Tools for Social Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tools for Social Development

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 neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

“By introducing theater and drama method to a group of children excluded from school who suffered from low self-esteem and behavioral problems, we succeeded in bringing a much-needed sense of pride and self-confidence in their abilities.” – Cathy Woolley – Outreach and Community Involvement Officer, Historic Royal Palaces

Drama and Theatre has significant implications in inclusion and in learning, although it still searches for its place in school’s everyday life. Participants through Drama and Theatre learn to cooperate and not to compete with each other, to approach knowledge via experiential learning, with emotional involvement, to solve problems, to take decisions, to acquire empathy, and to recognize otherness.

The major aim of this training course is to support youth/social workers to develop their competences in empowering young people with fewer opportunities to become aware of, and act on, their dreams and visions of their own futures.

The number of young people who are NEET is increasing, 61% of unemployed in EU 16-24 year old are NEET, this statistic is even worse in Western Balkans.

Many youth workers all over Europe are trying to create environment of safe empowerment to help young people with fewer opportunities to develop their competences and to explore what dreams and passions they might have for creating not only a better future for themselves but, potentially, also to making more of an impact on the society they live in.

This project ”Tools for social development” aims to increase the competencies of the participants to use different arts tools and methods such as theater, drama, storytelling, drawing, painting, and photography for self-development of young people with fewer opportunities on one side and for social development of their communities on the other side.

‘‘Theater for Development’ was initially inspired by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian cultural and educational theorist and practitioner, who believed that people possess knowledge through life experience but are persuaded by the oppressor to believe that their knowledge is irrelevant.

This project will bring in practice lots o theater tools and art methods, together with our participants we will develop and create different performance and other creative products with strong message of importance of social inclusion and social development of our societies.

With project ‘’Tools for social inclusion’’ we intend to contribute to effective inclusion of youth in the process of building a modern European society based on tolerance, solidarity, equal chances and respect for differences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 43918 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRUZENJE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE SERBIA & Country: RS

Project Partners