The DNA of Tolerance Erasmus Project

Project Title

The DNA of Tolerance

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Romas and/or other minorities; Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

The “DNA OF THE TOLERANCE” project aims to facilitate the integration of young people (especially those belonging to ethnic minorities, but also young people coming from disadvantaged situations in general) in local communities expressing themselves through different forms of art to tell their own history.
The project stems from the need identified among the partners to recognize and support the different “artistic” communications of their young people who, through expressive communication, unite the varieties of the groups of origin, spreading their culture and contextually enriching the local cultural heritage and European.
Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Spain and Great Britain have worked focusing on the needs of young people, reaffirming the value of artistic narrative or expressive communication, to establish a more effective dialogue with local communities.
The purpose of this project is to break down the barriers between nations that limit interaction between different cultures caused by variables such as religious, linguistic, racial and cultural differences. THE DNA OF THE TOLERANCE creates cultural support for young people, youth educators and the local community, to help them overcome the barriers that are imposed by concepts such as race, language and different cultural values ​​using a common language: art.
The idea common to all partners is that the inclusion of youth minorities can be improved by using the different types of artistic communication, as a means for youth educators to reach out to marginalized young people and to include them in local communities.
Project activity:
1. Exchange of methodologies and tools for the recognition of the different “artistic” communications of young people;
2. Provide youth educators with specific tools to recognize the most effective expressive communications to encourage inclusion in local contexts;
3. Describe and test the tools with which young people tell the community.
4. Training of educators and staff in the construction of future activity plans aimed at improving the inclusion of young people.
5. Training of educators and staff in the use of a training kit that contains the realization of an event to present the young person through his / her artistic / expressive communication skills.
Expected results:
1. Support the work of youth educators in defining and recognizing the artistic communication of their young people;
2. Break the barriers of intolerance;
3. Increase youth placement in local communities by 30%.
4. Improve the work of all the staff in collaboration with educators, families and communities.
5. Improve the capacity of involvement and effectiveness of the activities proposed by the partner organizations.
Our project target is primarily the youth educator who works with young people from disadvantaged situations (economic, social, etc.) aged between 16 and 25 years. Below the staff of youth organizations that interact with educators, families and the community. And as final beneficiaries, the young people who meet the participating educators on a daily basis.
The project includes three national activities and two training events that aim to prepare the participating target to use the tools collected during the planned activities.
The three national activities will be translated into field research to define:
– How to recognize artistic or expressive communication skills;
– How to use and channel these skills, making the young people involved view different points of view;
– Establish the contents of the training kit for educators involved in the inclusion of youth minorities.
LTTA training events
1st training event for the educator: short non-formal training course and online activity, entitled “Overcoming barriers”.
2nd training event for the youth educator: short non-formal training course and online activity, entitled “How to use the training kit” and carry out social inclusion events.
We expect a professional growth of the youth educators participating in the project, through:
– a development in the use of different types of communication (verbal, non-verbal and para-verbal);
– greater security in recognizing the expressive communication of young people;
– the practical ability to see young people in local communities inserted, accepted, supported and involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106838 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Culturale “PuntoEuropa” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Akademie für politische Bildung und demokratiefördernde Maßnahmen
• My Career Revolution Ltd
• FONDATSIYA EDU COMPASS
• BACKSLASH