“Educación en Derechos Humanos, Circo Social, Teatro Participativo: un Modelo de Intercambio Social” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Educación en Derechos Humanos, Circo Social, Teatro Participativo: un Modelo de Intercambio Social”

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

This project: “Human Rights Education, Social Circus, Participatory Theater: a Social Model Exchange” is an outcome of the interest of all 3 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 partners associations is specialized in one field of non formal education. Greek partner in human rights education, Spanish partner in social circus and Hungarian partner in participatory theater.
Main objectives of the project are:
-The tools of social circus, human rights education and participatory theater to become widespread quality methods of non formal education in the work with youth in danger of social exclusion.
-To share and combine these methods as an innovative new tool in the field of social work that will holistically approach the personal and social development of young people in danger of social exclusion, managing this way a better impact in the social work of the partners with each of its members , as well as of the youth workers.

The project has a duration of 17 months within which we improve and combine the educational tools of the partner in the following ways:
-Using mobilities to monitor the different methods of work in different backgrounds.
-Using mobilities for creating thematic shows combining in practice the methods of work with youth in danger of social exclusion..
-Sharing information, documents and results, creating exchange network gateways for creating and systemizing knowledge.
-Through constant coordination meetings using network technology and through active debates with the participants of each partner.

In this project 45 person participated actively in total and 34 mobilities were realized for youth workers of the 3 partners . 60 young people in danger of social exclusion were directly benefit from the results and around 6000 people indirectly.

Main outcomes of the project are:
– Improved the validity of social circus as a practice of non formal education and the validity of human rights education and participatory theater as valuable tools practiced by recognized professionals
– Created a unique and innovative performance with youth that each partner works with, that combine social circus, participatory theater and the human rights education.
– Improved the knowledge of these non formal education tools, the means of achieving goals and the abilities of youth workers of partners, improving as well the quality of their social work and working possibilities.
– Improved and enriched a network for exchanging tools, experiences and good practices and cooperation amongst the three partners and amongst youth workers in an international environment of working with youth in danger of social exclusion

The long term impact is:
-Increased the impact and results of personal and social growth of young people living in danger of social exclusion that the three partners work with, by these tools that approach problematic in more holistic ways.
-Improved knowledge even of indirect beneficiaries of the project in environments of work with youth, social and cultural organizations in local and international level, though achieved results accomplished and disseminated by this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Circolio & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ARTEMISSZIO ALAPITVANY
• KIDS IN ACTION