of insecurity concerning certain parts of us, which affects the well-being of our lives
• Skills to advocate and prevent acts of discrimination

Through body-positivity aptitude they will:
• Obtain tools to empower young people
• Acquire the capacity to animate in autonomy art mediation workshops with young people related to the body
• Get capacity to promote body positivity aptitude

Through empowerment/co-construction of art-sed workshops they will:
• Gain a better capacity to discuss concepts of body shaming and self-esteem
• Acquire the capacity to connect concepts and discussions to everyday professional challenges
• Obtain tools to use and explore art mediation.

Project Website

https://www.bodyshining.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 234746 Eur

Project Coordinator

MOH Ente del Terzo Settore & Country: IT

Project Partners

• SYNERGEIO MOUSIKOU THEATROU ASTIKIMI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
• ELAN INTERCULTUREL
• Arts & Disability Forum
• ANIMUS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION AAF